# Food, Glorious Food > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Food%2C_Glorious_Food > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Food%2C_Glorious_Food.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%2C_Glorious_Food > Source revision: 1356637232 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1960 song with lyrics by Lionel Bart The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for music. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Food, Glorious Food" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) "**Food, Glorious Food**", written by [Lionel Bart](/source/Lionel_Bart), is the opening song from the 1960s [West End](/source/West_End_theatre) and [Broadway](/source/Broadway_theatre) musical (and 1968 film) *[Oliver!](/source/Oliver!)*. ## Musical theme The song is sung from the point of view of the children in a workhouse for orphans where they are forced to work to “earn their keep”, and deprived of proper nutrition while the administrators feast on delicacies. The children arrive for breakfast fantasizing about delicious food such as [sausage](/source/Sausage) and mustard, and sweets including jelly and [custard](/source/Custard). When the workhouse boys arrive at the front of the serving line they receive only tasteless [gruel](/source/Gruel) from the staff. The song is intended as a metaphor for keeping hope alive, despite being mistreated.[1] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [https://genius.com/Oliver-2024-company-food-glorious-food-lyrics](https://genius.com/Oliver-2024-company-food-glorious-food-lyrics) v t e Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist Characters Oliver Twist Bill Sikes Fagin Mr Brownlow Nancy Rose Maylie Monks The Artful Dodger Charley Bates Mr Sowerberry Mr. Bumble Film adaptations 1909 1912 (American) 1912 (British) 1916 1922 1933 1948 Oliver! (1968) 1974 Las Aventuras de Oliver Twist (1987) 2005 Film retellings Manik (1961) Chitti Tammudu (1962) Oliver & Company (1988) Twisted (1996) Twist (2003) Boy Called Twist (2004) Twist (2021) TV adaptations 1962 TV serial 1982 American–British TV film 1982 Australian TV film 1985 TV serial Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist (1996 TV series) 1997 TV film 1999 TV series 2007 TV series Stage adaptations Oliver Twist (1905) Oliver! (1960) Songs "As Long as He Needs Me" "Consider Yourself" "Food, Glorious Food" "I'd Do Anything" "Oliver!" "Oom-Pah-Pah" "Where Is Love?" "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" "Be Back Soon" "Reviewing the Situation" Related Oliver! (1962 original Broadway cast recording) Oliver! (soundtrack to the 1968 film) Oliver & Company (soundtrack to Oliver & Company) Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001 TV series retelling) Fagin the Jew (2003 graphic novel) Oliver and the Artful Dodger (1972 TV film) I'd Do Anything (2008 TV series) Dodger (2022 TV series) The Artful Dodger (2023 TV series) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Food, Glorious Food](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%2C_Glorious_Food) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%2C_Glorious_Food?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.