Food and Christmas go hand in hand. Religion aside, a lavish Christmas dinner is what anchors a family together, tying up the loose ends of the year so you can all step into the next one together
Our list of Christmas songs about food collects the best music on the concept, ensuring each track is stuffed with the cosiness, community, charity and mildly drunken nonsense that the festive season always brims with.
Christmas Songs About Food
1. LadBaby – We Built …on Sausage Rolls
LadBaby dedicates his Christmas #1 to charity, sending all proceeds of this iconic viral hit to The Trussel Trust, aiming to help kids in poverty who are without food over the festive season.
We Built This City …On Sausage Rolls is a parody of Starships’ classic 80’s hit, shining with Northern charm and family fun.
LadBaby is formed of a husband and wife duo, who switch traditional Christmas turkey for their favourite unconventional alternative – sausage rolls.
They capture the innate buzz and hilarity that surrounds any family Christmas dinner, stuffing every line with food references and the love of treating your friends and relatives.
LadBaby later released three more follow-up charity hits to this, inexplicably achieving a record 4 consecutive UK Christmas #1’s alongside collaborating with superstars Ed Sheeran and Elton John to help feed families over Christmas time.
2. Snoop Dogg x Just Eat – Doggy Dogg Christmas
Snoop Dogg’s 2020 collab with delivery brand Just Eat is one of the most random celebrity marketing feats we’ve ever heard of.
Just Eat’s company slogan is crafted into the hook of the song, as Snoop backs up LadBaby’s idea that Christmas dinners don’t have to stay bound to the traditional and tired menu we expect.
By the power of delivery companies, we can have anything for Christmas; “Ain’t nothin changed here, getting sushi delivered by a reindeer, most wonderful time of the year, it’s a Just Eat anything vibe over here.”
This song is packed with stuffed-crust cheese, burgers arriving on a golden sleigh, and burritos dropping down the chimney; serving Christmas and mouthwatering fast-food together on the same gold-plated tray.
3. The Turkey Song (I’ve Been Invited For Christmas)
This is a slightly morbid, tongue-in-cheek song about an ecstatic turkey that’s been invited round to a family’s Christmas dinner.
The lyrics are cleverly twisted with double meanings to mimic a human’s thoughts, morbidly transferred to a turkey about to be cooked, “They’re gonna have me for supper, and I’m gonna be their guest… I’ll be dressed just right, maybe I’ll have some stuffing.”
The bright folksy harmony matches the turkey’s blissful ignorance of not understanding he’s about to be killed, while every verse is filled with almost distasteful humour of an animal’s innocence;
“The other turkeys who went through their door must’ve liked it or they would’ve come back.”
4. Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello – The Christmas Song
Shawn and Camila’s soulful modern rendition of the classic Nat King Cole track, The Christmas Song is another fundraiser released to draw aid and attention to the deplorable numbers of starving families who have nothing to eat at Christmas.
Opening on the rosy, evocative line, “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose,”
The Christmas Song is laced with sounds as soft as the first dusting of snow upon a sleepy far-away village, and warm as the crackling fires they sing of.
Shawn and Camila honour the vintage atmosphere of the season perfectly while bestowing a clean and heart-warming R&B twist to its harmony.
5. Doug The Pug – All I Want Christmas Is Food
Internet sensation Doug The Pug’s 2015 Christmas hit, All I Want For Christmas Is Food is a cute parody of the Mariah Carey classic, restyled from the perspective of a dog, or any midnight-snacking creature for that matter.
Carey’s iconic lyrics shift into the obsessive thoughts of a ravenous canine, “I don’t want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing I need, when it comes to being hungry, I’m an easy one to please… I just want it for my own, any hungry person knows, make my wish come true, all I want for Christmas is food.”
This track is as gooey as cookie dough, its video filled with enough dogs and treats to make a puppy out of anyone.
6. Billy Gilman & Charlotte Church – Sleigh Ride
Sleigh Ride is a sweetly traditional rendition of the vintage Christmas song, performed by classical child singers Billy Gilman and Charlotte Church.
Sleigh Ride glistens profusely with festivities and fairy-lit seasonal cosiness, cherishing the frozen landscapes flurrying beneath them and the enlivening wonder bestowed from the heavens by a white Christmas.
Picturesque food references find abundance in the latter half of the song, as Gilman and Church conjure steamed-window imagery of hot food on the year’s coldest days, “There’s a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy, when they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie.”
7. Michael Buble – Let It Snow!
Michael Buble’s offers a captivating modern big-band version of a vintage track, carrying the ambience of an era now long-lost to the flurry of time passed since the song’s original release in 1945.
Let It Snow is one of the most timeless Christmas songs that history has ever crafted for us, it’s fragrantly foodie line reappearing through every chorus that graces the track;
“Now it doesn’t show signs of stopping, and I’ve brought some corn for popping, all the lights are turned way down low, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.”
8. Elmo & Patsy – Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer is a strange, heart-warming country Christmas song from 1979, telling a hilariously morbid story of Grandma getting tipsy off the eggnog and staggering out into the snow.
The family stumble upon her corpse on Christmas Day, mangled with hoof-prints, before breaking out into the uplifting chorus, “Grandma got run over by the reindeer, walking home from our house on Christmas Eve, you can say there’s no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe.”
The third verse is stuffed with the traditional menu of a Christmas dinner, “Now the goose is on the table, and the pudding made of fig,” bookending this weirdly horrific family tune with delectable references that will make anyone’s mouth water.
9. St Geogre’s Chapel Choir – Twelve Days Of Christmas
The classic Christmas carol, The Twelve Days Of Christmas is adorned with festive food allusions, which grow and grow with each passing verse.
Amongst the plethora of gifts given in the song’s lyrics, is a partridge in a pear tree, six egg-laying geese and eight milking maids, giving a dash of luxury compared to most modern Christmas songs about food.
This performance by The Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle is one of the most enchanting contemporary renditions of the timeless track available!