Songs that mention food

24 Oct 24 - 04:45 PM (#4210335)
Subject: Song that mention foods
From: GUEST,Ron Carlson

I’m hoping to find some songs that mention food, meals, cooking, etc.

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24 Oct 24 - 05:07 PM (#4210337)
Subject: RE: Song that mention food
From: gillymor

Chicken Cordon Bleus, made semi-famous by Steve Goodman.

Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White.

Grits Ain't Groceries by Little Milton.

Struttin' With Some Barbecue by Lois Armstrong.

The Mashed Potato.

Cornbread and Black-Eyed Peas by The Carolina Chocolate Drops.

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24 Oct 24 - 05:32 PM (#4210341)
Subject: RE: Song that mention food
From: gillymor

Whoops, that should be "Cornbread and Butterbeans".

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24 Oct 24 - 05:45 PM (#4210342)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Mrrzy

Johnny McAdoo (everything)

Mick McGuire (tea and cake)

I ordered some Suzette, I said Could you please make that crepe? Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

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24 Oct 24 - 06:10 PM (#4210343)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch

food songs

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24 Oct 24 - 07:49 PM (#4210346)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Stilly River Sage

That old thread pretty much takes care of the request!

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24 Oct 24 - 09:35 PM (#4210352)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Stilly River Sage

gargoyle, your wish . . . Lyr: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts.

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27 Oct 24 - 10:06 AM (#4210472)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Mrrzy

Beans Taste Fine, Shel Silverstein?

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27 Oct 24 - 10:40 AM (#4210474)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: David C. Carter

Boiled beef and Carrots.
A British comedic song composed in 1909, Recorded by Harry Champion.
Peter Sellers did it with Sophia Loren in the 60s.

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27 Oct 24 - 12:11 PM (#4210479)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Stilly River Sage

Second song in this performance by Shel Silverstein is a partly sung/partly spoken rendering of one of the foodiest poems of all time - Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out.

This link starts just before that poem/song.

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27 Oct 24 - 01:27 PM (#4210481)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Manitas_at_home

Bangers and Mash. Also Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren. She sings about macaroni and minestrone.

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27 Oct 24 - 01:30 PM (#4210482)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Manitas_at_home

Joey Grimaldi sang of Hot Codlings.

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27 Oct 24 - 02:04 PM (#4210484)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: David C. Carter

Jellied Eels. An East-end London delicacy.

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27 Oct 24 - 02:13 PM (#4210486)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: David C. Carter

Jacques Brel: Les bonbons.

Bob Dylan: Country pie.

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27 Oct 24 - 02:18 PM (#4210487)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: David C. Carter

Jimmy Buffet: Cheeseburger in Paradise.

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27 Oct 24 - 03:19 PM (#4210490)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Manitas_at_home

The Marrow Song.
What a wonderful fish a Sole is.

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27 Oct 24 - 04:33 PM (#4210494)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST,The Sandman

Chas And Dave, Rabbit

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27 Oct 24 - 04:51 PM (#4210496)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: gillymor

Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy - Uncle Dave Macon

Hot Dogs - Blind Lemon Jefferson, though I think he was talking about his tired feet.

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28 Oct 24 - 04:35 PM (#4210543)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST

You've got that curried duck upon your face,
You've got four truffles, I've got nine.
You know you should have chosen steak, or plaice,
You've got your Ruddles, I've got wine.

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28 Oct 24 - 04:38 PM (#4210544)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler

To mention a more recent song, "I'm going to make trifle".

Robin

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28 Oct 24 - 04:42 PM (#4210545)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST

I see a mad bhuna risin'

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28 Oct 24 - 04:59 PM (#4210546)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: The Sandman

ONE MEATBALL.

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03 Nov 24 - 01:22 AM (#4210864)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Neil D

Lomg Tall Glasses by Leo Sayer

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03 Nov 24 - 09:26 AM (#4210881)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Johnny J

Surprised nobody's mentioned this one....[Chicken on a Raft]

https://youtu.be/VGnM1JCbKu0

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03 Nov 24 - 10:16 AM (#4210886)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST,Captain Swing

Spam Lin

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05 Nov 24 - 05:05 PM (#4211057)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Mrrzy

How about them apples?

Courting in the Kitchen
Chicken Soup with Rice (Carole King doing Maurice Sendak)
Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake (actually about something inedible)
The Frozen Logger has coffee, at least

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05 Nov 24 - 05:51 PM (#4211061)
Subject: Lyr Add: JANET’S STOVIES (Trish Santer)
From: Tattie Bogle

Pretty sure there's been a previous long thread on this, to which I posted my two food songs: here's the first: (if you want any explanation or the recipe, it's all in the song lyrics!)


JANET’S STOVIES
© Trish Santer 20.10.06.
Dedicated to Janet Weatherston, who makes such superlative stovies.

Chorus
Janet’s stovies are the best
We lo’e them abune the rest,
But we ha’e only ane request,
Bring us a plate o’ stovies.

Slice yer onions nice and thin
Fry them gently, then throw in
Loads o’ tatties wi’oot skin,
You’ve started makkin’ stovies.
Salt and pepper tae your taste,
Scraps o’ meat ye neednae waste,
Cannae be in awfy haste
When yer makkin’ stovies.

Mak’ them in yer muckle pot
Dinnae ha’e the ring ower hot,
Let them sweat until ye’ve got
A gey guid pan o’ stovies.
Stovies ayeways fill ye up
Skoosh them in a plate or cup,
Dinnae bide, jest serve us up
Oor Janet’s hamely stovies.

She mak’s them for the Christmas ceilidh,
Tops them aff wi’ sprigs o’ holly,
You micht think that awfy silly,
Daein’ that wi’ stovies.
When Burns supper cam’s aroond,
In the kitchen she’ll be foond,
Haggis, neeps and tatties roond,
But ye cannae beat her stovies.

Of stovie-makkin’ she’s the master,
Better than a bowl o’ pasta,
Mak’s the eightsome reel gae faster
Efter Janet’s stovies.
Never gi’e ye constipation,
Ideal form of regulation
Maybe too much information,
But that’s why we tak’ stovies.

Final chorus: Stovies, stovies, stovies, stovies,(x3)
We lo’e Janet’s stovies.

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05 Nov 24 - 05:56 PM (#4211062)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE PIZZA SONG (Trish Santer)
From: Tattie Bogle

And to follow that, here's my pizza song:


THE PIZZA SONG
© Trish Santer - Oct 2002

Chorus
Well, you can't eat that pizza, 'cos it's mine,
I bought it for a very special reason,
There ain't another pizza quite like it in the world,
So leave it in that freezer just a-freezin'.

I went to Tesco's Friday 9 p.m.,
I waited for the girl with the stickers and the marker pen,
When she marked that pizza down to less than half a crown
I had the very best bargain in the end.

Chorus

It may be just a simple Margarita,
But I have plans to make it taste much sweeter,
With a full tin of anchovies, and half a pound of stovies,
And pepperoni, cheese and more tomater.

Chorus

I'm saving it for after the theater,
We won't have time to eat till so much later,
It's then when we're both starving, that pizza we'll be halving,
So tonight you'd better have a baked potater.

Chorus

So now it's at the bottom of the freezer,
Where maybe it could be forgot for ever,
But in a year or two, when it's perma-frosted through,
I'll be so glad I kept that bargain pizza.

Chorus

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06 Nov 24 - 05:24 AM (#4211092)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: MaJoC the Filk

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Hamish Imlach's History of Football:

The guests gasped when at last a treat was fin'lly brought:
On a wooden plate the steamin' great dumplin' pipin' hot ....

.... though that too turned out to be inedible.

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06 Nov 24 - 04:43 PM (#4211153)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Thompson

Oh, the praties they are small
Over here, over here,
Oh, the praties they are small
Over here.
Oh, the praties they are small,
And we dig them in the fall,
And we eat them skins and all,
Over here.

Oh, I wish that we were geese
Night and morn, night and morn,
Oh, I wish that we were geese,
Night and morn.
Oh, I wish that we were geese,
For they fly and take their ease
And they live and die in peace
Eatin' corn.

(An emigrant song from the Famine.) [Famine Song]

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06 Nov 24 - 07:25 PM (#4211166)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Mrrzy

My version was Oh I wish we all was geese / for the[]y lives and dies in peace / and accumulates much grease / eating corn. [Over There] Ed McCurdy.

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06 Nov 24 - 07:31 PM (#4211170)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Mrrzy

Which reminds me of this verse but I'm not sure it counts?

If I were a squirrel and I lived in an oak tree
I'd eat lots of nuts and grow fat
Then lie on the limb of a tree in the sun
Oh, what could be nicer than that?

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06 Nov 24 - 10:20 PM (#4211174)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Howard Kaplan

Many versions of John Barleycorn mention the grain's use as a food in addition to its use as the base of a beverage.

The song "Billy Boy" asks, "can she bake an apple pie?"

I gave my love a cherry without a stone and a chicken without a bone.

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10 Nov 24 - 06:46 AM (#4211362)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST

The French sing the Mayonnaise before rugby matches. And the Welsh sing My Hen Laid A Haddock. I Scream; You Scream; We All Scream for Ice Cream. Give peas a chance. I can do the mashed potato. Cod on our side.

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10 Nov 24 - 07:17 AM (#4211363)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: David C. Carter

There's a Plaice for us.

The Cod Liver Oil and the Orange Juice.

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10 Nov 24 - 01:17 PM (#4211399)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE GREASY COOK (from Harry Cox)
From: RTim

There is "The Greasy Cook"...I sing the Harry Cox version....

Tim Radford

THE GREASY COOK. Harry Cox

I fell in love with a Greasy Cook
And that I can’t deny
I fell in love with a greasy cook
I’ll tell you the reason why - Repeat.

Plum pudding, roast beef a plenty
Plum pudding, roast beef
Oh when my belly was empty
She gave to me relief - repeat

I kindly was invited some supper for to take
And kindly I did accept it
All for my stomach's sake - repeat

Now after supper was over
The cupboard she took some key
One pocket she crammed butter
And the other she crammed with cheese - Repeat

Her master smelling of the cheese
Came rat-tat at the door
I had nowhere to hide my face
But up the chimney crawl - repeat

I had not been there very long
A sitting at my ease
The fire melted my butter
And likewise touched my cheese - repeat

Every drop that fell on the fire
It caused the old fire to rear
The old woman looked up the chimney top
And she swore the old devil was there - repeat

Her master went to the chimney top
A bucket of water let fall
And I came following after
Me butter & cheese and all - repeat

The dogs did bark & the children screamed
Up flew the windows all
The old woman cried out well done, well done
There goes butter & cheese & all - repeat.

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10 Nov 24 - 03:32 PM (#4211403)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST

When first I went a-courtin
And I'll tell you the reason why,
It was the jolly old cook
And my wants she did supply...

Butter and cheese and all

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11 Nov 24 - 11:07 AM (#4211459)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: The Og

Back in the 50s Rosemary Clooney (George's aunt ...I think) sang "Come on-a My House. LOTS of food mentioned.

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11 Nov 24 - 11:34 AM (#4211465)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST

The Frosties All Over. Y Viva Lasagne. Penne From Heaven. They Tried To Sell Us Egg Foo Yung. Bach's B Minor Mash. His Tomato and Food in D minor. Pachelbel's Gammon. The Unquiet Gravy. Liverpool Foodies.

Oh well.

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11 Nov 24 - 02:38 PM (#4211474)
Subject: Lyr Add: THAT IS WHY YOU'RE OVERWEIGHT (E Harris)
From: Donuel

I had three donuts and two cups of coffee, But that didn't stop my appetite
I had only eaten a box of cookies very late last night
I had ten pancakes with plenty of syrup and butter And two slices of ham
Three eggs, home fries, and four biscuits all smothered in jam
Two glasses of milk and a cheesecake; I thought I didn't want anymore
I just had to buy twelve of those mints in that bowl by the door

That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight
That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight

Now it's lunchtime and I believe I'll eat again
I'm not going to eat as much as I did for breakfast Because I want to get thin
Let me have a bowl of chile con carne and two corn beefs on rye
A large order of french fries, a malt, And a slice of banana cream pie
Two candy bars, one soda for my late afternoon snack
And ah, and ah, two bags of potato chips so I won't have to come back

That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight
That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight

While waiting for my dinner, I had four shots of alcohol
A chef's salad with lots of dressing and crackers, but not much meat at all
Had a steak, candied yams, rice, lemonade, macaroni and cheese
Cornbread, banana pudding, and a side order of black-eyed peas
I stopped at the grocery store; I'm gonna load up my refrigerator
I'm gonna sit down and watch television and I'll have something to eat later

That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight
That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight
That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight
That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight
That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight
That is why, that is why, that is why you're overweight

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Eddie Harris / Lolita Harris / Sara Harris / Yvonne Harris
That Is Why You're Overweight lyrics © Seventh House Ltd.

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11 Nov 24 - 03:23 PM (#4211478)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie Mor

Tim Lyons : "Skillet Pot"
https://youtu.be/AmNYvH5SpNA?si=WanfyND67FXx71d3

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11 Nov 24 - 04:01 PM (#4211480)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: gillymor

A story rather than a song- Moose Turd Pie by Utah Phillips

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12 Nov 24 - 04:01 PM (#4211533)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: GUEST,Kenny B sabs Kuki

"Tuna the Food of My Soul" as sung by Jean Redpath & Garrison Keillor.

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17 Nov 24 - 05:33 PM (#4211844)
Subject: RE: Songs that mention food
From: Mrrzy

Thomas was a little glutton? Great poem, not sure if it's been put to music. Not many songs mention plum duff.

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