Betty Crocker: up in your grill
With the notable exception of those found on Chet Baker’s BBQ album: Someone to watch over meat – followed, of course, by Brown sugar, I’m on fire and Burning down the house – there just aren’t enough songs about food.
And, so, to rectify…
A grill in Paris
Come see about peas
More than a peeling
Tainted lox
Every bread you take
I love Rocky Road
Grilling me softly
Radicchio killed the radio star
Can’t take my eyes off the roux
In the Gravy
Only the Lo Mein
It’s cow or heifer
Kiss my bass goodbye
A raspberry fool such as I
After the stuffing
When doves fry
I only have pies for you
(My only excuse is that it’s Friday, and I’ve just churned out 6,000 words on e-payment systems in Europe. May God bless the silly man.)
Wok it!
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- Every Thanksgiving Day in the Boston area, radio station WBCN runs 3-4 hours’ worth of food-related songs – all the fixin’s for the turkey-day feast. My favorite are all the renditions of Hendrix’s “Little Wing”. I know, I know – not really about food! In most cases it’s a stretch to say that they’re actually about food – more often they’re about love or sex wrapped in food terms, a la the Motown song “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch”. But it’s fun to listen to and dance around the kitchen while preparing the feast.
— leslee Nov 5, 11:38am # - Wokking on the Moon
Once in a Lunchtime
On a Beatles theme:
And Your Bird Can Singe
Glass Onion Soup
Kelp!
I’ll Hollow the Bun
I’m Cooking Ewe Stew
Magical Mystery Torte
Jelly Lane
Peas Please Me
You Never Give Me Your Honey
Sorry folks.
— gord Nov 5, 11:55am # - Okay, this’ll be it for me:
Chopped Chives and Pangless
— gord Nov 5, 12:06pm # - I Wanna Hold Your Ham
Tangled Up in Roux
Fry Like An E-el
Smells Like Bean Spirit
— vernaculo Nov 5, 1:02pm # - “Give Pizza Chance” by John Lentil
“Where the Beets Have No Name” by Ewe, Too
“Stew Monday” by New Hors D’oeuvre
“Oh! Sweet Muffin” by Egg Foo Reed and VU
“Fight for Your Right to Stir-Fry”—Yeastie Boys
Happy, happy Freya’s Day!
— Scott Nov 5, 1:18pm # - two tripes
something’s jumping in yoghurt
— bonny Nov 5, 5:33pm # - “up in your grill” That’s the second time in as many days I heard that. He said it to me the other day. You two must be connected at the hip.
Stones theme
“Li-i-i-ime is in this pie. Yes it i-is”
“sweet potato mash, it’s a gas, gas, gas”
“I see some black peas and I want to make them mine”
“Talkin’ about the midnight scrambler
The one that’s done with lots of eggs”
“Ev’rywhere I hear the sound of popcorn popin’”
— Ray Nov 5, 7:21pm # - Because the Night Belongs to Stovers
— Chris Nov 5, 8:46pm # - Fridge Over Troubled Water
5th Avenue Freezer
Home On The Range
Love Meat Tender
Sunshine Souperman
The Marcel Eggs
Hotel Calimari
Got My Mole Workin
American Lemon
House Of The Rising Bun
Only Love Can Break Your Tart
Crab Louie Louie
She’s A Ladle
Kid Chow Mein
— vernaculo Nov 6, 3:40pm # - You have placed a chili in my tart
— John H Nov 6, 8:50pm # - There are UNADULTERATED titles:
Lozenge of Love
(radiohead – hail to the thief – not obvious enough?)
Abalonia
(talvin singh – ha – downright obscure)
Summer’s Cauldron
(XTC, I think the album has the same title)
— debra solomon Nov 7, 6:54am # - Sinatra’s kitchen period:
Fry Me To The Moon
Strainers In The Night
I’ve Got You Under My Sink
I Get A Quiche Out Of You
Come Fly With Miso
New Yolk New Yolk
My Whey
Popular Herbs or Herbaceous Pop?
Britney Spears – Baby One More Thyme
Temptations – Pepper Was A Rolling Stone
Otis Redding – Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fennel
Percy Sledge – Cinnamon Loves A Woman
— Zac Nov 7, 10:32pm # - The XTC album is Skylarking. My fave of theirs. It’s the one with “Dear God.” The drummer from The Tubes plays on it.
— gord Nov 7, 10:34pm # - I Only Have Thighs For You
Sweet Creams Are Made of This
Take Me To The Liver
Bun, Bun, Bun (Now That Daddy Took the Teaspoon Away)
Ground Chuck’s In Love
Amazing Rice
— peggy Nov 7, 10:43pm # - New Yolk, New Yolk
Bleu Cheese Monday
Amazing Grease
Cool To Be Rind
Don’t Curry, Be Happy
— peggy Nov 7, 10:58pm # - And The Beef Goes On
— peggy Nov 7, 11:02pm # - Bon Jovi – Brulee Your Hands On Me
Marvin Gaye – Baguette It On
Musical Youth – Pasta Dutchie On The Left Hand Side
Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Soup
— Zac Nov 8, 5:44pm # - A friend of mine from high school used to swear that most love songs could be improved by swapping “lunch” for “love.” I think the high point was “Lunch is always better the second time around.”
— Dan Nov 9, 11:14pm # - Bachman Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nutmeg Yet
Elton John – Sausage Seems To Be The Hardest Word
The Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Broccoli
Chris de Burgh – Lady In Bread
U2 – Buffet The Blue Sky
— Zac Nov 9, 11:58pm # - Zac- I think yu meant
The Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Butter
— ruralsaturday Nov 10, 1:23am # - (If you have anti-spam prior review, please forgive the double posting.)
In honor of Canadians and the Americans who now want to marry them, i give you “kitchen-Gordon Lightfoot”:
Rib On a Dark Dish (over me)
Canadian Bacon Trilogy
Black Bean in July
Soup for a Winter’s Night
Bitter Greens
Sauce Man
(That’s what you get) For Lovin’ Meat
Unsalted Ways
Does Your Mutton Know?
Souffle
The Way I Peel
— Amy H. Nov 10, 2:34am # - I’m writing a profile of American writer Roy Blount Jr. In the course of my reporting, which has included singing with the Rock Bottom Remainders, the band that includes Blount, Amy Tan, Dave Barry, and Scott Turow, I’ve learned that Blount has a collection of 2,400 songs about food.
— Dale Keiger Nov 10, 3:50am # - Not to forget the classic from ‘My Fair Lady’:
I’ve thrown a custard to her face
— Drew Nov 10, 1:44pm # - Wish You Were Beer
— andy Nov 10, 7:27pm # - Dan comments: A friend of mine from high school used to swear that most love songs could be improved by swapping “lunch” for “love.”
Leading to…
I’d do anything for lunch (but I won’t do that)
...appropriately enough, by Meatloaf.
— John H Nov 10, 9:56pm # - The Grill Is Gone
Wedding Bell Pepper Blues
I Heard It Through the Grape Nuts
You Turn Me On, I’m a Microwave
Had To Fry Today
(let me go) Gravy On You
— peggy Nov 11, 12:12am # - Sex Pistols – God save the Cream
The Clash – Cheese flan at the Hammersmith Pallais
The Stranglers – No more heroes (Hero – US sandwich)
The Jam – Eating Trifles
Laurie Anderson – Oh soup, eh mum?
— Adrian Nov 11, 3:53am # - I Can’t Stop Oven Use
Long Tall Celery
All You Knead Is Loaf
Someone’s in The Kitchen With Diners
Like A Rolling Boil
Capon Rockin In The Free World
— vernaculo Nov 11, 3:54am # - Madonna in the kitchen:
Like An Extra Virgin
Papa Don’t Poach
Don’t Cry For Me, Margarine
Espresso Yourself
Get Into The Gravy
Justify My Ovenglove
Like A Profiterole
Who’s That Grill?
— Zac Nov 11, 4:13am # - I Would Fry 4 U
Constant Carving
All the Young Foods
Love the Bun You’re With
— peggy Nov 11, 5:00am # - When I was a child and my mother served up fruit fool, I always sang What Kind of Fool Am I?
I also have an unfulfilled ambition to open a 24 hour Chinese restaurant called Wok Around The Clock.
— Willie Nov 11, 7:42pm # - That’s A Morsel
God Save The Leftovers
Town Without Penne
Sole Man
— vernaculo Nov 12, 8:35am # - Steak Me to the River
Meat Me in St. Louis
Born Frites
and for a bit of CanCon:
Bacon Care of Business
— mrpommer Nov 12, 5:10pm # - Have a blast.
— TEENA Nov 13, 4:37am # - The Smiths – Girlfriend In A Korma
— Zac Nov 14, 9:56pm # - Aerosmith – Dude Cooks Like A Lady.
Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love Stew.
— Tom Nov 23, 7:11am #
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