Milk and Honey (musical) for a project about Israel he hoped to mount on Broadway. He sent Herman and Appell there to absorb the culture and hopefully find inspiration. Herman was determined that the musical not be a patriotic love letter. Herman said: “We were there to soak up the atmosphere...Once we saw this group of little old lady tourists rummaging about, we knew that they had to be in our show.” Herman explained that "Everything about this place is not perfect. I had already written the song called "Milk and Honey" as a kind of an anthem, and I said, ... 'I have
Milk and Toast and Honey six months before writing it down and recording a demo in his Tits & Ass recording studio in Halmstad. Vocalist Marie Fredriksson assumed the song would be "a piece of cake to sing, but had to work harder than on any other Roxette track to find the magic moment." According to Ultimate Guitar, "Milk and Toast and Honey" has a moderately fast tempo of 141 beats per minute. The verse is composed of two repetitions of C–Em–Am–C–F–C–G, with the pre-chorus consisting of two short bars of F–C–G. The first chorus is made up of two sequences of C–F–Am–G, with subsequent