# Songs Which Contain Recipes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 25, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723 "2016-10-25T20:47:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/1 "2016-10-25T20:47:19Z")
Tom Waits, [Filipino Box Spring Hog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuRfJDYl6Ts).
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> Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road
> Fill it with madrone and bay
> Stinks like hell and the neighbors complain
> Don’t give a hoot what they say
> Gotta slap that hog
> Roll em over twice
> Gotta baste him with a sweeping broom
> You gotta swat them flies and chain up the dogs
> Cookin’ up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Which songs contain recipes?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/2 "2016-10-25T21:32:50Z")
“You put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em bot’up”
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### Author:  [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/3 "2016-10-25T21:52:37Z")
[The Candy Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqRIGLxuQ0g), I suppose, which really ought to be covered by Tom Waits.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/4 "2016-10-25T21:57:38Z")
“(My Great Granny’s) Cherry Pie,” by Katzenjammer… one of their ickier Abba-70s-pop-pop songs. It’s basically a sung recipe.
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### Author:  [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/5 "2016-10-25T22:00:44Z")
Paul Kelly’s [How To Make Gravy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh79619xxk8) probably owes money to Tom Waits’ \*Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis \*.
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> Who’s gonna make the gravy now?
> I bet it won’t taste the same
> Just add flour, salt, a little red wine and don’t forget a dollop of
> tomato sauce for sweetness and that extra tang
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/6 "2016-10-25T22:35:07Z")
Not exactly a recipe, but I like the message this old blues song puts across:
“Don’t hafta cook me no chicken,
‘cause your ol’ neckbones will do…
Don’t cook me no chicken,
Your plain ol’ neckbones’ll do…
I’m gonna get some black eyed peas
Mama, and try to git along with you”
Now, that’s a love song!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/7 "2016-10-25T23:00:51Z")
Jimmy Buffett’s “Cheeseburger In Paradise” has all the ingredients: onion slice, medium-rare with mustard, lettuce, tomato, Heinz 57 with a side of fries and a beer.
For that matter, George Thorogood’s “1 Bourbon, 1 Scotch, and 1 Beer” is a perfect recipe for disaster.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/8 "2016-10-25T23:09:22Z")
Not so much a recipe, but a menu. \*Last Meal \* by Asleep at the Wheel:
“Warden bring me two dinosaur eggs over easy
Fried in butter, and not too greasy,
Mosquito knees and black eyed peas.
A little bit of butter on my bee bop beans, a saber tooth tiger steak
A whole hippopotamus, well baked”
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### Author:  [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/9 "2016-10-25T23:44:58Z")
Tool’s “Die Eier Von Satan” (off _[Ænima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86nima)_) sounds like a vitriolic Nazi speech, but is in fact a recipe for hashish cookies.
This thread reminds me of one of my favorite lines from the MST3K riff of _Daddy-O_, which comes during [Dick Contino’s rendition of “Rock Candy Baby”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgzBc-8g4u0):
“He’s singing the left side of the menu!”
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### Author:  [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/10 "2016-10-25T23:55:31Z")
I guess the following lines from McCartney’s ‘Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey’ are _kind_ of a recipe:
“Butter Pie?”
“The butter wouldn’t melt so we put it in a pie!”
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/11 "2016-10-26T00:03:59Z")
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> Quoth **Number** :
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> Tool’s “Die Eier Von Satan” (off Ænima) sounds like a vitriolic Nazi speech, but is in fact a recipe for hashish cookies.
Yeah, the title is literally “The eggs of Satan”, and in German, “eggs” is slang for testicles. The last “ingredient” in the song is “…And no eggs!”, presumably a commentary on Satan’s anatomy.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/12 "2016-10-26T00:06:43Z")
Peanut, peanut butter!
(Jelly! Jelly!)
Peanut, peanut butter!
(Jelly! Jelly!)
First you take some peanuts
and you mash 'em! mash 'em!
Then you take some grapes
and you squish 'em! squish 'em!
etc.
On a long drive I wrote my own, which I still sometimes chant to my children:
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> Cheese!
> Cheese!
> Cheese on an apple!
> Cheese!
> Cheese!
> Cheese on an apple!
> Spread it with some honey
> (make sure it’s good and runny)
> A slice of baloney
> AND THAT’S A STINKY PONY!
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/13 "2016-10-26T00:55:04Z")
“Toledo Suprise” from _[The Drowsy Chaperone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILywa8o5TLk)_ is vague, but in the form of a recipe.
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> Chop the nuts
> Pound the dough
> Bake it up
> Nice and slow
> Then you got a Toledo
> Toledo Surprise
> Pit the peach
> Peel the skin
> Mush it up
> Throw it in
> That’s a tasty Toledo
> Toledo Surprise
> First you beat it up
> Then you sweet it up
> When you heat it up
> If it tries to rise
> Don’t let it
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/14 "2016-10-26T00:58:51Z")
If you play “Maybe I’m Amazed” backwards, you’ll hear a recipe for a really ripping lentil soup.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/15 "2016-10-26T01:09:39Z")
_John Barleycorn (Must Die)_ is a thinly veiled recipe for growing barley and making it into whiskey.
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### Author:  [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/16 "2016-10-26T01:36:51Z")
I’m going to count the Small Faces wonderful [Song of a Baker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22iu_TQ6Vo0) as a recipe:
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> I can no longer stand and wonder
> Cause I’m driven by this hunger
> So I’ll jug some water
> Bake some flour
> Store some salt and wait the hour
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/17 "2016-10-26T01:41:16Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Jimmy Buffett’s “Cheeseburger In Paradise” has all the ingredients: onion slice, medium-rare with mustard, lettuce, tomato, Heinz 57 with a side of fries and a beer.
Muenster (cheese), not mustard.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/18 "2016-10-26T01:53:11Z")
_Summer Wine_ by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood:
“Strawberries cherries and an angel’s kiss in spring / My summer wine is really made from all these things”
_What Are Little Boys/Girls Made Of?_ - Traditional
“Snips and snails and puppy dog tails”
“Sugar and spice and all things nice”
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### Author:  [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/19 "2016-10-26T02:07:30Z")
It’s only really part of a recipe, but Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme is something I see a lot when I’m cooking.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/20 "2016-10-26T03:08:40Z")
“[Chocolate Salty Balls](http://www.metrolyrics.com/chocolate-salty-balls-lyrics-south-park.html)” by Chef from South Park.
_Two tablespoons of cinnamon and two or three egg whites
A half a stick of butter melted
Stick it all in a bowl baby, stir it with a wooden spoon
Mix in a cup of flour, you’ll be in heaven soon_
Later:
_Quarter cup of unsweetened chocolate and a half a cup of brandy
Then throw in a bag or two of sugar and just a pinch of vanilla
Grease up the cookie sheet cause I hate when my balls stick
Then preheat the oven to three fifty and give that spoon a lick_
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