# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/81 "2007-01-25T17:32:34Z")
That reminds me of another band: [The Honeydrippers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honey_Drippers). And also: [The Yardbirds](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardbirds). (Which is slang for “chicken.”) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/82 "2007-01-25T17:34:19Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Two foods in one (real) name: Chuck Berry Bees Make Honey Gravy Train [/QUOTE] Hmmm, I only am familiar with these phrases from lyrics to songs by other bands. P **ink** Floyd is too much of a stretch besides to hardcore octopus-lovers, but how about Ten Y **ears** After? Okay, maybe not 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/83 "2007-01-25T17:34:31Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] So Fine Young Cannibals gets in but Dead Kenedys doesn’t? [/QUOTE] I don’t think either should be in the list. It’s about food, not just stuff that you could eat. The rule should be something like “could you buy the stuff in a supermarket?” I’ve never seen dead people, cannibals, crow, dog, men, "rancid"s or goat for sale in such a place, not even Tesco Extra. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/84 "2007-01-25T17:48:05Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Hmmm, I only am familiar with these phrases from lyrics to songs by other bands. [/QUOTE] Gravy Train was an early '70s British progressive rock band, with similarities to Traffic, Rare Bird (is that another one?), and Jethro Tull. Bees Make Honey was part of the London pub-rock scene of the early-mid '70s. I’m not actually familiar with their music. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/85 "2007-01-25T17:50:48Z")
The **Cow** sills ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/86 "2007-01-25T17:53:56Z")
How about Sublime? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/87 "2007-01-25T18:27:05Z")
A Burning Water Archers Of Loaf Bass Bass Hunter Beans Beatsteaks Better Than Toast Buffseeds [Cake Like](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake_Like) Candy Skins Caviar Cherry Monroe Cinnamon Damien Rice God Lives Under Water Goldfrapp Hot Chip Jimmy’s Chicken Shack Junkfood Lake Trout Landon Pigg Long Pigs Loudermilk Magnapop Meat Beat Manifesto Mighty Joe Plum Octopus Project Papas Fritas (in English this would be “French Fries”) Pigface Plumb Refreshments Sage Francis School Of Fish Seafood Showbread Sugarcult Taco The Appleseed Cast Wheatus I think we could do a spin off thread about things you might eat if you were hunting or starving. That one would have things like The Field Mice, Eagles and Stiff Little Fingers 😉 ---
**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 25, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/88 "2007-01-25T18:38:01Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] I don’t think either should be in the list. It’s about food, not just stuff that you could eat. The rule should be something like “could you buy the stuff in a supermarket?” I’ve never seen dead people, cannibals, crow, dog, men, "rancid"s or goat for sale in such a place, not even Tesco Extra. [/QUOTE] My thought was that Cannibals is definately a word related to eating and hense food, whilst Dead Kenedys hasn’t any food or eating relationship that I am aware of. Maybe we should rejig this to just food available in any supermarket. So goat would remain (available in many Halal supermarkets) whilst removing many of the very obscure items and hidden food words, so bananarama et al will get the chop (pun intended) This is just to edit down the length of the list more than anything else. ---
**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 25, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/89 "2007-01-25T18:47:47Z")
It’s still huge, so I’ll kill off the drinks as well. Trying to keep it down to size. Anyone who thinks something is removed incorrectly from the next list tell me, I know a lot about foods but far from everything. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/90 "2007-01-25T19:14:06Z")
**Grant Lee Buffalo** **The Mutton Birds** (from New Zealand) **Kid Creole & the Coconuts** and going back a bit further… **Red Beans & Rice** **Chilliwack** **Lieutenant Pigeon** ---
**Author:** ![AHoosierMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@AHoosierMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHoosierMama)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/91 "2007-01-25T19:30:54Z")
Mary’s Danish Eve’s Plumb ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/92 "2007-01-26T13:10:53Z")
Whitesnake ---
**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 26, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/93 "2007-01-26T16:21:20Z")
[Alice Donut](http://www.alicedonut.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/94 "2007-01-26T16:31:55Z")
[Whale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMN9yKQIk2w) ---
**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 26, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/95 "2007-01-26T16:44:51Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Whitesnake [/QUOTE] Whilst people happily eat Whitesnake and or the Flaming Lips, I don’t think they count as food 🙂 Here is the eddited down list (no drinks, no misspellings, and no embedded food words, and everything available in some sort of normal store) 1910 Fruitgum Company A Taste of Honey Alice Donut Ambrosia Archers Of Loaf Bass Bass Hunter Beans Bees Make Honey Better Than Toast Black Eyed Peas Black Grape Black Stone Cherry Blancmange Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Melon Blue Oyster Cult Bowling for Soup Bread Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Tom Cake Cake Like Candy Skins Caviar Cherry Monroe Cherry Poppin Daddies Chicory Tip Chocolate Chocolate Watchband Cibo Matto Cinnamon Close Lobsters Coconuts Musume Coldcut Country Joe & the Fish Cracker Cream Damien Rice Don Cherry Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts Eagle Eye Cherry Electric Prunes Enter The Haggis Fat Mattress Fiona Apple Fish Flying Burrito Brothers G Love and Special Sauce Godley & Creme Grant Lee Buffalo Grapefruit Gravy Train Green Jello Green Jelly Gumbo Half Man Half Biscuit Hootie and the Blowfish Hot Chip Hot Chocolate Hot Fudge Hot Tuna Humble Pie Jawbreaker Jello Biafra Jelly Jelly Roll Morton Jellyfish Jimmy’s Chicken Shack Joseph Lamb Junkfood Ketchup Kid Creole & the Coconuts Lake Trout Lamb Lamb of God Left Over Salmon Lemon Jelly Lieutenant Pigeon Lightning Seed Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam Long Pigs Lox and Vodka Lubricated Goat Marmalade Martha and the Muffins Mary’s Danish Meat Beat Manifesto Meat Puppets Meatloaf Menudo Mighty Joe Plum Moby Grape Mustard Plug Neneh Cherry Neutral Milk Hotel Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Octopus Project Orange Juice Papas Fritas Peaches Peaches & Herb Peanut Pearl Jam Poi Dog Pondering Poptart Monkeys Prefab Sprout Red Beans & Rice Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Red Meat Reel Big Fish Ribs & Brisket Revue Richard Cheese Sage Francis Salt N’ Pepa School Of Fish Seafood Sherbet Smashing Pumpkins Soup Dragons Spearmint Spice Girls Squirrel Nut Zippers Strawberry Alarm Clock Strawbery Switchblade String Cheese Incident Sugar Sugar Ray Sugarloaf Sweet Honey in the Rock Taco Tangerine Dream T-Bone Burnett The Apples In Stereo The Banana Splits The Cake The Cookies The Cranberries The Eels The Jam The Jams The Lemon Drops The Lemon Pipers The Lollipop Shoppe The Magic Mushrooms The Muffins The Mutton Birds The Partridge Family The Peanut Butter Conspiracy The Raspberries The Sea & Cake The Sea Urchins The Seeds The Spiders from Mars The Sugarcubes The Waterboys The Watermelon Men Thin Yoghurts Tim Rice Tommy Roe Toni Basil Ultimate Spinach Vanilla Fudge Vanilla Ice Veruca Salt Wild Cherry Wings ---
**Author:** ![Cold\_Sun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Cold\_Sun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cold_Sun)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/96 "2007-01-26T16:44:59Z")
A thread about bands with ‘food’ in the name, and no one mentions the excellent psychedelic, late '60s Capitol band [Food?](http://www.lysergia.com/LamaReviews/reviews3.htm#FOOD)🆒 A few more off the top of my head: Chicken Shack The Candymen The Tea Company Mandrake Memorial Buffalo Strawberry Path Flied Egg ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270/97 "2007-01-26T19:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] Whilst people happily eat Whitesnake and or the Flaming Lips, I don’t think they count as food 🙂 Here is the eddited down list (no drinks, no misspellings, and no embedded food words, and everything available in some sort of normal store) [/QUOTE] You’re such a picky eater 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-food-in-their-name/389270.md?page=4)