50 Best Country Songs About Eating
Top Country Tracks Centered on Food and Eating
There’s a strange comfort in a song that makes space for the sound of forks clinking and grills sizzling. It’s not the same as nostalgia and not quite celebration, but a mix that lands somewhere in between. You can hear it in a lazy Sunday porch tune where the lyrics drift between bites, or in a barn party stomper that smells like fried catfish and cornbread. Food turns into a kind of character in these tracks, hanging around in the verses the way old friends do at the kitchen counter. They’re not trying to paint a glossy picture. They let you see the crumbs, the smoke, the coffee gone cold.
Country handles it in a way that pop, rock, country, and R&B songs sometimes skim past. There’s room for laughter with your mouth full, for the awkward pause when you’re mid-story and someone slides you another plate. Some songs invite you into the mess of a backyard barbecue where the coals are too hot and the dogs keep sneaking underfoot. Others slow it down to a quiet kitchen scene with the radio humming low and biscuits baking in the oven. It’s ordinary life turned into melody, every bite syncing with the beat.
Not every food moment in these tracks feels warm or easy. Some wrap it in heartbreak, using the table as a place where hard truths spill out between bites. Others are pure chaos, loud and fun in a way that leaves you sticky-fingered and half out of breath. These are the country songs that know a meal can be a stage for almost anything. Here are the best country songs centered on eating.
Top 10 Country Eating Songs
1. 'Jambalaya (On the Bayou)'—Hank Williams
2. 'Chicken Fried'—Zac Brown Band
3. 'Biscuits'—Kacey Musgraves
4. 'Do You Want Fries With That'—Tim McGraw
5. 'Watermelon Crawl'—Tracy Byrd
6. 'Cheeseburger in Paradise'—Jimmy Buffett
7. 'Burgers and Fries'—Charley Pride
8. 'Christmas Cookies'—George Strait
9. 'Home Cookin''—The Osborne Brothers
10. 'I Like Beer'—Tom T. Hall
A Collection of Country Food Songs #11—20
11. 'Beer for My Horses'—Toby Keith & Willie Nelson
12. 'Homegrown Tomatoes'—Guy Clark
13. 'Meat and Potato Man'—Alan Jackson
14. 'Redneck Yacht Club'—Craig Morgan
15. 'Strawberry Wine'—Deana Carter
16. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
17. 'Country Boy Can Survive'—Hank Williams Jr.
18. 'I Still Like Bologna'—Alan Jackson
19. 'A Six Pack To Go'—Hank Thompson
20. 'Red Solo Cup'—Toby Keith
Classic Country Food Songs for Every Occasion #21—30
21. 'The Crawfish Song'—Sammy Kershaw
22. 'Gonna Have a Party'—Conway Twitty
23. 'Family Tradition'—Hank Williams Jr.
24. 'Where I Come From'—Alan Jackson
25. 'Big Cheeseburgers & Good French Fries'—Blaze Foley
26. 'I'm a Little Bit Country'—Hank Williams Jr.
27. 'Home Cookin''—The Stanley Brothers
28. 'Cornbread'—Big and Rich
29. 'I Can't Stop Eating Cornbread'—Old Crow Medicine Show
30. 'Home Cooked Meal'—Granger Smith
Best Country Food and Drink Songs #31—40
31. 'The Fishin' Song'—Brad Paisley
32. 'Don't Worry About the Bread'—Merle Haggard
33. 'Sweet Taters'—Little Jimmy Dickens
34. 'The Way It Is'—Bruce Hornsby & The Range
35. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'—The Charlie Daniels Band
36. 'Fancy Like'—Walker Hayes
37. 'Bubbles in My Beer'—Willie Nelson
38. 'Pop a Top'—Alan Jackson
39. 'Cold Beer Conversation'—George Strait
40. 'I Love This Bar'—Toby Keith
Country Songs About Food and Cooking #41—50
41. 'Corn'—Milo Greene
42. 'The Kitchen Song'—Gretchen Wilson
43. 'Fried Chicken'—The Georgia Satellites
44. 'Pork and Beans'—The Avett Brothers
45. 'The Breakfast Song'—Lyle Lovett
46. 'I'm Gonna Eat a Lot of Chicken'—Jimmy Dean
47. 'Gumbo'—The Marshall Tucker Band
48. 'Mama's Kitchen'—Brooks & Dunn
49. 'I Love Chicken'—T-Bone Burnett
50. 'Sweet Potato Pie'—James Taylor
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