Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 19:07:14 -0500

From: BARBARA HILL HUDSON BHHUDSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GROVE.IUP.EDU

Subject: Re: loose meat and vegans



In reference to the term "meat skin" I don't know what it means in the song

about Sal, but one of my favorite examples of namecalling appeared in one of

Zora Neale Hurston's works (I believe *Mules and Men*). One character called

another "a li'l narrer [narrow] contracted piece of meatskin." I took the

description to refer to a worthless skinny woman. I've come across meatskin in

some of Hurston's other works and it seems to imply that the person is waste of

skin.



BBHudson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]grove.iup.edu.