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Back in 1993, I first heard about Cornershop doing some sort of protest against Morrissey for his…

A while back I wrote an article on Cornershop‘s debut EP, Lock Stock & Double-Barrel and mentioned a little known fact: there is a hidden Johnny Cash song (“Houston Hash”) at the end of the EP.

It is a really fun song about a truck driver who does whatever it takes to get home for some Houston Hash. The coolest part is the recipe that’s mentioned in the song:

She uses canned tomatoes, ground beef and onions too

and she mixes it all up with a cup of rice

She takes the ground beef and onions and nice green peppers

and she puts them in a pan

and cooks them until they look really great

And then she mixes it all together with a little chili pepper

some tomatoes and some sauce

and she puts it in the oven to bake

I am really happy that agathafrye have decided to actually bake her own Houston Hash. I’ve included an excerpt of her article below:

The Houston Hash Saga, aka, why they call it “surfing the web”
Feb 25, 2008 at 8:16 PM

On my way to the doctor’s office today, I enjoyed a Johnny Cash song
that seemed to be called “Houston Hash.” The song describes a long haul
trucker who spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about a
delicious dish that his honey cooks up for him at the end of a trip.
The song provides the whole recipe, which is essentially a rice,
pepper, onion, canned tomato, and ground beef casserole. As it
happened, I was particularly hungry while I listened to this song, and
this Houston Hash recipe became very interesting to me.

(excerpt)

Bastardized Vegetarian Houston Hash
3 tbsp olive oil

1 yellow onion

12 baby red/yellow/orange peppers

2 tbsp chili powder

1 package fake chorizo (soyrizo)

2 cups brown rice

2 cans organic crushed tomatoes