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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, another example of the "Russian Roulette" version. They're presented as the [[CallARabbitASmeerp Wizarding World equivalent]] to jelly beans, and the majority of them seem quite normal. The catch is, when they say "every flavor," they ''[[ExactWords really mean it]]''. Dumbledore, who is otherwise known for his SweetTooth, swore off them in the past after sampling a vomit-flavored bean. Later in the series, he gives them another shot, only to get one flavored of earwax.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, another example of the "Russian Roulette" version. They're presented as the [[CallARabbitASmeerp Wizarding World equivalent]] to jelly beans, and the majority of them seem quite normal. The catch is, when they say "every flavor," they ''[[ExactWords really mean it]]''. In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Dumbledore, who is otherwise known for his SweetTooth, says he swore off them in the past off as a boy after sampling a vomit-flavored bean. Later in the series, After mentioning this to Harry, he gives them another shot, only to get one flavored of earwax. earwax.
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* The [[UsefulNotes/ModernEgypt Egyptian]] spring festival of ''Sham el-Nessim'' involves a lot of people going on picnics and eating at least some of the three traditional foods of the season: romaine lettuce, lupini beans, and fesikh. The first two are self-explanatory; the last is what belongs in this list. Fesikh is a dish consisting of sun-dried, salted, and fermented gray mullet. The stuff stinks to high heaven during preparation and doesn't smell much better once prepared (the odor is sometimes compared to urine--if the witness is being charitable). Every year, the Egyptian government advises people to please be careful where they are getting their fesikh from this Sham el-Nessim because dodgy fesikh regularly sickens or even kills a few people. Still, the dish has an ancient pedigree (possibly even an [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgypt Ancient]] pedigree), so the people aren't giving it up.[[note]]A connection to Ancient Egypt can't be proven, but Sham el-Nessim is a direct descendant of the well-documented Ancient Egyptian festival of Shemu. A fertility festival, the ceremonies apparently involved the Pharaoh pleasuring himself into the Nile to ensure a good harvest. The other two foods associated with Sham el-Nessim--romaine lettuce and lupini beans--are known to have had similarly literal connotations of fertility in Ancient Egyptian culture (the lettuce being a straight, rigid phallic symbol full of milky liquid, the lupini looking like testes), with the fish (meant to represent female genitalia) to have similar connotations of fertility.[[/note]]
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* The [[UsefulNotes/ModernEgypt Egyptian]] spring festival of ''Sham el-Nessim'' involves a lot of people going on picnics and eating at least some of the three traditional foods of the season: romaine lettuce, lupini beans, and fesikh. The first two are self-explanatory; the last is what belongs in this list. Fesikh is a dish consisting of sun-dried, salted, and fermented gray mullet. The stuff stinks to high heaven during preparation and doesn't smell much better once prepared (the odor is sometimes compared to urine--if the witness is being charitable). Every year, the Egyptian government advises people to please be careful where they are getting their fesikh from this Sham el-Nessim because dodgy fesikh regularly sickens or even kills a few people. Still, the dish has an ancient pedigree (possibly even an [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgypt Ancient]] pedigree), so the people aren't giving it up.[[note]]A connection to Ancient Egypt can't be proven, but Sham el-Nessim is a direct descendant of the well-documented Ancient Egyptian festival of Shemu. A fertility festival, the ceremonies apparently involved the Pharaoh pleasuring himself into the Nile to ensure a good harvest. The other two foods associated with Sham el-Nessim--romaine lettuce and lupini beans--are known to have had similarly literal connotations of fertility in Ancient Egyptian culture (the lettuce being a straight, rigid phallic symbol full of milky liquid, the lupini looking like testes), with so it would make sense for the fish (meant to represent female genitalia) to have similar connotations of genitalia and fertility.[[/note]]
