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* In ''TheNavyLark'' Able Seaman "Fatso" Johnson's pies prove to be rather convincing as limpet mines, and less edible.

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* Bill Mauldin threw many jabs at Army cuisine in ''ComicStrip/WillieAndJoe.''
* Some examples from ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'':
** Paige has been shown to be able to cause boiling pasta to ''burst into flames''. Pasta that is ''submerged in water''.
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'''Peter:''' That reminds me. I think Mom is letting Paige cook dinner tonight.\\
'''Jason:''' A perfect example. Have them eat something like ''that!''\\
'''Peter:''' But don't you need to ''have'' a survivor?
** Roger is also shown to be this, when he's grilling hamburgers or on the rare occasions when Andy's out and he's left to cook for the kids.
** Andy is somwhere between this and CordonBleughChef-- while she's capable of making perfectly edible food, because she's a health nut Andy usually makes meals out of tofu, lima beans, and whatever other sort of "healthy" foods that frequently make her family sick and they hate the taste of even if it doesn't. Her family constantly complains about her cooking and attempts to sabotage it, but she's either oblivious or doesn't care. One of the reasons Andy hates her own mother is because she's the [[SupremeChef direct opposite.]]
** In another series of strips, Paige tried to make Thanksgiving dinner all by herself. In the end she was the only one willing to try some of it.
-->'''Andy:''' Did you have to eat it?
-->'''Paige:''' Mother please, it hurts to talk.
* Two examples from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** Irma's diner has notoriously bad food. The soup has hair in it with rollers, the coffee [[ItTastesLikeFeet tastes like turpentine]], there is a hoof in the meat loaf, the cows for the hamburgers are burned alive, and so on.
** Jon Arbuckle also qualifies. Garfield remarked that he's the [[EpicFail only cook who could ruin cereal]], right before Jon sets the bacon aflame.
** [[http://garfield.com/comic/2014-03-04 In this strip]], Jon potentially becomes a ''literal'' example.
* "Cookie", the military cook from ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' has a knack for bad cooking (a common stereotype of military cooks). Jokes about his meatballs are the most common. Thankfully, one of the soldiers he caters to is Sargent Snorkel, who will eat anything.
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin is a bona fide Lethal Chef. In one strip, Calvin's Mom is sick so Calvin makes her breakfast in bed: orange juice, eggs and toast. Calvin delivers his mom the eggs smoldering and with a chisel to chip it out of the pan. When his mom asks about the orange juice and toast, Calvin replies "Dad said not to tell you about that until you're better".
** Calvin's mom herself could certainly qualify as well. Though Calvin is prone to gross exaggeration on how bad her food is (just as he is with everything else), there isn't much that goes on the family's dinner table that is visually identifiable as food. Most dinner plates are filled with what can only be described as "glop", which sometimes takes on colors that no food should ever be. Even Calvin's ''dad'' sometimes comments on this:
---> '''Dad''': I thought we were having stuffed peppers. Honey, what the heck IS this? Whatever it is, I'm not eating it![[labelnote:Context]]Mom got Calvin to eat by telling him they were monkey brains. Calvin talking about monkey brains at the dinner table is what gets this reaction from Dad.[[/labelnote]]
** His dad probably qualifies too. Once when his mom was sick and he claimed he could cook for them, having done so for himself in college, Calvin remembered his mom saying he had lived solely on canned soup and frozen waffles the entire four years.
* ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'''s daughter, Honi, is such a horrible cook she even manages to mess up cooking water.
* Egon, the Foreign Legion chef in ''ComicStrip/BeauPeep'', veers between this and CordonBleughChef, but is mostly this. Peep once ate the contents of an ashtray and thought it was only marginally worse than normal.
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-->-- '''Invidia''', ''[[Literature/CodexAlera First Lord's Fury]]'', on the Vord Queen's cooking.

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* ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon'''s Astrid in the ChristmasEpisode ''Gift of the Night Fury''. Her idea of Yak Nog will ''probably'' not last as a [[YouMeanXmas Snoggletog]] tradition.

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* ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon'''s ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'''s Astrid in the ChristmasEpisode ''Gift of the Night Fury''. Her idea of Yak Nog will ''probably'' not last as a [[YouMeanXmas Snoggletog]] tradition.
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* ''{{Manborg}}'' has [[{{Delinquents}} Justice]], who is probably the only person in fiction or otherwise who can make boxed mac and cheese explosive.

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* Judge Grams of ''VisualNovel/FleuretBlanc'' revels in this. It's entirely possible that she knows how bizarre and disgusting her recipes are, and [[{{Jerkass}} serves them anyway just for kicks]]. Fortunately, her cooking is never actually ''dangerous'', just very off-putting. Le Neuvieme is particularly bothered by her cooking, [[spoiler:and poisons the judges' food in an attempt to make them revoke her privileges]]. Interestingly, Judge Nickels doesn't seem to mind her cuisine.

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* In a commercial for Pokemon cereal, a mom attempts to cook her kids breakfast based on Pokemon characters. Unfortunately, in the process of doing so, she ended up burning the food.

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* Effie Munyon from ''ComicStrip/PiranhaClub'', to the point where its her most recognizable character trait. Her signature dish is various variations of squid, which she usually just boils whole, but she's been known to make everything from pigs feet to gorilla pie. Ironically, its been implied that she CAN cook perfectly fine, but cooks horrible food out of some misguided desire to be unique.
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* ''ILoveBees'': Kamal is a male example. He microwaves a whole raw chicken, cuts it up in exactly equal slices, and in place of Worcestershire sauce and butter uses ketchup and butter-flavored popcorn oil.
* Mentioned in [[http://bash.org/?3581 this]] Website/BashOrg quote.
--> <Slant> If it reaches the complexity of boiling water, I don't have the attention span.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFdQk-jLhFI&feature=g-u-u&context=G2cb9e67FUAAAAAAAAAA In this video]] the chef almost poisons himself.

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* ''ILoveBees'': Kamal is a male example. He microwaves a whole raw chicken, cuts it up in exactly equal slices, and in place In ''Pinball/AmericasMostHaunted,'' Julienne Sikes, former cook of Worcestershire sauce and butter uses ketchup and butter-flavored popcorn oil.
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* Effie Munyon from ''PiranhaClub'', to the point where its her most recognizable character trait. Her signature dish is various variations of squid, which she usually just boils whole, but she's been known to make everything from pigs feet to gorilla pie. Ironically, its been implied that she CAN cook perfectly fine, but cooks horrible food out of some misguided desire to be unique.

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* ''ARG/ILoveBees'': Kamal is a male example. He microwaves a whole raw chicken, cuts it up in exactly equal slices, and in place of Worcestershire sauce and butter uses ketchup and butter-flavored popcorn oil.
* Mentioned in [[http://bash.org/?3581 this]] Website/BashOrg quote.
--> <Slant> If it reaches the complexity of boiling water, I don't have the attention span.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFdQk-jLhFI&feature=g-u-u&context=G2cb9e67FUAAAAAAAAAA In this video]] the chef almost poisons himself.



-->'''Bunny''': Accident my ass! When I was her age, at the time, I knew what to put in some damn Kool-Aid and what she used was NOT what you put in Kool-Aid.

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* Effie Munyon from ''PiranhaClub'', to the point where its her most recognizable character trait. Her signature dish is various variations of squid, which she usually just boils whole, but she's been known to make everything from pigs feet to gorilla pie. Ironically, its been implied that she CAN cook perfectly fine, but cooks horrible food out of some misguided desire to be unique.
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* Noriko, the clarinet player in "Bra-ban! The Bonds of Melody".

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10715176/13/A-Muggle-Gap-Year A Muggle Gap Year]]'' Charlie Weasley's cooking ability - or lack of same - is vigorously derided by his colleagues. One of them tilts her plate in an effort to identify his latest concoction and the food on it doesn't even ''move''.
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* "Boomer Johnson" (lyrics http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=852) is a version of this from the American Old West.

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* Lane Meyer's mother Jenny (played by Kim Darby) from the 1985 John Cusack film ''BetterOffDead''. In one scene Jenny is shown cooking a pot full of ''something'' emitting a suspicious mist from which tentacles wave, and in another, one of her dishes actually crawls off of Lane's plate when he pokes it with a fork. Even her "ordinary" meals are somewhat ... ''skewed'', as evidenced by the "French-themed" dinner she makes for a French exchange student -- consisting entirely of foods with the word "French" in their names, like French dressing and French toast.

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* Lane Meyer's mother Jenny (played by Kim Darby) from the 1985 John Cusack film ''BetterOffDead''.''Film/BetterOffDead''. In one scene Jenny is shown cooking a pot full of ''something'' emitting a suspicious mist from which tentacles wave, and in another, one of her dishes actually crawls off of Lane's plate when he pokes it with a fork. Even her "ordinary" meals are somewhat ... ''skewed'', as evidenced by the "French-themed" dinner she makes for a French exchange student -- consisting entirely of foods with the word "French" in their names, like French dressing and French toast.

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* Let this be known, Madgie cannot make Kool-Aid [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Why-Bunny-is-afraid-of-Kool-Aid-321367778]].

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* Let this be known, Madgie cannot make Kool-Aid [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Why-Bunny-is-afraid-of-Kool-Aid-321367778]]. She included some rather unconventional ingredients, including [[spoiler: diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine. As you may expect, [[EpicFail Bunny was hospitalized and was paralyzed down her left side for a week.]] ]]



** To elaborate on the ingredients that she used, they were [[spoiler: diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine and, as to probably be expected, [[EpicFail Bunny was hospitalized and being paralyzed down her left side for a week.]] ]]
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* "Water + Veggies + Meats + Soy sauce + [[{{Touhou}} Yukari]] = nuclear bombs" [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/667972?tags=yakumo_yukari+explosion]].

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* "Water + Veggies + Meats + Soy sauce + [[{{Touhou}} Yukari]] = [[EpicFail nuclear bombs" bombs]]" [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/667972?tags=yakumo_yukari+explosion]].

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* According to this [[http://thediscomilf.tumblr.com/ RP blog]] Ryuuko and Nui are apparently these, as Nui, somehow, managed to burn an entire town to the ground with cooking, along with the fact that she used ''white phosphorus'' as an ingredient (going by that, she might have used a lot), and, apparently, when she and Ryuuko's cooking talents are combined, the result were brownies which are described to be "something worse than napalm made with household ingredients".

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*"Water + Veggies + Meats + Soy sauce + [[{{Touhou}} Yukari]] = nuclear bombs" [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/667972?tags=yakumo_yukari+explosion]].



** To elaborate on the ingredients that she used, they were [[spoiler: diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine and, as to probably be expected, [[EpicFail Bunny was hospitalized and being paralyzed down her left side for a week.]] ]]

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** To elaborate on the ingredients that she used, they were [[spoiler: diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine and, as to probably be expected, expected, [[EpicFail Bunny was hospitalized and being paralyzed down her left side for a week.]] ]]
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* According to this [[http://thediscomilf.tumblr.com/ RP blog]] Ryuuko and Nui are apparently these, as Nui, somehow, managed to burn an entire town to the ground with cooking, along with the fact that she used ''white phosphorus'' an ingredient and, apparently, when she and Ryuuko's cooking talents are combined, he result were brownies which are described to be "something worse than napalm made with household ingredients".

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** To elaborate on the ingredients that she used, they were [[spoiler: diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine and, as to probably be expected, [[EpicFail Bunny was hospitalized and being paralyzed down her left side for a week.]] ]]

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** To elaborate on the ingredients that she used, they were [[spoiler: diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine and, as to probably be expected, expected, [[EpicFail Bunny was hospitalized and being paralyzed down her left side for a week.]] ]]
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* Let this be known, Madgie cannot make Kool-Aid [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Why-Bunny-is-afraid-of-Kool-Aid-321367778]].

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** To elaborate on the ingredients that she used, they were diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine and, as to probably be expected, [[spoiler: [[EpicFail Bunny was hospitalized and being paralyzed down her left side for a week.]] ]]

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-->'''Bunny''': Accident my ass! When I was her age, at the time, I knew what to put in some damn Kool-Aid and what she used was NOT what you put in Kool-Aid.
**To elaborate on the ingredients that she used, they were diesel, kerosene, butane, propane, Red Bull, and turpentine and, as to probably be expected, [[spoiler: [[EpicFail Bunny was hospitalized and being paralyzed down her left side for a week.]] ]]
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* LetsPlay/{{Strippin}} has a reputation as one of these after his attempt to make protein cookies resulted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iARE3GXBJY&list=UU90ThxjTNaHaqyPVtfyZ4hw this]]. When he and [[Music/{{Area 11 Sparkles*]] try eating them, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06zz7kk6-qA#t=344 it goes very badly]].

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* In ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-14366-9/misterq+Parent+Trap.htm Parent Trap]]'', [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]] remarks that his mom can't cook, leading to this exchange.
-->'''Willow''': "Can't cook as in not very good at it?"
-->'''Xander''': "No. "She can't cook as in prohibited from doing so by the CDC, the Geneva convention, and several international agencies. Ever since... last time."
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* In [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2272947/ Ronin-ai's]] ''FinalFantasyVIII'' universe, Irvine Kinneas is this, so much so that Squall Leonheart learned to be a very good cook in "self-defense".

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* LetsPlay/{{Strippin}} has a reputation as one of these after his attempt to make protein cookies resulted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iARE3GXBJY&list=UU90ThxjTNaHaqyPVtfyZ4hw this]]. When he and [[Music/{{Area 11 Sparkles*]] try eating them, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06zz7kk6-qA#t=344 it goes very badly]].
-->'''Sparkles*:''' That is the most horrible thing I have ever eaten!
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', Linguini, before meeting Remy, makes a soup so bad that when he tastes it he pukes and Remy nearly does too when he sniffs it. Yes. His food is so bad that not even the ''rats'' will eat it.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', Linguini, before meeting Remy, makes a soup so bad that when he tastes it he pukes and Remy nearly does too when he sniffs it. Yes. His food is so bad that not even the ''rats'' will eat it. (Though granted, the rat in question has the culinary inclinations of a master chef.)
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* Played with in ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}''. Annie is astonished that literally everything in Stacks' fridge is take out. She tries to ingratiate herself with him by telling him "I can make a meal out of any five ingredients you pick!" It looks at first like Annie is going to show off her "poor person ingenuity", but it comes out so disgusting that they both SpitTake on tasting it, but it works to get them talking. They get so into their conversation that they forget how gross the meal is and take another bite, only to SpitTake it again.\\
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Annie doesn't give up on trying to cook, though. She brings Stacks breakfast, but it's burnt toast and other stuff that is not as readily identifiable. This time, though, he gets off the hook by feeding it all to a willing Sandy.

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