3 years after The Great Bread Incident, Smash Mouth returns to Colorado food fest

CLOSE From the archive: Smash Mouth's lead singer cursed out the crowd after he was hit with a piece of bread at the Taste of Fort Collins festival in 2015. Coloradoan staff, Fort Collins Coloradoan

Smash Mouth singer is seen photoshopped to be holding a piece of bread, in a Wonder bread teeshirt. (Photo: Photo by Austin Humphreys, Meme by Unknown internet user)

Who says you can't go home? And by home, I mean the state where — angered by the sight of flying bread slices — you screamed profanities into a crowd of concertgoers at a food festival.

That's right. Three years after the Great Smash Mouth Bread Incident of 2015, the band is heading back to another Colorado food event.

Smash Mouth, along with REO Speedwagon and LeAnn Rimes, will headline Denver's Taste of Colorado this summer, according to The Denver Post. The food and music festival starts Sept. 1 in the city's Civic Center.

If you were living in Fort Collins in 2015, you likely remember the odd — and viral — unfolding of the band's performance at Taste of Fort Collins, when lead vocalist Steve Harwell unleashed a string of curse words into the family-filled crowd.

Audience members had been given bread samples before the show by a vendor and some were throwing slices in the crowd — a few of which landed on the stage.

Harwell yelled profanities, elicited boos from the crowd, was subdued by a security guard and walked off the stage ahead of the band's encore. The incident spurred some jokes and tweets, including one naming the tirade the #breadpocalypse.

For more information on the Taste of Colorado, head to atasteofcolorado.com.

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