History Main / CordonBleughChef

** 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 ticket to the couch for Roger.

Instead, the CordonBleughChef is about "chefs" who do know how to cook but they seem to be willing to combine foods that should never be used in the same dish. If the resulting dish doesn't cause an ''urge to purge'' with just the taste, [[AlienLunch finding out what was in it surely will]]. At the very least, many of those eating will comment that it [[TastesLikeFeet tastes like something the dish has no right to be tasting like given its ingredients]].

Some examples of disgusting dishes a CordonBleughChef might create include things like strawberry and liver pate cakes, lemon curd with ham and sardines, chocolate cod roe, parsnip brownies, [[DoctorWho Fish Fingers and Custard]] and endless other stomach emptying recipes. Occasionally though, the combination actually turns out to taste pretty good.

** Lampshaded earlier in the season by the judges' panel when Blaise 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''[='=]?"

* Half of the revataels in the [[Ar Tonelico]] series are this. In Aurica's case, she makes things that look and sound disgusting (BBQ Jelly Soda), but actually are edible. Luca and Jakuri, on the other hand, seem to be in a competition to see who can make the most dangerous food in existence: almost all of their concotions end up being weaponized, except for two that were originally designed as weaponized food (Luca ends up turning them into normal food).

** Except for Rangiku Matsumoto, another girl with the MostCommonSuperpower, who absolutely ''loves'' her food. The scenes between them were either them eating odd foods or some major fanservice. Yes, this means that one of the few people who likes Orihime's food is technically ''already dead.''

--'''Velma''': ''Yech! His stomach must be made of scrap iron!''

* [[ScoobyDoo Shaggy and Scooby Doo]],but only becuase they love food like this, if they had to cook for someone else they would probebly spare them from eating something like chocolate covered Eggplant burgers. (with hot sauce!)

** The Doctor is only eating that himself, though- he indicates he's totally aware it's a bizarre combination and not one he'd encourage others to try. In fact, it might not even be that he likes it so much as that he has a strange nutritional need due to regeneration- on the previous generation, he almost died before getting a good dose of tannins from some overbrewed tea.

* ''TopChef'': Bacon and eggs ice cream. That is all.
** Which is then subverted by Richard Blaise in the finale of Top Chef: Chicago. His bacon ice cream was generally very well-received. Blaise himself would seem to fit the trope at first glance, but his food overall was often among the judges' favorites throughout the season.