History Main / CordonBleughChef

* 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.]]

* 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.

* 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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* Tomato, tuna and soy sauce pancake sandwiches sound good to Hatsune in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo''. And they're surprisingly edible.

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* ''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!

* 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.

* Comic Joe [=DeRosa=] has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuM0UzBdaNo&t=164s 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.

* In ''Film/UncleBuck'', Buck makes eggs with onions in them, which the kids won't eat. (Subverted in a later scene, however, with Buck's [[GiantFood AWESOME PANCAKES!!]]

* ''VideoGame/Undertale'': [[ApronMatron Toriel]] and [[MadeWithRealGirlScouts 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''.

* ''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.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Misato Katsuragi likes to mix TV-dinners together, such as combining ramen and curry.

* 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.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Akane Tendo 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. Tendo'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'''.

** 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 obsesion with making it as spicy-hot as possible.

* ''ComicBook/{{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.
* Subverted in one ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comic when Alfred and Batman were briefly stranded at a Swiss chalet. While Batman worked on sending out a call for pick-up, Alfred took stock of the provisions and cooked up a spinach fajita. Batman asked quizzically why, in Switzerland, Alfred hadn't used chocolate instead of spinach. Alfred replied that "A chocolate fajita would be barbarian." However, he later stared at his own portion of the spinach fajita with disfavor and said, "It may have been a mistake. Perhaps the chocolate ''could'' work."

* ComicBook/GastonLagaffe is sometimes this. One example of his culinary experiments was something like sardines with whipped cream. His signature recipe, the strawberry cod, is apparently good but the cooking odors are obnoxious.

* 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! "

** 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.

* ''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.

-->'''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...

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* 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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** 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[[note]]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[[/note]].
** 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.
** 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.

* ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'' features the class-president in home ec. The meals she cooks look ''terrible'', but anyone brave enough to actually taste them find them delicious. It's to the point that when the class needs funds for the war with Dorssia, the local entrepreneur recommends processing one of her dishes into a snack-bar and selling them to the people of The Moon.