Very simple: pick a band or singer, then make some cheap food-related puns on some of their song titles. Extra praise for the more tenuous and groan-inducing ideas.
I’m not a huge ABBA fan, but a few came to mind:
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Flan after Midnight)
Lay All Your Loaf on Me
Watervindaloo
Does your Mother Know You’ve Got Gout?
Chiquititartare
Keeping ABBA for now:
Gnawing Meat, Gnawing Stew
Soupertrouper
ABBAtoir
Angel Del’eyes’t
Chicken Tikka
Lamb Dhansak Queen
The Day Before Cucumber
Flanando
I Have A Cream Cracker
Marmite Mia
One OFusilli pasta
Slipping Through My Fingers of Fudge
That’s Meat
Tiger Prawn
Vealez Vous
The Dinner Takes It All
SOS(age)
Quality work, salwarpe!
Gnawing Meat, Gnawing Stew – I’m applauding that one, young Celebration!
stewpertrouper
Stiff Little Fish Fingers – Suspect Basmati Rice
Dexys Midnight Runner Beans – Let’s Get This Hake For A Start
Sultanas Of Swing
Romeo and Gruel I ate
Oooh, that’s good, young Milky!
Broth-ers in Arms
Keith Floyd
Damon Albumen
Killiing Yolk
Richard Shell and the Ovoids
The Great Om(lette) Riff
Scrambling Man
Poachford with Coddly Toy
Damson Albarn
Durian Durian
Grapeful Dead
Katy Peri Peri
KD Langoustine
Roger Poultry
Cabinet Pudding Calloway
Singing Won’t Get Fool Again, Rum Baba O’Riley and You butter? You bet!
Eton Trifles by The Jam
A classic of the genre.
A bit of a Mess, imho
Moody Blues – Gou Lash
Sheryl Crow – Stroganoff
Rolling Stones – Miss Stew
Hollies – On A Casserole
Tenuous, cheap…and rather brilliant, Rigid.
Prince – Raspberry Brulee
– Little Red Crevette
– U Got The Duck
– Steak Me With U
– Darling Gnocchi
– Gett Offal
– My Name Is Mince
– Parsley Park
– The Beautiful Scones
– I Feel Fondue
– I Wanna Eat Your
Liver (one for
the Hannibal fans,
there)
– Roue Me, Baby
This is what it sounds like
When doves fry
Never going back to that restaurant.
Prince pies
‘A’
H’adore’ck & chips
All the crisps love stewing pork
Alphabetti Streetgetti
Hamerica
Angus steak, yeah?
Cannelloni Christmas
Anotherloafwithholesinyourbread
The Farms offer rye buns
A round of Swiss rolls on my plate
Not puns but there is a rock n roll catering company called Eat to the Beat who are really excellent and there was another, not trading now, called Little Red Courgette
Another one for the vegetarians…
We Could Send Lettuce – Aztec Camera
To go with the catering companies there is a morris side called The Outside Capering Crew.
Gladys Knight & The Pips – Courgette Courgette
Paul McCartney & Wings – Cour-Jet.
Bennie and the Courgettes
Here Come the Warm Courgettes
The Beach Boys: Beetroot to Your School.
Braeburn Turnip Over-ripe
Cod only knows
James Brown: The Codfather Of Sole
Isaac Hake
The Specials – Ginsters
Musical Youth – Pasty Dutchie
Loving your work, Rigid!
Ian Dury – Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls
Joan Jett – I Love Sausage Rolls
AC/DC – It’s A Long Way To The Shops If Want A Sausage Roll
Two actual ones.
Jim Capaldi: Whale Meat Again.
Jack The Lad: A Corny Pastiche
Peter Tosh – Tenderize It
Elton John – Sautee Seems to be the Hardest Word
Fried Egg on My Mind – The Greasybeats
From the HJHs:
Hey Food
Paperbake Writer
All My Cooking
Norwegian Wood-Fired Pizza
Here Comes The Bun
Till there was Stew
….and one actual one – Mean Mr Mustard
There must be many more!
Rubber Sole.
Two real others Savoy Truffle and of course Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Oh and Glass Onion.
Please Please Ghee
Paperback Raita
While My Guitar Gently Steeps
10CC:
Doner
Wall Street Truffle
Life Is A Minestrone
I’m Brandy Fry Me
Breadlock Holiday
I’m Not In Loaf
Clockwork Crepe
The Bean & I
Rubber Mullets
House Of The Rising Bun
Where Did Our Loaf Go
Natty Bread
Floating Islands in the stream,
Arctic roll um easy
Papa was a rolling scone
Mama, he’s making pies at me
Wake up and make fudge with me
Everyone’s a dinner
I’m your spam
Don’t fear the kipper
The boy with the chive in his pies
Peas peas peas give me what I want
Madonna – Papadum Preach
Stones:
Gimme Shellfish
You Got me Cooking
Living in a Toast Town
Starter me Up
Beast of Bourguignon
Anybody Seen my Flambéby
From our jazz correspondent:
A Love Soupreme
The Creator Has A MasterFlan
Spanish Key Lime Pie
Cornet Chop Suey (unchanged original – Louis Armstrong)
Black And Tan Fricassee
A Fine Roll Mop
Mack & Cheese The Knife
Better Get It In Your Dover Sole
Marinade To A Cuckoo
Cucumber Slumber (unchanged original – Weather Report)