# Songs about food or cooking **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547 "2019-05-06T10:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/61 "2019-05-07T01:43:07Z")
“Too Much Barbecue,” Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows. Great Chicago blues, and the video is funny as hell. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-yguIN0DU_w/hqdefault.jpg "Big Twist And The Mellow Fellows Too Much Barbecue") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yguIN0DU_w) ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/62 "2019-05-07T02:26:40Z")
This is either the most disturbing or uplifting song about food ever produced. [“Breakfast is the most important meal of the Day!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYqM9-Fj0Pg) Certainly a contender for the song listing the greatest number of different foods - and all for breakfast! ---
**Author:** ![Drummond\_Bays](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@Drummond\_Bays](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drummond_Bays)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/63 "2019-05-07T02:50:20Z")
Does this count? 8P WARNING: Extremely catchy BAD song. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/64 "2019-05-07T03:36:11Z")
The [McDonalds Menu Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvhDw5bQbd8). Stupid marketing jingle that embedded itself in my 12-year-old brain and never left. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/65 "2019-05-07T04:00:28Z")
Frank Zappa had a weird obsession with food songs: [The Duke of Prunes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfFzUCgIBfk), [St. Alonzo’s Pancake Breakfast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZSDeudyUiw), [Muffin Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWQb_T9_nwA) etc. And that doesn’t count instrumentals like Peaches en Regalia or the Gumbo Variations. Also, WARNING: Do not listen to if lactose intolerant [The Cheese Alarm, Robyn Hitchcock.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LtXzovIJ28) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/66 "2019-05-07T06:02:12Z")
[Green Onion Top](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SeRIhRGqzI) by Roosevelt Sykes [Matzoh Balls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJORNg7cHo) by Slim Gaillard and His Flat Foot Floogie Boys [Mama Don’t Want No Peas and Rice and Coconut Oil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNcqIfcQ1vw) by Cleo Brown [Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex3OL0R3R6Y) by Ed Smalle and Vernon Dalhart [Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEP3oTbODT8) by Billy Murray [You’re the Cream in My Coffee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk_wVO7NBMQ) by Annette Hanshaw [Black Coffee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smvKn1IdzOc) by Wingy Manone ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/67 "2019-05-07T10:27:16Z")
[Gravy Waltz,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9_7boF_M28) sung here by Mel Torme. Song written by Ray Brown and Steve Allen. [More commonly performed as an instrumental.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEo3o5q_W8) ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/68 "2019-05-07T11:52:14Z")
There’s the English folk song “The Mallard” (common species of wild duck): one of those tongue-twisting agglomerative ones which present quite a challenge to the singer. The basic verse goes: I have et – what have I et? I have et the [body part] of a mallard. [first part named is the toe, then working up the body: the part named, is then repeated twice with the addition of “y”; followed – now in down-the-body order – by all the previously-named parts, with “y” appended: each verse is therefore a couple of words longer than the previous one. Thus – for verse 1:] Toe-toe-y; and the nippers and all; And good a meat was the mallard – And now I am in Debility House, And good a meat was the mallard. [Some parts are named, which it’s doubtful that any human would actually be able to eat; but, well, poetic license. If the singer has managed to make it all the way through, the final verse runs:] I have et – what have I et? I have et the bill of a mallard. Bill-billy, head-heady, neck-necky, wing-wingy, breast-breasty, back-backy, rump-rumpy, thigh-thigh-y, knee-knee-y, leg-leggy, foot-footy, toe-toe-y; and the nippers and all; And good a meat was the mallard – And now I am in Debility House, And good a meat was the mallard. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/69 "2019-05-07T12:48:16Z")
Eggplant by Michael Franks > [@Chefguy](#): > > [Frim Fram Sauce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfCZCJ-EGRw), Diana Krall Frim Fram Sauce written in 1945 and performed by Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others before Diana Krall was born. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/70 "2019-05-07T13:38:27Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Eggplant by Michael Franks > > Frim Fram Sauce written in 1945 and performed by Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others before Diana Krall was born. Yes, I know. My link was to Ms. Krall’s version. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/71 "2019-05-07T15:09:13Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Yes, I know. My link was to Ms. Krall’s version. I know. Didn’t want folks to think it was exclusively hers. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/72 "2019-05-07T15:21:02Z")
_“On top of spagheeeeettiiiiiiii, all covered with cheeeeeeeeeese, I lost my poor meeeeeeatballllll when somebody sneeeeeeeezed…”_ ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/73 "2019-05-07T15:46:11Z")
Two songs written by Rupert Holmes: _Escape (The Piña Colada Song)_ and _Timothy_. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/74 "2019-05-07T16:41:37Z")
Rubber Biscuit Hot Tamales and the Red Hots ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/75 "2019-05-07T16:48:38Z")
Bottle of Wine, originally written and sung by Tom Paxton, and covered by The Fireballs. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/76 "2019-05-07T17:31:00Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Bottle of Wine, originally written and sung by Tom Paxton, and covered by The Fireballs. _[Red, Red Wine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeJ55sUacPM)_ _[Cracklin’ Rosie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhumCu3fzMI)_ Both by Neil Diamond ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/77 "2019-05-07T18:05:09Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > Two songs written by Rupert Holmes: _Escape (The Piña Colada Song)_ and _Timothy_. I heard somewhere that Timothy was the mule. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/78 "2019-05-07T18:10:57Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I heard somewhere that Timothy was the mule. That was the cover story the record company tried to sell, which gets Holmes _very_ upset, since it suggests he would write a song about an innocent mule being eaten. Just remembered another song: _Eat the Rich_ by Aerosmith. ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/79 "2019-05-07T20:20:40Z")
Southern Culture on the Skids 8 Piece Box Fried Chicken and Gasoline Too Much Pork for One Fork Banana Pudding Tuna Fish Every Day Chitlin Strut Biscuit Eater Greenback Fly Carve That Possum ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/80 "2019-05-07T21:19:50Z")
[The Cuban Sandwich](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB57Jl_LU)–Barrence Whitfield and Tom Russell [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547.md?page=5)