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"Be Careful What You Eat" is a song from episode 23 of 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. The song appears as the fifteenth track on the album Animaniacs with a different final verse.

Lyrics[]

Wakko:
Hey! Let's get some ice cream!
Dot:
How 'bout this one? "Pistachio Almond Fruit Fudge Butterscotch Delight".
Yakko:
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...
Wakko and Dot:
Hey, alright!
Yakko:
Calcified synthetic salt,
Artificial barley malt,
Glycerine and aspartate,
Folic acid...
Wakko:
That tastes great!
The Warners:
Monosodium glutamate,
Dehydrated calceinate,
Soybean oil, butter fat,
Caramel center.
Wakko:
I'll eat that!
Yakko and Dot:
Hooray for sugar, 'cause we love it!
Chocolate chips, we want more of it!
Cakes and ice cream? Watch us shove it
Down our throats real fast!
Yakko:
Here's a candy bar, you tried it?
Wakko:
Hey, let's all see what's inside it!
Yakko:
Gelatinized triglycerin,
Phosphate, soybean, lecithin,
Deoxylite tri-silicon,
Dipped in chocolate...
Wakko and Dot:
Bring it on!
Yakko:
Citrus enzymes, BHT,
Powdered milk...
Dot:
Sounds good to me!
Yakko:
Baking soda, carob gum,
Carbohydrates...
Wakko and Dot:
Yummy-yum!
The Warners:
Monosodium glutamate,
Zinc disodium alginate,
Whole grain flour, yeast and fat.
Wakko:
Time to eat it! I'll do that!
The Warners:
We like sweets a lot,
So give us all you've got
And we'll stuff 'em in our bodies
'Til they make our insides rot!

Album ending[]

The Warners:
We like sweets a lot
But they make your insides rot.
So remember it's your body
And the only one you've got!

Trivia[]

  • 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.
  • The song appears as the fifteenth track on the album Animaniacs with a different final verse.
  • Compared to most other languages (French, Dutch, Russian, Spanish), German version sounds more like the English version in tune.

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