Here’s a Southern one:
Spread my face with jelly, and tie me to an ant hill. (Sorry about that.)
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I really must try to remember some of these.
Is that to convey you’d rather be doing something else, e.g… “I’d rather stick a fork in my eye than fork that post?” or am I completely off?
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The illustrations in particular are quite amusing, especially for some of the non-food related ones. For added context to those who don’t click on the link, this piece of art pays homage to Pieter Brueghel, the Dutch artist, who painted a similar oil painting drawing many Dutch proverbs in 1559.
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We’ve always understood the phrase/image as a modest/self-deprecating way to say “My bad”.
Then, there’s “stick a fork in it” to say you’re done with whatever . . .
As for song lyrics/food idioms, hard to rise to Kinky Friedman’s “Get your biscuits in the oven, and your buns in bed” . . .
Ah, yes. That makes perfect sense. Penance! 
I actually knew the second one!
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If I could travel and get paid for it, that would be like getting biscuits with my beer.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.
Nobody buys beer, we just rent it.
Only city folks, and Dwayne, actually eat Rocky Mountain Oysters.
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Similar to “corn: it’s not good-bye, it’s see you later.”
Although I’m not sure either qualifies as an idiom — aren’t both food puns?
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Laughing out loud!
Yeah, I played fast and loose with the definition/idioms but it was worth it to hear that comment about corn!
That one is new to me.
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Il y en a en Francais (and more than I can think of and list here, although we’ll see what jogs back when I make the family visit:
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Mettre du beurre dans les épianards: putting butter on the spinach->improve a financial situation
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Faire chou blanch: make white cabbage->fail (pretty much)
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Mettre son grain de sel: Put in your grain of salt-> give an unsolicited opinion
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Ne pas être dans son assiette: No be in one’s dish?-> out of sorts
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Love the first one. I find it fascinating how different languages describe different situations.
Thank you for sharing! 
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I always loved the word Ecuadorans use for a nerd. Huevon means large egg, or enlarged testicle. First time I heard this term, I pert near shat myself.; because i knew instantly who they were referring to.
“Donde entra el vino, sale la verdad.” -Where wine goes in, the truth comes out. Alcohol is truth serum.
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I’ve heard other translations for huevon that aren’t nearly as nice as nerd, but different Spanish terms mean different things in different countries.
Here’s a favorite song of mine touching on exactly this subject/conundrum:
@Maribel and @mariacarmen might get a kick out of this, too!
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I came up with 3 more while bored shitless on the treadmill:
Rosinen im Kopf (haben) = have raisins in one’s head: have big ideas/dreams*
Backfisch = battered & fried fish: an old-fashioned term for teenage girls, the etymology of which is controversial & lengthy 
Erbsenzähler = someone who counts peas: an annoying pedant (is that a tautology?)
*Incidentally, my late mom’s blog name
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Holy shmit, I love that. Thanks so much for posting that. Love their gringo accents, especially. Peggy Hill is my hero.
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I’ve watched it so many times & shared it with pretty much any native speaker I’ve met).
So, so well done.
Hahahaha
Saskatchewananian:
Who pissed in your cornflakes?
Same cook, different stew
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Trauerkloß = sad dumpling: a Debbie Downer
jemand hat die Weisheit mit Löffeln gefressen = someone ate wisdom with spoons: a smart person
Weichei = soft egg: a pushover
kalter Kaffee = cold coffee: old news
wie die Made im Speck = like a maggot in(side) bacon: live to the fullest
Kummerspeck = sorrow fat: weight gain from sadness
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