This file includes poems, quotes and page toppers about beef, chicken and turkey, dining out, dinner, fish and seafood, ham and pork, hot dogs and cold-cuts, lunch, picnics and barbecues, pizza, soup and stew, and miscellaneous meats.
Also see Misc Food, Vegetables, Cooking, Chocolate, Desserts and Snacks, Dieting, Fruits and Berries, Beverages, and Health.

Page Toppers

• Chow Time
• Conspicuous Consumption
• Dig in
• Dining Delights
• Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
• Man Shall Not Live by Bread Alone
• Oink, Oink, I'm a Little Pig (messy eating pictures)
• Pigging Out
• What's for Dinner?
• When Do We Eat?

Some foods introduced to the market in the 20^th century.

• Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup (1933)
• Spam (1937)
• Swanson Turkey TV Dinner (1951)
• Mrs. Paul's Frozen Fish Sticks (1952)
• Shake'N Bake (1965)
• Hamburger Helper (1970)
• Lean Cuisine frozen dinners (1981)

Source: Bon Appetit magazine.

Miscellaneous Meats

Quotes

• Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef. (Andy Rooney)
• How to prepare tofu: 1. Throw it in the trash. 2. Grill some meat.
• I don't eat snails, I prefer fast food.
• If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
• Much meat, much malady. (Thomas Fuller)
• The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat. (Benjamin Franklin)
• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. (Fran Lebowitz)

Songs about Miscellaneous Meat

• All That Meat and No Potatoes - Fats Waller (1941)
• Champagne and Quail - Henry Mancini (2004)
• Cornbread, Meat and Molasses - Terry and Mcghee (1995)
• Peaches and Possums - Jerry Clower (1998)
• Porcupine Pie - Neil Diamond (1971)

Chicken and Turkey

Quotes

• As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings. (Hattie McDaniel)
• If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday. (Henri IV of France)
• A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. (Kin Hubbard)
• Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old. (Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
• We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was. (Bernard Malamud)

Songs about Chicken and Turkey

• Bake That Chicken Pie - Jackson County Barn Owls (2008)
• Bucket of Chicken - Galactic Cowboys (2000)
• Chicken A La Blues - Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (1989)
• Chicken and Broccoli - Tom Shillue (2007)
• Chicken Chow Mein - B. Bumble and the Stingers (1963)
• Chicken Cordon Bleus - Steve Goodman (1973)
• Chicken Every Sunday - Dolly Parton (1971)
• Chicken Fried Steak - John Vandiver (1984)
• Chicken in the Fridge - Molasses Creek (2005)
• Chicken is Nice - Dave Van Ronk (1968)
• Chili Pepper Chicken - Michael Ruff (2006)
• Fried Chicken - Rufus Thomas (1978)
• Fried Chicken and a Country Tune - Billy Wheeler (1969)
• Southern Fried Chicken - Hank Penny (1956)
• Thanksgiving Turkey - Eve Arden (1950)
• Turkey and Gravy - Tres Gone (2007)
• Wishbone - Donnie Brooks (1961)

Beef

Quotes and Page Toppers

• Oh Oh, Spaghetti-O
• Where's the Beef?

Quotes

• Any of us would kill a cow, rather than not have beef. (Samuel Johnson)
• Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in the world is in his home town is a sissy. (Calvin Trillin)
• Beef is the soul of cooking. (Marie-Antoine Carême)
• I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. (William Shakespeare)
• It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. (Ray Kroc, creator of McDonalds)
• The journey of a thousand pounds begins with a single burger. (Chris O'Brien)
• A teenage boy's idea of a balanced diet is a hamburger in each hand.
• Tongue--a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. (Bob Ekstrom)

On Top of Spaghetti

(author unknown)

(Sung to the tune of On Top of Old Smokey)

On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball
when somebody sneezed.

It rolled off the table
and onto the floor
And then my poor meatball
it rolled out the door.

Rolled into the garden
and under a bush
and then my poor meatball
was nothing but mush.

The mush was as tasty
as tasty could be
and early next summer
grew into a tree.

The tree was all covered
with beautiful moss
it grew lovely meatballs
and tomato sauce.

So if you eat spaghetti
all covered with cheese
hold on to your meatballs
and don't ever sneeze.

Roast Beef

(Henry Fielding)

When mighty roast beef
was the Englishman's food

It ennobled our hearts
and enriched our blood--

Our soldiers were brave
and our courtiers were good.

Oh! the roast beef of England.
And Old England's roast beef.

Songs about Beef

• Burgers and Fries - Charley Pride (1978)
• Cheeseburger in Paradise - Jimmy Buffett (1978)
• Cornbeef and Cabbage - Rick Whitfield (2008)
• Hamburgers and Chocolate Ice Cream - D-Styles (2002)
• Hamburgers, Frankfurters and Potato Chips - Georgia Gibbs (1959)
• Hamburgers on a Bun - The Vibrations (1962)
• Hot Taco - The Bill Black Combo (1962)
• Hot Tamale - Bobby Hatfield (1962)
• Hungarian Goulash - Allan Sherman (1963)
• Lobster and Steak - Hella Brown (2003)
• Minute Steak - Teddy Wilson (1997)
• One Meat Ball - Ry Cooder (1970)
• One Meatball - Josh White (1944)
• Rib Tips - Andre Williams (1967)
• Steak - Barrel of Monkeys (2005)
• Steak and Eggs - Bobby Byrd and Jim Ward (2006)
• Steak and Fries - Dub Fanatic (2008)
• Steak and Potatoes - Fathead (2005)
• Steak and Salad - Jim Gaffigan (2006)
• T-Bone Steak - Larry LaVey (2000)

Dining Out

Page Idea

• To make a page for all those trips to McDonald's cut golden arches using this pattern. Enlarge pattern to size you want. Cut out of gold paper and use it to journal on or mat small photos. Or cut it out of light paper and use as a background on the page.

Quotes

• Eating at fast food outlets and other restaurants is simply a manifestation of the commodification of time coupled with the relatively low value many Americans have placed on the food they eat. (Andrew F. Smith)
• McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor. (S.I. Hayakawa)
• The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. (Peter De Vries)
• Never eat at a place called 'Moms', but if the only other place in town has a sign that says 'Eats', go back to Moms. (W.C. Fields)
• Waitresses can dish it out.
• Waitresses can really dish it out.
• Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God...I could be eating a slow learner. (Lyndon B. Johnson)

Songs about Dining Out

• All-Night Diner - Santo and Johnny (1959)
• Alone at a Table for Two - Hank Locklin (1953)
• At the Café Rendezvous - Peggy Lee (1950)
• Blue Plate Special - Will Bernard (2008)
• Café Mozart Waltz, The - Ethel Smith (1950)
• Café on the Corner - Sawyer Brown (1992)
• Car-Hop - Reg Owen Orchestra (1958)
• Car-Hop and the Hard-Top, The - Marcy Jo and E. Rambeau (1963)
• Car-Hop's Blues - Ted Daffan and His Texans (1941)
• Check, Please - Paul Jefferson (1996)
• Chet's Fabulous Diner - Ben Rudnick (2007)
• Clean Your Own Tables - K.T. Oslin (1981)
• Coffee House - The Moe Koffman Quartette (1964)
• Coyote Café - Joni Harms (2004)
• Crumbs off the Table - Glass House (1969)
• Cute Little Waitress - Stoney Edwards (1971)
• Dairy Queen - Norman Greenbaum (1973)
• Dining and Dancing - Bobby Pedrick (1962)
• Dinner at the Ritz - City Boy (1975)
• Dinner for Two - Tim Strepek (2002)
• Dixie Diner - Jimmy Buffett (1978)
• Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll - Janis Martin (1956)
• Dutch Treat - The Utopians (1962)
• Fast Food - Pete Townshend (1989)
• Girl From the Main Street Diner - Van Trevor (1965)
• Girl Who Waits on Tables, The - Ronnie Milsap (1973)
• Greasy Spoon - Mickey Baker (1955)
• Halfway Home Café - Ricky Skaggs (2001)
• Hands Across the Table - Fats Domino (1962)
• If it Ain't on the Menu - Hawkshaw Hawkins (1956)
• Joe and Mabel's 12th Street Bar and Grill - Nat Stuckey (1969)
• Kelly's Country Kitchen - Slim Dusty (1999)
• Montana Café - Hank Williams, Jr. (1986)
• New Restaurant, The - Malvina Reynolds (1966)
• Old Home, Filler Up an' Keep on Truckin' Café - McCall (1974)
• Old Malt Shop, The - Ronnie Haig (1961)
• Rosina (the Menu Song) - Lou Monte (1955)
• Silver Dish Café - Charlie Louvin (1976)
• Sittin' in an All Night Café - Warner Mack (1964)
• Smokey Joe's Café - The Robins (1955)
• Sunset Grill - Don Henley (1985)
• Sweet Shoppe Sweetheart - Molly Bee (1956)
• Table 32 - Georgia Middleman (2004)
• Tastee Freeze - The Five Echoes (1955)
• Texas Café, A - Aaron Watson (2006)
• Truck-Stop Rock - Commander Cody and His Band (1972)
• Trucker's Café - Great Speckled Bird (1970)
• Victoria Dines Alone - Tom Paxton (1968)

Dinner

Quotes

• After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's relatives. (Oscar Wilde)
• All great change in America begins at the dinner table. (Ronald Reagan)
• Dinner was made for eatin', not for talkin'. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. (Samuel Johnson)
• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. (Samuel Johnson)
• Sir, respect your dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
• You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. (Oscar Wilde)

Songs about Dinner

• Dinner at the Ritz - City Boy (1975)
• Dinner For One Please, James - Eartha Kitt (1955)
• Dinner for Two - Tim Strepek (2002)
• Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals - Harris (1958)
• Dinner's Ready - Sir Dilla (2005)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Tonight - Sue Thompson (1970)
• I Eat Dinner - Kate and Anna Mcgarrigle (1990)
• Reunion, With Dinner on the Ground - Frankie Miller (1959)
• TV Dinners - Zz Top (1983)

Fish and Seafood

Quotes

• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. (P.J. O'Rourke)
• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins. (Dave Barry)
• Oysters are the most tender and delicate of all seafoods. The stay in bed all day and night. They never work or take exercise, are stupendous drinkers, and wait for their meals to come to them. (Hector Bolitho)
• Sushi /n./ Known to most of the world as 'bait'.
• With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land. (Jacques Cousteau)

Songs about Fish and Seafood

• Alone With a Fish Dinner - Brian Buchignani (2008)
• California Fish Fry - Alan Barnes All Stars (2004)
• Clam Bake - The Casual Flyze (2009)
• Lobster and Mayonnaise - The Waxworks (2008)
• Lobster and Steak - Hella Brown (2003)
• Lobster Dinner - John Lenehan and David Snell (1999)
• Saturday Night Fish Fry - Frankie Ford (1961)
• Tennessee Fish Fry - Daryl Sherman (2005)
• Tuna Salad - Prisoners of the Sun (2002)

Ham and Pork

Quotes

• Ham And Eggs--A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig.
• I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I Am. (Dr. Seuss)
• Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. (Mark Twain)
• What did cured ham actually have, anyway?

The Pig

(Ogden Nash)

The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Gives us ham and pork and Bacon.
Let others think his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.

Songs about Ham

• Bake Me a Country Ham - Cledus T. Judd (2004)
• Canned Ham - Norman Greenbaum (1970)
• Country Ham and Red Gravy - The Hotmud Family (1979)
• Ham and Eggs - Brownie McGhee (1995)
• Ham 'n' Eggs - Lonnie Donegan (1958)
• Sidemeat and Cabbage - Little Jimmie Dickens (1953)
• Steaks and Chops - Urban Blue (2004)
• Sweet Country Ham - Dave Frishberg (1978)
• Sweet Kentucky Ham - Dave Frishberg (1981)

Hot Dogs and Cold-Cuts

Quotes

• A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. (Humphrey Bogart)
• Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? (Neil Gaiman)
• No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous. (Nelson Rockefeller)
• Only in America do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Songs about Hot Dogs and Cold-Cuts

• Corn Dogs - Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand (2008)
• First Bratwurst of Summer - Those Darn Accordions (1999)
• Hamburgers, Frankfurters and Potato Chips - Georgia Gibbs (1959)
• Hot Dog - Corky Jones (1956)
• Hot Pastrami - The Dartells (1963)
• I Ate the Baloney - Harry Lee (1969)

Lunch

Quotes

• Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. (Orson Welles)
• Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold. (Samuel Johnson)
• Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. (Raymond Sokolov)
• Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake in the afternoon. (Jilly Cooper)

Songs about Lunch

• Bring Your Lunch - Bill Coday (1997)
• Hot Lunch - Artie Traum (2004)
• Let's Do Lunch - Flint Rynx (2004)
• Lost Lunch Box - Roy D. Mercer (2000)
• Lunch - Bruce Hayes (2000)
• Lunch Bag Blues - Steve Hyams (1996)
• Lunch Box - Doll Factory (2002)
• Lunch Break - Thomas Walker (2007)
• Lunch Hour - Skip and Flip (1959)
• Lunch Money - The Yardsale (2003)
• Lunch on the Patio - Cruz Carolina's Finest (2008)
• Lunch Time - Joe Salinas (2005)
• Lunch With Mother Goose - John Zacherle (1958)
• Making Lunch - Ken Schaphorst (1994)
• No Free Lunch - Blue Train (2007)

Picnics and Barbecues

Page Toppers

• Bring on the Burgers!
• I am a Grate Cook (barbeque)
• The Teddy Bears' Picnic
• Thank Heaven for Little Grills

The Picnic

(Dorothy Aldis)

We brought a rug for sittin on,
Our lunch was in a box.
The sand was warm. We didn't wear
Hats or Shoes or Socks.

Waves came curling up the beach.
We waded. It was fun.
Our sandwiches were different kinds.
I dropped my jelly one.

Songs about Picnics and Barbecues

• Barbecue - The Red Clay Ramblers (1992)
• Barbecue Any Old Time - Brownie McGhee (1940)
• Barbecue King - Jorma Kaukonen (1980)
• Cook Out - The Kingpins (1968)
• Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue - Mothers of Invention (1970)
• Going on a Picnic - Raffi (1979)
• Let's Have a Picnic - Mickey and Sylvia (1957)
• Omaha BBQ - Preston Love (1967)
• Picnic Song, The - Johnny Desmond (1950)
• Reunion, With Dinner on the Ground - Frankie Miller (1959)
• Ribs Cooked on the Coals - Slim Dusty (1969)
• Samba with Some Barbecue - Paul Desmond (1968)
• Shish-Kebab - Ralph Marterie Orchestra (1957)
• Sunday Barbeque - Tennessee Ernie Ford (1958)
• Sunday Picnic - Richie Allen (1962)
• Teddy Bear's Picnic, The - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1967)
• Texas Barbeque - Bela Fleck (1987)

Pizza

20 Weird things to do while ordering Pizza:

(author unknown)

1. Press random numbers on your phone while ordering. Ask them to stop doing that.
2. Make up a charge-card name. Ask if they accept it.
3. Order a Big Mac Extra Value Meal.
4. Tell them a rival pizza place is on the other line and you're going with the lowest bidder.
5. Give them your address, exclaim "Oh, just surprise me!" and hang up.
6. Tell them to put the crust on top.
7. Spell out the name of the toppings you want.
8. Stutter on the letter 'p'.
9. Say hello, then act as if they called you.
10. Order exotic toppings like caviar or smoked oysters.
11. Change your accent every few words.
12. Order 52 pepperoni slices prepared in a fractal pattern following an equation you are about to dictate.
13. When they repeat the order, say: "OK. That'll be $10.99; please pull up to the window."
14. Ask if you can rent a pizza.
15. Ask if you get to keep the pizza box. When they say yes, thank them profusely.
16. Put the accent on the last syllable of 'pepperoni'. Use the long 'i' sound.
17. Ask that your pizza be "shaken, not stirred."
18. Tell them to double-check to make sure your pizza is, in fact, dead.
19. Ask to see a menu.
20. Ask what topping goes best with well-aged Chardonnay.

Songs about Pizza

• Cold Pizza and Warm Beer - Saffire (1998)
• Cold Pizza For Breakfast - Christine Lavin (1984)
• No Anchovies Please - The J Geils Band (1980)
• Perfectly Good Pizza - John Hiatt (1976)
• Pizza That Ate Chicago, The - Tom Paxton (1999)
• Spanish Pizza - Ross Bagdasarian (1969)

Soups and Stew

Ode to Stew

(author unknown)

I surely never hope to view
A steak as luscious as a stew.
The latter is the tasty goal
Of elements in perfect whole,
A mad assemblage of legumes
Exuding warm ambrosial fumes,
Each seasoning of proper length,
Proving in Union there's strength.
A steak is grander, it is true,
Yet needs no special skill to brew.
It is an art a stew to make,
But anyone can broil a steak.

Songs about Soups and Stew

• Animal Crackers in My Soup - Carrie Lyn (2002)
• Black Bean Soup - David Soul (1977)
• B-O-R-S-C-H-T - Peter Ostroushko (1986)
• Carrot Soup - Harry Shearer (2008)
• Chicken Noodle Soup - Webstar (2007)
• Clam Chowder - Soul Vibrations (2005)
• Cucumber Soup - Raun MacKinnon Burnham (2010)
• Hot Soup - Earl Hines Orchestra (1953)
• Ike and the Oyster Stew - Butch and Jean (2002)
• Irish Stew - Mindy Carson (1951)
• Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - The Blue Ridge Rangers (1973)
• Life is a Minestrone - 10cc (1975)
• Praise the Lord and Pass the Soup - Oak Ridge Boys (1973)
• Rainbow Stew - Merle Haggard (1981)
• Soup - John Mccutcheon (1995)
• Soup and Salad - Ava Dupree (2004)
• Soup Song - Cisco Houston (1960)
• Sweet Potato Soup - The Yards (2002)
• Texas Chili - The Country Gentlemen (1976)
• Tomato Soup - Ken Gutherlet (2004)

Some of the song titles on this page came from Eric's Thematic Songlists. Some graphics on this site are from Public Domain Clip Art, Free Clip Art Library and Free Clipart Now.