History Main / OdeToFood

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Let's see the next amazing thing baking does now!"♫]]

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* "A Little Priest" from ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'' puts a rather [[ImAHumanitarian nasty]] twist on the whole idea.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' II, a villainous Struthiomimus sings a song about how much he loves eggs.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': the famous "Spam Song" occurs in a restaurant that serves only food containing spam. The restaurant is populated with a group of spam-loving viking customers, who pound the table in anticipation of their meal, and periodically break out into musical cries of "Spam! Wonderful Spam!"

* ''Candy'': This song by Music/JudyPancoast is about how many children love candy a lot and wish they could have it all the time.
* ''Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts'': Presents a gross-out version of this trope, lavishly describing the consumption of offal and monkey meat without any utensils.
* ''Grow Mrs. Goldfarb'': Allan Sherman's song (to the tune of "Glow Mr. Glow worm") is pretty much this, especially in verse two:
-->You had for breakfast two pounds bacon,\\
Three dozen eggs, one coffee cake\\
And then you had something really awful,\\
Four kippered herrings on a waffle,\\
Nine English muffins, one baked apple,\\
Boston cream pie, Philadelphia scrapple,\\
Seventeen bowls of Crispy Crunch,\\
Then you said "What's for lunch?"
* ''Jambalaya (On The Bayou)'' is about the singer heading down to his girlfriend Yvonne for dinner filled with the titular dish, plus crawfish pie and file gumbo on the bayou.
* ''Lollipop Tree'': This song by Burl Ives tells the story of a child planting a lollipop stick in their garden and enjoying the “fruits” of the resulting tree.

** ''This Is The Best Burrito I've Ever Eaten'' is, well, about how awesome the burrito is.
** ''Yum Yum Breakfast Burrito'' is another song about the joys of burritos.
** ''I Love Bread'' is about how the singer loves bread.
** ''Spiral Cut Hot Dogs'' praises spiral-cut hot dogs, and goes so far as to teach the audience how to make them.
** ''I Like Vegetables'', a rap about how good vegetables are.
** ''Pound Cake'' claims the cake will "pound you in the face with flavor".
** ''All The Nachos You Can Eat'', about, well, "All the nachos you can eat" and how awesome they are.
** ''Chicken Nugget Dreamland'' discusses the eponymous dreamland, where there's "infinite flavors of infinite sauce" and where one can "get a million-piece box".
** ''Do You Like Waffles?'', in which the singer proclaims their love for waffles, pancakes, and french-toast.

** ''Wait Until I Cook It'' is about the girls waiting for the blonde one's mother to serve them dinner and wondering what she's cooking.
** ''I Didn't Mean to Burp'' is about the girls eating a lot of food and it making them burp.
** ''Juice Box'' is an Ode to ''Drink'': It's about the girls wanting a juice box that isn't just "your everyday, ordinary juice box" but one that's "so sweet that every kid [they] meet lines up for two blocks".

** The song ''Bananas'' consists of only the word "bananas" over and over.
** ''Tacos'' consists of only the title said ''once''.
* ''Spider Suite'' by The Duke of Uke and his Novelty Orchestra has undertones of drug addiction or similar afflictions, but on the surface, the lyrics use the imagery of a spider about to eat a fly.
-->''What wicked little twist of fate\\
Placed you here upon my plate?''\\
''Here, where no one hears your cries?''
* ''They're Red Hot'': This blues song by Robert Johnson is either about a hot tamales salesgirl or a prostitute.
* ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}'': You's special single, ''Hee! Hee! Foo! Foo!'', is about his favorite food, curry. The B-side, ''Layla, you become splendor'' uses melting into curry as a metaphor for love (the word used for "splendor" is pronounced like "curry"). "Layla" might also be a hidden reference to You's partner, Yoru -- "Layla" means "night", the same as "Yoru".
* ''Turagsoy'': This [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Visayan]] song is about a man who catches a fish from a river, cooking it into a spicy stew, eating it with his friends and savoring the spiciness of it.
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic has done enough of these to fill an album; he became so well-known for this trope that when he asked Music/KurtCobain for permission to parody Music/{{Nirvana}}'s [[Music/{{Nevermind}} ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'']] as [[Music/OffTheDeepEnd ''Smells Like Nirvana'']], Cobain immediately asked if the result was gonna be another song about food (it wasn't). Among other instances are the following:
** ''I Love Rocky Road'' (parody of ''I Love Rock 'n' Roll'' by the Arrows) about the ice cream flavor.
** ''My Bologna'' (parody of ''My Sharona'' by Music/TheKnack) about the meat.
** All three of his Music/MichaelJackson parodies, ''Eat It'', ''Fat'', and ''Snack All Night'' (based on [[Music/{{Thriller}} ''Beat It'']], ''Music/{{Bad}}'', and [[Music/{{Dangerous}} ''Black or White'']], respectively), are odes to gluttony. Yankovic limited the third one to live shows and never released a studio version at the request of Jackson, who didn't want to risk undermining the original's anti-racism message.
** ''Addicted to Spuds'' (parody of ''Addicted to Love'' by Robert Palmer) about potatoes.
** ''Spam'' (parody of ''[[Music/{{Green}} Stand]]'' by Music/{{REM}}) about the brand of processed meat.
** ''The White Stuff'' (parody of ''You Got It (The Right Stuff)'' by Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock) about Oreos.
** ''Lasagna'' (parody of ''La Bamba'' as sung by Music/RitchieValens) is basically a stereotypical old Italian nonna trying to push food on a visiting relative.
** ''Foil'' (parody of [[Music/PureHeroine ''Royals'']] by Music/{{Lorde}}) about storing leftovers in foil. At least before it veers in a rather [[ConspiracyTheorist different]] [[TinfoilHat direction]].

-->Think of those crisp\\

When you're talking to your meal

--> '''Jon''' [singing]: She can be white, she can be brown\\

She never says, "No", Always says, "Yes"

* ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'': The 1970's short begins with Literature/TheCatInTheHat singing about how he thinks of eggs and how he's eaten them in all sorts of ways, which segues to him saying it "reminds me of Sam, whose favorite dish is green eggs and ham", thus leading to the actual short.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': Pinky's "Cheese Role Call" short is a song-and-dance number in honor of all the cheese varieties in the world, complete with [[AnthropomorphicFood anthropomorphic cheeses]] taking the mic to sing their own praises. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXGtWK-kTEM See it here!]]

-->'''Homer''': I like pizza, I like bagels, I like hot dogs with mustard and beer...\\
'''Editor''': I get the picture.\\
'''Homer''': I'll eat eggplant, I could even eat a baby deer. La-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la! Who's that baby deer on the lawn there?\\
'''Editor''': Enough, already!\\
'''Homer''': Sorry.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': "Burger vs Burrito", Beast Boy and Cyborg get into a squabble over which of the titular foods is superior. To settle this they enlist the other Titans to be judges, with one of their attempts being singing about each of their respective foods.

* At a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_supper Burns Supper]], a bagpiper serenades the main course of "haggis, neeps and tatties", then the host recites ''Address to a Haggis''.

* The song "Candy" by Music/JudyPancoast is about how many children love candy a lot and wish they could have it all the time.
* Jambalaya (On The Bayou) is about the singer heading down to his girlfriend Yvonne for dinner filled with the titular dish, plus crawfish pie and file gumbo on the bayou.

** The song "Bananas" consists of only the word "bananas" over and over.
** "Tacos" consists of only the title said ''once''.
* "Spider Suite" by The Duke of Uke and his Novelty Orchestra has undertones of drug addiction or similar afflictions, but on the surface, the lyrics use the imagery of a spider about to eat a fly.

* The blues song "They're Red Hot" by Robert Johnson is either about a hot tamales salesgirl or a prostitute.
* The [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Visayan]] song "Turagsoy" is about a man who catches a fish from a river, cooking it into a spicy stew, eating it with his friends and savoring the spiciness of it.
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic has done enough of these to fill an album; he became so well-known for this trope that when he asked Music/KurtCobain for permission to parody Music/{{Nirvana}}'s [[Music/{{Nevermind}} "Smells Like Teen Spirit"]] as [[Music/OffTheDeepEnd "Smells Like Nirvana"]], Cobain immediately asked if the result was gonna be another song about food (it wasn't). Among other instances are the following:
** "I Love Rocky Road" (parody of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by the Arrows) about the ice cream flavor.
** "My Bologna" (parody of "My Sharona" by Music/TheKnack) about the meat.
** All three of his Music/MichaelJackson parodies, "Eat It", "Fat", and "Snack All Night" (based on [[Music/{{Thriller}} "Beat It"]], "Music/{{Bad}}", and [[Music/{{Dangerous}} "Black or White"]], respectively), are odes to gluttony. Yankovic limited the third one to live shows and never released a studio version at the request of Jackson, who didn't want to risk undermining the original's anti-racism message.
** "Addicted to Spuds" (parody of "Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer) about potatoes.
** "Spam" (parody of [[Music/{{Green}} "Stand"]] by Music/{{REM}}) about the brand of processed meat.
** "The White Stuff" (parody of "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" by Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock) about Oreos.
** "Lasagna" (parody of "La Bamba" as sung by Music/RitchieValens) is basically a stereotypical old Italian nonna trying to push food on a visiting relative.
** "Foil" (parody of [[Music/PureHeroine "Royals"]] by Music/{{Lorde}}) about storing leftovers in foil. At least before it veers in a rather [[ConspiracyTheorist different]] [[TinfoilHat direction]].
* "Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts" is a song presenting a gross-out version of this trope, lavishly describing the consumption of offal and monkey meat without any utensils.
* Music/ParryGripp has plenty, with most being ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** "This Is The Best Burrito I've Ever Eaten" is, well, about how awesome the burrito is.
** "Yum Yum Breakfast Burrito" is another song about the joys of burritos.
** "I Love Bread", is about how the singer loves bread.
** "Spiral Cut Hot Dogs" praises spiral-cut hot dogs, and goes so far as to teach the audience how to make them.
** "I Like Vegetables", a rap about how good vegetables are.
** "Pound Cake" claims the cake will "pound you in the face with flavor".
** "All The Nachos You Can Eat", about, well, "All the nachos you can eat" and how awesome they are.
** "Chicken Nugget Dreamland" discusses the eponymous dreamland, where there's "infinite flavors of infinite sauce" and where one can "get a million-piece box".
** "Do You Like Waffles?", in which the singer proclaims their love for waffles, pancakes, and french-toast.
* ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}'': You's special single, "Hee! Hee! Foo! Foo!", is about his favorite food, curry. The B-side, "Layla, you become splendor" uses melting into curry as a metaphor for love (the word used for "splendor" is pronounced like "curry"). "Layla" might also be a hidden reference to You's partner, Yoru -- "Layla" means "night", the same as "Yoru".
* ''Music/PreschoolPopstars'':
** "Wait Until I Cook It" is about the girls waiting for the blonde one's mother to serve them dinner and wondering what she's cooking.
** "I Didn't Mean to Burp" is about the girls eating a lot of food and it making them burp.
** "Juice Box" is an Ode to ''Drink'': It's about the girls wanting a juice box that isn't just "your everyday, ordinary juice box" but one that's "so sweet that every kid [they] meet lines up for two blocks".
* Allan Sherman's "Grow Mrs. Goldfarb" (to the tune of "Glow Mr. Glow worm") is pretty much this, especially in verse two:
-->You had for breakfast two pounds bacon,\\
Three dozen eggs, one coffee cake\\
And then you had something really awful,\\
Four kippered herrings on a waffle,\\
Nine English muffins, one baked apple,\\
Boston cream pie, Philadelphia scrapple,\\
Seventeen bowls of Crispy Crunch,\\
Then you said "What's for lunch?"

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** During the episode "Guess Who's Coming To Criticize Dinner?", when Homer is asked to be ''The Springfield Shopper'''s new food critic, since he likes food so much, he starts singing a song spoofing the ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' song "I Feel Pretty":

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Jake sings a song about making [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBGBKH6wxk4 "Bacon Pancakes"]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Pal the dog once sings a song parodying "Dancing Cheek to Cheek" about how he loves bacon.
* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' is a gluttonous kid working as chef Mung Daal's apprentice. Fitting this, not only is the show's theme song about cooking (albeit with unconventional instructions like "you take the moon and you take the sun; you take everything that seems like fun"), but the ChristmasEpisode "Hey, Hey It's Knishmas!" also features a musical number about building a Shmingerbread House.

* The 1970's short of ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' begins with Literature/TheCatInTheHat singing about how he thinks of eggs and how he's eaten them in all sorts of ways, which segues to him saying it "reminds me of Sam, whose favorite dish is green eggs and ham", thus leading to the actual short.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/KiddVideo'' opened with Whiz making a pizza in the oven. He then does a song and dance to celebrate the pizza. Unfortunately, this distracts him long enough to burn it.
* In the ''Animation/KikoRiki'' episode "The Chill", Wally wants to catch a cold so that he can be given food (because his friend had a cold and people were giving him food to help him get better). He sings a song about how people give you treats when you have a cold.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Pinkie Pie sings a song called "Cupcakes" about how much she likes to both eat and make cupcakes.

* During ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Guess Who's Coming To Criticize Dinner?", when Homer is asked to be ''The Springfield Shopper'''s new food critic, since he likes food so much, he starts singing a song spoofing the ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' song "I Feel Pretty":

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', "Burger vs Burrito", Beast Boy and Cyborg get into a squabble over which of the titular foods is superior. To settle this they enlist the other Titans to be judges, with one of their attempts being singing about each of their respective foods.

* The ''Animation/BoonieBears'' end credits song, "My Honey", has the singer explain that, since they're a bear, [[StockAnimalDiet they love honey]] and prefer it over all other foods.

* The ''Animation/BoonieBears'' credits song, "My Honey", has the singer explain that, since they're a bear, [[StockAnimalDiet they love honey]] and prefer it over all other foods.

* ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}'': You's special single, "Hee! Hee! Foo! Foo!", is about his favorite food, curry. The B-side, "Layla, you become splendor" uses melting into curry as a metaphor for love (the word used for "splendor" is pronounced like "curry"). "Layla" might also be a hidden reference to You's partner, Yoru - "Layla" means "night", the same as "Yoru".

->Think of those crisp
->Aging bones
->Then something fresh on the palate
->Think of that scrumptious carnality
->Twice in one day
->There's no possible way
->To describe what you feel
-> When you're talking to your meal

--> '''Jon''' [singing]: She can be white, she can be brown
-->She's always easy, Goin' down, goin' down
-->She don't care, what I look like, Or how I dress
-->She never says, "No", Always says, "Yes"

-->And bread is a good time for me
-->Woo-doo-doo-loot-doo, singing,
-->Bread is a good time for everybody!

-->'''Homer''': I like pizza, I like bagels, I like hot dogs with mustard and beer...
-->'''Editor''': I get the picture.
-->'''Homer''': I'll eat eggplant, I could even eat a baby deer. La-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la! Who's that baby deer on the lawn there?
-->'''Editor''': Enough, already!
-->'''Homer''': Sorry.

-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' [=SpongeBob=]! [[NoodleIncident Who's playing Squidward's records again?]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-z--VV6P0 This]] video about the weirdest [[{{Mondegreen}} misheard]] love songs features several misheard lyrics being about food, with the same guy singing all the food-related ones.

* In the ''Animation/KikoRiki'' episode "How to Catch a Cold", Wally wants to catch a cold so that he can be given food (because his friend had a cold and people were giving him food to help him get better). He sings a song about how people give you treats when you have a cold.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** The episode "Jellyfish Hunter" had Fred the fish singing and scatting "The Jellyfish Jelly Sandwich Song" after Spongebob gave him one, then told everyone at the Krusty Krab.
-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' Spongebob! [[NoodleIncident Who's playing Squidward's records again?]]
** In "Banned in Bikini Bottom", Spongebob sings about how much he likes Krabby Patties. Later in the episode, a green fish sings a similar song after [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam finally trying one]].

* In the ''Animation/KikoRiki'' episode "How to Catch a Cold", Fluff wants to catch a cold so that he can be given food (because his friend had a cold and people were giving him food to help him get better). Fluff sings a song about how people give you treats when you have a cold.

* Played for BlackComedy in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge2TheMeltdown'': The vultures have a RunningGag of wanting to eat the protagonists, and at one point, they sing "Food, Glorious Food" while trying to eat the protagonists.

** "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]" has Gyro's cheese song, where he sings the names of various types of cheese.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic has done enough of these to fill an album; by the end of the 80's, he became so well-known for this trope that when he asked Music/KurtCobain for permission to parody Music/{{Nirvana}}'s [[Music/{{Nevermind}} "Smells Like Teen Spirit"]] as [[Music/OffTheDeepEnd "Smells Like Nirvana"]], Cobain immediately asked if the result was gonna be another song about food (it wasn't). Among other instances are the following:

** "Spam" (parody of [[Music/{{Green}} "Stand"]] by Music/{{REM}}) about the brand of meat.

* "Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts" is a song presenting a gross-out version of this trope.

* ''Music/{{Tsukiuta}}'' - You's special single, "Hee! Hee! Foo! Foo!", is about his favorite food, curry. The B-side, "Layla, you become splendor" uses melting into curry as a metaphor for love (the word used for "splendor" is pronounced like "curry"). "Layla" might also be a hidden reference to You's partner, Yoru - "Layla" means "night", the same as "Yoru".

* ''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'' has done enough of these to fill an album:
** "I Love Rocky Road" (parody of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll") about the ice cream flavor.
** "My Bologna" (parody of "My Sharona") about the meat.
** "Addicted to Spuds" (parody of "Addicted to Love") about potatoes.
** "Spam" (parody of "Stand") about the brand of meat.
** "The White Stuff" (parody of "You Got It (The Right Stuff)") about Oreos.

* ''Series/LazyTown'': The song "Cooking by the Book" is about how it's easy to make cake if you follow the recipe.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** "The Celery Song" is a song by three kids called the Celery Bunch about how much they like celery.
** Invoked in one episode where Elmo finds Abby's magic wand and enchants people so that they can't talk, only sing. This leads to Baby Bear and Alan singing about how great porridge is.
** At one point, a boy thinks he doesn't like zucchini but [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam once he eats some]], he sings about how it's the best food he's ever eaten.
** "Everyone Likes Ice Cream" is about how while people may be different, most of them like ice cream.
** Being the show's resident BigEater, Cookie Monster has several:
*** "Food, Food, Food" is a song sung by Cookie Monster about all sorts of food.
*** "Healthy Food" is a rap sung by Cookie Monster about the healthy food he likes and the importance of eating a balanced diet.
*** "Breakfast Time" is a song by Cookie Monster about the unusual ways he eats cookies in the morning (juicing them, boiling them, frying them, etc).
*** "C is for Cookie" is a song written by Cookie Monster about how he loves cookies so much that he doesn't care if the only word he can think of beginning with C is "cookie".
*** "The First Time Me Eat Cookie" is about how Cookie Monster has liked cookies since his first time eating them when he was about one.
* ''Series/TheSproutSharingShow'': "Ricky's I Love Bread"

* ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'': "[[LetsMeetTheMeat Party In My Tummy]]", which is about Brobee enjoying his lunch and pretending the food he consumes are partying in his tummy. There's also a breakfast and full cast variation.