There are forty three separate food words, about half as many as there are sound words.  They are repeated for a total of 125 food words, about one-third as many as there are sound words.  I have heard frequently about the food imagery – how it expressed the Baggins side of our reluctant hero – but not much if ever about the sound words.  Hmmm.  Is this a function of many food words being in the Ten Thousand?  Is it also a function of the sound words acting more subtly on us?