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* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has a short party chat with [[LethalChef Edea Lee]] late-game. [[DirtyOldMan Sage Yulyana]] has been pestering her to cook something every time they visit, on the grounds of "a young lady's cooking is better, and [[TheChosenOne Agnès]], given her upbringing, couldn't very well boil water. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He'd probably be better off with unboiled water.]]
-->'''Edea:''' He [Yulyana] gave it to the dog!\\
'''Tiz:''' Actually, the dog left it for the cat to eat.\\
'''Agnès:''' And then the cat left it for a crow.

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* ''WebOriginal/CounterMonkey'': the Peter Piper Pizza that Noah found in the game store bathroom. Despite being in there for over a month, it was ''perfectly'' pristine. Even ''bacteria'' wouldn't touch it.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "Lily Pad Thai" we see the chef of the local GreasySpoon, Stumpy, serves putrid slop so disgusting that an opossum-like creature that crawls up on the table eats a mouthful and immediately horks it back up (and this is followed by a shot of a frog skeleton holding a spoon [[LethalChef with a bowl of slop in front of it]]).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{DC Super Hero Girls|2019}}'' short "[=#SofaSoGood=]", a rat tries to steal a pizza, but rejects it after Barbara yells that [[PineappleRuinsPizza it has pineapples on it]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep'': A RunningGag in "Lonesome Jim" involves a strain of kelp Will has been breeding as a new foodstuff. At the end of the episode, Ant offers a strand to the tortoise Lonesome Jim, who turns up his nose at it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', Linguini's attempt at cooking soup causes Rémy, a rat with a heightened sense of smell, to nearly vomit after catching a whiff of it, in spite of [[ArtisticLicenseBiology rats having no gag reflex]].

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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In episode 17, LethalChef Sweet S. makes some food and a rat actually does try to eat it, but dies as soon as it tastes it.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''[[Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros Tintin and the Picaros]]'', Tintin cooks up a meal laced with an experimental drug from Prof. Calculus to a rebel camp to break them of their alcoholism. Said rebels don't trust him, so Tintin feeds the meal to Snowy. Snowy doesn't want to eat it either (because the drug tastes like BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce), [[spoiler: but Tintin ''forces'' Snowy to eat it anyhow. The rebels then eat it. Nobody gets sick, and nobody can hold their liquor afterwards. Mission successful.]]

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has sometimes used Jon's cooking as mouse repellent. Heck, it probably counts as this trope that Garfield himself won't eat some of the things Jon cooks.

* The 'Limited Edition Haulin' Ass And Ammo "Meals Ready To Eat" Snack Pouches' from ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'':

* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', Hagrid's Rock Cakes are just as bad as in canon - Diana (a young ComicBook/WonderWoman with the attendant indestructibility) barely manages to eat one before 'with a slightly wan smile' politely refusing more, while the narration remarks that they 'went down the throat like a rockslide, sat on the stomach like a cannonball, and had the taste to match.' However, to everyone else's silent astonishment, Uhtred (a teenage Asgardian) wolfs them down, including all the ones others slip to him, and enthusiastically pronounces them to be delicious.

* ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse:'' The most successful dish in Ukyo's attempt to prepare a MasochistsMeal is a local equivalent to hongeo-hoe -- a sashimi-like Korean dish made of skate fermented in its own bile and urine. Miriam (a [[SharkMan tiger shark fishgirl]] who has been seen ''gnawing on cannonballs'') is repulsed by the smell and how it's made, Kodachi (who admits to enjoying herb-crumbed lamb's brains) recoils from the smell, Ukyo herself nearly throws up after taking one mouthful and quickly pushes it away, and Shampoo (who is seen happily slurping up roast snakes like noodles) refuses to even try and touch it.

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** In ''Literature/FeetOfClay'' rats are described as sometimes breaking into the Dwarf Bread Museum, losing most of their teeth in the process. Cats often hang around, as the rats are a bit stunned after taking a bite of what is basically a slab of semi-edible concrete.
** In ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', it's described that the best way to eat dwarf bread is to soak it in a bucket of water for a week [[spoiler: then eat the bucket]].

* ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' and ''Literature/{{World War Z}}'' explain that zombies are so dangerous and indestructible because carrion, flies, bacteria -- everything that feeds on dead flesh -- won't touch zombie flesh.

* ''Series/KitchenNightmares'': In the episode on The Old Neighborhood, while trying to eat a barbecue shrimp, Gordon notes to the waitress serving him that the shrimp is so bad a fly is more content to bug him than to try for his shrimp.

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* ''Creator/RodneyDangerfield's'' routines invariably include at least a few riffs on how his wife can't cook, for example: "My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat."
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* WebVideo/StuartAshen once prepared a microwavable pizza that looked distinctly unpalatable. In TheStinger, he tried to feed it to his pet poodle, who wouldn't eat it.

* Perhaps a literal example in the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' episode, "Meatball Mayhem"; when the babies dislike the Swedish Chef's meatballs, they try to get rid of them by offering them to some of their other friends, one of which is Rizzo. After eating one meatball, Rizzo says, "No, thanks!", and shuts the door on the babies.

* PlayedForHorror in ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' in the episode "Plague of Madness". The corpses of creatures infected by or killed by victims of the titular plague give off such an air of ''wrongness'' that even the ''flies'' won't touch them. Fang, a ''T. rex'' who usually doesn't care about what she eats, approaches one such corpse and ''recoils''.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'', Susie's homemade Reptar bar snacks are so bad even Spike ran away after smelling one.

* In a non-animal example, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode with the sugar ban saw the police burning every bit of candy in Springfield. When they throw the Butterfingers bars into the fire, [[TakeThat they get thrown right back out.]] It's a popular misconception that the show lost their sponsor for that joke. Rather, it's the other way around: the contract was already over, and the show wanted the final word.
-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' Even the fire won't take them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', Linguini's attempt at cooking soup causes Rémy to nearly vomit after catching a whiff of it, in spite of [[ArtisticLicenseBiology rats having no gag reflex]].

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Susie's homemade Reptar bar snacks are so bad even Spike ran away after smelling one.

* Rations from the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' franchise are notorious for its taste. Naked Snake would take a rotten snake any day over Russian rations. He and EVA complain the taste when consuming one and if you toss one to the guard dogs, they won't even touch it. According to Roy Campbell in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', French rations are consider to be the best which contains sweets and American ones to be the worst. Rose's cooking is considered to be worse according to Raiden which he would prefer rations.

* A recurring joke in ''ComicBook/ArchieComics''. In one oneshot, a bear steals a picnic basket from the girls. It takes a bite, spits it out, and brings the basket back while pinching its nose, causing Veronica to cry, "Worse news, girls- the bear's bringing it back!"

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros'', Tintin cooks up a meal laced with an experimental drug from Prof. Calculus to a rebel camp to break them of their alcoholism. Said rebels don't trust him, so Tintin feeds the meal to Snowy. Snowy doesn't want to eat it either (because the drug tastes like BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce), [[spoiler: but Tintin ''forces'' Snowy to eat it anyhow. The rebels then eat it. Nobody gets sick, and nobody can hold their liquor afterwards. Mission successful.]]