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Half-Remembered Local Rock Star Steve Harwell (of Smash Mouth) Promises to Eat Two Dozen Eggs in Public for Fame

Ian S. Port Sep 15, 2011 9:36 AM

Steve Harwell, tall and the center, pre-egg-eating.

In in today's "file under disgusting":

Dared by Internet trolls earlier this year to consume two dozen chicken eggs, Steve Harwell -- singer of a once-briefly-cared-about San Jose band called Smash Mouth -- agreed. But only on the condition that all the eggs were emblazoned with the lines "Hey now, you're an all star!" and $10,000 was raised for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. (Oh sorry, we made up the first part.)

Well, Internet trolls are obsessive, the goal was met in less than a week, and Harwell laid plans to eat 24 eggs. Because the whole thing was apparently not nauseating enough, TV food personality Guy Fieri (he of spiky hair and Santa Rosa barbecue-sushi operation Tex Wasabi's) has agreed to cook them for Harwell at his East Bay restaurant, which is called (speaking of something awful) Johnny Garlic's.