You can't eat the word food is made up of Ally Clark (Drums), Douglas Braid (Vocals,Bass), Stephen Cafferty (Guitar) and Gary Ward (Vocals,Guitar). The Food are all childhood friends who pooled their collective influences together from across the spectrum of popular music, then hunkered down to find sound, then maybe shake it around. Songs flowed, names came and went, many best not mentioned. It is uncertain exactly how the name was first mooted, but it was seized upon immediately. It was initially just another title for a song, but it became clear that it had far more iconic potential with regards to representing the band as a whole.