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The '''Cordon Bleugh Chef''' is a "chef" who does know how to cook but they seem to be willing to combine foods that should never be used in the same dish or, in the worst cases, even in the same universe. If the resulting dish doesn't cause an ''[[Screwball Serum|urge to purge]]'' with just the taste, [[Alien Lunch|finding out what was in it surely will]]. At the very least, many of those eating will comment that it [[Tastes Like Feet|tastes like something the dish has no right to be tasting like given its ingredients]]. [[Bizarre Taste in Food]] on the chef side can be one reason for their cooking choices, but just as often it's just the chef wanting to experiment with unusual combinations.
Some examples of disgusting dishes a Cordon Bleugh Chef might create include things like strawberry and liver pate cakes, lemon curd with ham and sardines, chocolate cod roe, parsnip brownies, [[Doctor Who|fish fingers and custard]], and endless other stomach emptying recipes. Occasionally though, the combination actually turns out to taste pretty good.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Bleach]]'': Orihime is very fond of putting ingredients together in ways that stop the hearts of everyone listening to her recipes. As a result, very few people have ever had the courage to actually try her dishes. Those that do discover she's actually an excellent cook who makes the food, against the odds, taste wonderful, as confirmed both by Rangiku in the manga and the [[All There in the Manual|databooks]]. She eventually gets a part-time job in a bakery, and settles down for bakery products like bread and pastries. The [[Anime]], however, [[Filler|deviates from the manga]] solely for [[Rule of Funny|comedy purposes]] to create a [[Running Gag]] about Orihime's food being stomach-churning.
* Taeko of ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]''. Three words: "Strawberry jam curry." Or try her tomato-in-chocolate tempura.
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* An extreme case is presented in Misato Katsuragi of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion]]'' (one of its occasional uses of comedy staples as a counterpoint to its main plot, which is one of the bleakest and darkest things ever animated). As an example, she makes a habit of mixing ''ramen with curry''. She's often [[flanderize]]d into a [[Lethal Chef]] in [[Fanon]], however.
** How bad is it? In ''Girlfriend of Steel'' Rei, the stoic, heroic death seeker, isn't game enough to try it until she's seen that it's okay.
** Tasting it results in a [[Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame]] played for laughs. The only exception is [[Everything
** Rather horrifically [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] in ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'': the reason Misato is such a horrible cook is because {{spoiler|years before the start of the story, nerve damage from a nasty head injury pretty much robbed her of her senses of taste and smell... she ''has'' to spice her food to near-toxic levels to be able to enjoy it. She just hasn't learned to cook other people their own portions}}.
** In canon, the reason is implied to be a combination of Misato's [[Bottle Fairy]] nature, her general slobbishness, and, most of all, her reliance on buying only the cheapest instant food she can get and mixing it together in an imitation of finer cuisine. How well she cooks when she actually uses fresh ingredients is never shown.
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* In the ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' movie, Taichi and Hikari's mom Yuuko has come up with such original dishes as spinach cookies, potato juice and [[Running Gag|beef jerky shakes]]. Somehow Koushirou likes ''all'' of it.
* In the Duelist Kingdom Arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Jonouchi proves able to cook after Mai supplies the food, and he proceeds to take ''everything'' she brings (which includes potato chips, candy bars, and canned fruit) and combine them into one dish. Nobody complains, however.
* In ''[[Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid]]'', Tohru has often tried to cook and serve ''her own tail'' (being a dragon in human form, it grows back very quickly, so she sees no problem with it). Kobayashi liked it the first time, but after he found out what it was, he has since refused to eat it.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Gaston Lagaffe]] 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.
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* ''[[Asterix]]'' being sold as a slave to the wrong family, tries to be this in ''The Laurel Wreath''. Unfortunately for him the recipe appears to be a miraculous hangover cure, much to the joy of said family's son.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* In ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]'', Matthew mentions his recently deceased lover Gareth's fondness for ''strange experimental cooking.'' "The recipe for Duck a la Banana, fortunately, goes with him to his grave."
* In ''[[Better Off Dead]]'', Lane's mother Jenny -- a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and usually a [[Lethal Chef]] -- creates a "French" dinner for a French exchange student by collecting and serving foods that have "French" in their names:
{{quote|French fries, french dressing, french bread...and peru!<ref>Her mispronunciation of "Perrier".</ref>}}
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
▲== Literature ==
**
** The Igor in [[
* Not the case for Nabab Yeo, in [[Walter Moers]]' ''The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear''. While he does combine flavours that probably shouldn't be mixed out of a belief that the more flavours in a meal the better, he's still considered a very good cook.
* [[Twilight (novel)|Bella's mother]] is apparently this. To quote, "My mother was an imaginative cook, but her experiments weren't always edible."
* Nozdryov's cook in ''[[Dead Souls]]'', who has an [[Egregious]] approach to cooking - he throws in everything that is standing around, it seems.
* ''[[Top Chef]]'': Bacon ice cream. Which is then subverted by Richard Blais in the finale of ''Top Chef: Chicago''. His bacon ice cream was generally very well-received. Blais himself would seem to fit the trope at first glance, but his food overall was often among the judges' favorites throughout the season.▼
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Top Chef]]'': Bacon ice cream. Which is then subverted by Richard Blais in the finale of Top Chef: Chicago. His bacon ice cream was generally very well-received. Blais himself would seem to fit the trope at first glance, but his food overall was often among the judges' favorites throughout the season.
** 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'''?" In the final judging, though, ''every single judge'' deemed that dish far and away the best of the night.
** Season 2 actually had a challenge to create a unique flavor of ice cream. Marcel decided to make a Bacon and Avocado ice cream. That dish was considered to be one of the worst dishes ever to be served on the show. From the same season, Sam mixed watermelon and bleu cheese in a gnocci, and Ilan made a chocolate ganache with chicken liver. Both these dishes... didn't go over so well with the judges either.
** Note to Dale of season 4: Butterscotch is
* The Japanese ''[[Iron Chef]]'' had a turkey battle. Offerings included turkey sashimi, which is this to American audience since it's not common to find any kind of poultry served uncooked, due to the risk of salmonella poisoning. Maybe this is not an issue in Japan. In the U.S., food handlers are required to serve poultry fully cooked, and not to allow the utensils used to cook it to come into contact with other food.
** Far more memorable: tuna sorbet. For the rest of the series, whenever a chef headed for the ice cream maker, the commentators would recall it.
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* An accidental example on ''[[Friends]]''. Because the pages of an English cookbook were stuck together Rachel ended up combining a trifle and a steak kidney pie. All her friends felt obliged to eat it anyway (except Phoebe who got out because she's a vegetarian). [[Cloudcuckoolander|Joey]] ended up liking it anyway. 'Jello? good. Meat?. Good'.
* Sandra Lee from the [[Food Network]] show ''[[Semi-Homemade Cooking]],'' who is a ''literal'' Cordon Bleugh chef, having attended a short course at one of Le Cordon Bleu's satellite schools in Canada. Her food (known for its excessive reliance on prepackaged products and sketchy seasoning mixes) is uniformly considered [[Snark Bait|horrifying]] by nearly everyone who aspires to anything better than TV dinners, although her [[Bottle Fairy|cocktails]] may be a bit better, seeing as how a pitcher of one of those is likely to [[Gargle Blaster|obliterate]] any memory of the preceding meal. (Her habit of ham-handed cultural ineptitude has also lead to frequent [[Foreign Queasine]] moments, mostly for the people accustomed to the cuisines she's attempting to emulate.)
* In an episode of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', Trini makes escargot brownies. After Billy points out [[Foreign Queasine|that escargots are snails]], he and the other members of the team toss them over their shoulders when she isn't looking.
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* ''[http://www.amazon.com/Frog-Peche-Charles-Carpenter/dp/B000003M2N/ Frog à la Peche]'' is a CD of avant-garde<ref>That's the [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|polite term]].</ref> electronic music by Charles Carpenter, written in the [[wikipedia:Bohlen-Pierce scale|Bohlen-Pierce scale]]. Two of the tracks are named after the dishes from the restaurant
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Many examples from ''[[Garfield]]'' involving Jon:
** In one strip, he can't figure out how to get the meatloaf inside the danish...
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** 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 [[Exiled to the Couch|ticket to the couch]] for Roger.
* In some early strips of ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'', Elly makes casseroles that fit this trope, most notably [http://community.livejournal.com/binky_betsy/533871.html a version of Shepherd's Pie made with sliced hot dogs]. According to her, her mother Marian was even worse.
* ''[[Peanuts]]'':
** In one strip, Charlie Brown brings Snoopy a combination of french fries, french bread, french salad dressing, and french vanilla ice cream. [[Lost My Appetite|Snoopy loses his appetite.]]
** In another Linus makes French toast for Lucy, using chocolate milk. Lucy finds it tastes awful.
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* An Italian radio sketch comedy show known as "610" ([[Punny Name|a punny title]]<ref>spelling 610 in Italian results in "Sei Uno Zero", which - if translated in English outside of its numerical meaning - turns out to mean [[Take That, Audience!|"You're a zero"]]</ref>) makes fun of this kind of guy with one of its sketches, "Il tempio del gusto" ("The temple of taste"), that is, a fictional convention where cooks create new kinds of recipes. So, they act as if there's a reporter there, and we get to hear the latter while he enthusiastically tries the most [[Nausea Fuel|conceptually nauseating "creation" ever conceived...]] [[Hilarity Ensues|and then we get to hear his inevitable disgusted reaction.]] By the end of the sketch, when the reporter is finished spitting up (or throwing up, depending on what he ate), usually the hosts of the show ask him if he spit up, and the reporter, rather than admitting his disgust, he first comes up with some kind of excuse, then he thanks the chef, and finally - without caring about the hosts asking for explanation - greets them too.▼
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* British comedian Peter Cook played a fictional character, [[wikipedia:Arthur Streeb-Greebling|Arthur Streeb-Greebling]], the proprietor of "The Frog and Peach" restaurant featuring two specialty items: "Frog à la Peche" and "Peche à la Frog"—nauseating and positively revolting, respectively.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* For all that he's [[The Ace]], Flynn Scifo in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' is revealed as one in the cooking competition sidequest. Yuri notes that he's great when he sticks to the recipe, but his sense of taste is so terrible that when he modifies a recipe, he ruins it.
* Raine Sage from ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''. She wouldn't be the worst chef in the game if not for her nasty habit of experimenting with cooking. For example: everyone makes sweet cake; chocolate, vanilla, carrot, it's always sweet. So Raine decides to be a pioneer and bake a ''spicy'' cake.<ref>There are, in fact, such things as "spice cakes". They are not, however, supposed to be "spicy" in the same manner as, say, curry</ref> Or how about lemon rice cooked ''inside'' a lemon, and topped with garam masala?
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* In ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', the owner of Ramen Don, Ken Doi, temporarily becomes this when his business gets temporarily upstaged by a new, very flashy restaurant, attempting stuff like "dessert ramen" and a dish that looked like a full trash bag was dump within the soup and noodles in a futile attempt to bring his business back to form. To the main characters' surprise, these concoctions actually taste well, but they still must convince Doi of [[Boring but Practical|getting back to classic ramen]] as it is what the blog influencer that can drives the business back actually craves.
== [[Web
* ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' has the Iron Stomach challenge which crosses this with [[Masochist's Meal]]. One notable challenge was the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Banana Onion Juice]].▼
* Many [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Gross Foods"]] on ''[[Neopets]]'' are combinations of food that should not be combined, like "Bacon and Eggs Ice Cream", "Hot Dog Flavoured Yoghurt" and "Mashed Potatoes with Strawberry Sauce". The rest include things that shouldn't be in food at all, like slime, snot, dung and maggots. Your pet will also comment on [[Lethal Chef|how horrible it tastes]] if you feed these foods to them.▼
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' has so many mixed-up foods, ranging from reasonably edible to downright disgusting/dangerous, that its respective wiki has a whole page [http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Concoctions dedicated to them].▼
* Crystal, the local bartender from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', does this with mixed drinks. One of her creations is the "Cheeseburger Margarita."
* [http://xkcd.com/720/ This xkcd.]
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* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', the Doc's mom, Mitzi, is an otherwise excellent cook, but she has a peculiar specialty in her pickled beets, which are apparently too vile to choke down even when they aren't poisoned as part of [[Training from Hell]].
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' has the Iron Stomach challenge which crosses this with [[Masochist's Meal]]. One notable challenge was the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Banana Onion Juice]].
▲* Many [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Gross Foods"]] on ''[[Neopets]]'' are combinations of food that should not be combined, like "Bacon and Eggs Ice Cream", "Hot Dog Flavoured Yoghurt" and "Mashed Potatoes with Strawberry Sauce". The rest include things that shouldn't be in food at all, like slime, snot, dung and maggots. Your pet will also comment on [[Lethal Chef|how horrible it tastes]] if you feed these foods to them.
▲* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' has so many mixed-up foods, ranging from reasonably edible to downright disgusting/dangerous, that its respective wiki has a whole page [http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Concoctions dedicated to them].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* From ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'': "Arthur's dad is actually fairly good at it [cooking], when he doesn't experiment." Oddly enough, he actually is a professional chef and he it for a living, but he tries experimenting at home so much that we mostly hear of the gross stuff, including "experiments" that look bad enough to make ''you'' sick, and there's a song devoted to his abominations in the [[Musical Episode]]. When he makes something ''good'' it becomes the centerpiece of an entire episode.
** Arthur's grandmother (who is Arthur's dad's mother) is usually this as well, and only Buster, who has Iron clad stomach, would eat the cookies she made for the bakesale. Perhaps Mr. Reed learned to cook early on because of this.
** Buster himself seems like a subversion of this trope, as he actively creates weird combinations of food, but due to his aforementioned ironclad stomach, actually enjoys it and never seems to understand why others don't.
* [[Scooby
{{quote|'''Velma''': ''Yech! His stomach must be made of scrap iron!''}}
* In the episode "Something Smells", [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] makes a sundae out of available ingredients: ketchup, onions, and peanuts growing on the window sill of his bathroom. The resulting concoction gives him epic bad breath.
* On ''[[Ben 10]]'', Grandpa Max's survival-
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "When You Wish upon a Weinstein", Peter invites his new Jewish friend Max Weinstein for dinner. However, when Max sees that Lois has made marshmallow and fish casserole, he tries to politely tell her he can't eat it. Luckily for him, she assumes it's because it's not kosher, and, after a long sideways look at the "dish", [[Sure, Let's Go with That|Max agrees]].
* Kitty Pryde from ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' is this with her cookies.
* ''[[Rolie Polie Olie]]'': In "Ciminin Toast", Olie and Zowie create a soup for their parents out of cereal, cheese, watermelon, gravy, dry spaghetti, marshmallows, peanut butter, hot dogs, a pickle, a banana, and even motor oil. It's so disgusting, even the sentient bowl they make the soup with turns [[Green Around the Gills]]. But Spot was more than happy to eat all of it anyway.
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▲* British comedian Peter Cook played a fictional character, [[wikipedia:Arthur Streeb-Greebling|Arthur Streeb-Greebling]], the proprietor of "The Frog and Peach" restaurant featuring two specialty items: "Frog à la Peche" and "Peche à la Frog"—nauseating and positively revolting, respectively.
▲* ''[http://www.amazon.com/Frog-Peche-Charles-Carpenter/dp/B000003M2N/ Frog à la Peche]'' is a CD of avant-garde<ref>That's the [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|polite term]].</ref> electronic music by Charles Carpenter, written in the [[wikipedia:Bohlen-Pierce scale|Bohlen-Pierce scale]]. Two of the tracks are named after the restaurant entries above, and the cover has an illustration of the title menu item.
▲* An Italian radio sketch comedy show known as "610" ([[Punny Name|a punny title]]<ref>spelling 610 in Italian results in "Sei Uno Zero", which - if translated in English outside of its numerical meaning - turns out to mean [[Take That, Audience!|"You're a zero"]]</ref>) makes fun of this kind of guy with one of its sketches, "Il tempio del gusto" ("The temple of taste"), that is, a fictional convention where cooks create new kinds of recipes. So, they act as if there's a reporter there, and we get to hear the latter while he enthusiastically tries the most [[Nausea Fuel|conceptually nauseating "creation" ever conceived...]] [[Hilarity Ensues|and then we get to hear his inevitable disgusted reaction.]] By the end of the sketch, when the reporter is finished spitting up (or throwing up, depending on what he ate), usually the hosts of the show ask him if he spit up, and the reporter, rather than admitting his disgust, he first comes up with some kind of excuse, then he thanks the chef, and finally - without caring about the hosts asking for explanation - greets them too.
* The cooks in the short ''[[Food Network]]'' show ''Worst Cooks in America'' were this at the start.
* To its detractors, some of the more experimental manifestations of [[The Eighties|1980s]] fancy restaurant cooking fell into this. Lobster with vanilla sauce, anyone?
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