Dinner With Tori, Solution and Credits...


Official Solution

1. Ratatouille (a dish made with tomato, eggplant and zuchinni)
"RATATOUILLE Strychnine, sometimes she's a friend of mine"
-Mr. Zebra

2. Honey
"You're just too used to my HONEY now"
-Honey
Also many other occurences of Honey, too numerous to list.

3. Marmalade
"Nobody else is slipping the blade in the MARMALADE"
-Sister Janet

4. Peanut Butter
"Got a PEANUT BUTTER hand"
-Muhammed My Friend

5. Hominy
"HOMINY, get it on the plate, girl"
-Little Amsterdam

6. Tuna
"TUNA, Rubber, A little blubber in my igloo"
-Marianne

7. Hamburger
"So maybe she tastes like a HAMBURGER maid"
-Daisy Dead Petals

8. Cracker Jacks
"And if I lose my CRACKER JACKS in the tidal wave"
-Muhammed My Friend

9. Pumpkin
"He's in my PUMPKIN p.j.'s"
-Icicle

10. Lollypop
"LOLLYPOP girls pave the street"
-Fayth (A Y Kant Tori Read Song)

11. Biscuits
"Where the BISCUITS are soft and sweet"
-Me And A Gun

12. Breadcrumbs (these are subtle, in front of the plate of bisuits)
"BREADCRUMBS lost under the snow"
-Mother

13. Wine
"Pour the WINE dear"
-China

14. Cheese
"Stole a Sony and some Camenbert CHEESE"
-Humpty Dumpty

15. 'Taters (ie. Potatoes)
"And you fry them 'TATERS"
-Frog On My Toe

16. Fried Eggs
"Might as well fry some EGGS"
-Daisy Dead Petals

17. Gumdrops
"GUMDROPS, and Saturdays, did Eric call by the way?"
-Black Swan
OR
"From cradle to GUMDROPS"
-Butterfly

18. Chicken
"When CHICKENS get a taste of your meat girl"
-Blood Roses
OR
"Until the little CHICKEN come home"
-Amazing Grace Til the Chicken Comes
(Chicken is meat, so it could also be interpreted as the meat lyric from Blood Roses)

19. Pizza
"And girls that eat PIZZA and never gain weight"
-Father Lucifer
(this is one of those background vocal lyrics)

20. String Beans
"She's putting on her STRING BEAN love"
-Cornflake Girl

21. Butter Beans (another name for Lima Beans)
"They buried her with a BUTTER BEAN bouquet"
-Little Amsterdam
Beans are also mentioned in this lyric-
"Hey, my sweet BEAN bag in the street"
-Beauty Queen

22. Cornflakes
"Never was a CORNFLAKE girl"
-Cornflake Girl

23. Milk (in the bowl of cereal)
"Rivers of MILK running dry"
-Mary

24. Strawberries
"I'll wake up in STRAWBERRY fields everyday"
-Happy Phantom

25. Melon (Honey Dew)
"Lucy serves the MELON cold"
-Ode to the Banana King
OR
"Maybe I'm a HONEY DEW"
-Talula

26. Grapefruit
"Racing turtles, the Grapefruit is winning"
-Space Dog

27. Orange
"Does anyone know why you play with an ORANGE rind?"
-Putting the Damage On
OR
"Gotta tell you what I heard from Agent ORANGE"
-Agent Orange
OR
"ORANGE clouds raining in my head"
-Silent All These Years

28. Banana
"Dreams made up for the BANANA King"
-Ode to the Banana King

29. Apple Green Ice Cream
"And you know that APPLE GREEN ICE CREAM can melt in your hands"
-Here. In My Head
Ice Cream is also mentioned in the lyric
"Me and Charles Manson like the same ICE CREAM"
-Tear in Your Hand
And in a lyric that came out later after the food puzzle was created
"Trusting my soul to the ICE-CREAM assassin"
-Spark

30. Cherry (on top of the Ice Cream)
"Falling down as the winter Takes one more CHERRY tree"
-Girl
OR
"Toodles, Mr. Jim, you CHERRY picker"
-Toodles Mr. Jim
OR
"When you're the sweetest CHERRY in an apple pie"
-In the Springtime of his Voodoo

31. Easter Eggs
"I dye my own EASTER EGGS" (a background vocal lyric)
-Father Lucifer

32. Tea
"And we drank TEA by her side"
-Muhammad My Friend

33. Sugar
"SUGAR, he brings me SUGAR"
-Sugar

34. Cream
"Rest your shoulders peaches and CREAM
-Professional Widow

35. Peach
"Rest your shoulders, PEACHes and cream"
-Professional Widow
"In my PEACH party dress"
-Precious Things

36. Grapes
"And Gladys save a place for me on your GRAPE vine"
-Muhammad My Friend

37. Raisins
"Thought it was a good solution hangin' with the RAISIN girls"
-Cornflake Girl

38. Bubble Gum
"Get in with the BUBBLE GUM trade"
-Sugar

39. Club Sandwich
"And is her power all in her CLUB SANDWICH?"
-The Waitress

40. Bread (as part of the sandwich)
"Balancing cake and BREAD"
-Talula

41. Olive (on sandwich)
"You see, her OLIVES are cold pressed"
-Little Amsterdam

42. Chips
"Got a full tank and some CHIPS"
-Me and a Gun

43. Prunes
"I need some voodoo on these PRUNES"
-In the Springtime of his Voodoo

44. Cake
"Baker, baker, baking a CAKE"
-Baker Baker
OR
"Balancing CAKE and bread"
-Talula

45. Icing (on the cake)
"If truly his heart was made of ICING"
-Baker Baker

46. Fig Newtons
"Your little FIG NEWTON"
-Talula

47. Custard
"She said I like CUSTARD in the Summer, honey"
-Humpty Dumpty

48. Lemon Pie
"LEMON PIE, he's coming through"
-Space Dog

49. Apple Pie
"When you're the sweetest cherry in an APPLE PIE"
-In the Springtime of his Voodoo
Also apples are mentioned in the lyric
"He wiped a tear and then he threw away our APPLEseed"
-Father Lucifer

50. Crackers
"Got 25 bucks and a CRACKER"
-Silent all these Years

51. Doughnut
"You never gain weight from a DOUGHNUT hole"
-Doughnut Song


Contest Winners

I was originally going to award one prize randomly to one of the high scorers, but I got so many great responses that I decided to raise that to three winners.

And the winners are:

Jean (mahoney@metabolix.com) who had a perfect score and sent me very detailed answers. She went so far as to give multiple occurrences of food lyrics, like every mention of Honey she could find. As well as finding new food lyrics by breaking down the ingredients of food - water in the tea (water is a lyric in GIRL)and vanilla in the cake (vanilla is a lyric in SIREN).

Siren (maizy@ksu.edu) who also had a perfect score and even taught me what a syllabub is. It's an alcoholic drink with cream on the top.

The third winner is Canton Ossoinik (lenz@naspa.net) who I chose randomly from the remaining high scoring entries.

Congratulations! Winners each recieved a copy of my original Tori Puzzle Box poster.

Thank you all for playing and keep stopping by for new Tori puzzles!


Credits and Inspirations

This was created entirely with my original art, with the exception of the picture of Tori. Tori's photo (and the plate of potatoes and cheese in front of her) was scanned from All These Years. Everything else down to the box of Cracker Jacks was painted from scratch using Photoshop.


I ask that you not distribute copies of the puzzle without my prior permission.

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