Is food influenced by music?

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1. Murder She Wrote - Chaka Demus and Pliers 2. Oops - Tweet 3. Twice My Age - Shabba Ranks and Nadine Sutherland 4. The Stopper - Cutty Ranks 5. Folsom Prison - some busker

I heard all these buying my groceries at an open air market on saturday. I made your basic quick-sautee garlic shrimp, basmati rice and snow pea greens for dinner. And a fresh strawberry pie later that night, but I bought the crust premade.

― fritz, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What would I have made if I had heard Rammstein, The Timex Social Club and SNAP! ?

― fritz, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

First let me say that is prolly the best music anyone has ever heard while food shopping. To answer your question: food is not only influenced by music, food has been ripping off music for years and is being sued for copyright infringement.

― gilgamesh, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, it was pretty lucky. And a fish-monger sang along with Nadine's part in "Twice My Age" as he weighed my tiger shrimp. The whole day's music made the food better.

― fritz, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the best music i ever heard buying groceries was a muzak ramones song.

and nearly any time anyone mentions food in a song i get a craving for it, but i'm pathetic like that.

― jess, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this makes me think about all the times I've been in a restaurant (or well nigh any business) and had to listen to the worst music. it certainly detracts from the experience. it's like the line from 'the unbearable lightness of being' where sabina greatly dislikes the music in a restaurant and asks the manager "how can you eat food and listen to shit?" does anyone have any favorite 'food jamz' they like to eat (or prepare food) to? along the lines of what fritz heard I think Snagga Puss 'Physical' is good to make food to.

― gilgamesh, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Years ago, I remember a fanzine writer describing in great detail what eating experience went ideally with each and every song on Wire's Chairs Missing.

― Lee G, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if this is the case in all of their franchices, but the Ranch 1 (an upscale fast food joint) near my office in Times Square only plays The Smiths over their little stereo system. Since all of the employees are Hispanic, I'm going to make the assumption that they aren't picking the tunes.

― Yancey, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was in a very nice, semi-upscale grocery store a couple months ago, and I swear one of the songs they played- and not muzakified, either, but the real version- was Van Halen's "Dance The Night Away". This has to be, muzak Ramones aside, probably the strangest thing ever heard in a grocery store.

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since all of the employees are Hispanic, I'm going to make the assumption that they aren't picking the tunes.

70% of the Morrissey Fan Club is Hispanic.

― Judd Nelson, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there were futurist entrees that involved a horn blast or other sound as part of the meal.

― gilgamesh, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is music influenced by food?

― laurie, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite muzak was at Byerly's (MN fancy grocery store with add-on restaurant), I used to work at the restaurant and usually the muzak was pretty bland. Celine, beatles, blah blah. But one day it was the muzak orchestra version of Sneaker Pimps, I think the song's called Six Underground?

I can never remember song titles...

― laurie, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Living at the epicenter of Squaresville, Iowa, I've noticed lately that the local supermarket pipes in digital (very) oldies of semi-hip songs that were never hits -- on a recent trip I heard "Angel" by Jimi Hendrix and Patti Smith's "Redondo Beach." Radio wouldn't touch these songs back in the day.

― briania, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a killer Japanese/Korean restaurant I can never remember the name of, open late, next to St. Mark's Books in Manhattan--upstairs, open till 3am, 4am weekends--that everytime I go in, the kitchen (open, right in front of the bar) is playing something (a) different and (b) good. I heard a 2step mix one night, Epitaph mall-punk the next, a top-40 mix the night following, and house music the night after that. plus the food is (a) good and (b) cheap.

― M Matos, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

70% of the Morrissey Fan Club is Hispanic.

I was about to say. I wouldn't be surprised at *all* about such a place existing!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey this is like the what food is goth thread, I still think OLIVES are goth but I COULD NOT TELL YOU WHY.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Because they're good to the precise extent that they're nasty and painful-tasting. The ranker the better. I was about to start off on what food is hippie food but it's too easy because they're eating stuff all the time unlike goffs who eat like one olive every full moon.

MM: the bar is the Angel's Share, so you can just say that, at least that's what I do.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I still think OLIVES are goth but I COULD NOT TELL YOU WHY

I think black olives could be considered goth, for obvious reasons.

Yesterday, I heard "Benny and the Jets" in the checkout line in the supermarket, and then I went home and made chili - so draw from that what conclusions you will.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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