Starchy food

Rice, potatoes, beans, corn, pasta... base foods.


16 comments:

Deborah in IL said...

On top of spaghetti
All covered in cheese
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed

childhood parody

Meghan said...

Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow.
Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow.
Can you or I or anyone know how oats, peas, beans, and barley grow?

Traditional children's song

Sally Lopez said...

Your weavilly wheat's not fit to eat
Neither is your barley
What I want is the best of rye
To bake a cake for Charlie

American folk song

HoosierNan said...

Feed me on cornbread and beans, Lord, Lord,
And I won't be treated this way.

--American folksong

Ellen Ciompi said...

Pasta, I remember pasta
I'm not anti-pasta
It's just anti-me
Butter, I remember butter
we were once like lovers
We were quite a team

("Butter", by Megan McDonough)

Shan Jeniah Burton said...

"Red beans and rice through kitchen windows,
It's suppertime, and the bario is dark."

Paul Simon, "I Was Born in Puerto Rico", from the musical THE CAPEMAN.

Deborah in IL said...

Might as well face it you're addicted to spuds

Weird Al Yankovitch

HoosierNan said...

Beans, beans, they're good for your heart.
The more you eat, the more you f@rt.
The more you f@rt, the better you feel,
So let's have beans at every meal!

--Children's song

Heather Booth said...

Beans, beans, the magical fruit,
The more you eat the more you toot,
The more you toot the better you feel,
So let's have beans for every meal!

My dad

Auntie Knickers said...

You're my little potato,
You're my little potato,
I dug you up,
You came from underground.

Choir of Concordia College, Moorhead, written by Malcolm Dalglish

Auntie Knickers said...

Mairzy doats and dozy doats
And little lambs eat ivy
A kiddle eat ivy too,
Wouldn't you?

The Merry Macs, and others, 1940s

Robyn Coburn Writer/Artist said...

There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow
There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow.
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye
And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky.

Oklahoma!

Robyn Coburn Writer/Artist said...

I'm as corny as Kansas in August,
I'm as normal as blueberry pie.
No more a smart little girl with no heart,
I have found me a wonderful guy!


South Pacific

HoosierNan said...

As the grains of wheat
Once scattered on the hill
Are gathered into one to become our bread,
So may all Your people,
From all the ends of earth,
Be gathered into one in You.

--Communion liturgy, Marty Haugen

HoosierNan said...

Love lives again, that in the grave has been.
Love has come again like wheat arising green.

--French Easter hymn

Sylvia said...

I can mash-potato
And I can do the twist

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