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Turning Japa...no, wait.

How about new wave songs that have anything remotely to do with food, drinking, eating, dining, hunger, etc. whether in the title or lyrics?

10,000 Maniacs - Eat for Two
The Sugarcubes - Delicious Demon
Toto Coelo - I Eat Cannibals
X - The Hungry Wolf
The Police - Hungry for You
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
The Vandals - Anarchy Burger
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
UB40 - Rat in the Kitchen
UB40 - Breakfast in Bed
Squeeze - Black Coffee in Bed
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut ("Get my dinner from a garbage can...")
Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers ("We caught a rattlesnake, now we got something for dinner...")
Blondie - Dreaming ("When I met you in the restaurant...")
Oingo Boingo - On the Outside ("Don't eat in restaurants...")
Pet Shop Boys - Rent ("You took me to a restaurant off Broadway...")
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls ("In a restaurant in a West End town...")
The B-52's - Give Me Back My Man ("I'll give you fish, I'll give you candy...")
XTC - Senses Working Overtime ("And all the world is biscuit-shaped, it’s just for me to feed my face...")
Sparks - Tips for Teens ("Don't eat that burger, has it got mayonnaise, give it to me...")
The Cure - Friday I'm in Love ("To see you eat in the middle of the night...")
The Cure - Why Can't I Be You ("You make me make me hungry for you...")
Sting - Love is the Seventh Wave ("Every cake you bake...")

Any others?

Wall of Voodoo- Mexican Radio ("Wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbequed iguana").
Plus about 100 Weird Al parody songs.

Sandii - Eating Pleasure
Akiko Yano - Ramen Tabetai (I want to eat noodles)

Siouxsie and the Banshees-We Hunger "Eat me, Feed me with your belching foul breath" (yum!!!)
Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf
The Police-Hungry For You(j'aurais toujours faim de toi)

Frank Chickens "One Million Hamburgers" "Yellow Toast" and "Chicken Ondo"
The Tubes "Sushi Girl"
Shonen Knife "Strawberry Creampuff"

B-52s - Rock Lobster ?
Burning Sensations - Belly Of A Whale
Midnight Oil - Wedding Cake Island

Blondie - Eat to the Beat
The Cramps - Cornfed Dames
B52s - Cake
B52s - Quiche Lorraine
Elvis Costello - So Like Candy
Billy Bragg - Milkman of Human Kindness
Ramones - Somebody Put Something in My Drink

Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Sugarcubes - Eat the Menu
Men At Work - Down Under ("she took me in and gave me breakfast" and "he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich")
Big Country - Harvest Home ("see where the butter melted")
Cocteau Tw

Will Powers - Kissing With Confidence
Susan Vega - Tom's Diner

Frank Chickens Yellow Toast is a bitter and acidic attack on how westerner's view and generalise Japanese women, cool song! [8D]

Men At Work - Down Under (eating Vegemite Sandwiches)
Bad Boys Blue - Hungry For Love
The Flirts - Oriental Boy (sipping Sake)
Sparks - Eaten By The Monster of Love

Doctor & The Medics - Love & Everything You Eat
Dead Milkmen - The Thing That Only Eats Hippies
Dead Kennedys - Soup Is Good Food
Kate Bush - Eat The Music
Bad Religion - Eat Your Dog
Adam & The Ants - Dog Eat Dog
King Crimson - Cat Food
Faith No M

AEIOU Sometimes Y - EBN-OZN ("I saw her on Lincoln Street having a cappucino, her English wasn't too good...")

Being Boiled - Human League

Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses ( all that talk about turkeys on Thanksgiving and cranberry sauce...mmmm...)

I touch myself- the devinals


oh, mastication! Sorry!

"Love and Food" - Tenpole Tudor

Icing On The Cake-Stephen Tin Tin Duffy