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''[Drinks]''<br />

''Austin'': It's a bit nutty. }}

* In the Steve Martin vehicle ''[[LA Story]]'', the protagonists best friend gives him a glass full of some sort of experimental beverage. Upon being asked how it is, he replies "It's exactly like licking a shag carpet."

* You may recall the scene from ''[[The Matrix]]'', where the Nebuchadnezzar's crew is sitting around the mess room talking about the taste -- or non-taste, as the case may be -- of [[Tastes Like Chicken|chicken]].

* ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'' has a subversion. Tony tastes baked beanstalk (no, not baked beans. BEANSTALK). "It tastes like an old mattress!" "No, it doesn't. Old mattresses have a sweaty, meaty taste."

* In the ''[[Supernatural]]'' episode "Malleus Mallificarum," Ruby saves Dean from coughing up a lung (it's a long story) with a disgusting cure. While it's witchcraft, he seems to think "it tastes like ass," leading to gleeful viewer speculation as to [[Incest Subtext|whose he's been tasting.]]

* In an episode of ''[[Monk]]'', the titular character, a [[Terrified of Germs|mysophobe]], freaks out after discovering that the wine he has been drinking had been pressed by feet. He remarks, "It's ''foot wine''...I can taste the feet...and toes."

* From British comedy show ''[[QI]]'':

* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'': Upon tasting watercress, Lucy remarks "Very tasty... if you like buttered grass."

* Bear Grylls of ''[[Man vs. Wild]]'' once compared drinking from a natural watering hole to "a bit like drinking from the loo bowl".

* On an episode of ''[[Good News Week]]'', Paul McDermott referred to Fosters as tasting like "watered down horse piss". There was a moment's pause and then he asked "How do we know that?".

* In an episode of ''[[Corner Gas (TV)|Corner Gas]]'', Brent says Oscar's cooking tastes like bug repellent.

** Subverted when Kari was filling a Goliath beetle simulaid with yogurt "bug guts": "Yes, I do know what bug guts taste like. Thanks to this show."

** In another episode, Adam was the official guinea pig to test a mouthwash myth. Of course, before testing, he needed to have really bad breath. He described one of the culinary delights offered up to create this as "stinky foot cheese".

* Jessica in ''[[True Blood]]'', on the taste of A- flavor True Blood: "Less like ass than the A+, but more like ass than the B-."

* According to [[Castle|Rick Castle]], the coffee at NYPD tastes like a monkey peed in battery acid.

* In an early episode the Swedish children series ''Pip-Larssons: Kastrullresan'', the titular Larsson family had cabbage soup (consisting of ''nothing'' but cabbage) for dinner, not because they wanted to, but because they couldn't afford anything else. While they were eating, the husband tried to placate his upset wife (since it was his fault they had no money) by saying that the soup tasted really good, whereupon one of the youngest children deadpanned that it tasted like sock.

* Russell Howard was given an ice lolly made of soup in an episode of ''[[Genius]]''. He described it as "what I imagine licking a 70-year-old woman's ankle would taste like."

* An episode of ''[[Better Off Ted]]'' had a professional food tester try out some lab-grown meat. He decides it tastes like "Despair".

* Dr. [[House (TV)|House]] rules out the possibility that a patient had accidentally eaten large quantities of horse chestnuts by pointing out that they "taste like a horse's lower-than-chest nuts." [[Rule of Funny|How he knows]] [[Foreign Queasine|what that tastes like]] [[But You Screw One Goat!|is not specified.]]

** See also urchin roe sushi, which has the added bonus of a consistency not unlike phlegm (which most of us ''do'' know).

* The Chinese spirit baijiu (''white alcohol''), when sampled by Westerners, is usually compared to the taste of kerosene, gasoline, or other petroleum distillates.

** Also, the weakest ''baijiu'' is allowed to be is 40% ABV, or 80 proof (standard proof for most Western liquor); ''maotai'' (one of the more renowned forms) often clocks in at 53% (106 proof). Many other forms are 60% (120 proof), and a few forms, such as ''fenjiu'' and ''gaolangjiu''<ref>If you've seen [[Zhang Yimou]]'s first film, ''[[Red Sorghum]]'', this is what they're making at that distillery</ref> can get up to [[Gargle Blaster|63% or 65% (126-170 proof)]], at which point they are literally flammable. When you remember that we actually do use alcohol for fuel... And at banquets, [[Red China|Communist Party]] officials are likely to take several drinks of ''baijiu'', sometimes taken as shots (particularly if a toast is proposed). Suffice it to say that when it comes to drinking, the Chinese do not play games.

* Came up at [http://notalwaysright.com/mmm-moisturizer/856 this entry] of ''[[Not Always Right]]''.

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