>> Funny how those songs of nut-brown maids never made the transition from Scottish song to the American market. We may be talking acorns and pecans, but it's not all pails and basins of milk and cream. <<

Not the mainstream, but they're all over the folk and Renaissance circuits. I encountered one bard who was singing in half a dozen different languages including Gaelic and Welsh, so occasionally they are even available in the original languages.

>> "Whiteness" required a blindness because attention was reserved for the "Other". This is why that blindness is unveiled when the body is female. 'Alabaster' and 'saucer of milk' aren't typically attached to Marines. <<

*snicker* Until you hit the military pr0n.