The first bite into those Bartletts was intoxicating. The juice met your teeth with a gush.

“Baby, I was a loser / Several years on the dole / An Englishman with a very high voice / Doing rock ’n’ roll,” sings falsetto-happy frontman Justin Hawkins at the start of “Every Inch Of You,” Hot Cakes’ opener.

...from the voyeur and beau, through the private dick and the hobo to the cybercowboy and the cyborg.

It has shown up repeatedly in cocaine cowboy shootouts in public places and in the execution of whole families, including infants.