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).
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”
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.
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?
Lollipop, lollipop …
One Bad Apple, The Osmond Brothers
That’s going to be much harder (especially if you consider “about a woman” or similar to be “about sex”)
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam.
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.
Buckeye Battle Cry
Coffee in Bed - Squeeze
Pulling Mussels From a Shell - Squeeze
I’m pretty sure that song really is about Spam.
But whether or not it’s about *food *is debatable…
ROFL!
Sugar Pie Honey Bunch - The Temptations*
Ice Cream* - Sarah McLachlan
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.
Alice’s Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie
Sugartime, by a lot of old singers.
Popsicle Toes, which I hate.
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”.
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?)