“A party in your mouth” (a taste sensation)

A “party in my/your mouth” is a food or a combination of foods that create a taste sensation (usually a positive one). The flavors seemingly contain all the excitement of a party. “It’s like a party in my mouth” has been cited in print since at least 1982, when it described Popeye’s Louisiana style fried chicken.
 
The children’s television show Yo Gabba Gabba! featured the song “There’s a party in my tummy” in August 2007.
 
 
Urban Dictionary
party in my mouth
A metaphorical shindig in one’s pie hole to which a large amount of people are invited. Often, but not always, connotates good taste, depending on the clause that comes after this phrase.
Positive: “It’s like there’s a party in my mouth, and everyone’s invited!”
Negative: “It’s like there’s a party in my mouth, and everyone’s throwing up.”
by Zeke Apr 9, 2005
 
11 April 1982, Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), “New Orlean chicken sizzling financially” by John DeMers (UPI), pg. 2I, cols. 5-6:
A young man asserts, “I drive past five other chicken stores to get to Popeye’s.” Other endorsements include: “Spiced right and priced right” and “It’s like a party in my mouth.”
 
Google Books
Some Like It Hotter:
The official cookbook of the Galvanized Gullet
By Geraldine Duncann
San Francisco, CA: 101 Productions ; New York: Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. by Scribner
1985
Pg. 70:
Talk about a party in your mouth!
 
23 February 1988, The New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM), “Bill of fare in the City Different” by K. C. Compton, pg. A10, col. 2:
“It’s like nowhere else in the country,” Heaton said in a recent interview. “I had a friend who came to visit and she said there were so many good restaurants it was like having a party in your mouth every day. Santa Fe really is on the edge of whats happening nationally.”
(Kathy Heaton, Santa Fe resident and co-author of Santa Fe a la Carte—ed.)
   
Google Books
27 June 1988, New York magazine, pg. 56, col. 1:
Shrimp and radicchio and what tastes like a sea of butter glorify thin homemade noodles, and a rich bechamel layering of lasagna is “a party in my mouth,” a friend announces.
 
Google Books
Battered But Not Broken:
Help for abused wives and their church families
By Patricia Riddle Gaddis
Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press
1996
Pg. 40:
View food as fuel needed to survive rather than as a party in your mouth.
   
OCLC WorldCat record
The Japanese feast kaiseki is poetry on a plate and a party in your mouth
Edition/Format:  Article : English
Publication: INTHEBLACK, 78, no. 7, (2008): 75-76
Database: British Library Serials
 
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