# Unusual songs about food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815 "2016-11-23T16:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/21 "2016-11-23T21:33:50Z")
[30,000 Pounds of Bananas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFM4Ilt4Rs) by Harry Chapin was a favorite growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/22 "2016-11-23T21:54:37Z")
\*RC Cola and a Moon Pie DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake\* ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/23 "2016-11-23T21:57:01Z")
The fabulous Cibo Matto: [Know Your Chicken](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMWwwv_MTk) [Sugar Water](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN9auBn6Jys) [Beef Jerky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9hJgRxeuNE) Blues Brothers: [Rubber Biscuit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5FH0NkkTYE) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/24 "2016-11-23T22:01:09Z")
[Hair Pie, Bake 1 (by Captain Beefheart)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNStKhavmOs) Also, several songs from the Beach Boys’ Smile sessions were about food – weird stuff about vegetables. Right around when Frank Zappa, also in southern California, was recording “Call Any Vegetable” (and “Duke of Prunes”). Healthy munchies – how very “LA circa '67”… ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/25 "2016-11-23T22:02:27Z")
[Tom Waits, “Chocolate Jesus”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfamPW3Eaw) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/26 "2016-11-23T22:04:11Z")
[Metamora, “Little Potato”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkcnJd-eyQ0). A sweet song about a newborn baby, by a circa-1990 minor folk-bluegrass group/ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/27 "2016-11-23T22:11:23Z")
> [@Soylent Juicy](#): > > My friends took a road trip to some town in Pennsylvania so they could find a hill and eat bananas on it. Apparently there’s a song about eating bananas on a hill in (the town, I forget) in Pennsylvania. > [@TroutMan](#): > > [30,000 Pounds of Bananas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFM4Ilt4Rs) by Harry Chapin was a favorite growing up. I think you’re talking about the same song… Found a peanut… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/28 "2016-11-23T22:36:02Z")
“And he slid for four hundred yards Along the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania All those thirty thousand pounds of bananas” Also, **NaCl** by the McGarrigle Sisters. Think of the love that you eat when you salt your meat. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/29 "2016-11-23T22:37:55Z")
_Alfredo’s_ by **ALL** An ode to what they wanted to order at their favorite restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/30 "2016-11-23T22:39:19Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mW2GAnVIElk/hqdefault.jpg "Thanksgiving Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW2GAnVIElk) “Thanksgiving Song” by Laurie Berkner. I’ve been singing it all week. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/31 "2016-11-23T22:46:55Z")
[quote=“Baker, post:16, topic:772815”] Cheddar Cheese Jerusalem [/QUOTE] Much better is [_Chinese Combo #5_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J2xi5Etnnk) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/32 "2016-11-23T22:49:13Z")
And if you’re thirsty, you can just put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up… ---
**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:** [November 23, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/33 "2016-11-23T22:57:35Z")
Neil Diamond: [Porcupine Pie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGqN-8VoI3U) Also Neil Diamond: [Soggy Pretzels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoLBPGTxcOo) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/34 "2016-11-23T22:57:57Z")
Barnes & Barnes, [Fish Heads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No) Eat them up, yum! ---
**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:** [November 23, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/35 "2016-11-23T22:59:50Z")
Andrews Sisters: [Hold Tight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKS5RM6TFUE) (because fish and rice is very nice) ---
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/36 "2016-11-23T22:59:56Z")
[The Fruit Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nMbkdgA63A) by Martin Mull ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/37 "2016-11-23T23:02:51Z")
Milk Shakin Mama, Dan Hicks You’re My Meat (Louis Jordan or Joe Jackson) ---
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/38 "2016-11-23T23:04:40Z")
[Life In The Slaw Lane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyI9VxOtFX8) by Kip Addotta ---
**Author:** ![DrForrester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/39 "2016-11-23T23:05:46Z")
[Work The Meat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byz4T6JdvBo) by Barnes & Barnes ---
**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:** [November 23, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/40 "2016-11-23T23:07:03Z")
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