We find it a disturbing that male musicians constantly compare women (or their body parts) to foods, specifically fruits and candies. While it's flattering to be compared to edible products with a high glycemic index, it's also becoming unoriginal and while these songs are entertaining, they are mildly sexist and/or misogynistic.
Perhaps the popular 19th century nursery rhyme 'What Are Little Boys Made Of?' has ingrained the notion that girls are “sugar and spice and everything nice.”
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, “honey” has been documented as a term of endearment from at least the 14th century. As women, we've come to expect our significant other to call us by a pet name, which–you guessed it–is usually a sweet.
Being someone's “honey,” “sweetie pie,” “muffin”, or “baby cakes” might not seem so bad if you consider some foreign options. In France, you may be called a petite chou (little cabbage), in Germany you may be called Mausebär (mouse-bear) and if you're Hispanic, your family may already be addressing you as gorda or flaca (fat or skinny).
Here are the Top Ten Songs That Compare Women To Foods. No, The Archies' “Sugar, Sugar” didn't make the cut, sorry.
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10. R.E.M. – Crush With Eyeliner
She's a sad tomato
She's three miles of bad road
She's her own invention
9. The Steve Miller Band – The Joker
You're the cutest thing
That I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Want to shake your tree
8. 69 Boyz – Tootsee Roll
Yeah, tootsie roll
Let me see that tootsie roll
Get up and roll just make that tootsie ooh
Cotton candy, sweet and low, let me see that tootsie roll
Come on, tootsie roll, just make that tootsie roll
Here we go, tootsie roll, just make that tootsie roll
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7. The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
Brown sugar how come you taste so good, now?
Brown sugar just like a young girl should, now
Ah, get along, brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?
Ah, got me feelin' now, brown sugar just like a black girl should
6. Maroon 5 – Kiwi
Sweet kiwi
Your juices dripping down my chin
So please, let me
Don't stop it before it begins
So give it up and don't pretend
And spread your arms and legs across the bed
And when you shake, you won't regret
The things I whisper in your ear
5. Jesus And Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
Listen to the girl
As she takes on half the world
Moving up and so alive
In her honey dripping beehive, beehive
It's good, so good, it's so good, so good
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4. G. Love and Special Sauce – Baby's Got Sauce
Your baby ain't sweet like mine
She got sauce…
That's some funky lemonade you got going there babe
Is it special for me
Did you make it today
I'll always stop by if you like me to
I'll do anything that you could ever want for me to do
A kiss for some of this
3. 112 – Peaches and Cream
I need it cause you know that I'm a fiend
Gettin' freaky in my Bentley limousine
It's even better when it's with ice cream
Know what I mean
2. Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah
Come on!
Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up
Pour some sugar on me, ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me, c'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me, I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet from my head to my feet, yeah
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1. Warrant – Cherry Pie
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good makes a grown man cry
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