Big Mac by the Village People
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=qp2-XMG821Y
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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 CakeMarz, by John Grant—most of the lyrics are lifted from the menu of a sweetshop in his home town. It’s incredibly beautiful.
Hot Chocolate from The Polar Express
“Ice Cream Man” by John Brim / Van Halen.
Waffles! by the Missouri Jazz Band
I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones by Willie Bryant and His Orchestra
I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana by The Harmonians
What! No Spinach? by Irving Aaronson and His Commanders
Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder by Vernon Dalhart and Ed Smalle
Tuna Fish Songby The Greaseman
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
Came in to mention Cornbread, Hog Maws and Chitterlings by Joe Cuba but the song’s actual name is Bang, Bang. Look, I mentioned it anyway!
Well baby I hear the blues a-calling
Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs (Oh My!)
Oh, and in South Africa, our national Heritage Day holiday has morphed into Braai Day (“Barbecue” Day). It has a theme song. Several, in fact, but that’s the official one.
One of my favorites:
I Can Cook, Too, sung by Nancy Walker (Rhoda’s mother)
Billy HolidayGimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer.
Negativland Dispepsi
A whole record about Pepsi. Brutally funny.
Weird Al - Eat it
10CC - Life is a minestrone Isaac Hayes - Chocolate salty balls
Wow, it took 34 posts to come up? We’re getting old!
I hate you guys!
How about?
Junk Food Junkie by Larry Groce
Here’s an obscure one… I remember this one from Dr. Dimento but apparently it was only ever played once(!?)
You can listen to a newer recording of The Food Dude here.
Cherry Pie by Warrant was about food, wasn’t it?
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.
I wrote perhaps the only song in the world that is in FAVOR of GMO food:
Well, if instead of unusual songs about food, you want songs about unusual food, I think some of Sweeney Todd would probably qualify.