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{{quote|'''Reporter:''' So, [[Elvis Presley|Mr. Presley]], what do you do every morning when you wake up?
'''Elvis Presley:''' Simple. I get out of bed, get dressed, and make a Peanut Butter-Banana-Bacon Sandwich.
|An Interview with the King of Rock}}
[[Bizarre Taste in Food]] is when a character, main or minor, does something irregular to their meal that becomes a defining trait. Note that this has nothing to do with the viewer or players' taste, but the character to witness it.
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Has overlap with [[Wacky Cravings]] when a character is pregnant.
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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Bleach]]'': In one of the early episodes, Orihime is talking about strange food she eats.
** Later, it's revealed that Rangiku also enjoys her bizarre cooking.
* In ''[[Gintama]]'', one of Toushiro Hijikata's defining character traits is his love of mayonnaise. He tends to put so much of it on his food that it becomes unrecognizable. Multiple characters remark on it as being rather disgusting.
* ''[[Pokemon]]'':
** Jesse
** Professor Oak likes pizza with anchovies, spinach, and pineapple.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the meal that Apis fixes for the crew [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy2xSFcwokc hardly seems appetizing or even edible], and most of them only eat it to be polite. Luffy, however, sees nothing wrong with it. Then again, it's hard to find a food [[Big Eater| Luffy doesn't like.]]
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'', Sora is a [[Big Eater]] but has some odd tastes. In one episode he combines yogurt with mashed potatoes; in another, he puts chocolate syrup on sardines. Yuya's mother claims to have seen Sora put peanut butter on scrambled eggs and ketchup on ice cream, something she claims is "charming". He actually claims this odd diet makes him smarter.
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* ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'': during lunch Allison removes the pimento loaf from her sandwich and adds sugar and mashed up [[Chocolate
* A ''[[Garfield]]'' strip had Garfield douse Jon's scrambled eggs with ketchup, much to Jon's disgust.▼
* In ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'', [["Weird Al" Yankovic
* ''[[Zippy the Pinhead]]'' enjoys Ding Dongs with taco sauce. Creator Bill Griffith recounted how he had the combo available, as a joke, at a book signing - and gave away a ''lot'' of them!▼
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲* ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'': during lunch Allison removes the pimento loaf from her sandwich and adds sugar and mashed up Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. (Also her sandwich uses one slice of white bread & one slice wheat.)
▲* In ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'', [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al]]'s character puts a hot dog weiner into a twinkie, puts cheese whiz on it, and dunks it in his drink.
▲== Literature ==
* The aliens in the ''[[Roswell High]]'' series put Tabasco sauce on almost all their food and combine flavors in ways that would make Earthlings vomit. This was carried over into the TV show based on the books (see below).
* This trope is
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* This trope is played with in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. The Ferengis cannot believe that Hu-mans enjoy root beer, and occasionally insult other Ferengis by implying that they enjoy root beer.
* The Eleventh Doctor's taste for fish sticks dipped in custard in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
* ''[[Fringe]]'' Observers will cover their food in peppers and douse it in Hot Sauce before eating it.
* Subverted and invoked in an episode of ''[[The Voyage
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'':
** In ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'', [[The Brute|
** In ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'', Divatox and her henchmen all love pizza, but they prefer it burned with raw fish heads as topping. One episode also has Divatox ordering takeout, "with a side of flies".
* in season 3 of ''[[Stranger Things]]'', Lucas claims he actually likes the New Coke. Of course, whether New Coke was truly a "bad" soft drink or not is debatable, but in 1985 (where the series is set and New Coke was released) Lucas' opinion would have been sorely in the minority. ▼
* Dawn, the little sister of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]], was notorious for this. In one episode, her sandwich order is salami with peanut butter. "Oh right, like eggplant is normal?" she asks, referring to Willow's sandwich. She also likes anchovies on pizza, a notorious [[Stock Yuck]].
** Anya likes to eat moldy cheese, one of many odd reminders that she is a former vengeance demon trying to adjust to being human.
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* The aliens in ''[[Roswell]]'' put Tabasco sauce on almost all of their food and even [[Squick|bake it into brownies.]]
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' has many examples:
** One [[Running Gag]] in the series is the [[Military Moonshiner|low-grade liquor that Hawkeye makes in a homemade gin still.]] Comparing it to paint thinner or battery acid is common, although most of the cast are fine with it.
** In "The Sniper", Radar risks running to the mess tent during the crisis for a ketchup on rye sandwich. "With butter and lettuce!" he adds.
** Speaking of which, Hawkeye fixes him, B.J., and Father Mulcahy some rather odd sandwiches, with peanut butter, jelly, lettuce, mayonnaise, ham, more mayonnaise, turkey, more mayonnaise, cheese, and [[Department of Redundancy Department|
** In another episode, Charles dates a Korean B-girl, who likes meatloaf topped with vanilla pudding.
** In "Big Mac", the 4077th is preparing for a visit from General Douglas MacArthur, and is told that the General eats the exact same meals as the troops. "Does he like his ice cream on top of his beef stew like we do?" asks Hawkeye.
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** Most everyone at the 4077th does not like the chow in the mess hall, but in one episode, a visiting surgeon from the 8063rd claims it's good, saying that the food at ''his'' camp is bad. That's where Hawkeye currently is, although when he comes back at the end, all he has to say about the place is that everyone thought he was boring.
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▲* A ''[[Garfield]]'' strip had Garfield douse Jon's scrambled eggs with ketchup, much to Jon's disgust.
▲* ''[[Zippy the Pinhead]]'' enjoys Ding Dongs with taco sauce. Creator Bill Griffith recounted how he had the combo available, as a joke, at a book signing - and gave away a ''lot'' of them!
* ''[[Peanuts]]'':
** In one strip, Linus is eating candy; he gives Lucy one, which leads to this exchange:
{{quote|'''Lucy:''' BLEAH! What in the world are ''those?''
'''Linus:''' ''(nonchalantly, reaching into the bag)'' Sour marshmallows!}}
:* In another, he is eating sugar lumps with honey while watching TV. When Lucy is again disgusted, he adds, [[Comically Missing the Point| "They're good with cinnamon too!"]]
:* In another, Sally's friend Eudora brings a chocolate sandwich to school, which is a chocolate bar on dark bread. She says she often wonders what it would be like with gravy. Sally seems grossed out at the thought.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''Uno Undercover Agent'', a seven- or eight-year-old character made lunch for her family of four. When her mother said that the sandwiches were delicious and asked what was in them, the kid replied "Mayonnaise, sardines, tomato and half a stick of gum."
* In the ''[[Nancy Drew]]'' games, recurring character Professor Hotchkiss is fond of things like roast beef with caramel sauce or curried waffle sandwiches.
* In ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'', [[Retired Monster| Harry Stewart's]] order at the diner is a sandwich with turkey, strawberry jam, and cereal; it's not exactly clear how he can eat it, given that his condition requires a feeding tube. His assistant suggests that York try it, and York actually seems to find it tasty.
* Bear Hugger ([[Canada, Eh?]]) from ''[[Punch Out]]'' loves maple syrup. So what's wrong with that, you may ask? He doesn't put it on waffles or pancakes, he ''drinks it'' right out of the bottle.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* It is yet undiscovered just how [[The Nostalgia Critic]] can eat sugar-frosted burrito-stuffed, lard-filled, liposuction-butter hotpockets all the time and still stay as skinny as he does.
* Mortimer from ''[[Newheimburg]]'' likes his pizza loaded down with every topping, including breadsticks.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Teen Titans]]'':
** Starfire's tastes alternated between this and the [[Alien Lunch]] type. She'd often drink mustard out of the bottle with a straw, and in one episode suggested pickles, bananas, and mint frosting on pizza.
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** One episode opens with Leonardo and Michelangelo grocery shopping; Leo urges him to think healthier, saying "you had peanut butter and jelly on your pizza last night". Mikey objects, [[Not Helping Your Case| saying it was caramel and chocolate fudge.]]
** One truly bizarre example was Irma's birthday, where Michelangelo brought ice cream pizzas with such flavors as garlic-vanilla and anchovy-butterscotch, Irma herself favoring the former.
** Some other characters on the show had odd tastes in pizza toppings. April seems okay with banana plus sausage. One time Michelangelo got a job at a pizza delivery place called Weird Pizza to make money; the place said it would put any topping on a pizza that a customer requested. (Shredder was actually running the place, hoping to attract the Turtles to it due to their odd tastes). Anyway, Michelangelo ended up delivering some pizzas with very odd requests, like pickles and ice cream, (to a woman in her third trimester, it seemed) and plain cheese with whole wheat crust to Vernon, which even Mikey finds weird.
** In an episode where their friend Napoleon Bonafrog (one of the Punk Frogs) comes to visit, Michelangelo makes him a special pizza with mealworms, gnats, and mosquitoes; Napoleon is upset that it doesn't have flies.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Homer is known to be a [[Big Eater]] with little regard for eating healthy, but he's eaten some pretty odd things, like mayonnaise (as in ''just'' mayonnaise, without putting it on anything), Maggie's baby food, flour (when he's depressed), and Vaseline. (In regards to the last one, the writers commented it was the most disgusting thing Homer ever ate.)
* In''[[The Smurfs (animation)|The Smurfs]]'' episode "The Grumpy Gremlin", the eponymous gremlin's favorite food is grelch, a relish made from wild onions and garlic that smells pretty foul, likely why the gremlin has no friends (well, that and the fact that [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin| he's pretty grumpy]]) but he eventually makes friends with a dragon who also loves grelch.
* In an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Garfield and Odie get stuck in a shelter (which is, of course, [[Pounds Are Animal Prisons|an animal prison]]) where the food is so disgusting, Garfield refuses to eat it. ([[I Can't Believe I'm Saying This|"Never thought I'd ever say ''that'',"]] he remarks.) Odie, however, likes it, prompting Garfield to say, "You'd think a tongue like that would have ''some'' decent taste buds."
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Elvis Presley]] and his peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwiches.
** YMMV. "Peanut butter and banana" is one of the classic high-protein sandwich combinations, and [[Bacon Addiction|bacon makes ''everything'' better]].
* President
* President [[Richard Nixon]] was known to like ketchup on cottage cheese.
* Barbara Ehrenreich, in her book ''Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream'', describes with some degree of awe watching a fellow job-searcher help himself at a buffet to "a mound of lettuce, covered with canned fruit salad, topped by a desiccated gray hamburger patty and dripping with Thousand Island dressing".
* Leaked emails featured [[Hillary Clinton]] requesting "a hot dog with no bun" for lunch. This resulted in several theories it was actually [[Spy Speak]] for ''something'' because [[Insane Troll Logic|an already corrupt campaign doing something illegal under a codename was more likely than someone actually ordering a bare hot dog]] -- as someone watching their carbs (like a diabetic) would.
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