15 New Famous Foods for (Hungry) Modern Audiences

By Zach Dionne Posted Mar 9th 2010 09:20AM

We all know eggs Benedict, but who the heck was Benedict? It's about time we upgrade foods named after famous people. And while we're at it, we might as well toss some totally new ones into the mix.

Oysters Kid Rock
Rockefeller has become a descriptor, not a person. We need a fresh face behind the dish formerly known as Oysters Rockefeller. How about... Kid Rock?

After the jump, Lady Gaga Fingers, Bananas Jodie Foster, Heath Ledger Bar and the rest.

Eggs Benicio
Once named after a Pope called Benedict, we'd rechristen this breakfast delight to channel the star of that marathon film about Che Guevara.

Lady Gaga Fingers
Her music has already made enough money to retire Akon. Why not ice the cake with a Gagalicious dessert?

Fettuccine Alf
While it's critical to keep the Great Re-naming as of-the-moment as possible, part of this exercise involves sorting through celebrities of yore and deeming who's worthy of being canonized in cuisine. Alf has returned to our hearts via Twitter, so why not shorten up the whole "Alfredo" bit and make this dish his?

Tyra-misu
From Victoria's Secret model to talk-show host to dessert. Bing, bang, boom.

Bloody (Mariah) Carey
This Bloody Mary reboot rhymes and gives us instant LOLs in memory of Mariah's drunken speech at the Palm Springs Film Festival. (We're all about the LOLs.)

Bananas Jodie Foster
The original Bananas Foster was named after a loyal customer to a New Orleans restaurant. Let's give Agent Clarice Starling her culinary due, shall we?

Heath Ledger Bar
What better way to remember one of the finest actors of our time than with one of the tastiest candy bars of our time?

Mountain Dude
We'd like to commemorate Jeff Bridge's Oscar win by giving this soda a shot of Lebowski.

Chris Pineapple
If we're going to propose branding fruit with Hollywood heroes, we're going to start with our fearless new Captain Kirk.

Alec Baldwin Apple
Wikipedia tells us the Baldwin apple was named after a Revolutionary War commander. We'd prefer to canonize '30 Rock' every time we chomp into one of these suckers.

Dax Shepard's Pie
Tell your family it's just plain old shepherd's pie, then TOTALLY PUNK THEM with the updated name.

General Moe's Chicken

'The Simpsons' has been on for a hundred years. Give it a dang food. No one knows who General Tso is, anyway.

Ruben Studdard Sandwich
If 'American Idol' can't permeate this food re-naming madness, all is lost.

GOB Salad
Sure, Will Arnett's brilliant 'Arrested Development' character is supposed to rhyme with "robe," but it gets hilariously mispronounced enough to give him the keys to the Cobb salad re-naming.

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