# Bands with food in their name **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270 "2007-01-24T17:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/1 "2007-01-24T17:34:19Z")
We haven’t had one of these for quite some time, lets see if we can crank out a list of band names (or solo artists) with food related items in their names. Throwing out for a start Bananarama ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/2 "2007-01-24T17:35:34Z")
Korn Blind Melon Lemonheads Smashing Pumpkins Bread Light Crust Doughboys (actually an ingredient) Red Hot Chili Peppers Captain Beefheart (some people really do eat 'em) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/3 "2007-01-24T17:51:19Z")
Cake. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/4 "2007-01-24T18:03:10Z")
John Cougar Meloncamp. Okay, it was close. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/5 "2007-01-24T18:05:54Z")
The Mighty Lemon Drops ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/6 "2007-01-24T18:06:42Z")
Jawbreaker Lemon Jelly Neutral Milk Hotel The Sea & Cake ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/7 "2007-01-24T18:07:55Z")
Moby Grape Ultimate Spinach Showing my age here. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/8 "2007-01-24T18:08:00Z")
The Meat Puppets Bob Moulds band ‘Sugar’ The Sugarcubes Buffalo Tom (ok a stretch, can you say buffalo is a food) ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/9 "2007-01-24T18:08:06Z")
Strawberry Alarm Clock Tangerine Dream Electric Prunes The Banana Splits? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/10 "2007-01-24T18:09:57Z")
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy (First album titled Is Spreading) And two that allegedly toured with each other: Bread Jelly ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/11 "2007-01-24T18:14:15Z")
Cibo Matto is Italian for “Crazy Food” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/12 "2007-01-24T18:22:44Z")
Cream The Cranberries Meatloaf Tim Rice 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/13 "2007-01-24T18:29:08Z")
The Lemon Pipers 1910 Fruitgum Company Cuppa T (really obscure UK group) Enter The Haggis Grapefruit ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/14 "2007-01-24T18:31:40Z")
Free Beer (one album out in the early 70s; they were a bar band that always drew a big crowd). ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/15 "2007-01-24T18:35:03Z")
Cherry Poppin Daddies Vanilla Ice Salt N’ Pepa Spice Girls? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/16 "2007-01-24T18:36:48Z")
The Partridge Family. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/17 "2007-01-24T18:36:54Z")
The Raspberries ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/18 "2007-01-24T18:38:20Z")
Ambrosia Black Stone Cherry Buckcherry Cracker The Eels Fiona Apple For Squirrels G Love and Special Sauce Hot Tuna Iron and Wine Meat Puppets Mudhoney Mushroomhead Paul Butterfield Blues Band Pearl Jam Reel Big Fish Smashing Pumpkins Squirrel Nut Zippers Veruca Salt ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/19 "2007-01-24T18:38:49Z")
Peaches & Herb Wings ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/20 "2007-01-24T18:42:59Z")
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