The Best Songs About Food, Like, Ever

Sometimes you eat something that is so good that it makes you just wanna, you know, sing. Since the dawn of pop music, people have been putting their innate love of grub to melody and verse. Here are some of the best songs about food that have ever been recorded.

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Hot Butter – Popcorn

This track has no lyrics, so it’s up to you to imagine a delicious bowl of freshly popped corn. The beat and melody even call to mind kernels of corn giving up the ghost and becoming fluffy popped versions of themselves. It’s a classic!

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Presidents of the United States of America – Peaches

Millions of peaches, peaches for free? Yowza, guys! That’s a lot of free peaches. Produce is expensive these days.

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Weird Al Yankovic – Eat It

This spoof of Michael Jackson’s Beat It is the ultimate tribute to all things edible. Although you shouldn’t eat too much or you might end up like Weird Al’s other popular Michael Jackson number.

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The Beatles – Savoy Truffle

Word on the street (the Internet) is that George Harrison penned this song as an homage to his friend Eric Clapton, who had a notorious sweet tooth. Good ol' Slowhand had a fast hand when it came to dessert.

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Cibbo Matto – Know Your Chicken

This song reads like a 1990s advertisement for organic and free-range poultry. Do you know your chicken and where it was raised, and what kind of diet it had while being raised? There will be a quiz after.

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Buckwheat Boyz – Peanut Butter Jelly Time

If you wanted to pick one song, and one dancing banana, that defined the early Internet, you’d have to pick this song and this dancing banana.

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They Might Be Giants – Dinner Bell

Finally, a song that describes the existential struggle we all go through while deciding what to eat for dinner. Although one can’t help but notice that pizza is refused as a viable option. Not cool, guys. Not cool.

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Booker T. and the M.G.'s – Green Onions

It’s easy to overlook the humble green onion. After all, they usually act as a garnish or something to give texture. And yet, where would specialty cream cheese flavors be without them?

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