Food
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Songs referring to food and drink.
Central theme[edit]
- Asheville - Oranges
- Bread Hair
- Cabbagetown
- Chicken And Ice Cream
- Clean Bean
- Dinner Bell
- Different Town - "In a box filled up with peas," "Chocolate hundred dollar bills"
- Drink!
- E Eats Everything
- Employee Of The Month - "I just need one sandwich and I'm set all day for making crumbs"
- Epic Fail Baloney Sandwiches Jingle
- Extra Krispy - A reference to a KFC style of chicken (though the K in "Krispy" may also allude to Krispy Kreme doughnuts)
- Farmingdale - "I'm living on the bar food here"
- Hot Dog! - "Grab my boots and a sandwich," "Get the coconut drum kit" and "We're full of beans"
- How Much Cake Can You Eat?
- I Am A Grocery Bag
- In A World Without Food
- John Lee Supertaster
- Lunch Is Over
- Nine Bowls Of Soup
- Oranges
- Please Pass The Milk
- Pork Rinds
- Sally Boy Candy Bar
- Savoy Truffle
- Snack Machine
- Snapping Turtle - "Ducks are food for snapping turtles"
- Seven - Cake
- Stalk Of Wheat
- Underground Lunchroom
Briefly mentioned[edit]
- 100 Cars For Good - "Deliver hot meals to people in need"
- Aaa - "How are sausages made, and what am I made of?"
- Alphabet Lost And Found - "There was an apple that lost his 'A'"
- Anaheim - "Fall asleep with pizza crumbs on my clothes"
- Answer - "The cake was lit", "You ordered well / They brought you medium rare"
- Austin - Barbecue
- Bed Bed Bed - "I ate three meals..."
- Birdhouse In Your Soul (Demo) - "I'd like to cover the Earth with a fresh-baked yummy dessert"
- The Bloodmobile - "The food that's been digested"
- Chainsaw Dick - "But they're beating butter from me"
- Charleston - Music eggs, music milk
- Chip The CHiP - "His lunch is gonna be everything under your wig"
- Coffee Table Of Love - "Icing on toast"
- Columbia - "Sugar-plum lollipop cinnamon rainbow", "Butterscotch lemon-drop sugary sunshine"
- Countdown Intro - "Already you've forgotten what you ate for dinner"
- Crystal Fortress -"You get French fries, and you get French fries, but you don't get French fries"; Strong Bad says this is a reference to the song "Even Numbers"
- Cyclops Rock - "It was sweet, like lead paint is sweet"
- D Is For Drums - "I need some juice"
- Damn Good Times - "You could call her a jumping bean"
- Dead - "I returned a bag of groceries"
- Definition Of Good - "Food that's colored wrong", "Two flamingos engaging in a fruit fight"
- Disco Lover (Extended Version) - "...a bag of fried pork rinds"
- Don't I Have The Right? - "Pour milk in my coffee"
- Don't Let's Start - "Wake up and smell the cat food"
- Dr. Sy Fly - "Someone needs their brain replaced with a potato salad sandwich"
- Even Numbers - "You like French fries, but you don't like French fries"
- Fake-Believe - "And my cake gets extra frosting"
- Feast Of Lights - Chocolate coins
- Fibber Island - "Our house is made of pie", "All he talks about is pie", "We eat chocolate by the pound"
- Garden Of Eden - Roll me out a pie crust", "Eating buttered pecans", "Watermelon, pickle", "You bake the bread, I'll plant the tree"
- Goatee - "Eating all your snacks and borrowing your stuff"
- Go For G! - Gingerbread and grapes
- Greek Number Three - The lyric "Ένας πλούσιος μου είπε θέτουν κοτα και χυμό" literally translated from Greek back to English means "A rich guy told me 'bring a chicken and juice'"
- Hello Mrs. Wheelyke - "You should eat a sandwich", "You should never eat a big pile of sand which..."
- Hey Everybody - "I'm Frankenberry / I'm Frankenberry / I'm Frankenberry / I'm Frankenberry"
- Hole In The Afternoon - "Encased between two slices of buttered bread"
- Hot Cha - "Stereo on and cooking bacon"; "Drink and cook the prodigal son / Fondue forks for everybody"
- How Now Dark Cloud? - "Of the man and the cake and the rain"
- The House At The Top Of The Tree - Potato chips
- I Am A Paleontologist - "An herbivore crushing plants with rounded teeth"
- I Am Invisible - "When I eat my lunch / Does it disappear"
- I Can Hear You - "What's your order? I can Super Size that" - a reference to a then-existent McDonald's meal size.
- I Enjoy Being A Boy - "I live in a cucumber castle," "A hill of vanilla fudge cream," "A strawberry stream"
- I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die - "Clear off the kitchen table, darling. For on the kitchen table I must lie. I'm just tired for my wife served the banquet of my life"
- I Love You For Psychological Reasons - "Cheese and chalk do not talk"
- I'm Your Boyfriend Now - "Italian food and wine"
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - "Now it's Turkish Delight on a moonlight night"
- It's Not My Birthday - "When this gray world crumbles like a cake"
- I've Got A Fang - "Open up a can of tomato juice"
- The Joker - "I really love your peaches"
- Kids Go! - "Move like a jumping bean"
- Kings Of The Cave - "Hear a little rumble down south, gotta find some creature I can kill with a spear"
- Last Wave - "I just fixed up the supper"
- Less Than One - The first verse is all about failing to eat a burrito
- Let's Get This Over With - "You're still hanging around the clambake"
- Mammal - "Glass of milk"
- Marshie - "I'm a talkin' marshmallow," "Don't call me a mushroom"
- Meet The Elements - "Neon's a gas that lights up the sign for a pizza place"
- The Mesopotamians - "This is my last stick of gum"
- Michigan - "We must eat Michigan's brain"
- Mr. Xcitement - "Cafe con pan", "Like Flansy in a soda can"
- My Brother The Ape - "I meant to thank her for the gorgonzola"
- Nanobots (Song) - "Eating what's available", "Making do with leftovers"
- Nevada (EP Version) - "The acorn of the squirrel"
- New York City - "Katz's and Tiffany's" - a brief reference to Katz's Deli in Manhattan is heard
- Oh You Did - "Don't drop eggs from the 14th story window", "Or the Leaning Tower of Pizza", "You know what? Don't drop anything from anywhere" "How did the carton of milk get filled with shaved off puppy hairs?", "What's that river of water doing pouring down the stairs?", "Did you just eat a napkin / To find out what would hap-kin?"
- Olive The Other Reindeer - "And when the gumdrops began to fall"
- One Dozen Monkeys - "I was eating a cupcake from a baker's dozen"
- Or So I Have Read - "And did you know / That mixing paint with milk will make it clear?"
- Other Father Song - "She's a peach"
- Outboard Part Of Man - "I'm a bread boy eating sand"
- Pittsburgh - "I still have dreams about a place / Called the Electric Banana"
- Re-PETE Offender - "Lunch meat collector"
- Rowboat Mayor - "On a steady diet of small potaters"
- S-E-X-X-Y - "Cookie in one hand"
- Shape Shifter - "The vegetable stand"
- Skullivan - "I'll make you a pot of tea"
- Snowball In Hell - "And food's going hungry"
- Solid Liquid Gas - "Water is a liquid"
- Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "Would you mind if we balance this glass of milk"
- South Carolina - "Eat that snail", "Collect the bread"
- Stone Cold Coup D'État - "Around a dinner table, a family says grace"
- Thankful For Your Service - "I found the empty container / Of take-out food with my name clearly written on it", "The diner just up the highway"
- The Communists Have The Music - "I got handed an Ayn Rand sandwich"
- The Sun Is On Fire - "Break out the cakes"
- Thinking Machine - "Green grape gravy grateful grab"
- Too Plus 3 R One - "There's an extra hand for my ice cream cone"
- Tractor - "The butter meets the hot steak"
- Tropical Lazor Beams - "Tropical lima beans, lima beans above"
- Trucker's Coffee - "Pulling a bedful of apples due for Lumberland"
- Underwater Woman - "Eating a pear"
- Wait Actually Yeah No - "Marijuana egg"
- Walk On Water - "I won't stop for a bottle of pop"
- Wearing A Raincoat - "Food that comes from a pipe"
- Where Do They Make Balloons? - "Marmalade's from Scotland", "Mexico has jumping beans", and "Eggs come from a chicken"
- Yeh Yeh - "And have some supper"
- You Don't Like Me - You like potato chips and cutting with a fork
- Your Mom's Alright - "Through scallions I am the sour cream", "Some onion roll, some mayonnaise jar"
Honorable mentions[edit]
- Applause Applause Applause - "The hunger never wanes"
- Experimental Film - In the H*R video, the blueberry muffin and the coffee drums
- Gudetama's Busy Days - The word Gudetama essentially means "lazy egg" in Japanese, although food is never actually mentioned in the song itself.
- In A World Without Food
- The Spine's album cover has a roasted turkey on it
- Taste The Bass
- Taste The Fame
- They Might Be Giants - the album cover depicts food and food advertisements
- They'll Need A Crane - "And there's a restaurant we should check out"
- You're On Fire - Music video features dancing and singing food
See also[edit]
- America Runs On Dunkin' - An ad campaign that centers around Dunkin' Donuts products, i.e. doughnuts, coffee
- Coffee
- Drinks