It Tastes Like Feet: Difference between revisions

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== Anime and Manga ==

{{quote|'''James''': "It has a hint of...[[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|how you say]]...jet fuel. With ze aftertaste of burning tortoise."}}

* In ''[[Moyashimon]]'', Tadayasu describes the taste of [[Foreign Queasine|hongeohoe]] (stingray sashimi that's been fermented in the ray's own urea and digestive juices) like this: "You know how at campsites, the filthy cramped men's bathroom just has one long urinal trough? I feel like I just picked up a piece of toilet paper that's been stewing in there for a few weeks and put it in my mouth."

* In an early chapter of ''[[Gintama]]'', Gin puts [http://www.mangareader.net/307-21387-5/gintama/chapter-48.html some of everything in the fridge into their nabe.] When [[Big Eater|Kagura]] tries it, she comments, "It tastes like Gin-chan's feet." Promptly lampshaded by Gin.

* ''[[Crayon Shin-chan]]'': According to Shin-chan, green peppers taste like crotch.

 

== Comic Books ==

*pause*

'''Cassidy''': "[[Or So I Heard|...or so I'd assume.]]" }}

* In ''[[Astro City]]'', Astra Furst says her breakfast tastes "manganese-flavor" (after her mother tells her it is supposed to be grape-flavor). Still, if anyone is going to know what manganese tastes like, it's probably Astra.

* A variation occurs in one episode of ''[[Suske en Wiske]]'' (Spike and Suzy). Two cigarette-smoking [[Mooks]] are guarding a shed when it catches fire, prompting one mook to ask the other "Hey, are you smoking your mattress?"

 

== Fan Works ==

** Blood does taste rusty, and pennies smell rusty, so it's an understandable assumption.

* Let's not forget [[Thirty Hs|the greatest ''Harry Potter'' fanfic ever]]: ''"How does Ronnie Ron taste, master?" Harry spat out an eyeball. "Like some kid with eyes."''

 

== Film ==

** I always thought she was referring to the viscosity, not the flavor.

*** [[Gargle Blaster|Why can't it be both?]]

** Since blowing up balloons involves putting them in your mouth, anyone who's ever decorated with non-helium balloon knows what they taste like.

{{quote|''Austin'': Basil, this coffee smells like shit.

''Basil'': It ''is'' shit, Austin.

{{quote|'''Earl:''' Ugh. This tastes like toilet paper!

'''Grady:''' Earl, that ''is'' the toilet paper. }}

* ''[[Anchorman]]'': "It smells like Bigfoot's dick!"

* ''[[Down Periscope]]''

* [[Clerks II|"Hey Silent Bob, does this shit taste like piss and flies to you too?"]]

* In ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]] 4'', Gale claims that Judy's lemon squares taste like ass.

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Dave Barry]] Does Japan'' Dave describes trying out a Japanese energy drink called Hugo, and all he can say is "it better be healthful, because it tastes like coyote spit."

* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Circle of Magic]]'' books, a character is made to drink willow tea, which she complains tastes like horse urine. Coolly, the healer informs her that horse urine tastes far worse.

*** Possibly [[Shown Their Work]], as all Igors are primitive doctors, and taste-testing urine samples is an ancient means of diagnosing ailments such as diabetes.

{{quote|'''Esk''' (to bartender): "Milk. You know, ''milk''. You get it from cows."

'''Narrator''': All the bartender had was beer, which his customers claimed he got from cats... }}

*** In Ankh-Morpork, you don't buy beer - you rent it (just think about it for one minute). Of course, it's better than the river "water".

**** Which is only called such because it's too thin to plow...

* At one point in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower|Dark Tower]]'' series of novels, Eddie asks Roland if raccoon-like billy-bumblers make good eating. Roland answers no, they're horrible: tough and gamy, and he'd sooner eat dog. When quizzed, he confirms that, yes, he's also eaten dog meat.

* In ''[[Animorphs]]'', this is Lampshaded when Rachel comments that a force field they're swimming through generates a sensation 'like chewing on aluminium foil with a mouth full of fillings' and Marco asks her how she'd know what that feels like...

* ''[[Agatha H and The Airship City]]'':

{{quote|But this - this was new low. He looked at the crudely printed label on the bottle in his hand. "Beetle Beer" it proclaimed. Fair enough, he thought, I can believe that.}}

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Happens with Gabe's homemade health tonic in ''[[Life With Boys]]''. In a [[Strange Minds Think Alike]] moment, everybody who tastes it likens its taste to some kind of mythological creature in a bathing facility of some kind; e.g. "a gnome's steam bath" or "a hairy troll's hot tub".

* In ''[[Party Down]]'', Steve Guttenburg tries to teach some of the caterers how to be cultured by giving them fine wine. They give a variety of responses as to what they taste, including "rope" and "dirt." Guttenburg compliments them.

 

== Music ==

* [[Eric Bogle]]'s "Goodbye Lucky Country":

{{quote|The beer still tastes like glue}}

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

'''Irma:''' "Oh, that's our coffee. Our tea tastes like transmission fluid." }}

 

* After someone described the taste of Vegemite as "like licking a cat's ass," comic Billy Connolly asked "How does she know?"

** [[Amanda Palmer]] has an entire song on the evils of Vegemite, which includes "It tastes like sadness. It tastes like batteries. It tastes like asses." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVKPrQv1H8I Enjoy it for yourself].

{{quote|I love NyQuil, man. Because NyQuil has never changed, man. It's never changed. All the other medicines are doing that inner-child thing. "We know that there’s a small child inside of you, so now we have grape and cherry and orange flavor." Not NyQuil! They still have the original green death fucking flavor! You know why!? Because it doesn't matter what it tastes like! It's so strong you go, ''wheeze'' "Hey this stuff really tastes like..." Bang! Yer in the coma already!}}

* Nick Swardson said, at one point, that he wants to be very difficult when he's an old man, and as an example said that he would complain about restaurant food, specifically, sending it back while complaining that it tastes like "wolf pussy."

 

== Urban Legends ==

** He responds ([[Science Marches On|incorrectly]]) that the taste buds for sweetness are at the tip of the tongue, not the back of the throat.

 

* In ''[[Deus Ex]]'', the following exchange takes place in a bar:

{{quote|'''JC Denton:''' "How are the drinks here?"

{{quote|'''Three Sheets Dutong:''' I hate that restorative potion! Ugh! That stuff tastes like vomit baked in a glaze of goat hair and garnished with a sprinkling of horse dung.}}

* ''[[The Sims]] Medieval'' has a moodlet "Tasteless Treat: That tasted like sheep hooves, only worse!"

* In ''The Secret Armory of General Knoxx'' DLC of ''[[Borderlands]]'', the titular General Knoxx describes [[Death World|Pandora]] as smelling like "Hemorrhoids wrapped in bacon".

 

== Web Animation ==

* In ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', Grif, while under the effects of a malfunctioning speed unit, mentions that he can smell clouds.

 

* One ''[[Friendly Hostility]]'' strip features Derringer, at Fox's urging, brushing his teeth with expired toothpaste. He promptly exclaims, "Gross! It tastes like going down on a chick on the rag!" When Fox looks at him sceptically, he says that toothpaste should not be used after six months; Fox replies, "Shut up, Captain Redwings."

* One ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130308122211/http://reallifecomics.com/archive/060809.html strip] has Greg trying the "Potion" drink marketed in Japan to promote ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]''. He takes one sip, then comments that it tastes "like ten thousand asses".

* A non-food-related [[Lampshade Hanging]] can be found in [http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20050817.html this] ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' strip.

* Done literally in [http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20081210 this] ''Punch an' Pie''.

* ''[[Between Failures]]'': Carol sums up the taste of game-themed drinks nicely in [http://betweenfailures.com/2007/08/06/91-sweet-warm-liquid-fail/ this] strip.

** Thomas tries the same drink a few strips later. [http://betweenfailures.com/2007/08/21/106-before-the-fact/ He isn't quite as tactful as Carol.]

* [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1064.php Litteraly] used in ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]''.

 

* A comment regarding that reading the recaps of a particular recapper at the website [[Television Without Pity]] was "like drinking gasoline," prompted one of the owners of the website to comment "...stop drinking gasoline…the hell?"

* ''The [[Binder of Shame]]'': The appropriately-nicknamed El Disgusto "passed out while cooking and got kind of saturated", resulting in a smell which was described by Johnny Tangent as reminding him of "a fire in a restaurant or clowns crying or something".

* In the [[Zero Punctuation]] review of the ''[[Bionic Commando]]'' reboot Yahtzee compares the taste of Pepsi to the taste of "someone wringing out his old gymsocks into my mouth."

* In ''[[Freeman's Mind]]'', Gordon says bullsquid snot "tastes like dead caterpillars." Similarly, based on the smell after [[Kill It with Fire|roasting the tentacles]] in Blast Pit, he says he's pretty sure it tastes [[Averted Trope|nothing]] [[Tastes Like Chicken|like chicken]]. He surmises it would instead taste like grasshoppers, admitting he's never tried them.

 

== Western Animation ==

** Once, when the kids from the Model UN were stuck on that island, Ralph tried to eat some wild berries. He responds with "It tastes like ''burning''." Happens a lot to the poor kid.

{{quote|'''Hermes:''' It looks like toxic waste. Smells like toxic waste.

'''Fry:''' What's it taste like?

'''Hermes:''' Delicious fig pudding! Ooh, that's good. But a distinct aftertaste of toxic waste. }}

{{quote|''What tastes like purple?''}}

* In an episode of ''[[Duckman]]'', the title character tastes a microwave burrito and comments "I think I just bit into a squirrel". His partner Cornfed reads the label and rattles off a long list of ingredients including rat feces and ocelot sphincter. "But no, no squirrel."

* ''[[Pelswick]]'''s critique of his sister's cooking: "Chewy, with an aftertaste like licking a bathtub plug."

{{quote|'''Riley''': "This tastes like tree bark!"

'''Todd''' (reading the label): "Now with 48% more tree bark." }}

{{quote|'''Billy''': "It tastes like my cat."

'''Dwarf''': "They taste like everyone's cat!" }}

* ''[[Spliced]]'': Entrée, who was a giant at the time, says "He tastes like feet" after he attempts to eat Two-legs Joe.

* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', this type of situation happened ''twice''. Both times it was Odd commenting on the foods in the school's vending machine. The first was that the soup "tastes like dish water" (though apparently having your mouth washed out with dish soap will produce that flavor) and the second was the hot chocolate (just that day for some reason)tasting like "dirty sweatsocks and an old pair of sneakers". The latter prompts Ulrich to [[Deadpan Snarker|snark]] "Odd the gourmet".

 

== Real Life ==

{{quote|'''Mallozzi''': What flavor did you try?

'''Binder''': Shoe.}}

 

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