# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/61 "2011-06-16T17:14:09Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > [hijack] – couldn’t resist references upthread to “cows eat grass” How many cows eat grass? All cows eat grass! And this is how we know the spaces on the bass clef. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/62 "2011-06-16T17:20:57Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > How many cows eat grass? All cows eat grass! > > And this is how we know the spaces on the bass clef. I had forgotten that! Every Good Boy Deserves _something starting with F_ is the only one I committed to memory and even it is flawed, as demonstrated. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/63 "2011-06-16T17:23:07Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Every Good Boy Deserves _something starting with F_ Fudge. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/64 "2011-06-16T17:24:00Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Fudge. Way better than Favor which was tugging at my memory. ETA: Sorry, but I warned it was a hijack 🙂 ---
**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, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/65 "2011-06-16T17:27:22Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And does eat oats. . . . > [@CWN](#): > > and little lambs eat Ivy… Well played. Thank you for your cooperation. . ---
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/66 "2011-06-16T17:30:36Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > A kid’ll eat ivy too… Argh. I missed your contribution. A belated laurel and hearty handshake to you too. . ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/67 "2011-06-16T17:32:28Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Well played. Thank you for your cooperation. > > . Serious question: How many thought of Leland Palmer? ---
**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, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/68 "2011-06-16T17:33:28Z")
> [@Cryptic\_C62](#): > > British food is terrible Might’ve been nicer to say “The Britsh like foreign cuisine.” .😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/69 "2011-06-16T17:43:37Z")
Orcs love “man flesh.” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/70 "2011-06-16T20:55:13Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Turtles love pizza. Outdated, it’s celery now. Also good for Guinea pigs and Ducks. [Link to “The Wonderpets”](http://www.nickjr.com/wonder-pets/about-wonder-pets/wonder-pets-characters_ap.html) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/71 "2011-06-16T20:57:33Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I had forgotten that! Every Good Boy Deserves _something starting with F_ is the only one I committed to memory and even it is flawed, as demonstrated. Flatulence, of course. Well, that’s what we used. . . ---
**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 16, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/72 "2011-06-16T21:47:49Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Monkeys love bananas (surely that’s in here somewhere? Can I have missed it?) Yup. > [@jsgoddess](#): > > Monkeys love bananas ---
**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, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/73 "2011-06-16T21:48:01Z")
French Canadians like poutine. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/74 "2011-06-16T22:40:47Z")
Narcissists love themselves. Astronauts - Tang Euell Gibbons - Pine needles and cattails ---
**Author:** ![Apollon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Apollon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollon)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/75 "2011-06-16T23:09:36Z")
Donkeys and goats love straw hats. Policemen love donuts. Ostriches love golf balls, screws and other non-digestible bulky objects. Finns love alcohol. Badgers love garbage. Frustrated women love chocolate. Frustrating women love salad. Some people love fried chicken and watermelon. Even I do. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/76 "2011-06-17T01:28:11Z")
Mithridates—All kinds of poisons. \*Give me agates for my meat, Give me cantharids to eat, From air and ocean bring me foods, From all zones and altitudes. From all natures, sharp and slimy, Salt and basalt, wild and tame, Tree, and lichen, ape, sea-lion, Bird and reptile be my game. Ivy for my fillet band, Blinding dogwood in my hand, Hemlock for my sherbet cull me, And the prussic juice to lull me, Swing me in the upas boughs, Vampire-fanned, when I carouse.\* ---
**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 17, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/77 "2011-06-17T04:04:37Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Euell Gibbons - Pine needles and cattails “Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.” ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/78 "2011-06-17T04:58:33Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > i have never seen a bone-shaped dog biscuit. [Milk Bone brand dog treats](http://milkbone.com/products), for your perusal. ---
**Author:** ![Apollon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Apollon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollon)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/79 "2011-06-17T13:58:40Z")
Greek Philosophers love hemlock. Bear Grylls loves urine. Grumpy old farts love prune juice. Geeks love Mountain Dew. Ugandan dictators love human meat. Bipolar cats love the hand that pets them. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618/80 "2011-06-17T14:05:23Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > A kid’ll eat ivy too… Wooden ewe? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-animal-has-a-canonical-favorite-food-lets-list-them/585618.md?page=5)