Songs With Food in the Title
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50 free Songs with Food in the Title trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Pop music has always had a sweet tooth. Songwriters reach for sugar, candy, cherries and pie when they want a title that sticks, and the habit runs from nursery rhymes and 1950s rock and roll to K-pop and rap. Some of these titles hide odd stories: a ballad that began life named after a breakfast, a chart-topper renamed after a dish it never mentions, a rock anthem scribbled on a pizza box. This quiz asks who recorded the best-known songs with food in the title and what lies behind them. Most questions name the song and give you a clue, such as the album, the year or a strange fact about how it was written, then ask for the artist. Others ask about the film, show or place connected to the song. It suits music fans, pub quiz teams and anyone planning a food-themed party round. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave knowing a few stories worth repeating over dinner.
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Q 01Paul McCartney used which breakfast dish as the working title of the Beatles ballad Yesterday?
Scrambled eggs
Scrambled eggs was the placeholder title Paul McCartney used after the whole melody came to him in a dream, before he had written the real words.
Q 02Which singer-songwriter's 1971 epic American Pie mourns the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly?
Don McLean
Don McLean learned of the 1959 crash as a 13-year-old paperboy, from the bundle of newspapers he was about to deliver.
Q 03Food, Glorious Food is the opening number, sung by hungry workhouse boys, of which stage and film musical?
Oliver!
Oliver! opens with the boys dreaming of a feast before they are handed only gruel, and it was the first Dickens musical to become a stage hit.
Q 04The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever is named after a Salvation Army children's home in which city?
Liverpool
Liverpool's Strawberry Field stood close to John Lennon's childhood home, and he based the song on memories of playing in its garden.
Q 05Sugar, Sugar topped the US and UK charts in 1969 for which cartoon band from a comic book?
The Archies
The Archies existed only in Archie Comics and on screen, so session singer Ron Dante supplied the lead vocal on the record.
Q 06Watermelon Sugar, inspired by a Richard Brautigan novel, won a Grammy in 2021 for which English singer?
Harry Styles
Harry Styles opened the 2021 Grammy ceremony with a jazzy version of the song, which then won Best Pop Solo Performance.
Q 07Which entertainer's only US number one was The Candy Man, a song from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory?
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. topped the Hot 100 for three weeks in 1972 with his cover; in the film itself the song is sung by Aubrey Woods as the sweet-shop owner.
Q 08Milkshake, a 2003 hit written and produced by the Neptunes, comes from which singer's album Tasty?
Kelis
Kelis has said the milkshake of the title is a metaphor for whatever makes a woman special.
Q 09Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 US number one was renamed after which Japanese beef dish its words never mention?
Sukiyaki
Sukiyaki was picked only because it was short, catchy and recognisably Japanese; the song's real title means I Look Up as I Walk.
Q 10C Is for Cookie, sung by a googly-eyed blue monster, is a signature song of which children's TV series?
Sesame Street
Sesame Street's original version was made in 1971 and was one of the few sketches on the programme that Jim Henson directed himself.
Q 11Pour Some Sugar on Me was a last-minute addition to Hysteria, a 1987 album by which English rock band?
Def Leppard
Def Leppard finished it in two weeks, after Joe Elliott and producer Mutt Lange improvised words into dictaphones from opposite ends of the control room.
Q 12Brown Sugar, recorded at Muscle Shoals in Alabama, opens the 1971 album Sticky Fingers by which band?
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones recorded it over three days in December 1969, but it did not come out until 1971, when it reached number one in the US.
Q 13Peaches, a 2021 US number one featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, is a single by which Canadian singer?
Justin Bieber
Q 21Lollipop, an Auto-Tune-heavy lead single from Tha Carter III, won a Grammy for Best Rap Song for which rapper?
Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne shared the song with singer Static Major, who died about two weeks before it was released.
Q 22Blueberry Hill, a Glenn Miller hit in 1940, is best remembered in a rock and roll version by which pianist?
Fats Domino
Fats Domino turned the 1940 ballad into a rock and roll standard; Sammy Kaye had made the very first recording, 13 days ahead of Glenn Miller.
Q 23Tutti Frutti, whose nonsense refrain imitates a drum pattern, was the first major hit for which rock pioneer?
Little Richard
Little Richard's original words were too risqué to record, so local songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie was brought in to clean them up.
Justin Bieber entered the Hot 100 at number one with it, handing both of his featured singers their first chart-topper.
Q 14Selena Gomez teamed up with which K-pop girl group for the 2020 single Ice Cream?
Blackpink
Blackpink reached number 13 in the US with it, the first top-twenty Hot 100 single by a female Korean act, and Ariana Grande was among its writers.
Q 15Butter, an English-language disco-pop single, debuted at number one in the US in 2021 for which boy band?
BTS
BTS scored a fourth US number one in under nine months with it, and Billboard named it the Song of the Summer.
Q 16Joe Jonas fronts which band, whose debut single Cake by the Ocean grew out of a mangled cocktail name?
DNCE
DNCE got the title from their Swedish producers, who kept mixing up the name of the cocktail Sex on the Beach.
Q 17Cherry Pie, written in about fifteen minutes on a pizza box, was a 1990 hit for which glam metal band?
Warrant
Warrant's frontman Jani Lane dashed it off because the president of Columbia Records wanted a rock anthem, making it a very late addition to the album.
Q 18Sugar, We're Goin Down, whose video stars a boy with deer antlers, was the first top-ten hit for which band?
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy broke through with it in 2005, pairing music by singer Patrick Stump with words by bassist Pete Wentz.
Q 19Which singer wrote Cheeseburger in Paradise after a rough boat trip spent living on canned food?
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett celebrated reaching the island of Tortola with a cheeseburger, and the song later lent its name to a chain of restaurants.
Q 20Candyman, a swing-style single from the album Back to Basics, pays tribute to the Andrews Sisters for which singer?
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera has said she and her co-writer meant it as a tribute to one song in particular, the trio's Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
Q 24Rock Lobster, the debut single that prompted John Lennon to record again, launched which American band?
The B-52's
The B-52's reminded Lennon of Yoko Ono's music, and hearing the song in 1980 ended his five-year break from the studio.
Q 25Raspberry Beret, held at number two in the US by a Duran Duran Bond theme, was a 1985 hit for which artist?
Prince
Prince released it with the Revolution on Around the World in a Day, adding strings and Middle Eastern finger cymbals to his sound.
Q 26The video for Sugar, inspired by the comedy Wedding Crashers, shows which band surprising couples at weddings?
Maroon 5
Maroon 5 hired director David Dobkin for the video, the man who had made Wedding Crashers itself in 2005.
Q 27Chop Suey!, the lead single from the album Toxicity, earned a first Grammy nomination for which metal band?
System of a Down
System of a Down's bassist has said the song was first called Suicide, and that the new title is that word chopped in half.
Q 28Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), a Jamaican dock workers' folk song, became a 1956 signature hit for which singer?
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte made the song famous far beyond Jamaica, where dock workers sang it while loading banana boats at night to avoid the daytime heat.
Q 29I Can't Help Myself, subtitled Sugar Pie Honey Bunch, was a 1965 Motown number one for which vocal group?
Four Tops
Four Tops singer Levi Stubbs led the Holland–Dozier–Holland song, which Billboard named the biggest R&B single of 1965.
Q 30Which comedy act's food-themed parodies include My Bologna, Lasagna and I Love Rocky Road?
Weird Al Yankovic
Weird Al Yankovic taped the first version of My Bologna in a college bathroom, chosen because its tiled walls gave him ideal acoustics.