# Every animal has a canonical favorite food. Let's list them. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618 "2011-06-15T22:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/1 "2011-06-15T22:12:45Z")
Mice love cheese Cats love mice Elephants love peanuts Parrots love crackers Bears love honey Pandas love bamboo Whales love krill ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/2 "2011-06-15T22:14:15Z")
Rabbits (at least Bugs Bunny) loves carrots. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/3 "2011-06-15T22:17:28Z")
Birds love worms Horses love apples Goats love…tin cans? ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/4 "2011-06-15T22:20:11Z")
Koalas love eucalyptus Squirrels love nuts Horses love sugar cubes ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/5 "2011-06-15T22:20:20Z")
Ants love picnics (which may not be specific enough, but nyah!) Monkeys love bananas ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/6 "2011-06-15T22:26:57Z")
Frogs love flies. Coyotes love roadrunners—or would, if they could ever catch one. Cows love grass. Hobos love pies (cooling on windowsills). Wolves love pigs and/or grandmothers. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/7 "2011-06-15T22:41:18Z")
Moving from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/8 "2011-06-15T22:50:01Z")
Chickenhawks love chickens. ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/9 "2011-06-15T23:00:24Z")
Goats love boots and shoes, silly! Ladybugs love aphids. Bees love honey (yes I know, but I would be that the unenlightened believe this is what the bees are protecting) Fish love worms Worms love coffee grounds Flies love steaming piles of dung/scat. Ducks love crackers ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/10 "2011-06-15T23:02:12Z")
Hobos love one bean, sliced like bologna. ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/11 "2011-06-15T23:13:50Z")
Bambi’s mom loves bullets ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/12 "2011-06-15T23:16:15Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > Rabbits (at least Bugs Bunny) loves carrots. Rabbits love my garden. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/13 "2011-06-15T23:30:03Z")
Well, Hobos aren’t animals, so I’ll add: Vampires like blood Zombies like brains Dragons like maidens (you’d think they’d like something meatier…) Ghouls like corpses Gods like nectar and ambrosia Catholics like messiah-flavored wafers ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/14 "2011-06-16T00:12:11Z")
Bears love hunny ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/15 "2011-06-16T00:15:52Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > … > Catholics like messiah-flavored wafers And Catholic Priests like altar boys. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/16 "2011-06-16T00:29:43Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Cats love mice Milk > [@](#): > > Elephants love peanuts Buns At least, that’s what I’ve always heard! \*\*Dogs love: \*\* anything they think might fit in their mouth. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/17 "2011-06-16T01:06:23Z")
Piranhas love hapless swimmers Anteaters love…hmmm, very strange, I just drew a blank. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/18 "2011-06-16T01:08:22Z")
Mares eat oats. . ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/19 "2011-06-16T01:09:43Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Rabbits love my garden. :mad: According to the Chicago Botanic Garden, rabbits hate onions. Try plantings from the alium family. Not really a hijack, so much as an opposite answer. Foods that animals canonically hate. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/20 "2011-06-16T01:16:23Z")
That SHOULD be “the allium family.” Why does everything I do make me look stupid? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618.md?page=2)