"don't eat the yellow snow" is a suite by the american musician frank zappa, made up of the first four tracks of his 1974 album "apostrophe (')": "don't eat the yellow snow", "nanook rubs it", "st. alfonzo's pancake breakfast", and "father o'blivion". each song in the suite is loosely connected, although the songs are not all connected by one overall story/theme. the suite was only played in full from 1973 to 1974 and 1978 to 1980. "saint alfonzo's pancake breakfast" contains zappa's percussionist ruth underwood on marimba who added a very distinct sound to many of his songs in the early 1970s.