# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/81 "2016-11-24T15:25:49Z")
Big Mac by the Village People [https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=qp2-XMG821Y](https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=qp2-XMG821Y) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/82 "2016-11-24T17:31:38Z")
Just thought of this. I’m putting it up for the winner. No More Hot Dogs - Hasel Adkins Also Wild Honey Pie Honey Pie Cut the Cake ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/83 "2016-11-24T21:52:26Z")
[Marz](https://youtu.be/mzWQSabtWLs), by John Grant—most of the lyrics are lifted from the menu of a sweetshop in his home town. It’s incredibly beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/84 "2016-11-24T22:52:49Z")
[Hot Chocolate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uuw3JKLO1g) from _The Polar Express_ ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/85 "2016-11-25T00:29:25Z")
“Ice Cream Man” by John Brim / Van Halen. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/86 "2016-11-25T01:23:48Z")
[Waffles!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRwuZKZl-8Q) by the Missouri Jazz Band [I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvMd1K6Yo9w) by Willie Bryant and His Orchestra [I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDlpVz_Qqpg) by The Harmonians [What! No Spinach?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwpfuqV788) by Irving Aaronson and His Commanders [Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UDoWgyNxU) by Vernon Dalhart and Ed Smalle ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/87 "2016-11-25T01:29:58Z")
[Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine?](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=%23&ved=0ahUKEwjQzrj838LQAhXBxYMKHU37ALUQ8DUIKjAB&usg=AFQjCNF1sHlk2z9QIx28jtvfnGP_UlkifA&sig2=PtocfwPovktHcECC_iYijw) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/88 "2016-11-25T01:48:42Z")
[Tuna Fish Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6og0uLKOqAI)by The Greaseman ---
**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:** [November 25, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/89 "2016-11-25T01:49:14Z")
[Toast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmKStqugMc). ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/90 "2016-11-25T02:56:11Z")
> [@4d3fect](#): > > Milk Shakin Mama, Dan Hicks > > > You’re My Meat (Louis Jordan or Joe Jackson) Louis Jordan did lots of food songs - Saturday Night Fish Fry, Cole Slaw, Beans and Cornbread . . . This one may be the king of them all: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svPvaQli7O4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svPvaQli7O4) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/91 "2016-11-25T06:37:58Z")
Came in to mention Cornbread, Hog Maws and Chitterlings by Joe Cuba but the song’s actual name is [Bang, Bang.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MenOmqIBmIM) Look, I mentioned it anyway! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/92 "2016-11-25T11:08:14Z")
[Well baby I hear the blues a-calling Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs (Oh My!)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xutnAwOU3FU) Oh, and in South Africa, our national Heritage Day holiday has morphed into Braai Day (“Barbecue” Day). It has a [theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShL1BR4zccQ). Several, in fact, but that’s the official one. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/93 "2016-11-25T11:40:17Z")
One of my favorites: [I Can Cook, Too](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yes-hOM6vcA), sung by Nancy Walker (Rhoda’s mother) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/94 "2016-11-25T14:21:28Z")
Billy Holiday[Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bOjuGB_g20) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/95 "2016-11-25T14:55:22Z")
Negativland [Dispepsi](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HpRh1PnQHM0) A whole record about Pepsi. Brutally funny. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/96 "2016-11-25T16:13:49Z")
Weird Al - Eat it 10CC - Life is a minestrone Isaac Hayes - Chocolate salty balls [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tM9rnqdAx00/hqdefault.jpg "Isaac Hayes-Chocolate Salty Balls Live") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM9rnqdAx00) ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/97 "2016-11-25T16:50:33Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Barnes & Barnes, [Fish Heads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No) > Eat them up, yum! Wow, it took 34 posts to come up? We’re getting old! > [@DrForrester](#): > > [Fruit Salad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB4MNu6W9sg) by The Wiggles > [@Patx2](#): > > The Wiggles also did Hot Potato 😊 I hate you guys! How about? [Junk Food Junkie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oClth_-0B90) by Larry Groce Here’s an obscure one… I remember this one from Dr. Dimento but apparently it was only ever played once(!?) > [@](#): > > Ken Zans recorded “The Food Dude” with his friend, Brion Leftwich under than name “The Tortuga Brothers”. They sent the tape to Dr. Demento who played the song that one time. According to Ken, the song also received airplay on USO Radio for our troops. You can listen to a newer recording of [The Food Dude here.](https://www.reverbnation.com/kenzans/songs) _Cherry Pie_ by Warrant was about food, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/98 "2016-11-25T16:51:08Z")
[Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGoqOv-4URA) There’s a great version by some community theater troupe but I can’t find it on YouTube now so that one will have to do. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/99 "2016-11-25T17:46:30Z")
I wrote perhaps the only song in the world that is in FAVOR of GMO food: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pE0igWnSCyI/hqdefault.jpg "Genetically Modified Food (a song in praise)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE0igWnSCyI) ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815/100 "2016-11-25T18:07:37Z")
Well, if instead of unusual songs about food, you want songs about unusual food, I think some of _Sweeney Todd_ would probably qualify. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-songs-about-food/772815.md?page=6)