The stereotype of Mormons love for Jello is actually a recent one.

The stereotype was solidified in 1997 when Kraft foods released sales figures, revealing Salt Lake City to have the highest per-capita Jello consumption.

Mormons embraced the stereotype of Jello consumption to assert their religious and cultural identity.

This partnership then developed further, regularly touring in the US performing a set of Hawkwind-centred material sometimes featuring Genesis P-Orridge, Jello Biafra and former Hawkwind members Simon House, Del Dettmar and Powell.

Former Dead Kennedys vocalist and Green Party member Jello Biafra has used the term during interviews as well.

Jello produced during the same time period also exhibits a similar lack of coordination between color and flavor.

Other contributors to the band have included Scott Henderson, John Wright, Andy Kerr, Carolyn Mark, Ken Kempster, Keith Rose, Ford Pier and Jello Biafra, who appeared in spirit form only during a seance conducted by the mystical Holliston.

In fact, by the time recording began, they had already played what would be their last live concert with Jello Biafra and announced their breakup immediately after the record's release.

In 1999, Thayil formed a punk band, the No WTO Combo, with Jello Biafra ( formerly of Dead Kennedys ), Krist Novoselic ( formerly of Nirvana, at the time a member of Sweet 75 ), and Gina Mainwal ( also of Sweet 75 ).

However, according to a January 2010 interview with Jello Biafra, he indicated that a new Lard album was unlikely, saying " Me and Al have talked about it for years, but we ’ ve never been able to nail down a time to try and put it together.

Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.

Matters were stirred up even further when the three bandmates invited Jello Biafra to " bury the hatchet " in the form of a band reunion.

* All songs written by Jello Biafra except when stated.

Jello Biafra was impressed with his guerrilla interview style, but became noticeably angered in a 2000 interview when Nardwuar began to cajole Biafra about Biafra's lawsuit against former Dead Kennedys band mates.

Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra wrote many songs criticizing aspects of the punk subculture, and he once accused the punk magazine Maximum RocknRoll of " punk fundamentalism " when they refused to advertise Alternative Tentacles records because they said the records " weren't punk ".

Jello Biafra had said on his spoken word tours that he wrote the song when he was 18 years old after thinking about how and why people became serial killers, and actually considers it one of his weakest songs.

As many non-Mormons believed their religious practices to be strange, they similarly lumped the love of Jello as part of the strange aspects of being Mormon.

* Mormon Corridor or " Jello Belt "

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

Jourgensen and Barker also formed Lard with Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra, Acid Horse with Cabaret Voltaire, 1000 Homo DJs ( which featured Nine Inch Nails ' Trent Reznor doing vocals on a cover of Black Sabbath's Supernaut ), PTP with Chris Connelly and Pailhead with Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi.

Dead Kennedys lead singer, Jello Biafra, commenting I never thought I'd hear a psychedelic slime band more hardcore than the Green Fuzz, but here they are. The band however fell apart again with Mather leaving, before the single was released in June 1983.

Jello, clearly disapproving of the situation, later wrote, " This is their lowest point since Levi's … This goes against everything the Dead Kennedys stands for in spades … The terrified woman later ' wins ' by killing Tarantino, but that excuse does not rescue this at all.

He has also covered songs by hardcore punk bands such as The Exploited, Jello Biafra, and Black Flag.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Jello's reputation as family-friendly was slightly tarnished by Jello shots and Jello wrestling.

Like Crass, Jello Biafra was influenced by the hippie movement and cited the yippies as a key influence on his political activism and thinking, though he did write songs critical of hippies.

Like Crass, Jello Biafra was influenced by the hippie movement, and cited the yippies as a key influence on his political activism and thinking, though he also wrote songs critical of hippies.

Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray and vocalist Jello Biafra formed the original Alternative Tentacles partnership, but the label is now run by Biafra, who became the sole owner in the mid-1980s.

In addition to musical acts, Alternative Tentacles also publishes spoken word albums, many by Jello Biafra himself.

* June 1 – Alternative Tentacles record label established by Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra.

* Jello Biafra / Dead Kennedys taken to court by the PMRC for content in their album Frankenchrist ; Biafra wins.

The cover art depicted the band together in a bed, accompanied by Jello Biafra.

His guitar work was heavily influenced by surf music, jazz and rockabilly, and, alongside Jello Biafra's astute lyrics and unique vibrato-based vocal style, East Bay Ray's playing was one of the defining factors of the music of the Dead Kennedys, and by extension, of the " second wave " of American punk.

East Bay Ray claims that he has never been consciously influenced by surf music, and attributes the recognizable elements of surf in the Kennedys music to " having grown up in California ," although it could certainly be the influence of Klaus Flouride or Jello Biafra.

East Bay Ray headed the legal struggle to win ownership of Dead Kennedys ' intellectual property and to secure royalties withheld from the band by Jello Biafra.

In the mid-1990s Nixon collaborated on albums with Jello Biafra ( Prairie Home Invasion ), Dave Alvin, and members of the Beat Farmers, including Buddy " Blue " Seigal ( Live in Las Vegas by the Pleasure Barons ).

Produced by the Canadian company Prairie Coast Films and directed by Sean Patrick Shaul, the film focused on Chinn's life, including his drug abuse and schizophrenia, and featured interview footage with such notables as Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene, Corb Lund of the Corb Lund and the Hurtin ' Albertans and The Smalls, and Joey Keithley of D. O. A.

In October 1998, Jello Biafra was sued by former members of the Dead Kennedys.

AK Press has released spoken word albums by distinguished radicals such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Jello Biafra, Arundhati Roy and Mumia Abu-Jamal and music by artists including David Rovics and Utah Phillips.

In 2006 Farrell appeared with Jello Biafra and Keith Gordon in the documentary Whose War ?, examining the U. S. role in the Iraq War.

People who make appearances in the film include: Mary Crosby, of the nighttime soap opera Dallas ; character actors Clu Gulager and Doug McClure ; footballer Lyle Alzado ; ' 60s icon Connie Stevens ; Soul Train host Don Cornelius ; singer Courtney Love ; original " Human Beat-Box " Doug E. Fresh ; ska-punk band Fishbone ( who also performs the incidental score ) as " Ranchbone "; Lords of the New Church singer Stiv Bators ; Ted Nugent ; Weird Al Yankovic ; and Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, in a cameo as an F. B. I.

Jello Biafra's biting lyrics tackled the sociopolitical concerns of the Reagan era with a distinct sense of morbid humor and satire, following in the footsteps of such earlier rock satirists as Frank Zappa and non-musical countercultural figures like Abbie Hoffman and Lenny Bruce.

The original band lineup consisted of Jello Biafra ( Eric Reed Boucher ) on vocals, East Bay Ray on guitar, Klaus Flouride ( Geoffrey Lyall ) on bass, and Ted ( Bruce Slesinger ) on drums and percussion.

Jello Biafra brought up the court case after the break-up of the band on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Former band members claimed that Jello Biafra had conspired to pay lower royalty rates to the band members.

Jello Biafra felt it was unprofessional because no one contacted him directly.

When asked about the " DK " logo in an interview, Jello Biafra explained, "... I wanted to make sure it was something simple and easy to spray-paint so people would graffiti it all over the place, and then I showed it to Winston Smith.

Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys, in the song " Saturday Night Holocaust ", likened disco to the cabaret culture of Weimar-era Germany for its apathy towards government policies and its escapism.

The baby boom saw a significant increase in sales for Jello.

Many Jello dishes, such as desserts and jello salads, became special occasion foods rather than everyday items.

By 1986, a market study concluded that mothers with young children rarely purchased Jello.

To turn things around, Jello hired Dana Gioia to stop the decline.

The marketing team revisited the Jello recipes that had been published in past cookbooks and rediscovered Jigglers, although the original recipe did not use that name.

These are Jello snacks molded into fun shapes that can be eaten as finger food.

Jello launched a massive marketing campaign, notable featuring Bill Cosby as a company spokesman.

Jello is especially popular among Mormons.

Media reports in 1969 and 1988 on foods popular among Mormons or in Utah make no mention of Jello, and a 1988 articles mentions Jello as being a Lutheran tradition.