Sherry is liquid, not food.

So milk is not food Lissa? Or beer? Or soup? Or champagne? Ach!

Olive (as in, Oyl)

i have friends named candy, mango, and joe...do they count?

I have a girlfriend named Sage. And let's not forget the many Hollywood babies out there, like Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, Apple, for instance. Do those kind of hippy names count?

Lissa - Haven't you ever heard of a liquid lunch?

Sorry Lissa, wine IS food.

Do spices count?...Rosemary, Sage, Pepper...okay, maybe a few liberties were taken with those.

Yeah i'm going to have to go with Lissa on that one...def. not a food. Nice try though.

NR, yes, I've heard of liquid lunches, and they are why I now know that sherry, wine, beer, etc. are beverages, not food.

Just because something is a consumable with calories doesn't mean it is food.

Stu?

I went to college with a guy named "Butterbean", but I guess nicknames don't count.

There is also the episode of Seinfeld where George wants to be known as "T-Bone".

We would use "food term" and "culinary term" synomously. Plus, both Paco and Stacy accepted Sherry, so I won the bet.

"Olive" and "Candy"--both good ones. Mango? Really? Is Mango a he or a she (and is it a person?).

But "Joe"...now THAT's a good one. I likely wouldn't have gotten that one if I had thought all day and am ashamed that I didn't.

I did think of "Apple" but didn't even try--you would have to know Paco to understand how futile it would have been. "Sage", probably the same, although I know a girl named Sage here at work. And Rose Mary...I could have used Rose Mary, now that you mention Sage.

Bucky,
Would Bud count?

Saturday lunch at the bar sounds like fun.

I just came back from lunch at the bar, but no beer so it wasn't as fun.
I had my usual ranch house salad with grilled chicken on top and balsamic viniagrette.

Ice T
Vanilla Ice
Probably lots of other ices I don't know

Herb

Oh and Rosemary

"Rosemarry" is definitely one.

"Sage" works too. There's an NFL quarterback named Sage Rosenflels who used to play for the Redskins.

I've even met people named "Basil".

How about "Barry"? You didn't say they had to be spelled the same!

Lissa, sherry is a common ingedient in many food recepies. As such, it's very much a food term.

Candy is a great one too.

EL, "Pam" for sure is a brand name.

And I guess "Diane" could work because there's a very common dish at a lot or restaurants knwn as "Steak Diane."

Richard & Daniel - Stu...Herb...excellent choices.

Rob - I'm pretty sure Bud would have been disqualified as a brand name.

RoCK- a good episode of Seinfeld, indeed.

Laura Lee - those would have caused an argument, is my guess. Although Stacy may have vouched for them.

Mr. Froi Gras?

Barry sounds the same as Berry? You must have one wicked Midwestern accent.

Ginger

Koko (see Seinfeld T-Bone ep)

Donnie B - "Basil" certainly counts. Basil Rathbone, for example. And if "Stu" counts (meaning spelling doesn't) then "Barry" is also a winner.

From the office here: Cookie & Kip. Also Cinnamon, which I think comes under the hippie name heading, but I believe the woman on the original Mission: Impossible team, on television, was named Cinnamon, wasn't she?

And Brandy, as in the Looking Glass song of the same name from the...70s?

Bucky - I actually love that song! {a hef-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-tRXewCAmUg!>Brandy (my attempt at linking, not sure it will work!)

Mission Impossble's Cinnamon was played by Barbara Bain who was billed as "sultry" although I never saw it. She was married to Martin Landau (Movie Mags, hidden under the mattress) who was very dark and dour and I didn't "get" him, either.

I think rule should be that if you squeeze food then the result is still food.

Peaches... and for that matter Herb (maybe some lost points for pronunciation)

good one on Basil.

Hey! I won a prize over on "Unleashed". (Sorry, EL, but you know that I roam sometimes.) It's for National Hairball Day, a topic that is probably more appropriate there than it would be here.

How do you get a prize for National Hairball Day? EL

what about Bill?
{oh, that's comes later}.

EL queries: How do you get a prize for National Hairball Day?

Hard work, dedication and clean living.

P.S. What's in a hairball, anyway?

Donny B, by your logic, salt and vanilla are food. They are not. They are ingredients.

Clay is edible, too, but it isn't food.

dave the suave, taking this topic to a whole new level. Good one.

Bucky -- hairball, meatball, what's the diff?

Lissa,
And ginger, basil, and herb are ingredients too.

Bucky,
Tomorrow you should engage Paco to another wager with a different five. There is enough here to win again, and get another one on the house.

P.S. What's in a hairball, anyway?

Any place where Bret Michaels is.

Bucky -- hairball, meatball, what's the diff?

Grrr.... why do you vex me so?!?

Hey Bucky, don't you know someone named Curry? If Cinamon and Sage count...

And what about Alfredo, (Eggs) Benedict, or my favorites....Mike and Ike!

Would anyone call fowl if I mentioned a couple of legendary ball players...right fielder Ducky Medwick and relief pitcher Goose Gossage?

We used to have a neighbor named Plum, but that was a nickname. And we have a cousin who answers to Sage. We have all met a lot of Bills, I'm sure.

"Hey Bucky, don't you know someone named Curry?"

How about Tim Curry playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show? A double match.

Well, if we can use baseball players, I'll use T-Bone again for T-Bone Shelby. I'll also throw out Randy Moose Milligan, although as someone who has had Moose I am willing to concede that Moose may not be a food...at least not one for humans.

Another option is this man or fish. While it is not indigenous to the Chesapeake Bay region, much like the Mute Swan and the Nutria, it has adapted to our environment.

No one mentioned Meatloaf, as in the singer. does that count?

Nick wrote: Hey Bucky, don't you know someone named Curry?

He's right, I do.

(This, by the way, seems to be the week for George's worlds to collide. Sandbox, meet Nick, aka Bucky, Jr.)

And it never occurred to me before, but why are so many people named after spices? How come we don't all know someone named Carrot, or 'Tater? A question for another day, I suppose.

Blondie..as in the brownie without chocolate?
Dagwood?

The Sandbox never ceases to amze me...Alfredo, Benedict, Dagwood (I've never heard of a Blondie) and Dr. Fran-N-Furter and all the sports names...all good examples (although the sports are really nicknames. Goose Gossage is really Rich.

As to moose, RoCK, yes it is food and I have, in fact, eaten it. My dad used to hunt moose and elk every year. He brought home elk more often than moose, but he got a moose a couple of times.

And Meatloaf...how could I have missed that? "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights" is my favorite rock & roll song ever. Thanks, MDtopdad.

Bucky,
Down here in the south, there is a syndicated morning radio show called "John Boy and Billy, the Big Show on the Radio" and it originates in Charlotte NC. Their female sidekick is called "Tater".

So there you go, a girl named 'Tater.

As they say, tell everybody I said "duh huh!"

I couldnt take it any longer
Lord I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me
Like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my God and on my mothers
Grave
That I would love you to the end of time
I swore that I would love you to the end of time!

So now Im praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I dont think that I can really survive
Ill never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
Im praying for the end of time
Its all that I can do
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time
With you!!!
-----

Classic stuff.

Everyone has heard of The Goose but Ducky may be a more obscure legend!

How come we don't all know someone named Carrot, or 'Tater? A question for another day, I suppose.

Silly! Tater's the dawg's name!

Eve...Ducky Medwick was a New York Giants left fielder, and one of its most popular players, during the 1940s. He had a knack for taking advantage of the unique dimensions of the Polo Grounds where the Giants played. Center field stretched more than 500 feet from home plate. But the foul lines were only about 260 feet away -- and Medwick mastered the art of hitting home runs that would have been singles or outs at any other ball park in the country.

Ron White does a bit where his alias is "Tater Salad". It's pretty funny too.

How about Peanut?

I bet there is a 100-comment post out there with food references/athlete nicknames.

I, for example, am distantly related to Candy Cummings, the pitcher who invented the curve ball.

But that may be a better topic for the Toy Store...

Former Oriole T-Bone Shelby comes to mind.

Lissa, the game was based on names that are also "food terms", not names based on actual "foods."

Names of food ingredients are indeed "food terms", including salt and vanilla....and sherry.

Johnny Evers (of Tinkers to Evers to Chance fame) was nicknamed "The Crab".

Walter Payton ("Sweetness") and Bill Parcells ("Tuna") come to mind.

Bucky,
I promise to shut up on this subject after the following:
Shirley Temple
Strawberry Shortcake
Alfalfa
and the one I can't believe you as Bucky did not use on Saturday........
Buckwheat! (o'tay????)

Lone Lady - WOW. Buckwheat and Alfalfa. I have no idea who they are. Ha Ha Ha. Good ones.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Rices, Condeleezza and Jerry. And how about the cartoonist who created "Joe Palooka"...Ham Fisher?

Bucky,
You've never heard of Our Gang? The antics of a group of little kids.
They were popular a long time ago, like from the 1920s through the 1940s. I remember seeing their grainy shows on TV as a little kid.

If I recall correctly, Saturday Night Live parodied it a bit.

Our Gang

Here is a pic of them. Alfalfa is in the top left corner and Buckwheat is in the lower left corner. Spanky is in the top right corner.

Rob - I was joking. I remember Our Gang (although I'm not sure why, because I wasn't around in the '40s.)

how about a rachel or a rueben? both great sandwiches. or an arnold palmer? not only a drink thats 1/2 tea and 1/2 lemonade but a sandwich thats 1/2 tuna salad and 1/2 egg salad. bill is a restaurant term not a food term and sherry can be a food term if it is cooking sherry. fun game!

A reuben I know...good one. A rachel? I don't know that sandwich. Arnold Palmer...love that drink on a hot day, but never heard the name applied to a sandwich.

Bucky,

The Rachel sandwich is a variation on the standard Reuben sandwich that substitutes pastrami for the corned beef and coleslaw for the sauerkraut. Other recipes for the Rachel call for turkey instead of corned beef or pastrami.

I didn't know either, had to look it up. Sounds good tasty too.

Bucky & Rob,
Great, now I have to drive over to Attman's.:-)