# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/101 "2019-05-08T14:13:04Z")
Cowboy Junkies, “Cold Tea Blues” \*If I pour your cup, that is friendship If I add the milk, that is manners If I stop there, claiming ignorance of taste That is tea But if I add the sugar to satisfy your expectant tongue That is love Sitting untouched and growing cold\* ---
**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 8, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/102 "2019-05-08T14:25:34Z")
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window? ---
**Author:** ![Dickerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Dickerman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dickerman)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/103 "2019-05-08T14:49:34Z")
(Skinny) Elvis did the great “Polk Salad Annie”: [Elvis Presley - Polk Salad Annie Live (High Quality) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4csFnpZXek) where polk salad is really “poke sallet”. And another Buffett one could be “Tin Cup Chalice”, where he drinks red wine and sings: “Gimme oysters and beer For dinner every day of the year And I’ll feel fine… I’ll feel fi-ine” ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/104 "2019-05-08T16:54:50Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > There’s some old English music hall numbers > > [Boiled Beef and Carrots](https://youtu.be/7mIMIUqAa3w) > > [A Little Bit of Cucumber](https://youtu.be/OvMFBQgkxrg) > > [My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock](https://youtu.be/8KQ6Wmbi5ig) > > And one I’ve just heard of, but the words and music seem to be lost: > > Pulling My Rhubarb Out This brings to mind a nice bit in an otherwise fairly forgettable novel by J. B. Priestley, _Let The People Sing_, set in the late 1930s. Part of its events, involve the tribulations of a highly learned central-European professor: a refugee in the UK, from the expanding Third Reich – a thoroughly benign guy, but of an extremely serious and solemn disposition. He is befriended by an English comedian, from very much the down-market end of that profession. While very grateful for the assistance, he can’t help musing in the course of the unlikely friendship; on the oddity of the English – a great people who have achieved so much – having such a passion (notwithstanding the abundance of themes for highly worthy versification) for foolishly infantile songs about food. He’s often forced to the conclusion: “A very strange people”. ---
**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 8, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/105 "2019-05-08T17:35:28Z")
A thousand bottles of beer on the wall ---
**Author:** ![Dickerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Dickerman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dickerman)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/106 "2019-05-08T19:36:01Z")
Jimmy Buffett: I Will Play for Gumbo _I don’t smoke, I don’t shoot smack But I got a spicy monkey ridin’ on my back. Don’t eat beignets, too much sugar and dough, But I will play for gumbo Yes, I will play for gumbo_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Bbt1RtXNDsQ/hqdefault.jpg "I will play for gumbo") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbt1RtXNDsQ) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/107 "2019-05-08T20:41:01Z")
The original instrumental by Kenny Burrell. Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DJiyY5mh5zI/hqdefault.jpg "Chitlins Con Carne - Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying - 1991 (HD)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJiyY5mh5zI) ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/108 "2019-05-08T23:34:29Z")
Here is one that both the Band and the tune are about food. [Squirrel Heads and Gravy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6E4HWs8yjc) done by _ **Leftover Salmon** _ Another one I like (but can’t find a copy of) is Martin Mulls “Eggs” off the album Mulling Around ---
**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 8, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/109 "2019-05-08T23:40:38Z")
[What’s That Tastes Like Gravy?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsXQJwdrkco) by King David’s Jug Band ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/110 "2019-05-09T01:52:48Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i2RKWJD5ops/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgQig8MA8=&rs=AOn4CLD8gxGTKOshc9pSfkux1h-UaHiqrA "Van Halen - Van Halen - Ice Cream Man") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RKWJD5ops) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/111 "2019-05-09T04:43:18Z")
Back in the mid 70’s one of my younger siblings had a record that all the songs were about food. “Popcorn” was on there, as was “Big Rock Candy Mountain”. But the song we really got a kick out of was a tune called “My Cake”. With lyrics like _ **"First I wiggle, then I wake, then I rise, to make my cake".** _ The song went on with this dweeb bragging how great his cake was. It was a hoot. Wish I could find a copy to post. -Pete ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/112 "2019-05-09T05:48:22Z")
Pk - I had Popcorn and this Rock Candy on deck. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CtDO3qBo72M/maxresdefault.jpg "Montrose - Rock Candy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtDO3qBo72M) ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/113 "2019-05-09T08:02:48Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > There’s some old English music hall numbers > > [Boiled Beef and Carrots](https://youtu.be/7mIMIUqAa3w) > > [A Little Bit of Cucumber](https://youtu.be/OvMFBQgkxrg) > > [My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock](https://youtu.be/8KQ6Wmbi5ig) > > And one I’ve just heard of, but the words and music seem to be lost: > > Pulling My Rhubarb Out And another such – the World War I favourite “I Do Like A S’nice S’mince S’pie” (whose chorus includes: “I don’t like lamb, ham or jam And I don’t like roly-poly”) [https://monologues.co.uk/musichall/songs-I/I-Do-Like-A-Snice-Spince-Spie-htm](https://monologues.co.uk/musichall/songs-I/I-Do-Like-A-Snice-Spince-Spie-htm) The above link, to the lyric – trying to achieve one to a musical version, defeated my poorish computer skills. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/114 "2019-05-09T11:34:47Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Pk - I had Popcorn and this Rock Candy on deck. It’s that weird “My Cake” song I’ma lookin’ fer. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/115 "2019-05-09T13:57:50Z")
Then there’s [_Cut the Cake_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSq93Hsn0Bg) by Average White Band. I don’t think they’re really singing about cake, though. 😉 _Ode To Billy Joe_ mentions blackeyed peas, biscuits, and apple pie. ---
**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 9, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/116 "2019-05-09T14:07:22Z")
Billy Joel’s Piano Man mentions tonic and gin, drinks for free, and beer. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/117 "2019-05-09T14:42:42Z")
> [@Sangahyando](#): > > And another such – the World War I favourite “I Do Like A S’nice S’mince S’pie” > > (whose chorus includes: > “I don’t like lamb, ham or jam > And I don’t like roly-poly” Speaking of which, Roly Poly was a song by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: “Roly Poly, eatin’ corn and taters Hungry every minute of the day Roly poly, gnawin’ on a bisquit Long as he can chew it it’s ok” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zKMtLWEWYZI/maxresdefault.jpg "Bob Wills: "Roly Poly"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKMtLWEWYZI) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/118 "2019-05-09T14:47:35Z")
i love Roly-Poly! Even though you couldn’t get away with lyrics like “daddy’s little fatty” these days. 😉 ---
**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 9, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/119 "2019-05-09T15:06:37Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Billy Joel’s Piano Man mentions tonic and gin, drinks for free, and beer. Making love to a tonic & gin, and a microphone that smells like a beer…does not seem to be an ode to food… ---
**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 9, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-or-cooking/833547/120 "2019-05-09T15:35:20Z")
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