To add on to
that bit about them
stealing the name from an article in the
NME: They were originally going to be known as the
Pop Tarts until they read that article and thought it was a cool phrase.
In the late 1980's, Jeremy J. Beadle published a book entitled Will Pop Eat Itself? Though the Poppies are mentioned in this book, it is not about them, but rather a defense of sampling when it was in its relative infancy (as far as common use anyway).