Did you know there are hundreds, maybe even thousands of songs about food? I've been thinking about food quite a bit since I'm on a post Christmas-gorge diet. A Google search for "food songs" yielded about 4,600,000 results!! Some of these fascinating results are as follows:

A website named www.mixedup.com boasts an impressive list of 500 songs about food and a very odd and disturbing picture in which apparently Satan has eaten someone's lunch.

"Maximum Consumpion" by The Kinks

"Goober Peas" by Kingston Trio
"Happy Meal" by The Cardigans
"Junkfood Junkie" by Larry Groce
"He Ate Too Many Jelly Donuts" by Rick Dees
and of course
“Bigsmorgasbordwunderwerks” by Squonk 



This bear looks like he's having fun...



Here's KIDiddles songs about food for kids. My favorite is "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?" That's exactly what I'd like to know....







Apparently the top ten food songs, according to The Observer, are as follows:

1 Wine With Dinner Loudon Wainwright

2 Roast Fish and Cornbread Lee Perry

3 Pass the Peas The JBs

4 She Cooks Me Cabbage Champion Jack Dupree

5 Rock Lobster The B-52s 

6 Fish, Chips and Sweat Funkadelic

7 Eli's Pork Chop Little Sonny

8 Chitlin con Carne Junior Wells

9 Forget About Dre Dr Dre

10 Ice Cream for Crow Captain Beefheart 






Even Dole is jumping in with "Jammin' 5 a Day Songs." Check out these great lyrics

Now here's a little song where I can take the lead
I wanna eat the right kind of foods that I need
I'm countin' all my servings in a real cool way
I'm talkin' fruits and vegetables, 5 A Day!

1 -2 -3 -4 - 5 A Day
That's the fruit and vegetable way
Eat 5 servings every day
Sing 5 A Day!

Poetry. Pure Poetry.