A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork?? Please Help!!

[Demins]

Hi everybody!

Maybe somebody can help me on this one! In Dillinger's song "Cocaine running around my brain" New York should be spelled as "A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork".

Why? Is there any logic in this that I don't see?
I'm not a native speaker of english, so it could be some (part of a) nursery rhyme...

Thanks in advance!

[google-it]

http://www.barrypopik.com/article/553/k ... l-new-york

[forkhead]

interesting
one disco 45 sleeve of this tune also suggest some link with coke... runnin' around ma brain.

[Advance To May Pen]

During the late 70s there was an advertising campaign to promote New York as a great place to eat and a knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork etc, was used as a motto. As a matter of interest, this was not the first time a reggae dj used such a thing for a lyric -- Best Dressed Chicken In Town was another slogan from an ad.

[rcdupre]

interesting, I was wondering about that too. I think it also has to do with the influx of Jamaican posses / political gangs into the NYC burroughs in that era and their cocaine runnings.
If you can get ahold of the book "Born Fi Dead" it's very informative.