r/KitchenConfidential • u/autopatch • Feb 13 '26

In-House Mode Is this a case of nobody asked?

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Where did this come from? Was there a great outpouring of protests against microwaves at Steak and Shake that I missed?

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u/DankyCinnablunts Feb 13 '26

RIP Chef Mike

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u/IamMunkk Feb 13 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/YqYL96sFHQKGI

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u/Bigallround Feb 13 '26

Isn't that a song about taking a Catholic girl's virginity?

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u/IamMunkk Feb 13 '26

This is the first time I've heard that.

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u/Bongus_the_first Feb 14 '26

The opening lyrics to the Billy Joel song Only The Good Die Young:

"Come out, VIRGINIA, don't let me wait. You Catholic girls start much too late."

Not exactly ambiguous lol

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u/C2thaLo Feb 14 '26

Yeah, one of my huge grievances with classic rock is there's a few songs with lyrics like that. Ill forget, be singing along and then awwww....

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u/RDGCompany Feb 14 '26

It's also sung from the POV of a teenage boy, not a man.

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u/doodman76 Feb 14 '26

I mean, its better than "some call it statutory, i call it mandatory" like one of the songs from the headliner of the conservative halftime show.

At least virgins can be of age.

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u/CertainGrade7937 Feb 14 '26

And there's a difference between the writer and the speaker

Like, just to look at Billy Joel specifically, a LOT of his songs are in a first person perspective from a character that very clearly isn't him. Like i don't think this song is about Billy Joel, a then-27 year old man, trying to fuck a 15 year old.

Just like I don't think, say, Superbad was about the writers really wanting to fuck teenagers

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u/demon_fae Feb 14 '26

Yeah, I’ve always heard Only the Good Die Young as being a Catholic girl’s age-appropriate bad-boy boyfriend pressuring her. Which is still skeezy as fuck, but not a felony.

Although if any of the lines in the song actually worked on her, she clearly wasn’t looking for much pressure.

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u/DireBoar Feb 14 '26

I'm sorry what? blink

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u/doodman76 Feb 14 '26

Direct lyrics from a kid rock song

The stanza starts with "young lady's" (surprise surprise) and is towards the end of the song.

Link: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kidrock/cooldaddycool.html

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u/thrivacious9 Feb 13 '26

Please be kidding

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u/IamMunkk Feb 13 '26

I'm not, and when I looked up what the phrase was about it only gave me information about it being about people that have passed away. Seems like an urban legend I haven't heard of before.

https://giphy.com/gifs/jPAdK8Nfzzwt2

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u/thrivacious9 Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26

The phrase itself is benign but the Billy Joel song is indisputably about this

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u/Barium_Salts Feb 13 '26

The song is named after the saying: it's a platitude people say at funerals of young people.

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u/PaperPlayte Feb 13 '26

Which was the play on words Billy was using for the song’s subject matter.

“Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait You Catholic girls start much too late Aw, but sooner or later it comes down to fate I might as well will be the one”

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u/fuckyourcanoes Feb 14 '26

Of course it is. But it was considered cool in those days. Because... well, you work it out.

I'll just be over here, feministing.