Trademark Favorite Food / Music

• Many Vocaloids have a favorite food, decided by the fans (though on at least one occasion there was a contest to decide it). The most famous is Hatsune Miku's, whose character item is leeks/negi, which was the result of that one video. You probably know which one.
  • Kaito: Ice cream
  • Kagamine Len: Bananas
  • Kagamine Rin: Mikan oranges
  • Megurine Luka: Tuna
  • Kamui Gakupo: Eggplant
  • Gumi: Carrots (and at times rice lunches)
  • Yuki: Apples
  • SF-A2 miki: Cherries
• The UTAU also have these, notably baguettes for Kanane Teto and cucumbers for Sukone Tei.
• Kid Rock manages to work in a reference to shrimp at least once an album. ("Devil Without A Cause" had one practically every other song.)
• The Aquabats!: "Magic Chicken!" is a song about a guy who really loves fried chicken.
  I was born out back
  Behind the chicken shack
  I was raised in a cardboard box
  Yeah, before when I was single
  Used to hear the chicken jingle
  That's how I learned the chicken rock
• The B-52s have "Butterbean", about the titular bean, a staple of the Athens GA vegetarian community that most of the band members (sans Cindy) were part of. According to the band, everybody in Athens likes butterbeans - and some refuse to eat anything else. The band were somewhat kicking back against aggressive fast food advertising (which Fred Schneider remains particularly vocal about) as well as paying homage to their hometown. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of fans of the band who became fans of butterbeans as a result of the song.
  • The earlier "Cake", in which Kate and Cindy describe numerous cakes that they enjoy baking and eating.
• Barenaked Ladies' iconic song "If I Had $1000000" famously refers to Kraft Dinner (the Canadian brand name for boxed Kraft macaroni and cheese, a staple food among the country's working and middle class) as a food the singers would no longer have to eat if they were rich, but still would. In response, fans began bringing boxes of KD to concerts to throw at the band after the line was sung, and it got to the point that it posed a risk to the band's instruments and personal safety (not to mention the cleanliness of the venue). The band eventually had to post signs at the entrances to their concerts encouraging people to donate their Kraft Dinner to the local food bank instead, and security staff were instructed to confiscate any boxes they found.
  • The band attempted to score a sponsorship deal with Kraft but were rebuffed until early 2020, 28 years after the song first became popular, when former lead singer Steven Page appeared in a commercial for KD and the company released a limited edition product called "Dijon ketchup" (a reference to a joke in the song about what kinds of fancy condiments they would put on Kraft Dinner if they were rich).
• The Beastie Boys mention White Castle a lot especially on their earlier songs (Licensed to Ill alone featured a reference to the burger joint on every other track).
• Starting with the film UHF, "Weird Al" Yankovic has been known for his love of Twinkie-Weiner Sandwiches (a Hostess Twinkie split down the middle with a hot dog inserted and topped with Cheez Whiz). Since becoming a vegetarian, Al has switched to tofu dogs.
  • In The Weird Al Show, Al's favorite food is apparently jelly bean-and-pickle sandwiches.
• Captain Beefheart with "Abba Zaba", based on his affection for the peanut butter filled taffy of the same name. Abba Zaba was also a Working Title for Safe as Milk that had to be scrapped for trademark issues, and the back cover has a black and yellow checkerboard design as a nod to the candy's packaging.
• The Supremes, in "Buttered Popcorn," sing about a boyfriend who likes it "for breakfast, lunch and dinner too." ^note This is one of the only songs that featured Florence Ballard on sole lead vocals when the group was still a quartet.
• According to Jonathan Coulton, Code Monkey like Fritos.
• In one interview Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon gave in the early 1980s (i.e. from 1983 or earlier), he confessed to being partial to orange-colored Smarties (the British kind, a variant of regular M&Ms). One big fan took note of it and sent him many tubes of nothing but orange-colored Smarties, which he munched on during another interview. In a separate interview at around the same time period, Nick Rhodes stated that he adored strawberries and champagne.
• Bob Marley regularly noted his liking for Irish Moss, a type of Jamaican seaweed that is regarded as an aphrodisiac. Bob specifically felt that his consumption of it made him irresistible to women - and judging by the fact he had 13 children he may have had a point.
• Rush drummer Neil Peart was apparently quite fond of In-N-Out Burger; not only did he have a sticker of the logo on the side cases of his motorcycle, he credited the use of a Bible verse in a song to not just the original verse, but an In-N-Out milkshake cup. (Other favorites he's mentioned include cherry pie and potatoes in every way, shape, and form. There's also a FunnyOrDie sketch wherein the band gets upset at two fans [the main characters from the film I Love You, Man, in fact] faking backstage passes and sneaking into their green room after the show. What pisses Neil off the most? They ate his sandwich.)
• Ozzy Osbourne said in I Am Ozzy that when Black Sabbath started touring in the United States, he took a liking to pizza. At least once, his wife Sharon has had to warn people to keep him away from McDonald's because of his addiction to Big Macs, and on The Osbournes, he demonstrated a love for burritos and carrot cake. Parodies like depicting him as having a taste for, of course, bat heads. His trademark favorite food seems to change about once a week.
• Swedish electronic music duo Dada Life have a thing for bananas.
  • Live shows have liberal appearances of inflatable bananas in the audience, and a Gwen Stefani/"Hollaback Girl" mashup Once an Episode.
• John Deacon from Queen likes cheese on toast.
• The Thin White Duke, David Bowie's 1970s persona, allegedly subsisted exclusively on red bell peppers, milk and cocaine.
• Everyone in Aborted loves guacamole, and Danny is apparently unparalleled at making it. Additionally, Mendel apparently cannot resist ice cream, while Sven has an inordinate fondness for Voodoo Doughnut and makes a point of stocking up whenever he's in Portland, not that the donuts last very long.
• The Grey Poupon mustard brand has become popular in hip-hop lyrics because of its 1980s ads associating it with luxury and the fact that Grey Poupon is very easy to rhyme.
• Tendon Levey and oatmeal. In a comment from May 2017 he claimed to have eaten "an estimated 11,000+ bowls of oatmeal since 2009". To do that he would have had to have eaten almost nothing else in these eight years. ^note Justified in that he suffers from a throat disorder known to increase the risk of choking, making oatmeal a safe choice.
• Hobo Johnsons's songs frequently mention his love of sandwiches. They even came out with official Hobo Johnson merch adorned with sandwich images.
• Elvis Presley loved fried peanutbutter and bananna sandwiches.
• Oliver Tree has a thing for Flamin' Hot Cheetos, so they often appear in his wacky promotional stunts.
• Thanks to Memetic Mutation, pizza is considered the official food of Pop Punk fans. The music video for New Found Glory's "My Friends Over You" (one of the songs credited with helping to codify the sound of the genre) famously features the band handing slices of pizza out to an audience of enthusiastic fans, which might have something to do with it.
• J Dilla and his Donuts. Not only was the last album he lived to see released named after them, but many tracks on it were named after various donut flavors. They've become such a trademark for him, his uncle opened up a donut shop ten years after Dilla's death called Dilla's Delights.

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