Saturday Distraction

This morning on Facebook I saw a post from my good friend Julie Cross, of Davis Food Co-op fame. Julie was asking her web of friends to contribute food-related song lyrics she could include on the food quote chalkboard at the Co-op. Now, I need very little prompting to sit and filter through the old iTunes library for a couple of hours, and her request was an acceptable excuse.
Below I have posted the lyrics I came across. As per Julie's request, I attempted to only pick lyrics which were not too long and stood up out of context. For fun, I included some which are obviously not appropriate fodder for the public chalkboard - not surprising that many food references in music are not literally referring to food, but to other, less savory (pun intended) themes.
Thanks for the distraction, Julie.

(in no particular order)

“And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad, so I had one more for dessert” – Johhny Cash

“Then I walked across the street, and caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken” – Johnny Cash

“She wore a raspberry beret” – Prince

“You can squeeze my lemon ‘til the juice runs down my leg” – Robert Johnson

“Hot tamales and they’re red hot, yeah she got ‘em for sale” – Robert Johnson

“The orange trees are in heat, and the summer air is good enough to eat” – Agent Ribbons

“The bees are buzzing all around me, because they heard you call me honey” – Agent Ribbons (fantastic Sacramento band)

“Who mistook the steak for chicken, who’m I gonna stick my dick in?” – Moldy Peaches

“Semolina Pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel tower” – The Beatles (is semolina pilchard a food?)
also,
“Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye” (mmm, custard)

“How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?” - Pink Floyd

“A bottle of red, a bottle of white, what ever kind of mood you’re in tonight” – Billy Joel

“One more cup of coffee ‘fore I go, to the valley below” –Bob Dylan

“I aint gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more” – Bob Dylan

“…and he screams back, ‘You’re a cow! Give me some milk or else go home’” – Bob Dylan

“A lot of people don't have much food on their table, but they got a lot of forks 'n' knives, and they gotta cut somethin'” – Bob Dylan

“She had brown shugga, all over her booga-wooga” – Bob Marley

“When she gets what she wants, she puts the rest on a tray, in Ziploc bags, in the freezer” – Cake

“Bring tea for the tillerman, steak for the sun, wine for the woman who made the rain come” – Cat Stevens

“Eat steak, eat steak eat a big ol' steer, eat steak, eat steak do we have one here?” – Reverend Horton Heat

“We should have each other to tea, huh? We should have each other with cream” – The Cure

“It’s pudding time, children” - Primus

“Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back, for a bowl of rice a day” – Dead Kennedys

“Talk about the pasta, pasta on the mountain” – Leftover Salmon

“Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down, and won” – John Prine

“Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches, try and find Jesus, on your own” - John Prine

“It was Christmas in prison, and the food was real good. We had turkey and pistols carved out of wood” - John Prine

“Tangerine, tangerine, living reflections from a dream” - Led Zeppelin

“This ain’t no cartoon, no one slips on bananas, do you really think that that car killed Diana?” – Micheal Franti & Spearhead

“robbin’, cheatin’, stealin’ white collar criminal, McDonald eatin’, you deserve a beatin’” -Michael Franti & Spearhead

“I could be happy the rest of my life with a cinnamon girl.” - Neil Young

“Because there's never gonna be enough space, so eat the meek, savor the taste” – NOFX

“Have you seen my garden, it is most peculiar, have you seen my garden” – Oingo Boingo

“He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich” – Men at Work

“Our love is rice and beans and horses lard” – The Pixies

“I wanna drive a schoolbus, over to the Brady’s, and pick up Alice, and then we’ll bake some brownies” - the Rugburns

“Funny, I'm not familiar with this taste, well I said are these ribs or is this steak?” - SNFU

“I'm scratching in your pea patch, plowing through your beanfield, planting my seed” – Spinal Tap

“What’s your favorite dish? I’m not gonna cook it but I’ll order it from Zanzibar” – Tenacious D

“I need no fruit, I need no rice, I need no sweets, nor even bread” – the Byrds

“I like coconuts, you can't break them open, they smell like ladies, lying in the sun” – Widespread Panic

“I cool step to you, with a fresh pack of gum. But somehow I knew, you were looking for some” – Beck

“V-neck T-shirt with a mustard stain, rolling up a hose outside in the rain” – Todd Snider