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Don't mind me, just eating this bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed.
I used to work in a roadhouse, and I remember one band had this in their rider as a joke… But our producer actually took the time to pick out all of the brown ones from a giant fishbowl.
The band was equally amused and horrified when they realized. The lead singer was like “yeah we added that to our rider as a joke. We’ve never had anyone actually do it before. Now I feel kinda bad that she had to sit there and dig all of them out…”
Meanwhile, she had an entire bowl of brown M&Ms sitting on her desk to snack on.
So, it was originally more than a joke.
More a heuristic to verify whether the venue manager had bothered to read and comply with the contract for a pyrotechnics heavy performance.
Oh, I know the origins. I just thought it was funny that a band added it to their rider as a joke many decades later, and then was aghast when they realized they had contractually obligated someone to sit there and sort through their entire fish bowl. Like I said, every other venue they had been to simply ignored that line.