# Songs Which Contain Recipes **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/21 "2016-10-26T03:42:26Z")
[I think that might actually win the thread as a viable recipe.](http://www.geekychef.com/2011/08/chocolate-salty-balls.html) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/22 "2016-10-26T03:55:10Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Muenster (cheese), not mustard. Wiki is full of shit. I have an original issue of the LP in front of me, and the lyrics are printed on the sleeve. It’s “mustard.” ---
**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:** [October 26, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/23 "2016-10-26T04:14:20Z")
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 measure the sugar to satisfy your expectant tongue, That is love; Sitting untouched and growing cold_ ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/24 "2016-10-26T05:32:44Z")
**[Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s “WPLJ”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpm6XEmrEv8)** _“You take the bottle, you take the can Shake it up fine, you get a good, good wine White Port and Lemon Juice”_ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/25 "2016-10-26T06:25:36Z")
[_Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy Some grief, some joy Memories are made of this_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZLBfYbFVIo) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/26 "2016-10-26T07:25:10Z")
Bauhaus - [1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash](http://www.metrolyrics.com/1-david-jay-2-peter-murphy-3-kevin-haskins-4-daniel-ash-lyrics-bauhaus.html) The Peter Murphy section has a “recipe” for fishcakes: > [@](#): > > Take a fish > And a potato > Hold the fish > And the potato > In your hand > In your hand Etc. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/27 "2016-10-26T10:18:51Z")
[David Soul - Black Bean Soup.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzYYY3Q6Mzs) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/28 "2016-10-26T13:14:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **silenus** : > > Wiki is full of shit. I have an original issue of the LP in front of me, and the lyrics are printed on the sleeve. It’s “mustard.” Maybe, but if it is mustard, then the recipe’s not complete. It could hardly be a cheeseburger without any cheese, now could it? Though then again, muenster would be a really odd choice of cheese for a burger. I’d expect something more like cheddar, especially for a traditional standard version like he seems to be describing. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/29 "2016-10-26T13:18:59Z")
How about Negativeland - [Perfect Scrambled Eggs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52CoOE0weQs). You’re probably not going to find anything that fits the OP closer than that! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/30 "2016-10-26T13:28:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Wiki is full of shit. I have an original issue of the LP in front of me, and the lyrics are printed on the sleeve. It’s “mustard.” Word of God good enough for you? …so when Jimmy sat on the edge of the stage and told us the story of how it got misheard, he was full of shit, too? It’s a _cheese_burger. I’d say you pretty much have to list the _cheese_ to make that work, and Buffett is not a sloppy writer. A quirky one, yes, but not sloppy. ETA: Muenster makes a great cheeseburger, by the way. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/31 "2016-10-26T13:31:31Z")
Margaritaville mentions salt and booze. Close enough ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/32 "2016-10-26T13:33:28Z")
Master P’s “Ghetto D” (D for “dope”) contains instructions for making crack from cocaine. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/33 "2016-10-26T14:10:18Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > 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: In the same vein . . . Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts Mutilated monkey meat Itty bitty birdie feet All mixed up with vegetated vulture vomit Swimming in eyeball soup (in eye ball soup!) Fried ham fried ham Cheese and bologna And after the macaroni we’ll have onions, pickles and pretzels And then we’ll have some more fried ham _Love Potion No. 9_ doesn’t give the recipe specifics but it \*is \*about a cooked up concoction. Oingo Boingo’s _Weird Science_ is something like a recipe (it says so right in the lyrics :)) except the ingredients aren’t food but things such as plastic tubes and pots and pans. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/34 "2016-10-26T16:20:15Z")
Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/35 "2016-10-26T16:36:57Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Sing a song of sixpence, > A pocket full of rye. > Four and twenty blackbirds, > Baked in a pie. Wow, is that new? Who’s the band? Has it been released yet? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/36 "2016-10-26T16:40:32Z")
My kid hates the taste of medicine; I figure a spoonful of _something_ would sure help it go down in the most delightful way, but I’m stumped. Little help? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/37 "2016-10-26T16:51:22Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > My kid hates the taste of medicine; I figure a spoonful of _something_ would sure help it go down in the most delightful way, but I’m stumped. Little help? Nutella! ---
**Author:** ![SUZ\_MAC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/38 "2016-10-26T16:56:26Z")
The lyrics are “Cheeseburger is paradise medium rare with mustard’d be nice”. That’s how I’ve always heard him sing it so that’s how I sing it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/39 "2016-10-26T17:00:45Z")
The old song we used to sing as a kid: Gramma’s in the cellar And you sure can smell ‘er And she whistles as the (_snort_) runs down her nose … And it’s drippin’ in the batter, But it doesn’t really matter, 'Cause she whistles as the (_snort_) runs down her nose! Down her nose! Down her nose! And she whistles as the (_snort_) runs down her nose! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723/40 "2016-10-26T17:14:40Z")
> [@SUZ\_MAC](#): > > The lyrics are “Cheeseburger is paradise medium rare with mustard’d be nice”. That’s how I’ve always heard him sing it so that’s how I sing it. 😃 Understood. [Audio clip slowed down 3X.](http://www.dgath.com/misc/jbcheese.mp3) It’s pretty clearly “with Muenster’d be nice…” to my ear. “Mustard” makes no sense in the line, especially about a CHEESE burger, and “medium rare with mustard be nice” is even outside JB’s grammatical loosity. Besides, I heard it straight from the man himself. Along with 28,000 other people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-which-contain-recipes/769723.md?page=3)