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** ''([[{{Portmanteau}} SubvertExaggerated!]])'' Julia's food looks and smells absolutely disgusting. However, if someone [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight gave it a chance]], they'd notice that it tastes [[SupremeChef absolutely divine]].

** Julia can't even microwave...or make ''[[SeriousBusiness toast!]]''

** [[Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn Bianchi]]'cook is bad enough to use ''as weapon!''

** [[Manga/KatekyouHitmanReborn Bianchi]]'cook is bad enough to use ''as weapon!''

** Julia cannot even microwave...or make ''[[SeriousBusiness toast]]''.

** Every dish Julia makes becomes a sentient, [[BodyHorror eternally rotting]] predatory monster literally overflowing with disease which has a symbiotic relationship with maggots and rats, which spreads huge megaoverdoses of AIDS, [=H1N1=] influenza, Ebola, gonorrhea, radiation poisoning, Zika, Spanish Flu, bubonic plague, malaria and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking constipation]] to dozens of innocents who consume it, eventually ''killing them''.

* '''Double Subverted''': She ordered take out that time.

* '''Straight''': Everything Alice tries to cook tastes bad.

** Alice cannot even microwave...or make ''[[SeriousBusiness toast]]''.
** Everyone pukes and runs screaming from the house when it's announced that Alice will be cooking dinner tonight.
** Alice's cooking has a body count (and an investigation by the police, the District Attorney, or the Center for Disease Control) associated with it.
** Alice's cooking [[FoodEatsYou becomes animate and attacks people]].
** Every dish Alice makes becomes a sentient, [[BodyHorror eternally rotting]] predatory monster literally overflowing with disease which has a symbiotic relationship with maggots and rats, which spreads huge megaoverdoses of AIDS, [=H1N1=] influenza, Ebola, gonorrhea, radiation poisoning, Zika, Spanish Flu, bubonic plague, malaria and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking constipation]] to dozens of innocents who consume it, eventually ''killing them''.

** Alice is a fair to average chef. She sucks sometimes, but can also turn out some good dishes.
** Alice burns stuff in the kitchen all the time, but she can make a decent meal sometimes.
** Alice is a OneNoteCook. She can cook one dish with no problem, but any attempt to cook anything else will end badly.

** Alice thinks she's a good cook, but isn't.
** Alice isn't old enough to understand the basics of cooking.
** Alice is dyslexic, so she has a hard time reading and comprehending the recipes.
** Alice is a stoner and/or CloudCuckoolander and comes up with her culinary experiments while high or in one of her "wacky" moods.
** Alice was never taught how to cook at any point in her life, and had to make do with what she gleaned from television and watching others, which ping-pongs between "Not bad, for someone who's never done it in her life" to "Very bad, even for someone who's never done it in her life"
** Alice is an alien from another planet (or a FunnyForeigner from another country) where the standards of what's tasty and what isn't are ''very'' warped.
* '''Inverted''': Alice is a SupremeChef.

** We hear Alice is a horrible chef, but her food is okay.
** ''([[{{Portmanteau}} SubvertExaggerated!]])'' Alice's food looks and smells absolutely disgusting. However, if someone [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight gave it a chance]], they'd notice that it tastes [[SupremeChef absolutely divine]].
** There is a body count associated with Alice's cooking (Exaggerated #3), but the deaths are due to diseases from severe unbalances in nutrition values. If anything, the taste is actually quite good.
** Alice takes a cooking class, and her cooking skills improve as a result.
** There was one occasion when Alice's food tasted appalling. However, that was because the only available ingredients were so bad, even [[SupremeChef award-winning chef Monsieur Le Bien]] could not make anything decent either.

** Alice's culinary "experiments" have caught the attention of the Center for Disease Control and after her latest attempt at dinner, the CDC come in and quarantine her kitchen.
--> '''Alice:''' OhNoNotAgain
** [[EpicFail When Alice pours herself a bowl of cereal, it catches fire]].

** Alice's cooking ability depends on what ingredients she has in her house. When she has enough money for groceries, she makes great food; when money's tight, it's time to break out the Tums and the airline barfbags.
** Alice sucks at cooking actual dishes (appetizers and main courses), but is a whiz at baking and pastries.

** Alice is too lazy to cook and has never tried.
** Alice's cooking isn't terrible, but it's not Cordon Bleu quality either.
* '''Enforced''': "What better way to paint Alice as a ditzy Cloudcuckoolander than to have her completely unable to cook? ''Brilliant''!"

** "Is it even POSSIBLE for chilled tomato soup to [[AteTheSpoon DISSOLVE THE FLIPPIN' BOWL]] unless it's made by Alice?"
** "Either someone's using the Necronomicon as a cookbook, or Alice's in the kitchen again."
* '''Invoked''': A chef teaches Alice to cook in the most wrong ways possible.
* '''Exploited''': The hero finds out that [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] needs a new chef. They have Alice apply for the job so she can assassinate the Emperor with her cooking not-skills.

** Realizing Alice doesn't know the first thing about cooking, her friends ban her from the kitchen.
** Alice knows her cooking sucks and tries to get help for it (or says, [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck it!"]] and orders take-out food).
* '''Discussed''': "Hey, Laika! Dinner at Alice's tonight! Don't forget the [[NoodleImplements first aid kit, fire extinguisher and silver bullets!]]"

* '''Implied''': The main characters take turns cooking for each other, but (as an observant viewer would notice) Alice never gets a turn.

** Alice's inability to cook makes it hard for people to take her seriously as a useful member of the household.
** Alice starts a fire with one of her cooking disasters.

** Alice is literal ''lethal'' chef. Her atrocious cooking ends up claiming the lives of a lot of innocent, unsuspecting people.
** If Alice is a FunnyForeigner or an alien, her friends may develop a taste for her exotic dishes.
** Alice is cooking for an army out in the middle of nowhere, or her impoverished family. Naturally, she has just wasted precious resources and put everyone at closer risk of starving.
** That meal Alice just ruined was their last bit of food.

** Alice encourages her friends to try new foods (i.e. her cooking), but they don't.

** The characters tell jokes about Alice's cooking, and Alice is okay with this.
** [[KillEmAll Everyone in town]] is DrivenToSuicide [[ComicalOverreacting over Alice's cooking]].

** Alice's lifelong dream is to become a great chef, but her [[GiftedlyBad inherently terrible skills]] and inability to improve make it hard for her to succeed.
** Alice's cooking causes a fatal case of food poisoning and she vows never to set foot in a kitchen again.
** "Justified #2" (the "Alice is dyslexic" excuse) and "Justified #4" (the "Alice grew up with no one to teach her how to cook") if done as a VerySpecialEpisode of a TV show.
** In the final episode of the show, Alice starts a fire in the kitchen. The fire burns the whole town down, and [[KillEmAll everyone dies]].

* '''Straight''': Everything Julia tries to cook tastes bad.

** Julia cannot even microwave...or make ''[[SeriousBusiness toast]]''.
** Everyone pukes and runs screaming from the house when it's announced that Julia will be cooking dinner tonight.
** Julia's cooking has a body count (and an investigation by the police, the District Attorney, or the Center for Disease Control) associated with it.
** Julia's cooking [[FoodEatsYou becomes animate and attacks people.]]
** Every dish Julia makes becomes a sentient, [[BodyHorror eternally rotting]] predatory monster literally overflowing with disease which has a symbiotic relationship with maggots and rats, which spreads huge megaoverdoses of AIDS, [=H1N1=] influenza, Ebola, gonorrhea, radiation poisoning, Zika, Spanish Flu, bubonic plague, malaria and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking constipation]] to dozens of innocents who consume it, eventually ''killing them''.

** Julia is a fair to average chef. She sucks sometimes, but can also turn out some good dishes.
** Julia burns stuff in the kitchen all the time, but she can make a decent meal sometimes.
** Julia is a OneNoteCook. She can cook one dish with no problem, but any attempt to cook anything else will end badly.

** Julia thinks she's a good cook, but isn't.
** Julia isn't old enough to understand the basics of cooking.
** Julia is dyslexic, so she has a hard time reading and comprehending the recipes.
** Julia is a stoner and/or CloudCuckoolander and comes up with her culinary experiments while high or in one of her "wacky" moods.
** Julia was never taught how to cook at any point in her life, and had to make do with what she gleaned from television and watching others, which ping-pongs between "Not bad, for someone who's never done it in her life" to "Very bad, even for someone who's never done it in her life"
** Julia is an alien from another planet (or a FunnyForeigner from another country) where the standards of what's tasty and what isn't are ''very'' warped.
* '''Inverted''': Julia is a SupremeChef.

** We hear Julia is a horrible chef, but her food is okay.
** ''([[{{Portmanteau}} SubvertExaggerated!]])'' Julia's food looks and smells absolutely disgusting. However, if someone [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight gave it a chance]], they'd notice that it tastes [[SupremeChef absolutely divine]].
** There is a body count associated with Julia's cooking (Exaggerated #3), but the deaths are due to diseases from severe unbalances in nutrition values. If anything, the taste is actually quite good.
** Julia takes a cooking class, and her cooking skills improve as a result.
** There was one occasion when Julia's food tasted appalling. However, that was because the only available ingredients were so bad, even [[SupremeChef award-winning chef Monsieur Le Bien]] could not make anything decent either.

** Julia's culinary "experiments" have caught the attention of the Center for Disease Control and after her latest attempt at dinner, the CDC come in and quarantine her kitchen.
--> '''Julia:''' OhNoNotAgain
** [[EpicFail When Julia pours herself a bowl of cereal, it catches fire]].

** Julia's cooking ability depends on what ingredients she has in her house. When she has enough money for groceries, she makes great food; when money's tight, it's time to break out the Tums and the airline barfbags.
** Julia sucks at cooking actual dishes (appetizers and main courses), but is a whiz at baking and pastries.

** Julia is too lazy to cook and has never tried.
** Julia's cooking isn't terrible, but it's not Cordon Bleu quality either.
* '''Enforced''': "What better way to paint Julia as a ditzy Cloudcuckoolander than to have her completely unable to cook? ''Brilliant''!"

** "Is it even POSSIBLE for chilled tomato soup to [[AteTheSpoon DISSOLVE THE FLIPPIN' BOWL]] unless it's made by Julia?"
** "Either someone's using the Necronomicon as a cookbook, or Julia's in the kitchen again."
* '''Invoked''': A chef teaches Julia to cook in the most wrong ways possible.
* '''Exploited''': The hero finds out that [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] needs a new chef. They have Julia apply for the job so she can assassinate the Emperor with her cooking not-skills.

** Realizing Julia doesn't know the first thing about cooking, her friends ban her from the kitchen.
** Julia knows her cooking sucks and tries to get help for it (or says, [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck it!"]] and orders take-out food).
* '''Discussed''': "Hey, Laika! Dinner at Julia's tonight! Don't forget the [[NoodleImplements first aid kit, fire extinguisher and silver bullets!]]"

* '''Implied''': The main characters take turns cooking for each other, but (as an observant viewer would notice) Julia never gets a turn.

** Julia's inability to cook makes it hard for people to take her seriously as a useful member of the household.
** Julia starts a fire with one of her cooking disasters.

** Julia is literal ''lethal'' chef. Her atrocious cooking ends up claiming the lives of a lot of innocent, unsuspecting people.
** If Julia is a FunnyForeigner or an alien, her friends may develop a taste for her exotic dishes.
** Julia is cooking for an army out in the middle of nowhere, or her impoverished family. Naturally, she has just wasted precious resources and put everyone at closer risk of starving.
** That meal Julia just ruined was their last bit of food.

** Julia encourages her friends to try new foods (i.e. her cooking), but they don't.

** The characters tell jokes about Julia's cooking, and Julia is okay with this.
** [[KillEmAll Everyone in town]] is DrivenToSuicide [[ComicalOverreacting over Julia's cooking]].

** Julia's lifelong dream is to become a great chef, but her [[GiftedlyBad inherently terrible skills]] and inability to improve make it hard for her to succeed.
** Julia's cooking causes a fatal case of food poisoning and she vows never to set foot in a kitchen again.
** "Justified #2" (the "Julia is dyslexic" excuse) and "Justified #4" (the "Julia grew up with no one to teach her how to cook") if done as a VerySpecialEpisode of a TV show.
** In the final episode of the show, Julia starts a fire in the kitchen. The fire burns the whole town down, and [[KillEmAll everyone dies]].

** Every dish Julia makes becomes a sentient, [[BodyHorror perpetually decaying and mutating]] predatory lifeform literally overflowing with disease which has a symbiotic relationship with maggots and rats, that spreads huge megaoverdoses of AIDS, [=H1N1=] influenza, Ebola, gonorrhea, radiation, Spanish Flu, bubonic plague, malaria and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking constipation]] to dozens of innocents who consume it, and eventually ''kills them''.

** Every dish Julia makes becomes a sentient, [[BodyHorror perpetually decaying and mutating]] predatory lifeform literally overflowing with disease which has a symbiotic relationship with maggots and rats, that spreads huge megaoverdoses of AIDS, [=H1N1=] influenza, Ebola, gonorrhea, radiation, Spanish Flu, bubonic plague, malaria [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and constipation]] to dozens of innocents who consume it, and eventually ''kill them''.

** Julia knows her cooking sucks and tries to get help for it (or says, "Fuck it!" and orders take-out food).

* '''Lampshaded''': "Is it even POSSIBLE for chilled tomato soup to [[AteTheSpoon DISSOLVE THE FLIPPIN' BOWL]] unless it's made by Julia?"

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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

** Every dish Julia makes becomes a sentient, [[BodyHorror perpetually decaying and mutating]] predatory lifeform literally overflowing with disease which has a symbiotic relationship with maggots, that spreads huge megaoverdoses of AIDS, [=H1N1=] influenza, Ebola, gonorrhea, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and constipation]] to dozens of innocents who consume it, and eventually ''kill them''.

** Every dish Julia makes becomes a sapient predatory life form literally overflowing with disease and constantly decaying and rotting and has a symbiotic relationship with maggots, which spread AIDS, [=H1N1=] influenza, malaria, gonorrhea, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and constipation]] to dozens of innocents who consume it, and ''kill them''.

** Julia cannot even microwave...or even make ''[[SeriousBusiness toast]]''.

** Every dish Julia makes becomes a sapient predatory life form literally overflowing with disease and constantly decaying and rotting and has a symbiotic relationship with maggots, which spread AIDS, H1N1 influenza, malaria, gonorrhea, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and constipation]] to dozens of innocents who consume it, and ''kill them''.

** Julia can't even microwave...or make Cup-O-Noodles.

* '''Played For Laughs''': The characters tell jokes about Julia's cooking, and Julia is okay with this.

* '''Implied''': The main characters take turns cooking for each other, but (as an observant viewer would notice) Julia never gets a turn.

* '''Discussed''': "Why is it that there's always one character in these ensemble sitcoms who can't even put ice cream in a bowl without setting fire to the kitchen?"
* '''Conversed''': "Hey, Laika! Dinner at Julia's tonight! Don't forget the [[NoodleImplements first aid kit, fire extinguisher and silver bullets!]]"

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

** Julia was never taught how to cook at any point in her life, and had to make do with what she gleaned from television and watching others.

* '''Subverted''': We hear Julia is a horrible chef, but her food is okay.
** '''Exaggerated:''' Julia's food looks and smells absolutely disgusting. However, if someone [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight gave it a chance]], they'd notice that it tastes [[SupremeChef absolutely divine]].