# 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:** 2
**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, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/21 "2007-01-24T18:46:32Z")
Iron Butterfly Fat Mattress Wild Cherry ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/22 "2007-01-24T18:48:31Z")
The Beatles. (Ok, so it’s homophonic to a food.) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/23 "2007-01-24T18:50:47Z")
Ice T Ice Cube Vanilla Ice Eminem Sweet Honey in the Rock Lox and Vodka (Klezmer band) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/24 "2007-01-24T18:51:55Z")
Bowling for Soup ---
**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, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/25 "2007-01-24T18:52:37Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Iron Butterfly [/QUOTE] Help me out, what sort of food is Iron or Butterfly? (I know Iron is in food as are most minerals but still?) The Jams (aka of KLF) So far we have name 1910 Fruitgum Company Ambrosia Bananarama Black Stone Cherry Blind Melon Bread Bread Buckcherry Buffalo Tom Cake Captain Beefheart Cherry Poppin Daddies Cibo Matto Cracker Cream Cuppa T Electric Prunes Enter The Haggis Fat Mattress Fiona Apple For Squirrels Free Beer G Love and Special Sauce Grapefruit Hot Tuna Iron and Wine Jawbreaker Jelly John Cougar Meloncamp Korn Left Over Salmon Lemon Jelly Lemonheads Light Crust Doughboys Meat Puppets Meatloaf Moby Grape Mudhoney Mushroomhead Neutral Milk Hotel Paul Butterfield Blues Band Peaches & Herb Pearl Jam Red Hot Chili Peppers Reel Big Fish Salt N’ Pepa Smashing Pumpkins Smashing Pumpkins Spice Girls Squirrel Nut Zippers Strawberry Alarm Clock String Cheese Incident Sugar Tangerine Dream The Banana Splits The Cranberries The Eels The Jams The Lemon Pipers The Meat Puppets The Partridge Family The Peanut Butter Conspiracy The Raspberries The Sea & Cake The Sugarcubes Tim Rice Ultimate Spinach Vanilla Ice Veruca Salt Wild Cherry Wings ---
**Author:** ![Kairos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kairos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kairos)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/26 "2007-01-24T18:54:27Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Iron Butterfly Fat Mattress [/QUOTE] Pardon? I suppose you can argue that someone, somewhere, eats butterflies, but mattresses? Am I getting wooshed? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/27 "2007-01-24T18:58:06Z")
[QUOTE=Kairos] > [@tdn](#): > > Iron Butterfly > Fat Mattress Pardon? I suppose you can argue that someone, somewhere, eats butterflies, but mattresses? Am I getting wooshed? [/QUOTE] Fat and butter. ---
**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, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/28 "2007-01-24T18:59:37Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] Fat and butter. [/QUOTE] Ooooh, OK you got in with Butter 🙂 .Lets not have anything as daft as Scoda for Cod though… ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/29 "2007-01-24T19:24:34Z")
Green Jello, but they later had to change their name to Green Jelly due to copyright infringement on Jello[sup]tm[/sup]. Either one works though. ---
**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, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/30 "2007-01-24T19:29:10Z")
Marmalade Humble Pie ---
**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, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/31 "2007-01-24T19:37:17Z")
I’m going to invoke a technicality and add Fine Young Cannibals. 'Cause cannibals, being human, could conceivably serve as food for each other. ---
**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, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/32 "2007-01-24T19:41:23Z")
Deathtongue. ---
**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, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/33 "2007-01-24T19:44:51Z")
I guess it doesn’t have to be a _real_ band. Also, why has no one mentioned Phish? ---
**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, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/34 "2007-01-24T19:45:45Z")
Blue Oyster Cult. ---
**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, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/35 "2007-01-24T19:47:09Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] I’m going to invoke a technicality and add Fine Young Cannibals. 'Cause cannibals, being human, could conceivably serve as food for each other. [/QUOTE] Cannibals are definately food related, even if their status as a food is questionable. Jelly Roll Morton (Jazz pianist) ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/36 "2007-01-24T19:52:14Z")
There’s a band I heard mentioned on local radio, and just the name gave me a chuckle: String Cheese Incident ---
**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, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/37 "2007-01-24T19:53:09Z")
Not only Jelly Roll, but ragtime pianist Joseph Lamb, the forgotten 30s combo the Harlem Hamfats, New York klezmer/jazz group Ribs & Brisket Revue, and guitarists Bucky and John Pizzarelli. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/38 "2007-01-24T20:02:29Z")
Chocolate Watchband Jello Biafra (did solo work after The Deed Kennedys) Toni Basil Buffalo Springfield The Byrds Sheryl Crow Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam The Cookies Ambrosia Sugarloaf Special drink section: Brandy April Wine Pink Lady Crystal Waters Godley & Creme ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/39 "2007-01-24T20:09:20Z")
Half Man Half Biscuit Hot Chocolate The Jam (not The Jams) Orange Juice The Sweet ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/40 "2007-01-24T20:22:04Z")
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