Sweets and Snacks Page Toppers

• Conspicuous Consumption
• Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
• Enjoy Life, It's Delicious
• Finger Food
• Finger-Lickin' Good
• Give Me Something Good to Eat!
• I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing
• Let's Eat
• Man Shall Not Live by Bread Alone
• Mmm Good
• More Please!
• The More I Eat, the More I Want
• Simply Delicious
• Sweet to Eat and Lots of Fun, Too...
  Now Tell Me How to Get Rid of This Goo.
• Sweets for the Sweet
• You are What You Eat
• Yum Yum
• Yum, Yum, Give Me Some!

Quotes

• I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. (Jason Love)
• Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. (Judith Olney)
• The two major food groups:
  1) The foods that you put cheese on.
  2) The remaining foods that you put chocolate on.
• Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. (Jim Davis)
• You can't buy happiness but you can buy cupcakes and that's kinda the same thing.

Mother and Grandma

(Crystal Bowman)

My mother feeds me tuna fish
With broccoli on the side.
But Grandma gives me candy
When my mouth is open wide.

My mother slices apples
And oranges for dessert.
My grandma brings me doughnuts
If she finds out I am hurt.

My mother makes me drink my milk
Most every single night.
But Grandma gives me ice cream bars
When I do something right

My mother cooks up rice and beans
That have an awful taste.
So I say, "See ya later,
I'm going to Grandma's place!"

Some Foods Introduced in the 20^th century.

• Hershey Chocolate Bars (1900)
• Barnum's Animal Crackers (1902)
• Hershey Kisses (1907)
• Oreos (19122)
• Peppermint Life Savers (1913).
• Marshmallow Fluff (1917)
• Moon Pie (1917)
• Baby Ruth Candy Bar (1920)
• Reese's Peanut Butter Cup (1923)
• Popsicles (1924)
• Hostess Twinkies (1930)
• Fritos Corn Chips (1932)
• Snickers Candy Bar (1930)
• Ritz Crackers (1934)
• Lay's Potato Chips (1938)
• M and M's (1941)
• Cheetos (1948)
• Pillsbury cake mix (1949)
• Sara Lee Cheesecake (1949)
• Sweet 'N Low (1957)
• Pop-Tarts (1964)
• Cool Whip (1965)
• Shake'N Bake (1965)
• Pringles Potato Chips (1969)

Source: Bon Appetit magazine.

Appetizers

Quotes

• Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress. (Ludwig Bemelmans)
• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar. (Cameron Diaz)
• God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day. (Kathie Lee Gifford)
• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces. (Jack Benny)
• Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar. (William E. Geist)

Songs about Appetizers

• Appetizer - Jerry Garcia (2000)
• Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams - Dionne Warwick (1993)
• Cheese and Crackers - Deja Voodoo (1988)
• Crab Canapé - Lou and Peter Berryman (2004)
• Crackers - Bill Doggett (1964)

Nuts

Quotes and Page Toppers

• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. (Orson Welles)
• No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. (Channing Pollock)
• The nut doesn't reveal the tree it contains. (Egyptian Proverb)
• Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem. (Paula Danziger)
• You drive me nuts (sibling photos)

Little Nut-Tree

(Roald Dahl)

I had a little nut-tree,
Nothing would it bear.
I searched in all its branches,
But not a nut was there.

"Oh, little tree," I begged,
"Give me just a few."
The little tree looked down at me
And whispered, "Nuts to you."

Songs about Nuts

• Goober Peas - Burl Ives (1993)
• Lord Made a Peanut, The - Ray Conniff Orchestra (1957)
• Peanut Vendor, The - Hugo Montenegro Orchestra (1960)
• Peanuts - The Thrillers (1956)
• Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie (1945)

Brownies

Quotes

• Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. (David Leavitt)
• If you want cakey, eat chocolate cake. Brownies should be dense and moist and fudgy. (Andy Hodges)
• My childrens' friends step into our home breathing in the air, anticipating the aroma of goodies baking in the oven. More often than not, it's brownies!

Songs about Brownies

• Baking a Brownie - Slim Dusty (1988)
• Best Brownies Song Ever - The Hungry Food Band (2010)
• Brownie A La Mode - Nicholas Payton (1998)
• Brownies and Wine - Carol Duboc (2008)
• Brownies for Breakfast - Holly Tannen (2008)

Candy

Quotes

• Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
• Fudge is a noun, a verb, an interjection, and delicious! (Jessi Lane Adams)
• Licorice is the liver of candy.
• Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands--and then eat just one of the pieces. (Judith Viorst)

The Candy Shop

Come with me to the candy shop
While I get a lollipop.
Caramel, peppermint, chocolate drop.
What shall I buy at the candy shop?

Songs about Candy

• Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock (1972)
• Box of Candy and a Piece of Fruit, A - Bob Gibson (1980)
• Candy and Cake - The Ray Anthony Orchestra (1950)
• Candy and Roses - Sue Thompson (1972)
• Candy Corn - Jon Hyde (2000)
• Candy Store Blues - Dodie Stevens (1960)
• Candy Heart - The McGuire Sisters (1964)
• Candy Kisses - George Morgan (1949)
• Chocolate Bar - The Uniques (1962)
• Chocolate Candy - Art Paul Schlosser (2008)
• Chocolate Cherry - Joe Tex (1968)
• Chocolate Fudge - Mannheim Steamroller (1998)
• Chocolate Kiss - Diana Drew (2006)
• Chocolate Kisses - Dean Davies (2006)
• Cotton Candy - The Sylvers (1976)
• Cotton Candy and a Toy Balloon - R. Allen and E. Britt (1950)
• Five-Cent Candy - Orville Couch (1957)
• Girl in the Candy Store - The Reflections (1965)
• Goodbye Lollipops, Hello Lipstick - Joan Weber (1956)
• Goody Goody Gumdrops - 1910 Fruitgum Company (1968)
• Gum Drop - The Crew-Cuts (1955)
• Hard-Candy Christmas - Dolly Parton (1982)
• Hershey Bar - Boyd Bennett (1960)
• Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock (1967)
• It's Just Like Taking Candy From a Baby - Fred Astaire (1941)
• Jelly Bean - Don and Dewey (1957)
• Lemon Drop - Gene Krupa (1949)
• Lipstick and Candy and Rubber Sole Shoes - Julius La Rosa (1956)
• Lollipop - The Chordettes (1958)
• Lollipops and Roses - Jack Jones (1962)
• Lollipops, Lace and Lipstick - Jimmy Hughes (1964)
• Maple Fudge - The Guess Who (1968)
• Peanut Brittle - Bobby Byrd (1955)
• Peanut Butter Cups - The Bananas (2008)
• Rose and a Baby Ruth, A - George Hamilton IV (1956)
• Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows - Lesley Gore (1965)
• Sweets for My Sweet - Tony Orlando (1979)
• Taffy - Texas Jim Robertson (1952)
• Teardrop and a Lollipop, A - The Shirelles (1959)
• Tell Her Lies and Feed Her Candy - Jim and Jesse (1965)
• Two Tickets and a Candy Heart - Joey Rogers (1960)

Cake

Quotes

• Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.
• Carrot cake counts as a serving of vegetables.
• A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. (Ludwig Erhard)
• Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too. (Margaret Anderson)
• The most dangerous food is wedding cake. (James Thurber)

Like Mother Made

(Hariett Ford)

Of all things said about the cake
Unkindest were the words,
"It's not like Mother used to make."
I wish I hadn't heard.
Like Mother used to make indeed.
Of course not, you forget,
Mixes, Teflon, microwaves were not
invented yet!

But just to please my gourmet groom,
I baked a cake from scratch.
No mixes, nothing artificial
Went into the gooey batch.
It had the strangest sunken place,
The center was a pool of runny
frosting poured thereon
Before the cake was cool.

I stood with rolling pin in hand and
dared him to criticize my cake.
"Why, Darling," said he, "this is grand."
"It's just like Mother used to make!"

Songs about Cake

• Big Chocolate Cake - Debris (1998)
• Carrot Cake - Eric Alexander (2001)
• Chocolate Cake - Vinyl Kings (2005)
• Gingerbread - Frankie Avalon (1958)
• If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake - Georgia Gibbs (1950)
• Jelly Roll - Blue Murder (1989)
• Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake - Robbie O'Connell (2006)
• Mississippi Cake Walk - Kit Carson (1952)
• Orange Cake Mix - Tullycraft (2002)
• Orange Cocoa Cake - Lou and Peter Berryman (2004)
• Shortcake - Del Wood (1958)
• Strawberry Shortcake - Jay and the Techniques (1968)
• Tea and Cake - The Sea and Cake (2003)
• Tea and Cakes - Alan Lomax (1951)
• Wedding Cake, The - Jeannie C. Riley (1969)

Cookies

Page Toppers

• Any time is cookie time
• Caught with a hand in the cookie jar
• C is for cookie
• Cookie Monster
• Cookies are great when you're feeling crummy.
• Home is where the cookies are.

Baking Cookies with Mommy

(Valerie Gallup)

Mommy and I have so much fun
Baking cookies for everyone!
I love to eat them
They are so yummy!
'Specially the ones
That are in my TUMMY!

Grandma's Cookie Jar

(Bernice Peers)

When I went to visit Grandma
I was always thrilled
For I knew she kept
A cookie jar well-filled.

Quickly I removed my wraps
And Grandma led the way
Into a pungent kitchen
With treasures on display.

Peanut butter cookies,
Gumdrops tart and sweet,
Macaroons and gingersnaps
And brownies for a treat.

With a glass of buttermilk
I tasted everything,
Grandma looking on at me
As though I were a king.

I love to visit Grandma,
It's a trip I most enjoy
Though manhood's now replaced
That eager little boy.

Cookie Jar

A house should have a cookie jar,
For when it's half past three
And children hurry home from school
As hungry as can be,
There's nothing quite so splendid
In filling children up
As spicy, fluffy ginger cakes
And sweet milk in a cup.

A house should have a mother
Waiting with a hug
No matter what a boy brings home,
A puppy or a bug.
For children only loiter
When the bell rings to dismiss
If no one's home to greet them
With a cookie and a kiss.

Animal Crackers

(Christopher Morley)

That is the finest of suppers, I think;
When I am grown up and can have what I please,
I think I shall always insist upon these.

What do you choose when you're offered a treat?
When Mother says, "What would you best like to eat?"
Is it waffles and syrup, or cinnamon toast?
It's cocoa and animal crackers that I love most!

Page Idea

Use this quote with appropriate pictures.
Someone's in the kitchen with Mommy, Someone's in the kitchen I know,
Someone's in the kitchen with Mommy, eating all the cookie dough.

Songs about Cookies

• Animal Crackers and Chocolate Pudding - Look Out Gabe (2006)
• Animal Crackers in Cellophane Boxes - Gene Pitney (1967)
• Chocolate Chip - Isaac Hayes (1975)
• Chocolate Chip Cookie - Adam Payne Band (2007)
• Chocolate Chip Cookies and a Glass of Milk - Radio Neptoon (2008)
• Cookie Jar - Fuzzy Haskins (1976)
• Cookies and Coke - The Ventures (1959)
• Cookies and Tea - Edmund Bull (2006)
• Custard Creams - Les Barker (2003)
• Fortune Cookies - Chris Connor (1960)
• Ginger Snap - Bobby Moore (1962)
• Oreo Cookie Blues - Lonnie Mack (1984)
• Sweet Gingerbread Man - The Mike Curb Congregation (1970)
• Tea and Crumpets - Clayton Wright (2005)
• That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles - Billy and Lillie (1960)
• Who Stole the Cookie? - The Jaynetts (1965)

Donuts and Sweet Rolls

Quotes

• Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible. (H.L. Mencken)
• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll.
  The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! (Oscar Wilde)
• Come up to me with a donut and a bag of chips. That would be perfect. (Emma Bunton)
• I hate it when I think I'm buying ORGANIC vegetables, but when I get home they're just REGULAR donuts.
• We had an intervention the other day at lunch. Someone tried to eat a donut. (Michael Woods)

Songs about Donuts and Sweet Rolls

• Cinnamon Roll - Onyx (2007)
• Cream Puff - Jimmy Boyd (1959)
• Deep-Fried Twinkies - Terry Hanck (2008)
• Diesel-Drivin' Donut-Dunkin' Dan - The Willis Brothers (1965)
• Donut and a Dream, A - The Mills Brothers (1972)
• Jelly Doughnuts - Dick Curless (1950)
• Waldo's Discount Donuts - Red Knuckles and His Band (1982)

Ice Cream and Frozen Treats

Page Toppers

• The Big Slurp Out (popsicles, etc)
• Here's the scoop
• I Scream, your Scream,
  we all Scream for Ice Cream!
• A Slurpin' Good Time (popsicle's, etc)

Quotes

• Age does not diminish the supreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. (Jim Fiebig, NANA)
• Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. (Judith Olney)
• I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. (Heywood Broun)
• Ice cream is happiness condensed. (Jessi Lane Adams)
• Invention, my dear friends, is ninety-three percent perspiration, six percent electricity, four percent evaporation, and two percent butterscotch ripple. (Andy Bernstein)
• Never trust a skinny ice cream man. (Ben Cohen)
• There's nothing wrong with me a little ice cream won't fix.
• We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Vanilla Please

(Patricia White)

I really do like ice cream--
All kinds, like peach and cherry,
Tutti-frutti, caramel,
Chocolate and strawberry.

But Mommy says on special days
When I'm dressed up in frills
That I must choose vanilla--
Just in case of spills.

Ice Cream Colors

We have ice cream, the best in town,
Let us begin with chocolate brown.

Now, let us scoop us some bubble-gum pink,
It is sweet and yummy, the best, some think.

Here is ice cream minty and green,
It is the creamiest I have ever seen.

Yellow ice cream is lemony and tart,
We like its taste from the very start.

Scoops of blueberry would make my day,
Look at all this ice cream, hip, hip hurray!

Red ice cream is a strawberry delight,
All these scoops are a heavenly sight.

Vanilla white is a popular flavor,
It tastes very good to an ice-cream craver.

Purple ice cream really gives me a kick,
Good and yummy till the very last lick.

Ice cream, ice cream, what a cool sensation,
We love ice cream in any combination!

Songs about Ice Cream and Frozen Treats

• 3 Vanilla, 2 Chocolate, 1 Pistachio Ice Cream Cones - Jensen (1961)
• 31 Flavors - The Shirelles (1963)
• A La Mode - Si Zentner Band (1963)
• Banana Split - The Stokes (1965)
• Blue Jeans, Ice Cream and Saturday Shows - George Hamilton (1976)
• Butterscotch - Richie Allen (1963)
• Choc'late Ice Cream Cone - Kenny Roberts (1950)
• Chocolate Ice Cream - Melissa (2006)
• Chocolate Ice Cream Cone - Johnny Richardson (1977)
• Chocolate Milkshake - Aaron Hedges (2007)
• Chocolate Sauce - Rachel Portman (2001)
• Chocolate Shake - The Cannonball Adderley Sextet (1958)
• Chocolate Sundae - Harry Edison (1958)
• Chocolate Sundae on a Saturday Night, A - Doris Day (1947)
• Chocolate, Vanilla or Swirl - Michael Hearst (2006)
• Dairy Queen - Norman Greenbaum (1973)
• Hamburgers and Chocolate Ice Cream - D-Styles (2002)
• Homemade Ice Cream - Tony Joe White (1973)
• Homemade Peach Ice Cream - Grant Langston (1999)
• Ice Cream - Chris Barber Jazz Band (1962)
• Ice Cream Man, The - David Lee Roth (2003)
• Old Malt Shop, The - Ronnie Haig (1961)
• Orange Sherbet - The Count Basie Orchestra (1975)
• Peach Melba - Solewire (2006)
• Pie A La Mode - Doug Dugger (1954)
• Pink Parfait - The Mickey Mozart Quintet (1959)
• Popsicle - Jan and Dean (1966)
• Popsicles and Icicles - The Murmaids (1963)
• Smoothie Song - Nickel Creek (2002)
• Strawberry Shake - Dean Beard (1964)
• Tastee Freeze - The Five Echoes (1955)
• Three Dips of Ice Cream - The Chiffons (1969)
• Uncle Joe the Ice Cream Man - The Mindbenders (1968)

Marshmallows

Quotes

• I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone. (Tommy Cooper)
• I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them! (Edie Brickell)
• I rushed my dog to the vet because he was foaming at the mouth. I returned home with a bill for $200 and a dog who apparently has a thing for marshmallows.

Pie and Pudding

Quotes

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. (Edgar Watson Howe)
• God always has another custard pie up his sleeve. (Lynn Redgrave)
• In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)
• A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. (Tenneva Jordan)
• You can say this for ready-mixes--the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. (Earl Wilson)

Shoo-Fly Pie

Shoo-fly pie
And apple pan dowdy
Make your eyes light up
And your stomach say 'howdy'.

Shoo-fly pie
And apple pan dowdy
I never get enough
Of that wonderful stuff.

Songs about Pie and Pudding

• Animal Crackers and Chocolate Pudding - Look Out Gabe (2006)
• Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay and the Techniques (1967)
• Butterscotch - Richie Allen (1963)
• Cherry Pie - Skip and Flip (1960)
• Chocolate Pie - 30 Turtles (2006)
• Chocolate Pudding - Marginal Man (2000)
• Country Pie - The Nice (1969)
• Custard Pie - Led Zeppelin (1975)
• Gooseberry Pie - Dean Kohler (1968)
• Huckleberry Pie - Bonnie Lou (1954)
• Key Lime Pie - Kenny Chesney (2005)
• Lemon Merengue - Ethel Smith (1955)
• Peach Cobbler - Patrick Bradley (2007)
• Peach Pie - Devon Alves (2005)
• Peachie Pie - Alan Munde (1971)
• Pie A La Mode - Doug Dugger (1954)
• Pie, Peachie Pie Pie - Bobby Lord (1956)
• Plum Cobbler - Flo Dreyer All Girl Quintet (2005)
• Plum Pudding - Airtight (2006)
• Puddin' 'n' Pie - Sandy Stewart (1955)
• Puddin' and Pie - Danny Gatton (1993)
• Rhubarb Pie - John Fogerty (2004)
• Second Helping of Cherry Pie - Marvin and Johnny (1963)
• Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy - Stan Kenton Orchestra (1946)
• Slice of Pie, A - Jewel Akens (1965)
• Strawberry Rhubarb Pie - Mike Hanley (2009)

Popcorn

Popcorn

(James Horner)

Popcorn crowding all around,
Hot air blows them round and round,
Yellow corn kernels poppity pop,
One after another, when will they stop?

Whirling, swirling the popcorn pops,
In a bowl they quickly drop,
Fluffy popcorn, grab a bunch,
Light and tasty, eat them--crunch.

Popcorn

Popcorn is really neat,
Fun to make and fun to eat.
Popcorn is a pop-pop, ever poppin,
never stoppin, show stoppin,
zany kind of treat!

Songs about Popcorn

• Buttered Popcorn - The Supremes (1961)
• Buyin' Popcorn - Dave 'Baby' Cortez (1964)
• Hot Chocolate and Popcorn - Mike Goodson (2008)
• Lavender Popcorn - The Castaways (1968)
• Marshmallows, Popcorn and Soda Pop - E. Freeman (1959)
• Popcorn - Eddie Platt Orchestra (1958)
• Popcorn Song - Cliffie Stone and Speedy West (1955)
• Popping Popcorn - Dave 'Baby' Cortez (1964)

Snacks

Page Toppers

• Bet you can't eat just one!
• Kibbles and Bits
• Munch a Bunch
• Munch Madness
• Munchie Time
• Snack Time

Potato Chips

(Anthony Gallagher)

A potato chip is something
Never ceasing to amuse.
I love its funny wrinkles
And the crunchy way it chews.

Snack Time

It is time for us to have our snack,
Please sit down,
Hands on your lap,
Wait till everyone is served their food,
Then eat your snack, yum, yum,
It's good.

Songs about Snacks

• Hot Pretzels - Will Glahe Orchestra (1958)
• Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce (1976)
• Marshmallows, Popcorn and Soda Pop - Ernie Freeman (1959)
• Midnight Snack - Graham Walker (2004)
• Potato Chips - Phil Harris (1952)
• Pretzel - The Moe Koffman Quartette (1962)
• Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan (1974)
• Snack Attack - Power Play (2006)
• Snack Break - James Fisher (2008)
• Snack Food - Chrome Dreams (2005)
• Snack Time - Thomas Newman (2006)
• Snacks - Jamie Broza (2004)
• You Can Eat Crackers in My Bed Any Time - Barbara Mandrell (1980)

Some of the song titles on this page came from Eric's Thematic Songlists

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