Be Careful What You Eat (Avenue Q song)

Be Careful What You Eat is a song from Animaniacs. The song sings many chemical ingredients in food. The music is adapted from Jacques Offenbach's "Infernal Galop" from Orpheus in the Underworld, otherwise known as the can-can, while the lyrics are by Randy Rogel.

In this segment, Princeton, Kate Monster and Julian were grocery shopping together before they picked up some ice cream and looked at its ingredients, singing a song about them.

Lyrics
PRINCETON:

It's nice to have you grocery shopping with us, Julian.

JULIAN:

Thanks, Princeton. After all, you're like a brother to me in a way.

KATE MONSTER:

(giggles) You do look like you could be twins.

JULIAN:

Yeah. Hey! Let's get some ice cream!

KATE MONSTER:

Great idea! How about this one? "Pistachio Almond Fruit Fudge Butterscotch Delight".

PRINCETON:

Let me see that. Ingredients:

Zinc trisodium, aspartate,

Sorbitol and bisulfate,

Oxide beta carotene,

Lactic acid, carob bean,

Grade-A milk emulsified,

Malto-dextrine alkalide,

Silicon deoxylite,

Lots of sugar...

KATE MONSTER AND JULIAN:

Hey, alright!

PRINCETON:

Calcified synthetic salt,

Artificial barley malt,

Glycerine and aspartate,

Folic acid...

JULIAN:

That tastes great!

PRINCETON, KATE MONSTER AND JULIAN:

Monosodium glutamate,

Dehydrated calceinate,

Soybean oil, butter fat,

Caramel center.

JULIAN:

I'll eat that!

PRINCETON AND KATE MONSTER:

Hooray for sugar, 'cause we love it!

Chocolate chips, we want more of it!

Cakes and ice cream! Want to shove it

Down our throats real fast!

PRINCETON:

Here's a candy bar, you tried it?

JULIAN:

Hey, let's all see what's inside it!

PRINCETON:

Gelatinized triglycerin,

Phosphate, soybean, lecithin,

Deoxylite tri-silicon,

Dipped in chocolate...

KATE MONSTER AND JULIAN:

Bring it on!

PRINCETON:

Citrus enzymes, BHT,

Powdered milk...

KATE MONSTER:

Sounds good to me!

PRINCETON:

Baking soda, carob gum,

Carbohydrates...

KATE MONSTER AND JULIAN:

Yummy-yum!

PRINCETON, KATE MONSTER AND JULIAN:

Monosodium glutamate,

Zinc disodium algenate,

Whole grain flour, yeast and fat.

JULIAN:

Time to eat it! I'll do that!

PRINCETON, KATE MONSTER AND JULIAN:

We like sweets a lot

But they make your insides rot.

So remember it's your body

It's the only one you've got!