Does Listening To Certain Music Make You Crave Certain Food?
@danishcanadian (28954)
Canada
August 2, 2009 9:01pm CST
I like a lot of ethnic food, and I like a lot of ethnic music. One of my favourite restaurants of all times is a Greek restaurant here in Guelph, called The Greek Garden. Not only is the food wonderful, but they fill the place full of traditional Greek music. When I watch the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding I have such a craving for Greek food by the time it's over. When I was in AZ, nowhere near that restaurant, the movie was on TV. Of course I had a craving, by the time it was over, and nothing to do about it. Luckily I found one of their little ouzo candies in my pocket, and my husband made me a cup of Greek coffee. The combination of the two, the way I would end a meal at The Greek Garden, somehow tricked my mind into thinking I'd had a full meal there, even though I really knew better. Atleast it fixed that mennacing craving.
Tonight I'm listening to a Greek program on CKWR radio here, which has ethnic programming, all afternoon on Sundays. Fortunately I ate a lot of food today (Danish and German) so by the time the program came on I was STUFFED FULL, and had no room to crave any more food. LOL
Greek music for me, seems to bring on my worst music-related food cravings.
Does this kind of thing happen to anyone else? What music is connected iwth what food?
4 responses
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
3 Aug 09
I don't think I've ever experienced that lol I normally do not have music on in the house, only in the car. And depending on who is in the car with me I may not even have it on then.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
3 Aug 09
I was going to answer no to this question but something came to mind suddenly. I think the commercial music for a Mexican restaurant around here, gives me a crave for their food every time. It is only their commercial music though.
@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
3 Aug 09
I just want all foods, all the time ( my parody of the radio station that says 'all music, all the time') We do not have a lot of ethnic anything around here, unless you count Swedish food about fifteen miles away, and Mennonite German (not the same as Bavarian) also about fifteen or twenty miles away, and some decent Mexican and Italian foods in town. I enjoy all of those, but am trying to avoid eating out. I think the Greek coffee and Greek candy was a good thought to fool your mind. I imagine that my Swedish foods are similar to your Danish, at least as far as I can tell from Scandinavian cookbooks. German Mennonite cooking has a taste of the Russian to it. Mennonites were Germans that settled in Russia, until the Russians wanted them to serve in their armies. Mennonites are a part of the Peace congregations that do not believe in War. They therefore left Russia and came to the US. They brought with them the hard red winter wheat that is the foundation of Kansas fame as a wheat growing state.
