This Week’s Theme: Food
This week’s show is all about food. Order up!
Welcome to Radio Faux Show Volume Two, number thirty-two.
First things first – click a link to start listening and then come back to read about this week’s songs.
Everybody eats, so dig in to these dishes. It’s a pot luck of musical food.
Mangia!
Eat! Eat! No one leaves the table until everything is gone. That is how Ms. Faux’s and my Italian grandparents did Sunday dinner.
Louis Prima “Angelina/Zooma Zooma”
“Weird Al” Yankovic “Eat It”
Cooking Staples
Flour, sugar, butter, eggs, salt, oil, rice, pasta, beans, meat, liquid, heat – these are some of the basic staples of cooking. If you have these things then you are good to go in the kitchen.
You can’t cook at home without a well-stocked pantry.
Cooking Staples Song Selections
A Tribe Called Quest “Butter”
Arrested Development “Give A Man A Fish”
The B-52s “Quiche Lorraine”
Beastie Boys “Egg Man”
Tad “Cooking With Gas”
The Grocery Store/Supermarket
The concept of a grocer, who sells dry goods, sugar, tea, coffee, etc. began in the 14th century. The first self-service grocery store was Piggly Wiggly, which opened in 1916 in Memphis, TN. The first shopping carts were provided in 1937 by Humpty Dumpty supermarkets in Oklahoma.
Supermarket Song Selections
The Clash “Lost In The Supermarket”
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers “Abominable Snowman In The Market”
Justin Roberts “Check Me Out, I’m At The Checkout”
Fruits and Vegetables
Some of the first foods eaten by humans were fruits and vegetables. These were the original fast foods – all you had to was find them and eat them.
Do you know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?
Fruit and Vegetable Song Selections
The Banana Splits “Tra La La Song”
The Beach Boys “Vegetables”
Mandrill “Mango Meat”
Minor Threat “Salad Days”
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo “I Like Fruit”
The Wiggles “Fruit Salad”
Fast Food
Fast food accounts for over 570 billion dollars of global sales per year. It has been around since Roman times as street food. The first fish and chip shop in England is believed to have started in 1860, and by 1910 there were over 25 thousand shops across the UK. The first burger fast food restaurant was White Castle, opened in 1921. Apparently, fast food is not good for you, but almost everyone eats it.
Waiting too long in the drive thru; we’ve all thought – dammit, I could have parked and walked in by now!
Fast Food Song Selections
Jimmy Buffett “Cheeseburger In Paradise”
Jim Gaffigan “Fast Food”
Dizzy Gillespie “Salt Peanuts”
Southern Culture On The Skids “8 Piece Box”
Unknown Korean artist “Tteokbokki Song”
ZZ Top “TV Dinners”
Soul Food
Ribs, barbecue, fried chicken, slaw, cornbread, fried okra, mac & cheese: that’s soul food. Tteokbokki, jajangmyun, kimchi pancake: that Seoul food.
All good soul food requires a good cornbread.
Soul Food Song Selections
Hasil Adkins “Cookin’ Chicken”
Willie Bobo “Fried Neckbones and Some Home Fries”
Ray Charles “Mess Around”
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five “Saturday Night Fish Fry”
Ella Mae Morse “The House Of Blue Lights”
Sandwiches
The sandwich is named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu. Montagu was an 18th century English aristocrat who ate sandwiches as a way to continue playing cards while he ate. The first sandwiches were eaten thousands of years ago, possibly in Babylon. Some of those sandwiches can still be found in government building vending machines throughout the U.S.
The best kid’s show ever made was The Upside Down Show.
Sandwich Song Selections
Jimmy Buffett “Cheeseburger In Paradise”
Royal Crescent Mob “Love and Tunafish”
Dessert
No meal is complete without something sweet at the end.
For a nice dessert, you can never go wrong with a cake.
Dessert Song Selections
The Banana Splits “Tra La La Song”
Shonen Knife “I Wanna Eat Chocobars”
The Wiggles “Fruit Salad”
Cannibalism
Cannibalism has been around in human societies since the Neanderthals, and even longer in other animal species. That doesn’t make it right.
The Donner Party and Alive are two famous stories about modern day cannibalism.
Cannibalism Song Selections
The Misfits “Braineaters”
Stephen Sondheim “God, That’s Good!”
Total Coelo “I Eat Cannibals”
Maybe Don’t Eat That?
Sometimes you shouldn’t eat something just because it looks edible.
Don’t Eat That Song Selections
Green Day “Words I Might Have Ate”
King Crimson “Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Pt. III”
Minutemen “This Ain’t No Picnic”
Thanks for listening (and reading)!
| Track | Artist | Song Title |
| 1 | Minutemen | This Ain’t No Picnic |
| 2 | Royal Crescent Mob | Love and Tunafish |
| 3 | Minor Threat | Salad Days |
| 4 | ZZ Top | TV Dinners |
| 5 | Beastie Boys | Egg Man |
| 6 | Arrested Development | Give A Man A Fish |
| 7 | A Tribe Called Quest | Butter |
| 8 | Total Coelo | I Eat Cannibals |
| 9 | Duran Duran | Hungry Like The Wolf |
| 10 | “Weird Al” Yankovic | Eat It |
| 11 | Banana Splits | Tra La La |
| 12 | Unknown | Tteokbokki Song |
| 13 | Wiggles, The | Fruit Salad |
| 14 | Secret Agent 23 Skidoo | I Like Fruit |
| 15 | Justin Roberts | Check Me Out, I’m At The Checkout |
| 16 | Clash, The | Lost In The Supermarket |
| 17 | Mandrill | Mango Meat |
| 18 | Willie Bobo | Fried Neck Bones and Some Home Fries |
| 19 | Dizzy Gillespie | Salt Peanuts |
| 20 | Ray Charles | Mess Around |
| 21 | Louis Jordan | Saturday Night Fish Fry |
| 22 | Ella Mae Morse | House Of Blue Lights |
| 23 | Louis Prima | Angelina/Zooma Zooma |
| 24 | Jim Gaffigan | Fast Food |
| 25 | Misfits | Braineaters |
| 26 | Steven Sondheim | God, That’s Good! |
| 27 | King Crimson | Lark’s Tongues In Aspic, Pt. III |
| 28 | B-52s | Quiche Lorraine |
| 29 | Shonen Knife | I Wanna Eat Chocobars |
| 30 | Beach Boys, The | Vegetables |
| 31 | Jonathan Richman | Abonimable Snowman In The Market |
| 32 | Jimmy Buffett | Cheeseburger In Paradise |
| 33 | Tad | Cooking With Gas |
| 34 | Hasil Adkins | Cookin’ Chicken |
| 35 | Southern Culture On The Skids | 8 Piece Box |
| 36 | Green Day | Words I Might Have Ate |
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