Edible Bands Tournament Bracket: Pick The Food Fight Chompion!

Whisking together three of his loves -- music, food, and March Madness (plus a penchant for obnoxious trivia), HuffPost Alum David Weiner put together the ultimate in a battle royale -- with cheese! Feast below on a 64-'team' NCAA-style single-elimination tournament bracket, seeded with the best in food-inspired band names, from over at something called a 'Tumblr' at thesaddest.com.

Yes, some band with a food name you like probably isn't on here and David is "well aware" that he will hear from you, particularly for the glaring omission of Ice Cube. Channeling his best John Wooden, Weiner understands, "This is the Internet so that just comes with the territory."*

Will The Smashing Pumpkins, a No. 1 seed, be undone by The Flying Burrito Brothers, a No. 8 seed, in the second round? Does a 6/11 first round match-up between Rosemary Clooney and the Lemonheads have the right ingredients for an herbaceously sour upset? Will No. 2 seed Phish go belly-up early on or unseat Cream in the quarterfinals to reach the Final Four and get a shot at the chompionship? All these questions and more, below.

Used with permission from David Weiner at The Saddest

Comments

[giono]

09:12 PM on 03/13/2011

Eddie Rabbit

[Jj Duchesne]

09:30 AM on 03/11/2011

Has to come down to Pearl Jam vs Red Hot Chili Peppers and that would be fun to watch. I'm taking PJ

[RTFanatic]

07:15 AM on 03/10/2011

What is Everclear even doing in this tourney?

[hagagaga]

01:27 PM on 03/10/2011

That's a brand of legal moonshine.

[RTFanatic]

07:26 AM on 03/11/2011

A-ha! Thanks for "clearing" that up! But let me ask you, isn't "legal moonshine" an oxymoron?

[FoodisnewRock]

07:31 PM on 03/09/2011

Seeing Neutral Milk Hotel as a 2 seed gives me hope for this world (although it makes you wonder how Apple in Stereo dropped to a 10 seed!) Also, Cream vs. Vanilla Ice might be the toughest 1 vs 16 matchup in the history of all bracketed tourneys.

[Lauren Kottwitz]

07:15 PM on 03/09/2011

I think it's going to come down to Red Hot Chili Peppers vs. Cream.

I'll take Cream for the win.

[missjulz]

04:38 PM on 03/09/2011

I'm taking Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[Joscasta]

04:22 PM on 03/09/2011

Is Phish an actual food?

[dalkowski]

05:43 PM on 03/09/2011

Ben & Jerry's Phish Food is actually awesome.

[Mitchell Nussbaum]

04:21 PM on 03/09/2011

Shouldn't Garbage be in there somewhere?

[Dan Sweeney]

04:03 PM on 03/09/2011

Basing my picks on quality of the band rather than how much I would love to eat the food described by its name, my Elite Eight: Flying Burrito Brothers, Jelly Roll Morton, Cake, Dead Milkmen, Captain Beefheart, Phish, Pearl Jam and Neutral Milk Hotel.

I can't really decide beyond that.

[arrock]

03:05 PM on 03/09/2011

Pearl Jam all the way

[jl4141]

01:33 PM on 03/09/2011

No Half Man Half Biscuit?

[palmstradamus]

11:21 AM on 03/09/2011

Hot Tuna couldn't make the field?

[palmstradamus]

11:17 AM on 03/09/2011

Excellent idea! I've got Hall&Oates/Chuck Berry/Cream/Pearl Jam in my Final Four.Good luck losers!

[Retnan]

05:48 AM on 03/09/2011

I like a few H and O songs, and that one G Blossoms song. And that 1 Blue Oyster song. Never heard of most of these bands. Cream?

[butchcliff]

08:47 AM on 03/09/2011

Late 60's Superband..Almost 40 million albums sold.
Eric Clapton..Ginger Baker..Jack Bruce
Great era for great music..great band

[Colin Sterling]

10:17 AM on 03/09/2011

Ginger Baker could have been his own seed...

[GraphicMatt]

03:31 PM on 03/09/2011

One of the greatest bands! It's expected though that someone who'd reference the Gin Blossoms would be un-aware of Cream, lol.