Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Ī peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked Related Article: 10 Tough Tongue Twisters 5. In the 1940s, the song became a jazz standard, further cementing the phrase in the public consciousness. That credit goes to the 1927 song I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream by the musicians Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, and Robert King. While it’s likely that similar puns were made prior to this quirky freezer ad, it wasn’t actually the advertisement that brought the rhyme to the wider audience.
