Pillsbury Hardcore formed in the summer of 1984 out the ashes of Disinfection & DDT. The band was named by a friend, Pat Kwee, after another friend (Dean Riley Stokes, who on the first gig was their guitar player) who resembled the Pillsbury Doughboy and was feverishly into hardcore, hence Pillsbury Hardcore. Their first show was a party where everybody was getting drunk, in retaliation to what they were experiencing, they borrowed instruments and called themselves “The Straight Edge Fascists/Pillsbury Hardcore”.