# Songs about food that aren't really about food... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492 "2010-04-09T03:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/21 "2010-04-09T14:30:29Z")
> [@Buford\_was\_no\_angel](#): > > Southern Culture on the Skids-“8 Piece Box” I came with that one in mind, but I’ll submit Candye Kane’s **All You Can Eat (and you can eat it all night long)**. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/22 "2010-04-09T14:38:53Z")
Led Zep’s “Custard Pie”. And then there’s the Beatles’ “Savoy Truffle”, which sounds like one of those songs that seems to be about food but really isn’t, but in fact, it really is. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/23 "2010-04-09T14:44:56Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Led Zep’s “Custard Pie”. > > And then there’s the Beatles’ “Savoy Truffle”, which sounds like one of those songs that seems to be about food but really isn’t, but in fact, it really is. You beat me to _Custard Pie_, so I’ll submit these: _Breakfast in Bed_ (Dusty Springfield/Lorna Bennett/UB40 & Chrissie Hynde) _Honey Pie_ (Beatles again) Aerosmith’s _Walk This Way_ contains the lyric “you ain’t seen nothin’ till you’re down on a muffin” ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/24 "2010-04-09T15:01:41Z")
A song I wrote back in the day, which I shall now procede to transcribe: Come on, won’t you go to dinner with me? I need somebody to eat around. It don’t do too good to a guy to eat all alone. So come on, won’t you go to dinner with me? You’ll have somebody to eat around. Culinary pleasures will abound. We’ll eat our greenery.\* Our meat. \*Never was happy with this word choice but it fit the music. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/25 "2010-04-09T15:04:14Z")
The responses so far invite a similar question, hope it’s okay to slip into the thread: What songs are there about food, but not really about food, but also not about sex? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/26 "2010-04-09T15:07:25Z")
Lollipop, lollipop … ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/27 "2010-04-09T15:16:17Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > The responses so far invite a similar question, hope it’s okay to slip into the thread: > > What songs are there about food, but not really about food, but also not about sex? _One Bad Apple_, The Osmond Brothers ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/28 "2010-04-09T15:36:10Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > The responses so far invite a similar question, hope it’s okay to slip into the thread: > > What songs are there about food, but not really about food, but also not about sex? That’s going to be much harder (especially if you consider “about a woman” or similar to be “about sex”) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/29 "2010-04-09T15:46:07Z")
_Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam._ ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/30 "2010-04-09T15:49:23Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > The responses so far invite a similar question, hope it’s okay to slip into the thread: > > What songs are there about food, but not really about food, but also not about sex? If you consider _Sukiyaki_ to be about food it qualifies (though it’s hard to say it’s about food - it just has the name of a dish for a random title that has nothing to do with the song). But Japan has a good source of non-sexual food songs in Shonen Knife. _Flying Jelly Attack_, _Sushi Bar_, _Banana Chips_, _Froot Loop Dreams_ … the list goes on. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/31 "2010-04-09T16:22:22Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > What songs are there about food, but not really about food, but also not about sex? _Buckeye Battle Cry_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/32 "2010-04-09T16:27:15Z")
[Coffee in Bed](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9QZhLSKEps) - Squeeze [Pulling Mussels From a Shell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuJ1AefhWzE&feature=related) - Squeeze ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/33 "2010-04-09T16:28:17Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > _Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam._ I’m pretty sure that song really is about Spam. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/34 "2010-04-09T16:29:42Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > I’m pretty sure that song really is about Spam. But whether or not it’s about \*food \*is debatable… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/35 "2010-04-09T16:33:23Z")
ROFL! ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/36 "2010-04-09T18:01:00Z")
_Sugar Pie Honey Bunch_ - The Temptations\* Ice Cream\* - Sarah McLachlan ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/37 "2010-04-09T18:54:10Z")
**I Want Candy** - Originally by _The Strangeloves_ in the 60’s, but perhaps better know as being sung by _Bow Wow Wow_ in the 80’s. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/38 "2010-04-09T19:08:03Z")
**Alice’s Restaurant** , Arlo Guthrie **Sugartime** , by a lot of old singers. **Popsicle Toes** , which I hate. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/39 "2010-04-09T19:19:23Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > What songs are there about food, but not really about food, but also not about sex? Well, I would suggest _Jelly Jungle (of Orange Marmalade)_ by the Lemon Pipers, which is replete with food imagery but appears to be about the same general type of experience that John Lennon was referencing when he sang of “tangerine trees and marmalade skies”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492/40 "2010-04-09T19:53:22Z")
According to singer Joey Levene, practically all of the Ohio Express’ “Yummy Yummy” and “Chewy Chewy” bubble gum hits of the Sixties were substituting food images for sexual ones. (Did the 11 year old girls know that?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-food-that-arent-really-about-food/535492.md?page=3)