GR translation: do the Tootsie Roll

[David Morris]

Sugar bowl is white substance container.
Devil's food cake is chocolate.
Tootsie Roll is phallic chocolate.
To "roll" with someone can mean sex.

It's just a silly phrase Slothrop uses to forget about leaving the hash
behind.

On Monday, December 16, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:

> V493.7-14   . . . Otto has a tin can of honest-to-God Bohnenkaffee
> simmering. “First I’ve had in a while,” Slothrop scorching his mouth.
>        “Black market,” purrs the Silent Otto. “Good business to be in.”
>        “I was in it for a while. . . .” Oh, yes, and he’s left the last of
> that Bodine hashish, hasn’t he, several fucking ounces in fact, back on the
> Anubis, wasn’t that clever. See the sugar bowl do the Tootsie Roll with the
> big, bad, Devil’s food cake—
>        “Nice morning,” Otto remarks.
>
> What is the meaning of "do the Tootsie Roll" in the original song, On the
> Good Ship Lollipop?  Or is it just nonsensical?
>
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