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9->''"You have to try my latest treat''\
10''A jellyfish inside a beet!"''
11-->-- '''David Read''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', "Leftovers Goulash", "Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival"
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13The Cordon Bleugh Chef is a "chef" who does know how to cook but seems to be willing to [[BizarreTasteInFood combine foods that should never be used in the same dish or, in the worst cases, even in the same universe]]. If the resulting dish doesn't cause an ''[[CallingYourNausea urge to purge]]'' with just the taste, [[IAteWHAT finding out what was in it surely will]]. At the very least, many of those eating will comment that it [[ItTastesLikeFeet tastes like something the dish has no right to be tasting like given its ingredients]].
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15Some examples of disgusting dishes a Cordon Bleugh Chef might create include things like strawberry and liver pate cakes, lemon curd with ham and sardines, chocolate cod roe, parsnip brownies, [[Series/DoctorWho fish fingers and custard]], and endless other stomach-emptying recipes. Occasionally though, the combination [[TastesBetterThanItLooks actually turns out to taste pretty good]], at least [[OnlyOneFindsItFun to one person out of the group]].
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17Cordon Bleugh Chef is not about "chefs" who make food that either looks absolutely disgusting or is even harmful to the one unlucky enough to eat it; that's LethalChef. It also isn't when someone adjusts already-created food to make it more "appealing"; that's BizarreTasteInFood. Although it could make them into an AngryChef, feeling like everyone else just can't appreciate "original works of art" like he can.
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19In Japan this trope is known as メシマズ or "meshimazu", and is increasingly used as a {{Moe}} trait.
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21Compare ForeignQueasine: foreign dishes such as {{haggis|IsHorrible}}, deep-fried tarantulas and casu marzu[[note]]"rotten cheese", Sardinian typical soft sheep milk cheese containing live insect larvae, which ferment and melt the cheese from the inside; illegal to buy or sell in almost every part of the world.[[/note]] which are fairly popular in their own country but would be thought of as too disgusting to try by many people in other countries. See IAteWhat for when people don't find out what it contains till it's eaten.
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23Compare and contrast OvercomplicatedMenuOrder, which may or may not involve mixing two foods together and/or modifying it to oblivion like this trope, but coming from someone's order.
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30* Taeko of ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi''. Three words: "Strawberry jam curry." Or try her tomato-in-chocolate tempura with [[SweetTooth her tendency to put chocolate in everything]].
31* Baldroy in ''Manga/BlackButler'' would probably be a decent cook if he didn't think the goal of cooking was to destroy the food violently. The real reason he's on the Phantomhive household staff is because he's one hell of a gunner. The cooking part is mainly for looks.
32* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Orihime is very fond of putting ingredients together in ways that scare most people away from her dishes. {{Subverted|Trope}} in the manga, where her food is [[TastesBetterThanItLooks surprisingly delicious]] when someone finally tastes it, and she's talented enough to cook for a bakery; but played straight in the anime, where her stomach-churning food becomes a RunningGag.
33* Ayumi from ''Anime/{{Charlotte}}'' seems to be a decent cook, judging from Yuu's reaction to the noodles she makes in Episode 5... The problem is, most of the time she puts pizza sauce in ''everything'', from rice to French toast.
34* Cecile Croomy from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is one of these, much to the dismay of anyone who tries to eat her food, especially her boss Lloyd and their subordinate Suzaku (who's too nice to say anything).
35* In ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'', the Gorilla (who works at a Sushi bar) served his boss banana sushi. It had a deeper meaning, though.
36* In the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' movie, Taichi and Hikari's mom Yuuko has come up with such original dishes as spinach cookies, potato juice and [[RunningGag beef jerky shakes]]. Somehow Izzy/Koushirou likes ''all'' of it. In the [[Anime/DigimonTheMovie dub of the movie]], she states "It's the first time I've used flour to make a cake", when Izzy asks if he's put in enough. It gets burnt in the microwave, anyway.
37** Izzy still gets sick from the cooking, which is no mean feat, considering an early episode established him as liking things such as mustard and jelly beans on eggs.
38** Worth noticing that this is all added by the English dub. The original movie ''Bokura no War Game'' had Koushiro needing to pee because Taichi's mother served him too much (perfectly normal) Oolong tea.
39** There's also Mimi's mom, who makes kimchi fried rice with strawberries and cream. [[BizarreTasteInFood Mimi doesn't mind at all]] and seems to take after her in ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' when she tops Sora's savory cooking with whipped cream and jelly beans. Once again, Izzy isn’t brave enough to try it, though the Digimon seem to like it well enough. In spite of this, the epilogue to ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' shows that she became a celebrity chef.
40* In an episode of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', the Legendary Warriors have to prepare hamburgers to help appease a local tyrant of a digimon [[spoiler:revealed to be Petalmon]] to save a family of digimon. Everyone tries to make a knockout burger to win over the digimon with varying degrees of success and failure. Takuya and Koji are the most extreme as they end up in a competition to come up with the better burger but keep making bizarre creations like burgers made from random seafood to one made from all ''fruit''.
41* ''Manga/FoodWars'':
42** Soma is an absolute whiz in the kitchen, capable of turning even the most basic ingredients into [[FoodPorn dishes so good]] they're almost literally BetterThanSex. The flip side is his infamous squid tentacles with peanut butter, which makes the people who eat them feel violated. His father is much the same way, producing dishes which have made him a '''GOD''' in the culinary world... and a snake-based dish Soma describes as "legendarily bad." There was also a mention of the infamous sardines in strawberry jam. In both these cases, there is some justification, as both have cooking styles which rely heavily on "brute force"-experimentation to create new flavor combinations (rather than extrapolating from known recipes or using knowledge of food chemistry), so it's pretty inevitable some of their experiments would end like this. However, both father and son take a certain level of sadistic glee in watching people's reactions to their cordon bleugh experiments.
43** Soma's classmate Alice is a devotee of molecular gastronomy, a real-life culinary movement that (as mentioned elsewhere on this page) uses science to (in essence) subvert this trope. Many of her dishes involve ingredients you wouldn't necessarily think really worked together until you tasted them...and then it snaps into place. A lot of her recipes seem to be specifically inspired by Heston Blumenthal (who, besides the strange combinations and application of new techniques, loves messing with people's expectations, a trait exhibited by Alice), whose cooking is listed later on this page.
44** Nao Sadatsuka, who is in the same year as them, has a different approach to this. She specializes in boiled dishes which smell and look ''repulsive'' at first glance, but they taste so good, once people get a taste they can't stop eating, comparing it to BDSM.
45* Kyo's uncle and adoptive father Kazuma from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' does this. He is also incapable of making tea without messing something up.
46* Yamada Ayumi from ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'' specializes in things like apple and mint curry.
47* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureTheJOJOLands'', Usagi utilizes this trait against [[VillainOfTheWeek The Cat]] when he scattered meat patties mixed with caviar to lure it towards a rock to capture it with his Stand.
48* Kitaoka Yume from ''Manga/{{Kanamemo}}'' is an apprentice at a local patisserie and adds sugar to absolutely everything she cooks, even if it's not supposed to be sweet. Other characters are not impressed, but Yume's desserts are actually very good.
49* In ''Manga/KurokosBasketball'', Riko Aida, Seirin's coach, often cooks delicious-looking meals for the team after a rough game... but much to the boys' chagrin, she not-so-sneakily adds in various vitamins, supplements, and protein powders to make them more nutritious.
50* From ''Literature/LostUniverse'', Millie's cooking [[SupremeChef actually IS excellent]]: in spite of producing such horrible-sounding concoctions as bacon ice cream and raisin jerky pizza, everyone likes it if they try it. On the other hand she is something of a LethalChef... Due to obliterating the kitchen in fiery explosions every time she cooks, explosions which nonetheless leave the fruits of her labor unblemished.
51* The "Magical Cooking" one-shot of the ''[[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Comic A la Carte]]'' official anthology book featured Vivio baking some cookies for Einhart. While she's normally a pretty decent chef, she kinda oversold her abilities, and now she felt that she had to bake something more impressive than usual. So she took an ordinary cookie recipe, added some powdered milk, filled it with caviar before baking it, smothered it with a bottle of brandy...
52* In ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'', Hina's initial, unguided attempt at making bento for Takahashi results in a bad tasting meal, partially because of bad seasoning and partially because she mix-and-matches a lot of ingredients and sub-dishes in an overzealous attempt at making an extravagant meal.
53* In the ''[[Anime/NegimaSecondSeason Negima!?]]'' anime, Takahata attempts to make "World Delicacy Noodles" by combining foods from all around the world into one bowl of ramen. It's very effective at rendering other characters unconscious.
54* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
55** Misato Katsuragi likes to mix TV-dinners together, such as combining ramen and curry.
56** In the spin-off video game ''Girlfriend of Steel'' Rei, the stoic, heroic death seeker, isn't game enough to try it until she's seen that it's okay. Tasting it results in a PastelChalkedFreezeFrame played for laughs. The only exception is Pen Pen who instantly passes out upon sampling it. The reason is implied to be a combination of Misato's HardDrinkingPartyGirl nature, her general slobbishness, and, most of all, her reliance on buying only the cheapest instant food she can get and mixing it together in an imitation of finer cuisine. How well she cooks when she actually uses fresh ingredients is never shown.
57* While her successor, May, is a full-on LethalChef, Misty from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' is better classified in this department. When Brock gets sick in one episode she takes over cooking duties and ''tries'' to follow a recipe out of a book, but confuses salt for sugar, then overcorrects and eventually just tosses in anything she can think of. The only person able to eat the result is [[ExtremeOmnivore Jessie]]. Conversely, Misty did pretty well in brewing up a cure for stun spore during the Orange Islands, a trading card issued during the that time had her cooking stew, and it is also implied that during the 13 days that Misty and Ash were stuck in Viridian Forest (according to "Showdown at Pewter City") that Misty did the cooking before Brock joined. (They were stranded for thirteen days in Viridian Forest, with no stores nearby, and given how Ash's very first day as a trainer went [one disaster after another], it's highly unlikely he would have known how to cook, and the only person travelling with him prior to Brock joining is Misty, so... yeah. And she'd have to be decent enough of a cook to last through the 13 days stuck in Viridian Forest). It could well be that she panicked in the face of cooking solo at an unexpected time.
58* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Akane Tendō is on the border between this and LethalChef. While she is generally impatient and unskilled, she also seems to consider written recipes "boring", or perhaps considers herself too good to need them, and so has a bad habit of discarding them to make things up as she goes along. The fact that she doesn't pay attention to what she's using only makes things worse: intending to use white wine in curry, then finding out she added vinegar instead is the first example in the series. A similar goof happens during the "Mrs. Tendō's Recipe Book" storyline, where she goes to pour white wine over stir-fried carrots, but uses vegetable oil instead. And that's not even discussing things like adding horseradish, pineapple and mayonnaise to her vinegar curry, or making a batch of cookie dough containing watermelon, cherry, cinnamon and '''garlic'''.
59* In ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', Lovelitchi's father Lovepapalitchi loves cooking and will easily get upset if anyone tells him his food tastes terrible... which, unfortunately for him, it does since he has a thing for making ''very'' bizarre combinations of food that aren't very appealing (steak parfaits are just ''one'' example).
60* ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' gave us Minori Ichinose, who prefers to cook meals that are more on the healthy side of things. Emphasis on "healthy", as infamously showcased with her home-made meatballs that was made out of "healthy things" such as Jew's mallow, nato beans, tuna eyeballs, and ''eggshells''. The kicker? All of those ingredients were then ''blended together in a blender''. Manatsu suffered heavily and became horrified when she had to eat those after a bento mix-up earlier in the day left her with only rice for her lunch.
61* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'':
62** Nobody other than Lum or her cousin Ten is willing to eat Lum's food because her {{oni}} tastebuds means she is UnaffectedBySpice, so she overloads her dishes with heat-based ingredients like pepper, chili, tabasco, mustard and wasabi. Even her ''candy'' is disgustingly spicy. There are some ambiguous hints that she may actually be a poor cook (if not an outright LethalChef) even by oni standards, but the most glaring problem with her food is her obssesion with making it as spicy-hot as possible.
63** The Shinowataris, a father and [[DudeLooksLikeALady son]] [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender pretending to be a girl]] tried to attract customers to their [[IncompetenceInc beach cafe built on a deserted island 4 miles offshore]] by creating a custom variant of kakigori, a sweet dessert made from sweet bean syrup and shaved ice. Their choice? Kakigori mixed with ''sea urchin''. They [[DetrimentalDetermination ate themselves to death]] trying to find an edible recipe for this idea, then came back as ghosts.
64* In the Duelist Kingdom Arc of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Jonouchi is able to cook after Mai supplies the food, and he actually cooks the ''candy bars'' along with everything else.
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68* British comedian Peter Cook played a fictional character, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Streeb-Greebling Arthur Streeb-Greebling]], the proprietor of "The Frog and Peach" restaurant featuring two specialty items: "Frog à la Peche" and "Peche à la Frog" -- nauseating and positively revolting, respectively.
69* Comic Joe [=DeRosa=] has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFkgIElCt9g&list=OLAK5uy_mn1tOoOybOr3eVdCbr45REdKeN6CqKJrA&index=2&t=2m44s a bit]] about how he can't stand high-end, trendy restaurants because of their zeal for blending hearty, savory dishes with sugary, dessert-like dressings and condiments.
70* Creator/MontyPython's "Cocktail Bar" (from the ''Live at Drury Lane'' album) features regular potables such as "Mallard Fizz" (the bartender has to subdue and kill a duck to make it), a special with "a twist of lemming", a "Harlem Stinger" (the black dishwasher gargles the mixture and spits it out into the glass), and "dog turd and tonic." Needless to say, drinking them causes a queue for the toilet, yet the patrons come back for more.
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74* In ComicBook/ArchieComics, the Lodge family chef (also named Gaston) absolutely ''loves'' when Jughead comes over, because then he can "experiment" with someone who will truly appreciate it.
75* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': Asterix, being sold as a slave to the wrong family, tries to be this in ''The Laurel Wreath''. Unfortunately for him [[HideousHangoverCure the recipe appears to be a miraculous hangover cure]], much to the joy of said family's son.
76* Subverted in one ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comic when Alfred and Batman were briefly stranded at a Swiss chalet. While Batman works on sending out a call for pick-up, Alfred takes stock of the provisions and cooks up a spinach fajita. Batman asks quizzically why, in Switzerland, Alfred hadn't used chocolate instead of spinach. Alfred replies that "A chocolate fajita would be barbarian." However, he later stares at his own portion of the spinach fajita with disfavor and says, "It may have been a mistake. Perhaps the chocolate ''could'' work."
77* In ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' comic, The Bash Street Kids' cook, Olive, is notorious for having terrible cooking, including custard so thick you have to cut it with a knife.
78* ComicBook/GastonLagaffe is sometimes this. One example of his culinary experiments is something like sardines with whipped cream. His signature recipe, the strawberry cod, is apparently good but the cooking odors are obnoxious.
79* In the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' album "Dalton City", Averell takes up cooking and it turns out no one can find out what his dishes are actually supposed to be (though to his credit, most actually taste good). This culminates in him preparing the JumpingOutOfACake trick, but the end product is concrete-hard.
80* Wheat Grass from ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3 is a '''terrible''' chef, but she manages to disguise her disasters by passing them as "Health food". Rarity doesn't realize this until the very end of the story.
81* ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'': In Issue #9, Shaggy made "spam, cheese, spinach an' anchovy omelets". Velma, who had just thrown up from learning what the Four planned to do with her scientific expertise, throws up again upon being offered one of Shaggy's omelets.
82* Socker-Conny from ''ComicBook/SockerConny'' is one of these. The stews mentioned in the album contain "veal, lemon and everything else that was in the fridge", and "Kiwi fruit! Paté! Lingonberry jam and garlic salt! Mash, rice, juice, sweetbreads, onion, kalops (Swedish stew quite similar to Bouef Bourgnion) and raisins!"
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86* In some early strips of ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'', Elly makes casseroles that fit this trope, most notably [[http://community.livejournal.com/binky_betsy/533871.html a version of Shepherd's Pie made with sliced hot dogs]]. According to her, her mother Marian was even worse.
87* Andy from ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' is a perfectly competent cook, but she constantly insists on making DisgustingVegetarianFood that always end up inedible. Andy has actually lowered her family's expectations to the point that in one strip, Roger tastes the contents of a pot on the stove and gushes about how much better than her normal cooking it is, begging to know what he just tasted. It turns out to be grout for the cracks in the driveway -- and also a [[ExiledToTheCouch ticket to the couch]] for Roger.
88* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''
89** In one strip, Jon can't figure out how to get the meatloaf inside the danish...
90** In another, he made Garfield weenie gelatin. After Garfield ate it, he said his mouth liked it, but his stomach was still trying to make up its mind. There actually is a type of gelatin filled with meat products called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspic aspic]], but that gelatin is savory while the one in the strip was clearly the sweet kind.
91** In one strip Irma gives Garfield and Jon what looks like ice cream cones? It's actually scoops of mashed potatoes in cones.
92** Jon makes grilled liver tahini satay kebobs for everyone, with [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2021/08/29 predictable results]].
93* Filipino comic ''ComicStrip/PugadBaboy'' has Mang Dagul who works at a hotel as a chef and tries to cook "exotic" dishes for his clients and his family.
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97* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': As her canon self, Misato likes mixing foods should not be mixed. In chapter 8 Asuka tells the last time Misato fed her "best curry" to Pen Pen, the penguin spent the rest of the night staring at the ceiling and barking.
98* ''Fanfic/ArsGoetia'': [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Byleth]] is this when she gets in a mood, according to her father.
99--> '''Jeralt:''' The last time your sword broke, you ate raw chicken and waffles covered in soy sauce; last year, when I took back the mead you tried to hide from me, you started eating bacon-wrapped celery and oysters with a side of goat milk; six years ago, I spend one day in the Alliance by myself and come back to find you covered pasta sauce, chocolate ice cream, and fried peaches. Don't even get me started on the Grilled Byleth—\
100'''Byleth:''' It wasn't one day, and all of those were good ideas, conceptually.\
101'''Jeralt:''' For whom?
102* In ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', never let Asuka cook. She likes being "creative" and mixing foods that were not meant to be mixed:
103-->Misato woke up clutching her stomach, which was mildly nauseous, and wondering if Asuka had put LSD in the homemade pizza. I'm never letting Asuka make saurkraut pizza or whatever that was, ever again.
104* In Chapter 6 of ''Fanfic/TheEggTeam'', Teddy creates some unusual food combinations while he's in the basement recovering from his injuries. However, this is justified, as all of his ingredients are sourced from pre-packaged meals that taste horrible. The whole reason he cooks is to make the meals more palletable, which only somewhat works.
105* ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'': After Third Impact Misato is still a terrible cook who comes up with horrible recipes:
106-->'''Misato:''' Oh, and since you just woke up you must be hungry. Why don't I --\
107'''Asuka:''' (widening her eyes) No, that's okay! I'll make breakfast!\
108'''Misato:''' Aw, but I had this neat idea for an experiment! All I need is some horseradish and some curry and --
109* During a cooking competition in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12805206/chapters/29827086 Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce]]'', Colin decides to use as many ingredients as he's allowed for the challenge[[note]]A previous challenge to make as many perfect pancakes as possible in five minutes determined how many ingredients each competitor was allowed[[/note]] and makes a nineteen ingredient omelet including jam, figs, dates, and prunes. Unfortunately, all the different flavors clashed horribly.
110** Another competitor tried to make a "Breakfast milkshake" out of ice cream, maple syrup, and donuts. The result is compared to drinking pure sugar though he is praised for his creativity.
111* In ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'', Ino winds up being this. She prepares a dish of pepper-pot soup (a Caribbean dish with ingredients such as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pepper]], beef, tapioca sauce, cinnamon, garlic, onion, thyme, basil, sugar and salt) and serves it to the gang...but the only ones who can manage to eat it are [[BigEater Choji]] and [[SupremeChef Kushina]], the latter of whom gives Ino pointers on how she could improve the dish. Choji charitably says the soup "doesn't ''smell'' toxic," but Naruto, Sasuke and Shikamaru are far less forgiving, saying it "tastes like vomit."
112* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': When Misato declares that she’ll cook him a huge welcome home meal, Shinji is not thrilled at the prospect of trying her “meals” again given her penchant for mixing foodstuff which should not be mixed.
113-->"Oh… great" Shinji managed to get out before swallowing. Oh God in heaven, not again, I can't go through that… food… again…
114* Akane in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12327523/1/Ranma-Happenstance-Gone-Right Ranma: Happenstance Gone Right]]'' is explained as always trying to fix her (frequent) mistakes while cooking by overcompensating. If she's supposed to add sugar to a dish but uses salt instead, Akane will simply add twice as much sugar rather than binning the whole thing and starting over.
115* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': Misato's cook looks, smells and tastes like some kind of toxic sludge.
116-->Sighing, Shinji just shakes his head and tries to find something Misato hadn’t smothered in the thick, sludge-like hot sauce she slathered all over her food. It seemed to be a combination of crystalline capsaicin dissolved in sulphuric acid with raw wasabi added in for flavour. Shinji was fairly certain the stuff could overload the taste buds of an Emperor’s Children space marine.
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120* Downplayed with Chef Gusteau in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': his recipe for Sweetbread a la Gusteau proves him to be this kind of experimental chef — sweetbread cooked in a seaweed salt crust with cuttlefish tentacle, dog rose puree, geoduck egg, dried white fungus, anchovy licorice sauce, veal stomach, etc. — but he admitted it was a disaster and never actually served it (despite keeping the recipe written down).
121* Miss Grimwood’s mosquito brownies in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool''. Also, the “delicious” pizza Sibella ordered was topped with some rather questionable ingredients.
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125* In ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'', Matthew mentions his recently deceased lover Gareth's fondness for ''strange experimental cooking.'' "The recipe for Duck a la Banana, fortunately, goes with him to his grave."
126* ''Film/{{Frenzy|1972}}'': Given the choice between wading through grim murder scenes and tasting his wife's experimental cuisine -- pig's feet, fish head soup, etc. -- Inspector Oxford always opts for the former.
127* In Creator/MikeLeigh's film ''Life Is Sweet'', Aubrey, played by Creator/TimothySpall, is this. He opens a restaurant where the dishes on the menu include Saveloy on a bed of Lychees, Liver in Lager and Pork Cyst.[[note]]Spall and Leigh spend an evening creating all Aubrey's dishes and then checked them with a professional chef to make sure they were feasible. In fairness, they're no more than applications of InsaneTrollLogic to existing dishes: people don't think twice about putting fruit in sausagemeat stuffing, so why not serve a sausage on fruit? There's a Belgian dish which consists of beef cooked in beer, so why not cook liver in lager? And we eat all kinds of animal innards, so why not a cyst? In the film, the restaurant is a disaster.[[/note]]
128* ''Shogun and Little Kitchen'' is a Hong Kong comedy set in a restaurant, where two chefs (played by Ng Man-tat and Creator/YuenBiao in a rare comedic role) tries out-doing each other in a cooking contest halfway through. Biao's character notably tries making curry fish with ''durians'', and the moment he unveils his dish, cue everyone within a twelve-meter radius fainting.
129* In ''Film/UncleBuck'', Buck makes eggs with onions in them. Not overly disgusting to an adult palate, but certainly something a kid would be put off by (indeed, none of the kids eat them). Subverted in a later scene, however, with Buck's [[GiantFood AWESOME PANCAKES!!]]
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133* Not the case for Nabab Yeo, in Creator/WalterMoers' ''Literature/TheThirteenAndAHalfLivesOfCaptainBluebear''. While he does combine flavours that probably shouldn't be mixed out of a belief that the more flavours in a meal the better, he's still considered a very good cook.
134* In the ''Literature/AmberBrown'' books, Amber Brown's favorite Amber-sitter, Brenda, is this. She once made Amber a meat loaf with a hard-boiled egg in it. Another time, she told Amber of her Velveeta whipped potatoes and spaghetti diablo, but fortunately they already had pizza on the way.
135* In the second ''Literature/{{BetsyTacy}}'' novel, the PowerTrio (then 7) attempt to make Everything Pudding by mixing every single ingredient they can find in a saucepan.
136* The protagonist of James Hamilton-Paterson's ''Cooking With Fernet Branca'', as the title suggests[[note]]Fernet being a very bitter Italian liqueur[[/note]], has dozens of qualifying dishes, ranging from relatively normal to "Alien Pie," featuring kerosene, a buzzard feather, and "1 kg smoked cat, off the bone."
137* In ''{{Literature/Coraline}}'', the titular Coraline hates whenever her father tries out new recipes of his. As this includes a leek and potato stew with tarragon garnish and melted Gruyere cheese--a fairly conventional, even classic, combination, it may be that he [[LethalChef simply isn't that good of a cook]]. Although she does like the pizza he makes.
138** Given that Coraline is very young, another explanation is that he's a perfectly good cook [[PickyEater by grown-up standards]].
139* Nozdryov's cook in ''Literature/DeadSouls'', who has an {{JustForFun/egregious}} approach to cooking -- he throws in everything that is standing around, it seems.
140* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
141** Rincewind becomes one of these when drunk, with such concoctions as "[[NoodleIncident spaghetti custard]]" and "alcoholic runny-bread soup with vegetables and a pile of salt, cooked down until it could be spread on a sandwich" ("beer soup" just isn't descriptive enough). [[spoiler:In short, he accidentally invents [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite Vegemite]].]]
142** The Igor in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' gives Mr. Nutt a tuna, spaghetti and jam sandwich. With sprinkles.
143** It is also mentioned that the nerds in High-Energy Magic's favorite food for late-night lab sessions is banana and sushi pizza.
144* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'':
145** Dennis, the Chief Chef of [[ItMakesSenseInContext Russian Sushi]], sees to it that his restaurant delivers a rather... ''unique'' menu. While he's entirely capable of making normal, edible sushi, sometimes customers have to contend with strange concoctions.
146** Also Celty, who [[HeadlessHorseman doesn't have a head]] and thus, a sense of taste. Her roommate Shinra tried to eat it... but he started crying.
147* Kalinin of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' cooks a borscht with ingredients such as cocoa powder and miso paste. ''He'' enjoys it since he's trying to recreate the cooking of his [[LethalChef late wife]] out of nostalgia, but no one else does. There's also a subtle implication that his wife intentionally made the borscht bad to punish him for being married to the job and away so often. Kalinin doesn't notice.
148* ''Literature/GangstaGranny'': The granny puts cabbage in anything, including dessert.
149* In ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', Haruhi eventually explains that her mother is this. Apparently for most of her childhood, she didn't understand why food that other people made (including cheap store bought lunches) tasted so good, until she spied a cookbook and realized her mother just completely ignored the recipe and did whatever she wanted. Part of the reason she became a SupremeChef was so that her mother wouldn't cook anymore.
150* ''Literature/IsThisAZombie'''s Maelstrom's lunches look pretty good. [[OhCrap And then the condiments come out...]] An inversion would be Haruna's cooking, that even if it looks burned and inedible, in the case of egg cuisine, everything tastes delicious.
151* Kino from ''Literature/KinosJourney'' can get a little too creative with her dishes. Once, when invited by a country to cook some foreign cuisine, she created a "fried chicken" dish... which has chili peppers in equal volume to the actual chicken. Add in a healthy dose of vinegar, and it's no wonder the first guy who sampled it ended up fainting.
152* ''Literature/LogHorizon'': Very nearly everyone. Due to a quirk of the game, any foods made using the system menu are completely bland and tasteless. You can add spices (which are considered "ingredients" and still have taste), but you just end up with a bland mush sprinkled with salt. Worse, trying to cook manually results in a disgusting, inedible goop... unless you have a cooking skill. Then, you can manually create proper meals that actually taste like the thing they're supposed to be. The cooking skill was originally pretty rare, but the Crescent Moon Alliance made a whole lot of money by reformatting themselves into a food service organization before anyone else figured out the secret.
153* In Creator/PatrickMcManus's humorous outdoor stories, he speaks on occasion of "Whatcha-Got Stew" which is concocted in hunting camps using whatever random ingredients which can be scrounged together at short notice. Just ''looking'' at the result isn't particularly safe, much less eating it.
154* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In “It’s the Last Day of School, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys knows how to make cupcakes, but he wants to add mac and cheese, broccoli, or hot dog pieces into them to make them “unique”.
155* ''Literature/SheIsTheOne'': A tastier version than most, Jack's mom nevertheless loves experimenting in the kitchen. The results are ''usually'' at least edible, often delicious, though she has had some rare failures. A few examples of her weirdness are spaghetti tacos, pizza gumbo, and sandwiches with bacon, strips of fried chicken, lettuce, small slices of tomato, and strawberry jelly.
156* Literature/SeptimusHeap has Zelda. All of her dishes are perfectly edible, if rather odd-sounding.
157* In the Literature/SweetValleyHigh book ''Jessica's Cookie Disaster'', Jessica's first attempt to replicate her accidental spilling of some extra ingredients into her cookie dough that resulted in unbelievably delicious cookies is adding pineapple flavoring and licorice extract to her dough. Not surprisingly, the cookies look and taste absolutely disgusting. Her other attempts at combining ingredients don't fare much better, and the actual combination that made the delicious cookies turns out to be a simple mixture of vanilla and almonds.
158* In the children's book ''The Tales of Doggie and Moggie'' by Josef Čapek, there's a chapter about [[https://books.google.cz/books?id=upuQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=How+Doggie+and+Moggie+Made+a+Birthday+Cake&source=bl&ots=P5IA5bsgrY&sig=SsUK8p27QIxTwUJ2eGqK5o-dJ_c&hl=cs&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiezoDOq7HYAhWF-aQKHcMeBskQ6AEIQzAI making a birthday cake]]. They decide to ''“put in everything that's good to eat, everything you like eating best of all, and all that will make the best cake you'll ever want”''. The final cake ends up containing sugar, salt, butter, Stilton cheese, bacon, a pickled cucumber, hazelnuts, bones, pepper, four mice, sausages, whipped cream, onion, chocolate and gravy. Yummy! While the cake cools on the windowsill, a big bad dog walks by and eats it, resulting in two weeks of [[LaserGuidedKarma stomach ache]].
159* In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' Bella's mother is apparently this. To quote, "My mother was an imaginative cook, but her experiments weren't always edible."
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163* At the end of the ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls'' episode "And the Cronuts", Caroline and Max stumble upon the idea of combining cupcakes and ... French fries.[[note]]Fortunately it has not reared its head again. Yet.[[/note]]
164* ''Series/AgathaRaisin'': In "Agatha Rasin and the Curious Curate", the second VictimOfTheWeek is a woman who is attempting to start up a boutique jam business. The problem is, most of flavours she makes feature combinations of ingredients that shouldn't even be made into jam; let alone used together.
165* ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'': Granny can cook ordinary food just fine, as proven in the Thanksgiving and other episodes. But her hillbilly fare disgusts people outside the family (or outside hills); dishes like possum innards, gopher gravy, owl burgers, dandelion greens and Snyder's Swamp Surprise (pronounced Soo-prize).
166* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'':
167** In "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS2E02ChocolateMilk Chocolate Milk]]", the hipster chocolate milk restaurant owner presents Jake and Terry with an ink-black concoction he calls "dark milk" that uses bitter chocolate to enhance the sourness of raw milk. Jake and Terry are not pleased.
168--->'''Jake''': That's the ''worst'' part about both of those things!
169** In "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS3E03BoylesHunch Boyle's Hunch]]", Boyle is fond of eating takoyaki, a Japanese octopus fritter which Jake dismissingly refers to as a "fish doughnut". Later, Jake tries to approximate it by putting lox on a chocolate éclair.
170* Dawn in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has some questionable food choices, including anchovy and pineapple pizza, salami and peanut butter sandwiches, and peanut butter-banana quesadillas (despite later claiming to be allergic to peanuts).
171* Creator/FoodNetwork competition show ''Series/{{Chopped}}'' occasionally throws bizarre ingredients together; sometimes a main challenge to the contestants is to ''avoid'' becoming a Cordon Bleugh Chef with the combinations they've been given. Possibly the most {{JustForFun/egregious}} was when the mystery box for a dessert contained ''hot dogs''.
172** But because Creator/FoodNetwork always has to out-do itself, the Halloween special, an episode wherein both the Appetizer and Entrée baskets contained a candy item, the Dessert basket gave us grasshoppers.
173** One episode involved ingredients chosen via anonymous people online, which resulted in contestants getting stuck with some truly weird ingredients: lime gelatin, cheese puffs, imitation crab, and durian fruit (an Indian fruit with a sweet custard-like flavor but a horrible, rotting-garbage odor).
174** This could actually be considered a subversion, since it isn't actually their choice to combine the ingredients given, but use them effectively in a creative way. The chefs who lose either go way over the top with odd combinations, or try to make an ordinary dish and curiously "forget" to use one of the signature ingredients.
175* ''Series/ComeDineWithMe'': One British contestant was so deluded as to think her savoury trifle was a good idea: a classic English fruit, custard and cream trifle, only with the added ingredient of bacon.[[note]]A savoury "trifle" could work by layering a quiche filling over something like bread soaked in jellied broth and topping with mayonnaise or perhaps a savoury-flavoured whipped cream, but that's not what this cook did.[[/note]] She came last.
176* ''Series/TheCosbyShow'':
177** Cliff Huxtable on an early episode is shown cooking exotic dishes for his family which taste great, but then he horrifies them by telling them the ingredients. Theo makes a peanut butter, mint jelly, liverwurst and onion sandwich, just so he can eat something with familiar ingredients.
178--->'''Claire:''' What is it, chicken?\
179'''Cliff:''' Nope.\
180'''Claire:''' Well, it's not veal.\
181'''Cliff:''' No, no.\
182'''Claire:''' Lamb.\
183'''Cliff:''' Wrong! See, I was in bazaars, and I saw this jar had green sauce and I picked it up. You know, the International Gourmet? And it was "'''Sliced Turtle's Feet'''".\
184''[Claire wipes her mouth, takes a drink of water and gets up from the table]''\
185'''Cliff''': You want some crackers? ''[Claire shakes her head no]'' Well, where you going?\
186'''Claire:''' I'm going upstairs. I'm gonna get some of Theo's sandwich.
187** Later in the ep, he makes them a stew flavored with cow tongue and shows it to them. Rudy nearly bolts. Which actually qualifies more as a food dissonance/"ForeignQueasine"-type moment, since stewed beef tongue (using tongue that's been boiled and peeled, mind) is a common dish in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine.
188* One challenge on ''Series/CupcakeWars'' involved making cupcakes based around ingredients from the concession stand at Dodger Stadium. One chef's choice for her primary ingredient? ''Hot dogs.'' To the surprise of absolutely no one, she was the first one eliminated from that episode.
189* The whole idea then takes taken over the top with ''Series/CutthroatKitchen''. One of the most common of sabotages in the show is to be forced to make do with subpar ingredients while trying to avoid the trope and getting sent home as a result.
190* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
191** While this is more focused on the food and not the chef, on Satellite Five in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame The Long Game]]", Rose hands Adam a slushie-type ice drink that is apparently beef-flavored.
192** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]], after giving up on nearly every other food combination following his completely altered taste buds, the Eleventh Doctor settles on fish fingers dipped in ''custard'' (which several sources state actually tastes quite good).
193* The Creator/FoodNetwork's Sandra Lee, in a roundabout way, could be the trope namer, as she actually did go through at least part of the Cordon Bleu course in the process of learning how to be one of the most terrifyingly awful chefs ever to get a long-running TV show.
194* ''Series/FortBoyard'': Since 2013, Willy Rovelli defies contestants to eat his horrendous cooking for a key or a clue. His recipes have included surströmming (fermented herring), surströmming ice cream(!), casu merzu (Corsican cheese with maggots), natto, fish-eyes maki, insect sushi, roasted scarabs, fried scorpions, tarantula kebabs, grilled centipedes, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg century eggs,]] rooster testicles and legs, pork brain, sea cucumbers in cod liver oil, huitlacoche ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut corn smut]]), kumis (fermented mare milk), Polynesian giant snails, raw ostrich egg, hákarl (Icelandic fermented shark), haggis, durian smoothie, and some combinations of the above.
195* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': An accidental example in the episode "The One Where Ross Got High". Because the pages of an English cookbook were stuck together, Rachel ended up combining a trifle and a shepherd's pie. All her friends felt obliged to eat it anyway (except Phoebe who got out because she's a vegetarian); when out of her earshot, Ross commented, "ItTastesLikeFeet!" [[BigEater Joey]] ended up liking it anyway. "Custard? Good. Jam? Good. Meat? ''Good''."
196* On ''Series/FullHouse'', when Michelle joined the Honeybee scout troop, she tried to get her first merit badge in cooking by combining things she liked. Her first attempt was "Chocolate pudding surprise"[[note]]The surprise was velveeta cheese and olives[[/note]] Then she tried "tuna cream" (tuna and ice cream).
197** A later episode has Joey combining fish and pastry to make "flounder tarts".
198* ''Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende'' has an old section called "Zettai ni Oishii" (Absolutely Delicious) Series. These are basically Iron Chef in reverse; they are provided with a food type as their end target (mochi, pizza, tempura, pasta, etc), but they have freedom in ingredients. Some efforts are laudable (as in Yamazaki's petit tomato tempura which ended up getting 2/10 simply because tomato can be ''very'' hot), while some fall squarely to this trope. For example, Endou's insistence on using Frisk, a very hot breath mint ''par Fisherman's Friend Extra Strong'' for his cooking, like Frisk Pizza or Frisk Tempura. Matsumoto settles on using ''very'' unusual ingredients, such as a whole tuna head for pizza, cake for flavored rice, and watermelon-and-milk-cream pasta. The ultimate example would be the ''toothpaste and mouthwash pasta''. On a scale of 1 to 10 hearts and 1-2 skull marks, that one gets ''two full skeletons'' as a rating.
199** An inversion in the pasta episode is Hamada's Celeb Party pasta: Spaghetti with foie gras sautee, consommé soup, and ham salad inside a roasted chicken. All the contestants hated it so much it is given a full skeleton.
200* Chidi slips into this in ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' during his HeroicBSOD after [[spoiler:learning that he died, went to hell, came back to life, and then doomed himself to hell again by accidentally learning about the afterlife's points system]], when he starts mixing Marshmallow Peeps and [=M&Ms=] into a big pot of chili.
201-->'''Chidi:''' ''[singing tunelessly]'' You put the Peeps in the chili pot and eat them both up, you put the Peeps in the chili pot and add the [=M&Ms=], you put the Peeps in the chili pot, it makes it taste...bad...
202* ''Series/HellsKitchen'':
203** Some of the contestant's signature dishes fall into this (Seth's ratatouille with honey), but one of the worst was "Matt's Exotic Tartare". Scallops, raw venison, capers, caviar and ''white chocolate''. The dish was apparently so disgusting that it made Creator/GordonRamsay vomit into a bin for the first time in the series.
204** Also the same Matt who made his “Exotic Tartare” and made Chef Ramsey throw it up, later suggested making "sushi pizza on a tortilla" for a challenge, fortunately that was shot down in a hurry.
205** One subversion was in Season 6 involved a recurring challenge where the team members have to roll a giant dice with letters on the faces, name an ingredient that starts with that letter, and then prepare a dish using all the ingredients. The women's team ended up with a fantastic assortment of rabbit and appropriate ingredients, while the guys got figs first because it was the only "F" ingredient Dave could think of, at which point the rest of the guys figured they were already boned and chose haddock, apples, tomatoes, angel hair pasta... and actually won the challenge. Granted, they were helped by the tomato and fig sauce that Kevin came up with actually tasting very good and Ariel accidentally screwing up the women's dish by adding a disgustingly overpowering garlic dressing, but the men were stunned by how well their dish worked, as was Chef Ramsay.
206* Alfred Tetzlaff in ''Series/EinHerzUndEineSeele''. [[{{Squick}} He even puts food that landed on the floor back into the pot.]] And he makes his traditional New Year's punch [[spoiler:by pouring rum into a pot and heating it.]]
207* In an episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim and Al take part in a cooking contest on ''Tool Time'' to create an innovative new dish and Tim ends up making this kind of dish: caramel flounder with chocolate chip chutney.
208* ''Series/TheIncreasinglyPoorDecisionsOfToddMargaret'': Alice is obsessed with molecular gastronomy and eventually opens a restaurant serving a wide variety of disgusting-sounding concoctions.
209* The Japanese ''Series/IronChef'':
210** The turkey battle. Offerings included turkey sashimi, which is this to American audience since it's not common to find any kind of poultry served uncooked, due to the risk of salmonella poisoning. On the other hand, poultry sashimi is permissible in Japan if the birds meet the inspectors' standards; some breeds (such as the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresse_(chicken) poulet de Bresse]]'' and its North American derivative, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Foot_chicken Blue Foot]]) are certified salmonella-free and prized in Japan for sashimi purposes (partly because of the salmonella thing, partly because the chicken is actually just that good). In the U.S., food handlers are required to serve poultry fully cooked, and not to allow the utensils used to cook it to come into contact with other food.
211** Tuna sorbet. For the rest of the series, [[SchmuckBait whenever a chef headed for the ice cream maker]], the commentators would recall it, exclaiming "ice cream machine!" in mock horror. ''Iron Chef America'' also seems to have a mixed history with the machine. Alton would tend to call out when the ice cream maker was about to be used, especially when he wasn't sure what was going into it, because the results could be hit or miss. It's ''so'' infamous that the Chairman used it as one of his "surprises" in the season 4 finale of ''The Next Iron Chef'' (the theme happened to be "Pressure", and that machine heaped a lot of it in one swoop).
212** Subverted with some ''crab'' ice cream, which the judges enjoyed. It was described as something along the lines of "sweet, with a hint of crab, not at all fishy, and surprisingly good!"
213** Also subverted with beer sherbet in the US edition's Battle Oktoberfest (featuring Bavarian ingredients). The beer wasn't the surprising part, it was the ''caramelized '''bacon''''' on top of the ice cream that threw people off. And yet the judges loved it.
214** ''Cod soft roe'' ice cream. Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai was chastised by the ''entire'' tasting panel for it. He later proved he didn't learn his lesson by making trout ice cream on one of the US edition pilots. Ever since, whenever fish and ice cream get mentioned in the same segment, Alton will tend to quip things along the line of, "If that's fish ice cream, I'm leaving!" One time, Iron Chef Morimoto managed to convey his memory of that ice cream in one word: "HORROR!" But then, in the new ''Iron Chef Showdown'', newest Iron Chef Stephanie Izard, challenged with yellowfin tuna, ''dared'' to make a tuna ice cream. For the first time, the trope got ''subverted'' as she pulled off a fish ice cream that actually ''worked''.
215* Houtaro Ichinose in ''Series/KamenRiderGotchard'' may be the son of a restaurant owner, but his culinary contributions are that of a mad scientist at best. Some of his creations include cucumber Salisbury steak with mayonnaise, ''omurice'' with chicken wings, or even meat-filled cream puffs that the MonsterOfTheWeek declined to eat in spite of its love for meat.
216* Has happened with quite a few of the restaurant chefs on Creator/GordonRamsay's ''Series/KitchenNightmares''.
217** Laurence from "La Para de Burianna" stands out in that he made prawns in spicy chocolate sauce and chicken with ''banana filling''. What makes it worse is that unlike a lot of the other cooks featured on the show, Laurence actually did make sure to get quality ingredients, but ruined them by serving them in bizarre combinations. It didn't help that he didn't really cook the ingredients up to par, either, as everything was cooked either on a dirty flat-top stove, or on a barbecue by Laurence's blatantly incompetent (and borderline insane) sous-chef.
218** Amy from "Amy's Baking Company" is a similar example in that she uses a variety of unconventional recipes and cooking methods for her decent-quality ingredients. While only a few of the recipes are explored, it's apparent that Amy does this for the restaurant's entire menu, as nobody is satisfied with their food during the course of the dinner service.
219** A peculiar example was Sebastian's, whose "unique" menu involved combining a variety of spices and "flavor combinations" with different meats, many of which made no sense together. After Sebastian himself tried, in vain, to explain the menu to Ramsay for almost twenty minutes (with the servers behind the counter laughing at Gordon's expression), Ramsay just had Sebastian bring out what he thought was best. Ramsay was not pleased with the results.
220** Gordon described the menu at Park's Edge as "fusion confusion", and that was before he tasted an overly-spicy grilled Caesar salad with ''grilled lettuce'' and a sesame-grilled salmon with a red onion ragù, strawberries, sticky rice, and green curry sauce. The head chef and one of the co-owners opened the restaurant right out of culinary school, and hadn't quite got the hang of which flavours work together.
221** At the Mill Street Bistro, Gordon doesn't know how to react when served a quesadilla stuffed with elk meat.
222* Wilder from ''Series/TheLatestBuzz''. He makes his own salsa from marmalade and pepper.
223* ''Series/LittleLunch'': In "The Cake Stall", Melanie makes a ginger hedgehog slice that contains no milk, flour, eggs, sugar, or nuts. Or seafood. [[NonindicativeName Or ginger.]] The only person to eat any is {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Batty, who likes it, but says it is more of a savoury dessert.
224* In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' one cold open features the family forced to eat Lois' "leftover parfait", which Malcolm describes as "Anything in the fridge that doesn't have living beings on top, cooked in casserole form". Then he points out that the bottom layer of this week's leftover parfait is ''last week's leftover parfait''.
225* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Downplayed with Joyce in that her food usually at least looks relatively normal. However, HappilyMarried though they are, Tom's attempts to discreetly avoid sampling her cooking or feign enjoyment when he has to eat it are a long-RunningGag. He eats out whenever he can get away with it.
226* In one episode of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', Trini made escargot brownies. (After Billy pointed out that [[StockYuck escargots were snails]], he and the other members of the team tossed them over their shoulders when she wasn't looking.)
227%%** Mia from ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' is this. The rest of the team doesn't have the heart to tell her, though.
228* ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'': Chef MSG, the host of in-universe cooking show ''Outdoor Chef'', who insists of cooking his unique ''kue cubit'' recipe instead of a regular one even after he vomits twice from his own recipe. His other recipes are just as bad, as the other characters find out.
229* In ''Series/MyFamily'', the Harper family react with fear and warn each other whenever Susan prepares dinner.
230* Joel and the Bots' invention in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E15TeenageCaveman Teenage Caveman]]" is called "rainy day ipecacs". These include such delectable combinations as chocolate milk and pickle juice.
231* ''Series/OddSquad'': Justified for the agents who work in the Food and Beverage department, as many are normally skilled at cooking but often makes weird recipes such as broccoli with chocolate pudding. However, crazy food combinations are the norm for Odd Squad, with things such as bagels with no holes and "soupcicles" being offered.
232* Grandad from ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'', whose habit of utterly carbonizing anything he cooks leads to Del and Rodney eating out as often as possible. After Grandad dies it turns out that Del is actually a fairly competent (if rather limited) cook, but let Grandad handle the Trotters' cooking just so that he wouldn't feel useless.
233** Sid, he himself admits that his food is borderline inedible, and that most of his trade comes from a combination of low prices and a good location next to the Peckham market.
234* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'' features Connie Brooks' landlady, Mrs. Davis. The outlandish dishes she prepares for breakfast are an early series RunningGag. Davis is responsible for such concoctions as "Armenian pancakes" (soaked in sour goat's milk), "blubber burgers" (seal fat fried in whale oil), and pine cone cereal (self-explanatory). Her regular pancakes are tasty, but contain such odd ingredients as a teaspoon goose liver.
235* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E9WhatWillTheNeighborsThink What Will the Neighbors Think?]]", Tory Beth Walters makes cookies using baking soda toothpaste instead of baking soda so that people can clean their teeth while they eat them.
236* In an episode of ''Series/RadioEnfer'', [[TooDumbToLive Jean-Lou]] [[BigEater Duval]] tries cooking after some advice from his mother and he messes up every recipe he tries. The main reason is that he often runs out of ingredients (before he even starts) and tries to find similar-looking replacement ingredients like pieces of garlic for white chocolate chips and [[HilarityEnsues bacon for almonds]] (that's not even mentioning adding a cup of fertilizer to a shepherd pie to make it taste more farm-like).
237-->'''Carl:''' ''[after tasting the garlic cookies]'' I can't believe it, Jean-Lou. You've just invented the Bad Breath Cookies. [[SarcasmMode Bravo.]]
238* Barbra Jean from ''Series/{{Reba}}'' is usually a good cook, but in one episode she takes the concept of healthy eating a tad too far by baking a sugar-free bran cake ''with cottage cheese as frosting''. No one present is interested in devouring it.
239* Dave Lister from ''Series/RedDwarf'', due to being a total fetishist for spicy food, eats and drinks some of the most disgusting concoctions. His early morning pick-me-up of choice is chilled vindaloo sauce, he's been mentioned as having eaten kippers vindaloo for breakfast, he enjoys cornflakes with grated raw onion and tabasco sauce as toppings, and he's been mentioned eating "triple fried eggs with chili sauce and chutney" sandwiches. Rimmer has been seen eating the sandwich, admittedly, and apparently it's actually quite good. (Rimmer turned it into a metaphor about Lister himself: on paper it sounds utterly terrible, but people seem to like it.) The best part is Lister thinks he saw the recipe in a book on ''bacteriological warfare''.
240* ''Series/SisterBonifaceMysteries'': In "Queen of the Kitchen", the hopelessly vague Dottie gets confused as to what recipe she is making in the cooking competition. The judge takes one bite and then asks why there are carrots in the banana cake.
241* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E13TimeSquared Time Squared]]", Riker invites a few officers over to his quarters for hand-made omelets, having taken up cooking as a hobby to pass the time. The results are (politely) declared inedible by all present... except for Worf, who shovels it down with gusto. Riker then proceeds to blame the ingredients. It's left to the viewer to decide whether he has a point or not, although it's that noted the eggs were of alien origin.
242* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Neelix is the ship's chef and is extremely passionate about his cooking. Unfortunately, being from the Delta Quadrant, he's completely unfamiliar with the various cuisines of the Federation and therefore seems to have a much different idea of what tastes good. While he ''can'' cook foods that the crew enjoys (such as a Rokeg blood pie for B'Elanna), his limited access to ingredients and enthusiasm for improvisation mean that even his familiar dishes tend to resemble the original InNameOnly. Overall, the crew is unenthusiastic about eating Neelix's food and highly treasure their replicator credits. Further, even when he doesn't experiment it can end up bad. As he once put too many jalapenos in a chili recipe and sent three crewmembers to sick bay with heartburn.
243* Making desserts with strange and non-sweet mandatory ingredients is part of the challenge of being a ''Series/SweetGenius'', but most of the chefs make it work. If they don't... [[EliminationCatchphrase they are no Sweet Genius]].
244* In ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'', the contestants' final task of the first season was to make a meal using ingredients starting with every letter of the alphabet. This forced pretty much every contestant to fall victim to this trope, the worst offender being Tim who used quince, kettle chips, and ''dog food'' in the same dish.
245* ''Series/TopChef'':
246** Bacon ice cream. Which is then subverted by Richard Blais in the finale of Top Chef: Chicago. His bacon ice cream was generally very well-received. Blais himself would seem to fit the trope at first glance, but his food overall was often among the judges' favorites throughout the season.
247** Lampshaded by the judges' panel when Blais served them smoked salmon with a white chocolate-wasabi sauce. One judge's comment to him (paraphrased) was "When you described the dish, my immediate reaction was 'White chocolate and wasabi? What were you ''thinking''[='=]?" In the final judging, though, ''every single judge'' deemed that dish far and away the best of the night.
248** Season 2 actually had a challenge to create a unique flavor of ice cream. Marcel decided to make a Bacon and Avocado ice cream. That dish was considered to be one of the worst dishes ever to be served on the show. From the same season, Sam mixed watermelon and bleu cheese with gnocchi, and Ilan made a chocolate ganache with chicken liver. Both these dishes... didn't go over so well with the judges either.
249** Note to Dale of season 4: Butterscotch is WAY too sweet to put on scallops. That dish was so bad that Dale got sent home despite another chef screwing up TWO dishes.
250* In the British series, ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'', Letitia Cropley has a fondness for mixing revolting combinations of ingredients together such as parsnip brownies, tripe salad and cakes topped with strawberries and ketchup. Her reputation for disgusting recipes was so famous in Dibley, she was known as '''The Queen of Cordon Bleurgh''', thus making her the TropeNamer. This extended into other areas too. She once put pineapples in the church flower arrangements.
251-->'''Letitia''': Nibble, vicar? It's chocolate spread.\
252'''Geraldine''': Chocolate? You promise? Alright, then. Mm. Very unusual taste.\
253'''Letitia''': Well, I put a bit of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taramasalata taramasalata]] in there as well.
254* Charlie, Major Adams and then Chris Hale's assistant and cook on ''Series/WagonTrain''. Everyone complains about Charlie's cooking, although he seems borderline competent and occasionally good. One of his major problems seem to be adding less-than-popular ingredients to his stews, like gopher or even buzzard. One episode had him make birds nest soup out of an actual bird's nest.
255* ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'' had a running gag about Mrs. Kotter's "famous tuna casserole." It's not known to have ever put anybody in a hospital, but at one point, Mr. Kotter noted that ''nobody'' puts ''prunes'' in a tuna casserole.
256* [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Max]] from ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' does this a lot, especially with sandwiches, as his parents own a sub shop. He eventually inherits the shop.
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260* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Frog-Peche-Charles-Carpenter/dp/B000003M2N/ Frog à la Peche]]'' is a CD of avant-garde[[note]]That's the polite term.[[/note]] electronic music by Charles Carpenter, written in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohlen-Pierce_scale Bohlen-Pierce scale]]. Two of the tracks are named after the restaurant entries in Stand-Up Comedy below, and the cover has an illustration of the title menu item.
261* The Dutch singer ''Ome Henk'' suggests many queasy food combinations in his song "De Pindakaas is Op" (We're Out of Peanut Butter). Examples include fried egg with whipped cream and coconut, and tom pouce with garlic.
262* Bill Harley's song "Pizza Shake" is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the name would suggest]], about one such questionable culinary experiment. Then it veers into LethalChef when the kids in the background scenes suggest adding [[IAteWhat lipstick and]] ''[[{{Squick}} nail polish]]'' to the shake...
263* The novelty song "Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise" pokes fun at the rather unappetizing meals composer William Bolcom would often be offered while playing for women's clubs in his youth. Among the foods mentioned are the titular dish, "strawberry ice enshrined in rice with bits of tuna fish", and "shrimp salad topped with chocolate sauce and garnished with a leek". There's even a prize involved for anyone who manages to try each dish without puking.
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267* ''Our Miss Brooks'': see Live-Action Television above.
268* An Italian radio sketch comedy show known as "610" ([[PunnyName a punny title]][[note]] spelling 610 in Italian results in "Sei Uno Zero", which -- if translated in English outside of its numerical meaning -- turns out to mean [[TakeThatAudience "You're a zero"]][[/note]]) makes fun of this kind of guy with one of its sketches, "Il tempio del gusto" ("The temple of taste"), that is, a fictional convention where cooks create new kinds of recipes. So, they act as if there's a reporter there, and we get to hear the latter while he enthusiastically tries the most [[NauseaFuel conceptually nauseating "creation" ever conceived...]] [[HilarityEnsues and then we get to hear his inevitable disgusted reaction.]] By the end of the sketch, when the reporter is finished spitting up (or throwing up, depending on what he ate), usually the hosts of the show ask him if he spit up, and the reporter, rather than admitting his disgust, he first comes up with some kind of excuse, then he thanks the chef, and finally -- without caring about the hosts asking for explanation -- greets them too.
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272* The "Gas-Tronomy" quest in ''Archie: Riverdale Rescue'' involves sending [[ExtremeOmnivore Jughead]] to eat Betty's latest concoction -- which includes custard, spinach, pickles and hot butterscotch.
273* ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'':
274** Medic operator Hibiscus is infamous for making dishes that are very healthy but taste terrible. In "Lingering Echoes", Ebenholz orders food from a street food vendor after having dinner with Hibiscus and is weirded out at the sight of his friend Kreide taking some of her food to go, while Czerny flees at the idea of his caretaker emulating Hibiscus' cooking style. Fortunately for Rhodes Island, she has finally realized that her opinion is not always the best and commits to improving the taste of her food after said event.
275--->''Tadaaaaaah! A special healthy meal just for you, Doctor! Uncaffeinated coffee and a hamburger without meat, cheese, pickles, or lettuce! (That's not even a hamburger anymore!) Oh, and a salad comprised of 12 different vegetables!''
276** The first season of Integrated Strategies "Ceobe's Fungimist" features one of Hibiscus' healthy meals as an item that '''reduces''' the enemy's attack stat.
277--->''Physically healthy, but mentally unhealthy. Eating something like this takes the fight right out of you.''
278** The description of the item "Wrath of Siracusans" in the second season of Integrated Strategies "Phantom & Crimson Solitaire" implied that the chef who made the item was this.
279--->''The signature pasta dish of an "authentic Siracusan restaurant" that once operated in the capital of Gaul. The dish's unique taste, and particularly its sauce, a blend of thick chocolate sauce and Originium Slug liver, earned the praise of many Gaulish nobles. Supposedly, though, this dish nearly caused a diplomatic crisis between Siracusa and Gaul.''
280** In "Maria Nearl", the flavor text of MN-6 mentions a beer brand with three new flavors: salted vegetables, bacon and ''gemstones''.
281* Aurica of ''[[VideoGame/ExaPico Ar Tonelico]]'' makes decent healing items with food such as "BBQ Soda" and a surprisingly good purple dish in ''VideoGame/CrossEdge''... even if none of the ingredients they had available could make purple.
282** In the second game, Jacqui's cooking includes both powerful healing items and attack items, but none of them are exactly according to the recipe. For instance, her first is a rather tasty-looking sushi roll that is a useful healing item straight to endgame. The recipe was for cake.
283* Edea in ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault''. It's implied that she's actually a pretty good cook, but she has a ''huge'' sweet tooth, so most of the stuff she makes has enough sugar to give you diabetes.
284* ''Cook-Off'' may or may not have elements of this trope. Depending on which main dish and seasoning you choose from the numbered menus, you could end up with either perfectly normal food or something like sesame ice cream or mayonnaise cookies.
285* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'', and its ExpansionPack ''Off The Record'' allow all Chuck and Frank to blend pairs of consumable items into a blender and see what sort of mixed drink pops out. They clearly know at least what they're doing with it, since they're already familiar with mixing drinks from the word go. Reasonable combinations usually give useful benefits: for instance, an apple plus a melon equals an Energizer, which is effectively an InvincibilityPowerUp as well as [[HyperactiveMetabolism full health]]. However, experimenting by throwing together some positively repulsive combinations gives you the dreaded Randomizer, which heals for a modest amount but also causes Chuck or Frank to [[VomitIndiscretionShot puke uncontrollably]] for 30 seconds, as well as fumble whatever item they're holding and drop it. Sure, it might ''occasionally'' give you the effect of one of the other drinks, but anyone who jams a raw fish and an ice cream sundae into a blender deserves what they get.[[note]]In VideoGame/DeadRising, the Randomizer makes Frank stumble around clutching his stomach once every few seconds for almost a few minutes.[[/note]]
286* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' gives us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41YUSZ9VAg The Sinner's Sandwich]], supposedly only [[MasochistsMeal eaten by the guilty]]. [[spoiler: Or by people who legitimately enjoy it.]]
287* In ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'', here's a tip when it comes to Kyoko Kuremi's coffee: Stay away. She puts some odd things such as oyster sauce, yogurt, sea urchins and mayonnaise in her coffee, and forces the Protagonist and Arata into tasting them. [[spoiler: Oddly enough, this is how you discover Alphamon's been possessing her -- he put mayo in his coffee to inform the kids who he really was. In fact, it's mostly his fault the Kyoko you meet is like this. When you meet her in the epilogue, she's receptive to the idea but thinks it's odd.]]
288* The CookingMechanics in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' make ''every single dwarf'' fit the trope. Prepared meals are classified as biscuits, stews, or roasts based on number of ingredients used (2,3, and 4 respectively), and any dwarf you set as your cook will make whatever type of meal you ask... out of ''any'' ingredients you have available. Biscuits made of quarry bush leaves and radish wine, durian/ostrich egg/giant flying squirrel liver stew, and roasts cooked from tallow, llama milk, olive oil, and chili peppers, are all entirely possible. Thankfully, the game doesn't track taste (besides dwarves having favorite foods), so you can feed whatever culinary abomination your cooks come up with to your dwarves without negative effects.
289* ''[[VideoGame/{{MOTHER}} EarthBound Series]]'':
290** ''VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings'': There's an item called Strawberry Tofu, which was meant as a joke on bad combinations of food. Well, someone literally made it and Itoi tried it and it did not work well.
291** Since Americans would be much less likely to show revulsion from it (particularly if familiar with tofu-based vegan ice cream), Nintendo translated the item as "trout ice cream" in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''.
292* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', one of the quests for the Dark Brotherhood involves impersonating a famous chef known as the Gourmet, in order to put poison in [[spoiler:the Emperor]]'s food. Rather than cooking the meal yourself, you are giving instructions to [[spoiler:the Emperor]]'s personal chef. For each step, you are given several choices for what to tell her to put in, the poison being the only one that actually matters. Possible ingredients include vampire dust, a giant's toe, and a gold coin. [[spoiler:The plan doesn't even work, as it's not really the Emperor.]]
293* Kanata of ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' ''really'' loves fish. When he's cooking a typical fish dish, that works! When he's cooking anything else, he'll probably try to add fish (or something related like seaweed) into it anyway, even if he's making something like chocolate.
294* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
295** With the "Survival" skill in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', you can concoct food from such lovely ingredients as mutant flies (Bloatfly sliders), mutant ants (Fire ant fricassée), mutant goats (Bighorner steaks), and whatever 200-year-old TV dinners you can find. Not only that, but in the DLC ''Dead Money'', you can get a recipe for a "Sierra Madre Martini", made from mixing mashed-up junk food with toxic residue in a ''rusty'' tin can. Bottoms up![[note]]Actually, it's not a bad concoction. It boosts your maximum hit points, endurance, and strength for four minutes, and all you have to worry about is potential ''alcohol'' (from where?) addiction. It should be noted both Dean Domino and the description of the perk that lets you make the recipe mention how foul-tasting the martini is.[[/note]]
296** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'''s ''Far Harbor'' add-on includes mutant seafood recipes such as Fried Fog Crawler, Poached Angler, and Gulper Slurry. Crafting one of these earns you the "Just Add Salt Water" achievement.
297* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': Patch 5.3's main scenario quest reveals that ''most of the population of Sharlayan'' are these. Since they're a country of scholars who prioritize efficiency over all else, their food is often [[MinMaxing made to be as nutritious as possible]] [[NondescriptNastyNutritious at the cost of taste and tactile experience]]. Tataru ends up following a recipe for a loaf of bread that includes ground-up ''fish and vegetables''. While the resulting product allegedly ''smells'' delicious, it tastes like crap and is incredibly dense. In ''Endwalker'', it is revealed that Sharlayan's entire population is so used to this that there isn't a restaurant that serves delicious food, save for a cafe founded by a Studium dropout who got so sick of its cuisine appropriately named the Last Stand.
298* This seems to be at least part of Setsuna's problem in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', since she mentions to Azama that she normally tries to combine many different kinds of food in an attempt to please everyone. The resulting dishes usually end up pleasing ''no one''.
299* Xiangling of ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' loves experimenting with weird ingredients, and most people do find her cooking to be questionable and odd at times; the twist is that her culinary knowledge and even culinary ''intuition'' is so great that she can turn anything into the most delicious dish you have ever tasted. Her specialty, however, involves hot and spicy dishes. Her character story reveals that her love of experimenting began with the monopoly of ingredients' stock by the high-class restaurants in Liyue. Her enormous knowledge about cooking and ingredients is because she has experimented, even if she had to pay for it with bouts of diarrhea and bruised knees, among others.
300* The edutainment game ''Franchise/HelloKitty Big Fun Deluxe'' had interactive stories as one of the activities, including one where Hello Kitty makes a stew and invites a friend over for dinner, potentially making you a cordon bleugh chef, since you can add any four ingredients to the stew, ranging from meat, veggies and spices to ''silverware''. No matter what ingredients you chose, the friend will praise your concoction as long as everything is edible. If you put anything else, the stew is described as tasting "awful" or "strange".
301* In ''VideoGame/{{Indivisible}}'', CloudCuckooLander Leilani's personal quest involves cooking seafood stew using an old family recipe that calls for some very weird ingredients: a spice that is a powerful laxative, a booze so strong that it numbs the tongue of a pirate who usually drinks {{Gargle Blaster}}s like water, and a "sea cucumber" that turns out to be her nickname for a vicious reptilian monster. [[spoiler:Much to everyone's surprise, the stew turns out to be [[TastesBetterThanItLooks delicious]], which she explains is due to the three intense flavours all cancelling each other out. As for why nobody except her family cooks it, she says nobody else is crazy enough to even think of using such ingredients.]]
302* Although it's never mentioned in the games, the manga of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' depicts Aerith as one, infamous for adding things like salt to lemonade and milk to soda. Salted lemonade is actually fairly common in real life, since this both quenches thirst and restores salt loss from sweating (at Renaissance Fairs, they affectionately call it "dragon piss"), but soda with milk...
303* A major part of ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' is combining items into edible foods. Sometimes the combinations are obvious, like putting sausage on a pizza, but some of the combinations are things that are only going to be found by trial and error, like combining batgut with spices to make bat haggis. And yes, in-universe, that is a good food (or at least a decent one).
304** The Avatar of Jarlsberg path allows you to make consummate foods using Jarlsberg's Cosmic Kitchen, which are pretty much described as [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood the platonic ideal of their respective foods]]. Jarlsberg's cocktail-making abilities, on the other hand, are far more limited and pretty much an alcoholic version of this trope, leading to combinations like sauerkraut and lager or rum and nacho cheese.
305** Three items in particular come to mind: white chocolate and tomato pizza, chorizo brownies, and tomato daiquiris (a Bloody Mary made with beer instead of vodka). The first two only come into being when a chef-in-the-box explodes; the latter, when a ''bartender''-in-a-box explodes. Eating enough of the first and drinking enough of the last get you trophies.
306* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'': Freddy loves cooking with insects and monster parts. His dishes tend to smell and taste strongly, but Rean notes that they leave a pleasant aftertaste.
307* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
308** In a game that encourages experimentation, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' allows Link to be a cordon bleugh chef with the game's cooking system. Mixing blatantly incompatible materials (such as bugs or monster parts) with any other food items produces [[CensoredForComedy Dubious Food]], while cooking only clearly inedible objects like ore or firewood produces Rock-Hard Food. They don't recover much health, and poor Link's eating animations for these items have him forcing himself to eat the Dubious Food and struggling to eat the Rock-Hard Food.
309** An NPC found in Gerudo Highlands is a Hylian woman named Moza who stubbornly insists on cooking with questionable ingredients, no matter how many times it ends up badly. She's surrounded by [[TrashOfTheTitans piles of fly-strewn garbage]] that are apparently the results of her previous experiments.
310** This ended up happening to a group of travelling chefs in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' after they got a recipe for a meat and rice bowl from Princess Zelda some time before the events of the game which is fairly straightforward with meat, rice and rock salt. However, one of them had the bright idea to use ''monster'' meat instead, leading to all of them passed out and trying not to puke after downing what was likely Dubious Food, with them warning Link to always follow the recipe like the footnote specifically told them to.
311* ''Franchise/LoveLive'':
312** ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'': In μ's side's Main Chapter 15. Kotori Minami had put the cheese cake she brought into a hot pot, ruining it. It is noted that Kotori can cook well in all media adaptions (including "School Idol Festival" itself), she was just reluctant to analyse any information come from her childhood friend Honoka Kosuka no matter what([[LethallyStupid even a bizarre mistake]] - taking example for that chapter, she asked everyone to bring their own favorite food to be hot pot's ingredients, without specifically mentioning "for hot pot").
313** Explicitly subverted in a event story in ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestivalAllStars'' which set in an alternative universe. When Kotori was taking the cheese cake out of the refrigerator, Eli Ayase worried she might just put them into a vegetable pot. This time, however, Kotori had no intention to do it - instead she was just sharing the cake to everyone and eat them in place (A notable mention here, Honoka is not featured in that event story).
314* ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'' has Selan experimenting a new dish for her husband, deep fried jelly in olive oil, which sends Maxim into wondering if it's edible.
315* Possibly Professor E. Gadd from ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''. After Luigi captures Bogmire, the second boss, he offers to make dinner, saying he'll make his "old family recipe", pickled dandelions with barnacles in a diesel marinade. (Of course, we never see it or Luigi's reaction... ''Maybe'' it tastes better than it sounds...)
316* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' introduces us to an Oni chef, who sends the disguised protagonist out to fetch various monster bits to make an appetizer for his boss. Upon making the dish, the chef declares that it is the perfect appetizer because anything else will taste excellent in comparison.
317* General rule of thumb of the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' series -- the more feminine the woman, the less edible their food is.
318** In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', [[MissionControl Fuuka]]'s Social Link requires a high Courage to begin because the food is so awful the PC won't go near it otherwise.
319** ''VideoGame/Persona4'':
320*** When making a list of ingredients for curry, Yukiko and Chie include such things as radishes, kimchi, chocolate, and yogurt. Later, Rise uses foie gras in an omelette. The [[SilentProtagonist main character]] can also be this if the player selects the wrong options when making lunch. The main problem with Yukiko and Chie's ingredient choices is that they seem to have gotten the wrong end of the stick. Chocolate and yoghurt ''are'' both perfectly reasonable ingredients in a curry... but they should be plain yoghurt and dark cooking chocolate (90%+ cocoa). However they decided to use ''fruit yoghurt and mint chocolate.''
321*** Rise, meanwhile, seems to be okay on ingredients, but makes her food ''way'' too spicy, at one point producing something that knocks poor Yukiko out in one mouthful.
322*** Even the protagonist has the option to be this if the player chooses the wrong options while cooking. You have the option to ''spray cologne on creme caramel'', of all things.
323*** Naoto is the only girl who avoids being this. She does make the effort to read instructions, but it's implied she doesn't like to cook anyway.
324*** Nanako became one as the girl's proxy because of the girls in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'' as a result of numerous suggestions from Yukiko, Chie and Rise (Naoto tried to stop them but was unable to). Among other things, she was told to include [[spoiler:wheatgrass, fish sausage, bacon, iced coffee, bell peppers, vinegar, and fermented squid]]. Her chocolate was so bad that it came out looking like a Slime Persona. Oh, and [[spoiler: eating a single bite struck the PC with Fear and incapacitated him until the following morning.]]
325* The app ''VideoGame/PokemonSleep'' allows you, the player, to be able to cook dishes for your Snorlax, with one such unusual meal being a ''chocolate sauce and meat salad''. Granted, Snorlax in lore ''is'' [[ExtremeOmnivore capable of eating anything without getting sick]], but still.
326* In ''VideoGame/Portal1'', the Logic Core knows how to make a lovely-looking Cake out of such everyday ingredients as coconut-pecan frosting, semi-sweet chocolate chips, granulated sugar, fiberglass surface resins, rhubarb (on fire), fish-shaped volatile organic compounds, and sediment-shaped sediment.
327* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'': While WordOfGod states that Ringo can technically cook very well thanks to growing up in a shopping district and thus always having ingredients readily available, her desire to experiment and make food "healthier" often gets the better of her and results in her creating such awful concoctions as "Protein laced Ganache", "Tuna-eyeball-apple-pie" and "Mulukhiyah Cake Frosting". Maguro, [[BizarreTasteInFood Arle and Carbuncle]] still seem to genuinely enjoy her cooking, though.
328* A sidequest in ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' has Red collecting ingredients for a big stew. You're told to pick whatever you think looks good, and at one point you have the option of putting a ''poisonous barnacle'' into the pot. If you do, it turns the whole thing purple (and then a bunch of other weird colours), but it smells delicious and turns out to be ''fantastic'', so much so you get a bonus!
329* El Fuerte is the fighting chef in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' who tried to combine chanko nabe and borscht together to create the ultimate dish. It's pretty good at turning faces blue.
330** He does it again by putting a whole carrot, a whole fish, fishbones, a rotten tomato, aojiru (kale juice, which is rich in nutrients but bitter to taste) and baker's chocolate in chili soup. (Although this last one isn't that unusual -- chocolate, especially dark chocolate, goes very well when added to chili. Mexican chocolate is ''meant'' to be spicy and bitter.)
331** It's implied in some sources (like the UDON comics) that the problem with El Fuerte is that his technical skill is at least average (he ''is'' seen working in a restaurant, after all), but he does fine only and IF only ''he sticks to the recipe itself AND when [[OneNoteCook he's making Mexican food]]''. Shit goes down the toilet when he experiments, and since that's almost everything we see him do...
332* ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'': Justified in the Bandaged Poissonier's case, as his experimentation is ''extremely'' necessary. It's the only way he could get that good with the ingredients he's using, which are commonly fugu-levels of deadly if improperly done, and the proper way to make them tends to be terribly obscure and/or difficult. His kitchen looks like an alchemical laboratory precisely because he needs to try ''everything'' for every last new ingredient before he can find a proper way to do it. He will usually eat his mistakes himself (it's okay, [[TheUndead he's already dead]]), thankfully, but even the good dishes can be eerie, if still tasty. This is also what will happen if you demand non-fish ingredients; [[OneNoteChef he doesn't like doing that, but will at least try]].
333* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
334** ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'': Harold is one deliberately, as she can cook food for herself with no trouble (though she fails at lab safety and makes her food in beakers and flasks) but when cooking for others she can't resist adding something she's [[MadScientist trying to test out on humans]], often making everyone sick.
335** Raine Sage from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''. She wouldn't be the worst chef in the game if not for her nasty habit of experimenting with cooking. For example: everyone makes sweet cake; chocolate, vanilla, carrot, it's always sweet. So Raine decides to be a pioneer and bake a ''spicy'' cake[[note]]There are, in fact, such things as "spice cakes". They are not, however, supposed to be "spicy" in the same manner as, say, curry[[/note]]. Or how about lemon rice cooked ''inside'' a lemon, and topped with garam masala? She can, however, [[OneNoteChef cook spaghetti]].
336** For all that he's TheAce, Flynn Scifo in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' is revealed as one in the cooking competition sidequest. Yuri notes that he's great when he sticks to the recipe, but his sense of taste is so terrible that when he modifies a recipe, he ruins it.
337* ''VideoGame/TouchDetective'': Antoinette. She can actually make normal pastry, but her fondness for 'experiments' push her into this territory; Eel shortcake and Mushroom cookies.
338* Some of the food combinations you can make in ''VideoGame/TouhouMystiasIzakaya'' when trying to satisfy a rare guest can venture into this territory. The game tries to avoid it to some degree by making certain dishes incompatible with certain types of ingredients, but you can still get away with some pretty bizarre combinations like adding fish to cotton candy.
339* As far as Cordon Bleugh Ice Cream Makers go, there's the Iceman from ''VideoGame/TheTouryst''. Before you get him something actually appropriate for making an ice cream flavor, his specialties include such incongruous items as salami salmon and vanilla onion. He himself laments those flavors tend to drive away the crowds looking for something to beat the heat.
340* ''VideoGame/TsukiAdventure'': Bobo is a skilled ramen cook, but some of his experiments are on the questionable side. One combines soy sauce, banana, and ginger.
341* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': [[ApronMatron Toriel]] and [[MadeFromRealGirlScouts Muffet]] count. The former will happily use ''snails'' as a substitute for cinnamon in pie, and the latter's bake goods are made with spider webbing and ''juices''.
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345* Contrary to what you might expect, Kyouko actually can cook in ''VisualNovel/AseliaTheEternalTheSpiritOfEternitySword''. It just ''looks'' like an absolute horrible catastrophe waiting to happen. Helion did not help in that respect despite her best efforts. Read: Put flowers into the mouths of fish or turning things purple.
346* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', Sanae Furukawa is always baking bizarre kinds of bread with ingredients like rice crackers, M&Ms and lobster. Unfortunately, she just happens to be extremely sensitive about it, and runs out of the store crying when her work is insulted. The first time it happens, Tomoya does so without knowing what would happen, and every other time, her own husband, Akio, does it, leaving him to run after her with the bread in his mouth shouting "I LOVE IT!", which becomes a RunningGag in the anime. Apart from her bread, she's actually a good cook.
347* ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'':
348** Mitsunari has enough of a reputation for this that the main character dreads having to eat a rice ball he personally chose the filling for in one story event. The filling turns out to be a mixture of red-bean paste and strawberries which, while tasty in a daifuku mochi, is not so tasty when combined with the salted vinegar rice shell of a rice ball.
349** In another story event, Sasuke and the main character make a birthday rice cake for Kenshin that has chestnut icing and is decorated with egg slices, cucumber, and shrimp... which is actually ''more'' appealing than their initial plan of wasabi icing and sushi toppings. In fairness, they had to make do with the ingredients available in the Sengoku period where foods like chocolate and vanilla are scarce and knew and Kenshin, a man who would happily eat nothing but pickled plums all day if he could, seems to enjoy it well enough.
350* Tomato, tuna and soy sauce pancake sandwiches sound good to Hatsune in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo''. And they're surprisingly edible.
351* Hanako Ikezawa from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' is technically an okay chef. According to Lilly, however, she likes to experiment once in a while, and whenever that happens.
352* In ''VisualNovel/YearningAGayStory'', whoever makes the fries for the college campus's burger place seems to have an alien's sense of which combinations of foods qualify as tasty. Some of the numerous "creative" flavors the fries have been served in are: spinach and kumquat; garlic and anchovy juice; durian and sour cream; and tabasco, horseradish, and chocolate (which Nikhil refers to as "pain, torture, and eternal torment"). The same burger place has also been known to serve other things like squid burgers and spinach onion rings.
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356* The children's video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frN3nvhIHUk Do You Like Broccoli Ice Cream]]'' and its sequel, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddDN30evKPc Do You Like Spaghetti Yogurt]]'' are all about this trope. Both follow the same formula: We see a child's face as an unknown adult sings
357-->'''Singer:''' Do you like [Food A]? Yes I do! Yes I do!\
358''[Child nods enthusiastically]''\
359'''Singer:''' Do you like [Food B]? Yes I do! Yes I do!\
360''[Child licks his or her lips]''\
361'''Singer:''' Do you like [Food A] [Food B]? No! Yucky!\
362''[Child makes a disgusted face]''
363* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has so many mixed-up foods, ranging from reasonably edible to downright disgusting/dangerous, that its respective wiki has a whole page [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Concoctions dedicated to them]].
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367* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', the Doc's mom, Mitzi, is an otherwise excellent cook, but she has a peculiar specialty in her pickled beets, which are apparently too vile to choke down even when they aren't poisoned as part of TrainingFromHell.
368* Namco from ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}}'' likes making ice cream in various flavors, but certain of his flavors are somewhat... strange, like curry, snake or horse.
369* Checomal, the main character from ''Webcomic/RestauranteMacoatl'' is one of these, he can cook fine but tends to experiment (and cut corners) a lot.
370* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
371** One sub-arc in the Credomar arc features Schlock and Ebbirnoth's adventures in 31st-century human cuisine (which, by that point, has stagnated to the point that they've resorted to combining things in ways that should never have been). The crowning moment for this comes with smutto, a combination of huitlacoche or "corn smut" and natto, which overlaps with LethalChef because man was never meant to eat corn smut (diseased corn) or natto (fermented soybeans) in the first place. And yet if one ventures onto Youtube and searches for smutto, a video can be found by '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1q_e6dEoWk Cooking with the Old Wolf]]' of a fellow who actually dared eat the inedible, and pronounced it to not be utterly wretched, in that he would be willing to eat it again if it was the only food available while starving on a desert island.
372--->'''Schlock:''' And you just automatically give it to people who say "number two."
373** While not a Cordon Bleugh ingredient combination (by virtue of having only one ingredient), the Chupaqueso is another Schlock example of Cordon Bleugh cooking techniques. Literally 'cheese sucker', this Mexican... ish... dish is most accurately described as 'melted cheese wrapped in fried cheese, garnished with cheese'. It should be noted that Howard Taylor makes these at home. They're pretty good, just [[NutritionalNightmare unhealthy]], but mercenaries rarely live long enough to feel the consequences anyways. He invites his readers to try it.
374--->'''Howard Taylor:''' Send pictures.
375** Ch'vorthq is a good cook, he just overapplies his prosthetic whisk hand in about the same way that being trapped in the Earth's core would overapply heat and pressure. At one point in "Broken Wind" [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-26 he serves up an entire breakfast -- bananas, apples, bacon and fried eggs -- as a smoothie]], stating proudly that the emulsion is so fine you almost don't need to digest it. Then Tagon puts it on toast, and Liz (Ch'vorthq's assistant chef who failed to stop him from whisking everything) ''screams''.
376--->'''Tagon:''' I'm about to put this in my mouth. Do you need to look away?\
377'''Liz:''' I want to, but I can't.
378* Crystal, the local bartender from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', does this with mixed drinks. One of her creations is the "Cheeseburger Margarita".
379* ''Webcomic/{{Sombulus}}'' has a cursed cook who's lost her ability to bake sensible things ever since she entered a cursed clocktower. [[http://www.sombulus.com/comic/14 Mmmm, slugs]].
380* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' gives us the unfortunate TeamMom that is Mikkel Madsen. His hot meals tend to run towards the "bland, boring, horribly watery fish stew/soup/whatever" school of not-again. Mind you, this isn't by choice: he's working with a ''severly'' limited larder which he didn't select. Tins of tuna, oatmeal and carrots predominate. Possibly with tallow candle back-up. Don't ask; don't tell. Also, it's not his fault if other team members dump, say, a whole, undressed squirrel into the pot behind his back. They can't afford to waste even one furry disaster, so...
381* ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'': today i put.....[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=003.jpg JELLY on this hot]] [[RougeAnglesOfSatin god]]
382* In [[http://xkcd.com/720/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' the protagonist uses genetic algorithm on food.
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386* Many [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Gross Foods"]] on ''{{Website/Neopets}}'' are combinations of food that should not be combined, like "Bacon and Eggs Ice Cream", "Hot Dog Flavoured Yoghurt" and "Mashed Potatoes with Strawberry Sauce". The rest include things that shouldn't be in food at all, like slime, snot, dung and maggots. Your pet will also comment on [[LethalChef how horrible it tastes]] if you feed these foods to them.
387* [[http://www.sbnation.com/spilly-food-recipes Ever wanted to celebrate sports with anything in your kitchen?]] ([[http://imgur.com/a/dAwfs or not even that!]])
388* [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com The Mid-Century Menu]] is a website that tests recipes from the 1930's to the 1960's, and many, ''many'' of them dip into this trope. Recipes from the Depression (where utilizing every scrap of food was important) and recipes from the advent of home refrigeration (when non-dessert gelatin was in vogue) tend to be ones that suggest the weirdest combinations. There are also "sponsored" cookbooks put out by food companies that suggest you use their product in ''everything.'' Some of the most notable include:
389** [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2011/07/tuna-pizza-tuna-contest-finalist-2/ Tuna "Pizza"]], made from biscuit dough, canned tuna, Parmesan cheese, evaporated milk and ketchup. They find it to be "gross", claiming that those ingredients should never be mixed together.
390** [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2012/06/chicken-mousse-aka-chicken-ice-cream-glistening-and-jiggly-finalist-4/ Chicken Mousse,]] which is essentially roast chicken-flavored ''ice cream'' with the added bonus of being made with gelatin as well. They claim it's not a bad selection of seasonings for roast chicken, but ''not'' something to be served up whipped and chilled.
391** [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2012/02/liver-pate-en-masque-a-retro-gelatin-dare/ Live Pate en Masque,]] which is essentially a liver and green bean ''Jell-O mold'' covered in ''buttermilk.'' It apparently smelled good, but they claim it tasted terrible.
392** [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2014/01/heinz-carnival-cream-aka-ketchup-ice-cream-a-mid-century-recipe-test/ Heinz Carnival Cream]] is ''ketchup-flavored ice cream.'' And it is, shockingly, not the only recipe Heinz has ever released [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2010/04/mid-century-menu-a-heinz-feast-with-toledo-ham-spicy-vegetable-casserole-and-pink-peach-sundae/ suggesting you combine ketchup and ice cream.]] Their verdict was that it was actually delicious (but note that it probably helped that they could barely taste the ketchup).
393** And for sheer volume of incomprehensible ingredient combinations, there's the [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2011/09/the-yule-sandwich-loga-mid-century-recipe-test/ Yule Sandwich Log.]] It's a combination of several sandwich fillings all in the '''same sandwich'''. The fillings include "pimento cheese-shrimp," "deviled ham-peanut butter," (which includes dill pickles) "egg-bacon" and "avocado-pineapple". The sandwich is then covered with a cranberry-flavored cream cheese frosting. Despite their initial shock after seeing the recipe and the way some of the mixtures ended up looking in the bowls during the preparation, their verdict was that the sandwich was good overall. They particularly liked the frosting and the egg salad filling, and they found the pimento-cheese shrimp filling to be alright. They found the ham-peanut butter filling to be "gross", but claimed that it was less so when having it in a bite with something else.
394* Similar to the above, the blog ''[[http://www.denbrunamaten.se Den Bruna Maten (The Brown Food)]] explores food from the late sixties -- early seventies, when exotic ingredients like pineapple started appearing in Swedish supermarkets, but no-one really knew how to use them. The main things that can be taken away is that combinations of pork products and cheese are hard to mess up.
395* [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/milk-steak-to-moon-waffles-tackling-tvs-grossest-recipes/ This]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article, writer Loryn Stone tried 6 of these recipes from various tv-shows. In order: Moon Waffles from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Breakfast Spaghetti from ''{{Film/Elf}}'', The Seven-Layer Salad from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Milk Steak With Jelly Beans from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', Peanut Butter And Clam Pizza from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'', and Rachel's English Trifle from ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
396** Stone also tried some [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-crazy-sandwiches-from-tv-shows-taste-tested21/ weird sandwiches]], including both Tang and toothpaste ones from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
397* ''Webvideo/{{React}}'' had one in a regular People Vs. Food episode, where five random pizza toppings were combined (the most edible: ham/alfredo sauce/egg/marshmallows/raspberries and goldfish candy/onion/peanut butter/pickles/tuna), and downright unsavory ones in the Challenge Chalices: ice cream with sardines, tartar and barbecue sauce! Gross smoothies (i.e. milk, guacamole, hot sauce and pickles)! Sour and spicy drinks! Turning already spicy noodles into a FireBreathingDiner!
398* ''WebVideo/TFSAtTheTable'': Grammy the sea hag is all about experimenting with {{Secret Ingredient}}s -- and she doesn't really seem to care if they're considered edible or not. Dishes seen on-screen include "chicken" (actually seagull) soup, pufferfish pie (poison included), Abyssal crab omelette (shells and all), and tomato soup with mandrake (still screaming, which [[EveryoneHasStandards even she found kind of unsettling]]) and HealingPotion (with bits of broken glass from the bottle), and she has been known to cook sentient beings like [[CatPeople tabaxi]]. Whenever the players eat her food they're required to make a Constitution save...however, it's subverted because if they do make their saves, the food tastes pretty good ''and'' confers some kind of in-game bonus (like the pufferfish pie giving an Armor Class bonus), while failing just produces some comedic effect but no actual penalty (the pufferfish poison numbing their mouths for a few mintues).
399* The CreepyPasta ''I've Been Hiding Under My Desk for the Past Twelve Hours'' contains a RunningGag about salmon casserole. Smells awful, tastes awful, and it's the latest fad so it's what's for dinner. Makes a handy-dandy bait for the MonsterOfTheWeek.
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403* This is a frequent trademark of ''WebVideo/BingingWithBabish'' when he tries to follow TV show recipes to the letter, and finds that a lot of the tastes ''really'' don't go well together. Typically, he'll follow this up with his own version that tries to reconcile the flavours a bit better.
404* Part of WebVideo/BrandonFarris' channel is running a recipe through [[TranslationTrainwreck Google Translate]] and then attempting to make the recipe. What Brandon comes up with (provided it isn't a large smear all over the kitchen) is barely edible, much less even remotely tasty.
405* The [[https://www.youtube.com/user/emmymadeinjapan Emmymade]] Website/YouTube channel features a cute and delightful female host who cooks and tastes bizarre things. Sometimes she tries out bizarre recipes that she finds online, and sometimes she just tastes already prepared strange foods, such as military rations, foreign candies, and strange tropical fruits. She gives everything a fair chance, even things that look like they'd be thoroughly disgusting.
406** Her least favorite recipe is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVzx1Ta9_Ak Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa Cake]].
407** Her least favorite candy is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5qYM-qs1I Scandinavian candies made with ammonia salts]][[note]]Check her reaction to Turkisch Pfeffer at about 12:10 in the video[[/note]].
408** She also does a series on creative recipes made by people experiencing extreme poverty or food shortages, including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J76fun8m5no Haitian Dirt Cookies]].
409* ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'' is about a bunch of trained chefs doing this for TestosteronePoisoning. The results are [[NutritionalNightmare highly caloric and fatty]] (with extra bacon).
410* The croutons Bonnie and WebVideo/{{Gayle}} make for their business venture have granite as a key ingredient. And when they run out they resort to using cement from the neighbors' driveway. The motivation seems to be dissatisfaction with the croutons currently on the market and wanting to be surprised.
411--->"Never let your guard down when you're eating my salad!"
412* ''WebVideo/HowToCookThat'' has Anne Reardon fall into this role when debunking internet cooking hacks. One notable example has her cook brownies and ramen noodles together to see if they actually work. Her husband Dave, the good sport that he is, tasted them.
413---> '''Dave''': It's like you've taken two perfectly good foods and ruined both of them.
414* ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'':
415** The Iron Stomach challenge which crosses this with MasochistsMeal. One notable challenge was the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Banana Onion Juice]].
416** There have also been a couple of different variations of challenges meant to make something as good as possible with odd combinations (such as sandwiches with non-sandwich toppings, or having to do something with what you get from two different fast food restaurants), which tend to ''sound'' like this -- some of the actual results were apparently tasty, however.
417* ''WebVideo/MythicalKitchen'': [[SupremeChef Mythical Chef Josh]] is responsible for many of the insanely creative and tasty dishes Rhett and Link get to enjoy on [[WebVideo/RhettAndLink Good Mythical Morning]]. [[MadArtist Josh]] is also responsible for many of the awful, nightmarish dishes Rhett and Link often end up vomiting up such as Bile Cheesecake, Roadkill Corndog, and Blood Eggnog.
418* Of all people the WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic did this once when he created "''Film/AChristmasStory 2'' Eggnog" as a huge TakeThat: a single drop of classical eggnog, a chicken drumstick (used for unneeded slapstick beforehand), a pack of vegan hot dogs (because this can't contain any meat whatsoever), a single star fruit that probably aged past its time (because it's cheap and available) watering everything down as much as possible, blending until it becomes a creamy liquid, put into a festive mug and garnish with a lit cigarette. They taste this onscreen. With predictable results.
419* [[https://youtube.com/channel/UCKQ-wNdh0kO5qnpPfXa2hjQ Ranboo]] often gets a bit too creative during his cooking videos.
420** In the first video, he made a bowl of Minecraft Creeper Crunch cereal, to which he added ''an entire cinnamon roll''. As he quickly finds out, cinnamon rolls do ''not'' taste good when soaked in milk.
421** In the second video, he adds [=M&Ms=] to pre-made cake batter. This does not go well, all the [=M&Ms=] sink to the bottom of the mixing bowl, and the dye bled into the cake itself during baking, which does not help its appearance.
422--->'''Ranboo:''' We have our cake here, it looks, um... ''({{Beat}})'' Diseased, to say the least.
423*** Ranboo then tries to fix his cake by adding ''three'' tubs of frosting on the top, which he then tops with more M&M's and gummy worms. With the size of the cake, three tubs of frosting means that the layer of frosting is as thick as the cake itself.
424---->'''Ranboo:''' It is half frosting, half cake, [[LampshadeHanging and FULL abomination]].
425* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Chef Pee Pee is flanderized into this in videos from 2017 onwards. A strange example indeed since he used to be more competent regardless if he hates his job cooking for Bowser and Junior.
426* ''WebVideo/TastingHistoryWithMaxMiller'': A staple, but not so much due to Max culinary skills as the extreme shifts in people's palates across millenia and the entire world.
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430* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Similar to Michelangelo below, Jimmy Neutron's friend Carl Wheezer, when they're using Jimmy's perfect slumber party machine to make a pizza, states that he eats his pizza with clams, peanut butter, and hot fudge ("Don't knock it till you try it").
431* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'''s Wolfgang Puke, a side character from the episode "[[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E32SonicGetsThrashed Sonic Gets Thrashed]]", was designed by Robotnik to be his own personal chef... but somehow the wiring in his head got crossed. This even leads to Tails throwing up.
432-->'''Wolfgang:''' My latest triumph! Rotten eggs and Mmmmaggot Surprise!
433* Grammy from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears''. She thinks things like oatmeal and broccoli muffins and stew made with stinkweed are perfectly sensible.
434* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
435** Played with in the case of Arthur's father David. He's generally quite a good cook and even runs a successful catering business, but he tries experimenting at home so much that the audience mainly sees the more questionable meals he makes. Arthur and D.W. are often grossed out by his experimental dishes, and there's a song devoted to his culinary abominations in the MusicalEpisode. Whenever he makes something ''good'', it becomes the centerpiece of an entire episode.
436** Buster is another played with example, as he actively creates weird combinations of food, but due to his iron-clad stomach and [[BizarreTasteInFood willingness to eat just about anything]], actually enjoys them and never seems to understand why others don't.
437* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'', Carl develops an interest in cooking, and creates dishes like "Feet Loaf" (regular meatloaf cut into foot shapes), "Mac-n-Sneeze" (macaroni and cheese), and "Potatoes Au Rotten" (potatoes au gratin). They're popular with both his family and the kids at school, and he and Hoodsie sell the food to their classmates from a refurbished hot dog stand, until the school cafeteria cook, Chef Bob (primarily motivated by [[YoureJustJealous jealousy]]) has the health department close them down.
438* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'':
439** Grandpa Max's survival-skill recipes and other exotic dishes make his grandkids regard him this way, with aspects of ForeignQueasine mixed in.
440** He's this even to aliens. When Ben (not knowing that it was Max there) goes to his main base in the Null Void, what does Max's assistant advise him?
441--->Don't eat anything he gives you.
442* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': Lump Humpman's "Lump Soup", which is one part Sunny-D and two parts nacho cheese.
443* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': When Gene and Louise compete to see who can create the next burger of the day, Gene makes a burger with olives and licorice. Louise makes a burger with chewing gum.
444* ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'' once made a caustic-looking casserole out of random ingredients in his kitchen in the episode "Dollar Hunt". Surprisingly, his mother and her book club ended up liking it.
445* Grandma Stuffum of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' is a recurring villain that cooks disgusting, [[LetsMeetTheMeat living dishes]] like curried rat that she tries to force feed to all kids under the belief they're underfed. As a reference StockYuck her two minions are an animate liver and two [[GigglingVillain constantly cackling]] onions.
446* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': Muriel is an excellent cook, but she tends to add "a wee dash of vinegar" to everything, including candy, [=PB&J=], and dog food. The success rate varies, she actually has several vinegar-based foods that have won a local award, though Courage tends to be the guinea pig and usually retches.
447* ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' episode "Cooked Crooks" has Joe Jitsu disguised as a renowned French chef in order to fool Stooge Viller and Mumbles, who have been offered $5000 to steal a valuable recipe from the chef. Joe's recipe calls for such ingredients as antelope hooves, bees' knees, and a secret ingredient (which turns out to be gunpowder, much to the villains' dismay).
448* Gran from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}''. Her 'traditional' recipe for hotdogs involves snail glue and tripe.
449* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS2E18NecterOfTheOdds Necter of the Odds]]", Timmy's attempts to find a "secret ingredient" for his lemonade to make it taste better (since the first batch of lemonade he made is '''horrible''') has him trying cheese, taco sauce, and peas. [[spoiler:His choice of ingredient ended up being sweat from Cosmo's socks, which made the lemonade magical both figuratively and literally]].
450* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E22WhenYouwishUponAWeinstein When You Wish Upon a Weinstein]]", Peter invites his new Jewish friend Max Weinstein for dinner. However, when Max sees that Lois has made marshmallow and fish casserole, he tries to politely tell her he can't eat it. Luckily for him, she assumes it's because it's not kosher, and, after a long sideways look at the "dish", [[SureLetsGoWithThat Max agrees]]. There's also "The King is Dead" when Lois makes Peter "French toast," actually a pile of mismatched foods including an entire fish, to show him how changing something too much can make it unrecognizable and bad.
451* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gasp}}'', Gasp attempts to create a unique new cupcake flavor in order to win a new stove in a competition. His attempts include chocolate and fish flake, and apricot jam and liver.
452* In ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', there's Gung-Ho's Cajun-style gumbo. According to Recondo, one time he made it, the Joes used it for Skystriker fuel.
453* Billy of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has several instances of this, such as in a dream where he makes an extremely caustic batch of cookie dough out of assorted junk food (he doesn't actually bake it because he's not allowed to use the oven since a NoodleIncident).
454* ''WesternAnimation/HaileysOnIt'': In "The Last Sand", the sponsor for the beach contest sells cakes that are topped with gravy. Nobody enjoys them.
455-->'''Hailey:''' This is disgusting.
456* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
457** Lynn Loud Sr. is usually an excellent chef to the point that he is able to set up his own restaurant midway through the show. Sometimes, however, he likes to do experimental dishes that end up being so bad, they send his wife and children running to the bathroom. His apparent appeal for casseroles provide a couple examples, including one made of cabbage in "House of Lies" and another with liverwurst, shrimp and mayo from "Pets Peeved".
458** Played straight with Lynn Sr.'s father Leonard, who's seen making s'mores with ''fish'' in them in "Bummer Camp". The kids are understandably disgusted.
459* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' episode "Madeline at Cooking School", the girls and Pepito have to make lunch for Lord Cucuface when their cook Mrs. Murphy gets sick. Having never cooked before, they set out to make simple sandwiches, but get overly creative with the ingredients: brie, roquefort, camembert, lingonberry jam, olives, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, chili peppers, and (by accident) a whole shaker of salt. Predictably, it makes Lord Cucuface sick and leads him to promptly enroll them in cooking school.
460* Pinkie Pie from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. She's actually a pretty good cook for the most part, but she's capable of veering into this territory when she gets overly creative. The [[MasochistsMeal strawberry cinnamon cilantro cupcakes]], in particular, were so bad that ''[[BigEater Pinkie herself]]'' could barely stomach them.
461* Cap'n Turbot of ''WesternAnimation/PawPatrol'' makes a variety of seafood dishes that fail to appeal to others besides himself (and sometimes Wally). Considering these dishes include things like sickly green "jellyfish jam" and a fish-shaped cake that was actually made from fish products, one can understand why.
462* In a flashback in the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Reeking Havoc", Professor Utonium makes his own chili for a chili cook-off via laboratory methods. His chili resulted so toxic that a Hazmat unit had to be called in and [[{{Pun}} cordon]] off his home.
463* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': While Carrot is genuinely a SupremeChef, he tends to make dishes that are weird and/or disgusting to humans, but pleasant to Bortronians. Deep-fried lollipops, tomato and liver butter, sardine and pudding sandwiches, and broccoli ice cream sandwiches, for example. In fact, in "Fact Or Fiction?", he somehow makes cookie dough come to life.
464* Tito in ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' has a habit of flavoring almost any food he cooks with pineapple, even popcorn.
465* ''WesternAnimation/SallyBollywood'': In "Call My Lawyer", Sally's entry in the class baking contest was a yellow curry and pepper cake. Dowee's was a haggis cake, consisting of sheep's stomach stuffed with Christmas pudding.
466* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, but only because they love food like this. If they had to cook for someone else, they would probably spare them from eating something like chocolate-covered eggplant burgers (with hot sauce!). And then there's this classic exchange from the episode "A Clue For Scooby-Doo", when Velma hears Shaggy waxing rhapsodic over chocolate-covered hotdogs.
467-->'''Velma:''' Yech! His stomach must be made of scrap iron!\
468'''Shaggy:''' Can I help it if my first toy was a garbage disposal?
469** It bears mentioning that this trait of Shaggy's became much more prominent after his voice actor successfully bargained with the studio to make Shaggy officially a vegetarian. It's also been one of the factors invoked by fans as evidence that Shaggy is a covert stoner, as cravings for both excessive food and weird combinations of flavors are a common (pop culture) side-effect of smoking marijuana.
470* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
471** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E14ScenesFromTheClassStruggleInSpringfield Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield]]", Mr. Burns bakes a cake as a welcoming gift for Homer and his family into the country club. Smithers eats some and is less than enthralled.
472--->'''Burns:''' I pickled the figs myself.
473** In another episode, Moe - trying to impress a date by spending big - orders "your finest food, stuffed with your second finest" at a restaurant. The waiter replies, "Yes, sir. Lobster stuffed with tacos."
474* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' [[OneNoteCook is great at making Krabby Patties]], but his other cooking can be more suspect. In the episode "Something Smells", he makes a sundae out of available ingredients when he was lacking normal ones: ketchup, onions, and peanuts growing on the window sill of his bathroom (as well as the dirt they came with). The resulting concoction gives him epic bad breath. Then there's "Patty Hype", where, while his idea for Pretty Patties wasn't bad taste wise, ''somehow'' manages to turn folks into various colors.
475* In the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' cartoon, Michelangelo was infamous for ordering and making pizzas with bizarre and improbable combinations of toppings. Creator/JamesRolfe and his friends [[http://cinemassacre.com/2011/05/19/tmnt-pizza-taste-test/ tried eating them,]] and found most of them to be disgusting.
476** In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 cartoon]], his attempts at cooking early on in the series are a pizza milkshake (a "pishake") like the Bill Harley example above and pizza noodle stew. The former looks as unappetizing as it sounds, but Leatherhead genuinely liked the latter.
477* Chef Hatchet from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' is initially introduced as a LethalChef incapable of cooking anything edible for the campers, but a bunch of later episodes have shown that he's a quite good chef when it comes to cooking for himself, Chris, or if the challenge requires it. He just enjoys experimenting with disgusting food to torture the contestants.
478* Berk from ''WesternAnimation/TheTrapDoor''. Justified since he's cooking for an EldritchAbomination. In one episode, a monster who eats the Thing's breakfast ends up getting served up instead. The Thing likes it.
479* Dr. Venture from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' is known for mixing up and drinking some really gross sounding cocktails, or Doctails. ''How To Drink'' replicates some of these drinks in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q1A3Ayt9I4 this video.]]
480* Kitty Pryde from ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', while an otherwise passable cook, is this with her attempts at baking.
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484* The cooks in the short Creator/FoodNetwork show ''Series/WorstCooksInAmerica'' were this at the start. In the first round of one season, one of said cooks made spaghetti with a sauce made from tomatoes and... M&M's.
485* One of the hottest terms in cuisine has been [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy molecular gastronomy]] which uses science to figure out combinations of flavors that would taste good, no matter how weird they sound, often using some pretty cool gadgets to do it. Some of its more notable exponents are:
486** Heston Blumenthal--living proof that both [[HollywoodCuisine Englishmen and Jews]] are perfectly capable of being great chefs--has a reputation for experimental cooking, although as with a number of other examples on this page the results are often less Cordon Bleugh and more ImpossiblyDeliciousFood; besides molecular gastronomy's focus on the science of why things taste good (and thus why, for instance, bacon ice cream would actually work--he ''also'' made a well-received version), Blumenthal is also very interested in psychology and messing with people's expectations. [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-481969/Chilli-barmy-Chef-Heston-Blumenthals-latest-wacky-experiment.html Here's a good article about him.]] (Since about 2012, however, he's deemphasised the wacky experimentation and "molecular" recipes and focused on producing traditional high-quality traditional British food, emphasising the things that make traditional British cookery good--no, you didn't read that wrong[[note]]Blumenthal's basic philosophy when it comes to classic British cookery is that the British kitchen has always been good, it's just been ''simple'': the English (or Welsh or Scottish or Irish) cook doesn't bother with fancy sauces and preparations, because everything tastes good when it tastes like itself, and the key to making good British dishes is finding small combinations of ingredients that taste even better when they taste like themselves ''with'' the other ingredients. The traditional bad reputation of British food, in Blumenthal's opinion, comes from the fact that when food is simple, one or two small mistakes can completely ruin the dish, while with complex, multi-layered dishes a minor error can be buried in the mix of flavors (Chinese and Thai cooking are good examples of this opposite extreme). He's also by his own admission rather a sucker for childhood nostalgia, which is why he loves indulging in classic British ComfortFood.[[/note]]--with his modern, science-based modifications and twists--like his famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Cooked_Chips triple-cooked chips]]--to guarantee good results).
487*** Try watching the ''Feast'' series, the historical ones are both ForeignQueasine and ImpossiblyDeliciousFood in one package.
488*** When Heston Blumenthal guested on Radio/TerryWogan's Radio 2 breakfast show in late 2008, he made a dessert (pudding) that looked exactly like a pork pie but was made with ice cream and other traditonal dessert ingredients, a pot of "mustard" that was actually a sweet fruit puree (to drizzle alongside the faux "pork pie"), and "boiled eggs" that were made from white chocolate and other similar ingredents. Crowning Food Moment of Awesome, anyone? (Sir Terry raved on about the food and it caused not a fair amount of drooling from the audience.)
489** Ferran Adria--based in Barcelona--is another molecular gastronomist (gastronomer?), and also very good at making odd combinations of ingredients work as a dish: his restaurant, [=elBulli=] was consistently ranked as the best in the world for several years running (nevertheless, it closed in 2011, as it had somehow managed to operate at a loss since 2000). Adria thinks of his style as deconstructivist. The Kellogg's paella (Rice Krispies, shrimp heads, and vanilla flavoured mashed potatoes) is a good example of what he does.
490** Grant Achatz--raised in UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}, but based in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}--is one of the Young Guns of this school of this cuisine despite having trained under the relatively traditional Thomas Keller. He particularly likes foams--one of Adria's innovations--and also playing around with the basic format of the restaurant (e.g.--his second restaurant, Next, doesn't take reservations but rather sells prepaid tickets for a set menu).[[note]]He's also started two bars, both of which operate, essentially, as speakeasies--one being strictly invite-only--although as "speakeasies" are popular in Chicago now, it's hard to tell if he's the head of a wave or just riding it.[[/note]] He also endured a case of tongue cancer that briefly messed up his sense of taste--although he was pretty odd before that, his creations since then have been, if possible, even weirder.
491* Michigan State University's on-campus Dairy Store has a tradition of maintaining a flavor for each member of the Big Ten Conference (including hated rivals Michigan). When the University of Nebraska joined, the store had to come up with a new flavor; because Nebraska is the ''Corn''huskers, they decided to make the flavor with sweet corn and butter, including whole grains of corn. The reaction in East Lansing was puzzlement when the flavor was announced, and then general approval when it was released. (The flavors for Rutgers University and the University of Maryland, joining in 2014, took a while to announce, generating speculation they might follow the same path--both feature red as their main color and neither has a particularly [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_Scarlet_Knights appetizing]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Terrapins mascot]], at least not for ice cream.[[note]]Yes, "terrapins"--North American freshwater and estuary turtles--are perfectly edible and actually good to eat (the diamondback terrapin that serves as the model for Maryland's mascot was actually considered a delicacy in the early 20th century) but as ice cream? They wouldn't even try that on ''Iron Chef''. As for the Rutgers mascot, while one supposes that [[ImAHumanitarian knights are edible in theory]], one wouldn't want to try it in practice, and also it's probably also [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not a great flavor for ice cream]].[[/note]]) The flavors were eventually settled as a cherry/chocolate/brandy flavor for Rutgers (drawing primarily on the scarlet[[note]]The inclusion of chocolate might be a sly reference to New Jersey's unique place in the American chocolate industry--M&M Mars's headquarters and main factory are in Hackettstown, and the Port of Philadelphia--directly across from New Jersey--is the main American port of entry for cocoa beans, and uses a New Jersey-based distributor to get the stuff to all the factories along the East Coast.[[/note]]), while Maryland got a chocolate/toffee flavor (because of the alliteration between "toffee" and "terrapin," but also hinting at "turtles"--chocolate-and-toffee-covered pecans, which the Dairy Store couldn't use because the term is trademarked).
492* The pirate Blackbeard was famous for mixing gunpowder into his rum, either because it actually tasted good, or to make himself look more badass. Not that he's the only one, mixing gunpowder with alcoholic drinks (specially brandy or plain wine) once was pretty common among military grunts. It probably has something to do with the rather sour taste of gunpowder vs. the sweet wine. (Same reason port & lemon was popular.)
493* Frederick the Great took his coffee with mustard powder stirred in, and champagne instead of water. YMMV, but some people have attested that the acidic earthiness of mustard and coffee go very well together.
494* When Series/AceOfCakes Duff Goldman was on ''Series/IronChef America,'' the Battle he faced Michael Symon in had chocolate and chiles as the theme ingredients (meaning BOTH had to be used together in a dish; it could be either sweet or savory, but not all-chocolate or all-chile). This isn't as weird as it seems; mixing chocolate and chiles is an old tradition in Central America and Mexico going back to pre-Columbian times. It works because unlike store-bought milk chocolate, pure chocolate has a bitter flavor profile that works well with spice whether you mix it with sweet flavors or savory ones. Chile-flavored chocolate remains fairly common in these parts, especially when further mixed with other spices; the famed ''mole'' sauce of Mexican cuisine usually features chiles, chocolate, and spices brought from the Old World by the Spanish (especially cinnamon and cumin). Also, in the US, Mexicans stereotypically have a soft spot for chocolate with chile pepper and cinnamon. Even the famed Tabasco brand came out with a chocolate bar spiced with their famous sauce because of the increasing Hispanic interest (and general interest, there being no shortage of Anglo chileheads in the US).
495* Namja Town, an indoor theme park ran by Namco, has one ice cream store selling... [[http://en.japantravel.com/tokyo/cup-ice-museum-in-ikebukuro/2127 rather strange ice cream flavors]] How about curry, garlic, squid or horse ice cream?
496* Fascist poet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]] was fond of serving gastronomic delights such as salami soaked in coffee and eau de cologne.
497** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism Futurist art movement]], which Marinetti was a co-founder and key figure of, would eventually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurist_cooking put out a cookbook]] with many such recipes of this kind, some bordering on Dadaist anti-cooking.
498* At [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Fur-Eh! 2018]], [[InvokedTrope this was done deliberately]]. As part of a charity drive, one event had convention goers bid on the opportunity to add a topping to the entire pizza, whereupon Con Chair Thallanor Rasmussen would eat a slice, then the convention-goers would bid on what topping was added next. Each subsequent topping was added to the entirety of what was left, then Thallanor would eat a slice, rinse and repeat. The toppings were, in order: salsa, fuzzy peach candies, pear slices, [[MysteryMeat an ingredient concealed within a box]] that turned out to be spinach puree, corned beef, and mayonnaise and tuna (the last two were added simultaneously to the last slice). The disgust was clear on Thallanor's face from the third slice onwards. There was a garbage pail beside him just in case he got sick. [[{{Determinator}} To his credit, he didn't]].
499** [[HereWeGoAgain In 2019, Thallanor was subjected to this again,]] this time with Poutine, a popular [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Canadian]] dish comprising french fries, cheese curds, and gravy. The first topping was Mayochup (a mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise), the second Butterscotch syrup, and then the mess was mixed in with a convenience-store salad which included red onions, blue cheese, pears, strawberries, lettuce, and Caesar salad dressing. Then a tortilla, tomato sauce, and Parmesan cheese were used to turn it into a "pizza". Poptarts, marshmallow fluff, and a [[MysteryMeat mystery ingredient]] which turned out to be egg tofu were added all at once. The next round saw the addition of corned beef, sardines (which Thallanor claimed smelled like cat food), and a mystery sauce (even the creator, Dark Bunny Sauces, didn't know what exactly was in it) were added. The final round saw the addition of icing, mint jelly, and coconut gell. Thallanor said it was even worse than the pizza! He managed not to get sick, but had to discard much of it due to time constraints, much to his relief.
500* Children often do this with their food. Since their taste buds haven't developed yet, and have a lessened ability to distinguish flavors and a considerable preference for sweet foods, they'll happily enjoy a food combination that would likely disgust an adult. Similarly, older adults can seem this way to younger people due to generational differences in food preferences as well as people's sense of taste changing as they age.
501* Even reasonably competent cooks can do this by accident if they make substitutions in recipes without understanding how the ingredients combine. People making substitutions in online recipes and then [[NeverMyFault blaming the recipe]] when leaving one-star reviews is a common joke among cooks. {{Website/Reddit}} has a subreddit for this called [[https://www.reddit.com/r/ididnthaveeggs r/ididnthaveeggs]].
502* Averted in the book ''The Flavour Thesaurus'' by Niki Segnit. Some of the combinations seem downright revolting (aubergine and chocolate anyone?) but are either from real cuisine or have been pioneered by chefs around the world.
503* In December 2020, deep in the throes of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, a man had a dream one night about a dish called the "King's Hand", the big main course of a feast topping off a festival celebration of some kind. What is the King's Hand, you ask? A hollow, hand-shaped sugar cookie studded with chocolate M&M's candy... filled with Greek salad. [[https://twitter.com/thatfrood/status/1335689951640494080 Which he then made and ate in real life.]]
504* Half of the delicacies covered by [[https://twitter.com/foodinsider?s=21 Food Insider]] are flat out weird. Examples include a ramen made to resemble a beer, blue algae avocado toast, sushi made of fried watermelon and coated in nuts, and [[NutritionalNightmare burritos made of ice cream, candy, and toppings rolled with cotton candy]].
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