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{{quote|''Chili # 1 - Mike's Maniac Mobster Monster Chili''
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'''Frank''': Holy shit, what the hell is this stuff? You could remove dried paint from your driveway. Took me two beers to put the flames out. I hope that's the worst one. These Texans are crazy. }}
The
The food equivalent of a [[Gargle Blaster]], often prepared by a [[Lethal Chef]]. Can overlap with [[Foreign Queasine]] and [[Eat That]]. See also [[Fire-Breathing Diner]], [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]], and [[I Ate What?]]
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== Hot Stuff in [[Real Life]] ==
* Many types of hot peppers, particularly habanero and more particularly the Scotch Bonnet variety of habanero. It's a tiny round thing with a festive orange color that looks quite harmless, but causes really severe pain to the unprepared (like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ip5oGlMfU this guy]). You need to build up a serious capsaicin tolerance before you can appreciate the delicious smoky taste.
* There's apparently one type of hot pepper called
* If you don't just want to take a bite of a super-hot pepper but want to try a super-hot ''full meal'', then British-Asian cuisine is the place to be. Specifically the [
* A restaurant chain in the US now serves "[http://www.nrn.com/FoodWatch.aspx?id=376730&menu_id=1532 triple atomic wings]{{Dead link}}" for masochists to numb their mouths and clear their sinuses with.
** A few other wing chains have challenges where one must eat a pile of the spiciest wings in the house in a certain amount of time, with people able to do it photographed and put on a wall, maybe even given an "I survived" T-shirt.
* Wasabi. There are several very good reasons why it is recommended that one use only a dab of wasabi sauce on your sushi, and the ones that don't involve flailing around in pain like an idiot have to do with the subsequent volcanic trip to the bathroom.
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== Hot Stuff in Fiction ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Angel from ''[[Angel Beats!]]'' is the only person that would eat the Legendarily-spicy Mapo Tofu not as a side dish, but as the ONLY dish, and enjoy it, when it would make other, grown men cry from the pain. She even eats half the dish in one go when she got into trouble for eating in the Lunch Hall during classes.
** A few other characters eat it during the show, and while they do find it incredibly hot, they also remark that it does really taste pretty good.
* [[
* In an omake strip for ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'', Gau ate a piece of sushi with a [[media:27-
* The reason [[Genki Girl|Kaolla Su]] is never allowed to take kitchen duty in [[Love Hina]] is because her [[Foreign Queasine|spicy native cuisine]] is inedible to the rest of the cast.
* Although not hot per se (although one variety can melt solid metal), Bianci's "Poison Cooking" technique in [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]] can cause any food or later any object, to become dangerous to touch or lethal to injest, with the exception of the proir use of an "Iron Stomach" shot.
* Anthy's cuisine in ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' includes curry so hot it ''blows you out of your body and [[Freaky Friday Flip|into someones else's]]''.
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' includes a species of allegedly edible fish which taste terrible no matter what you do to try and prepare them. Naturally, they are often the only available source of food.
* ''[[One Piece]]'', the curry at the Marines' commissary is described by an older Marine as "addictive", but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xu-SxL9meQ new recruits have a hard time tolerating it.]
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
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* From the ''[[Animorphs]]'' series comes Cassie's dad's chili, generally considered to be just barely on this side of edible on a good day. [[Sense Freak|Ax]] loves it, of course.
=== [[Live
* The Observers from ''[[Fringe]]'' have little sense of taste, so they always spice up their foods. The first episode to focus on them has one eat a roast beef sandwich topped with eleven jalapenos, an entire bottle of Tabasco sauce and a whole shaker's worth of pepper. Another has them eating whole Bhut Jolokia peppers in an Indian restaurant.
* [[
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* ''[[FoxTrot]]'' has a number of strips involving Peter accepting dares to put a ridiculous amount of Tabasco sauce on his Mexican food (and suffering the consequences).
** They've actually done two variations on this. In one, Jason and Peter play a ''[[Name That Tune]]''-esque game ("I can eat this taco with five squirts of hot sauce); in another, Peter does it to himself ("Who wants to see me eat this taco with ''eight'' squirts of hot sauce?!") as Paige and Jason look on, wryly remarking "Ah, the tears of a clown..."
** One strip has both Peter and Jason loading up on Tabasco after both have been to the dentist. [[Fridge Logic|One wonders about what will happen when the novocaine wears off.]]
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=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* In the excellent ''[[Firefly]]''-esque webcomic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131013080937/http://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic&strip_id=1 Crimson Dark]'', the captain's chili [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329233457/http://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic&strip_id=259 has been described as volcanic]. This also leads to one of the funniest moments in the comic.
* Discussed in ''[[Freefall]]'' [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01085.htm here]:
{{quote|Florence: It must be so much fun being human. You guys can eat anything. Even the weird stuff like jalapeño peppers. I mean, really. What other species would eat something like that and sit there with nose burning and eyes watering, trying to figure out how to make it even hotter?}}
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* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' Sokka cannot stand the heat of the Fire Nation delicacy fire flakes, although Mai has no problem snacking on them.
* On ''[[Regular Show]]'', Benson, Mordecai and Rigby get involved in a hot sauce driking contest, and their last course is a concoction their rival calls "Mississippi Queen", consisting of a whole bunch of hot sauces mixed in a large sifter. All three drink it down and at first feel just fine. Then the hallucinations start.
* ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]''; in the episode "Grounded", the main cast is eating at a Cajun restaurant that has Ketracel White-Hot sauce, the label claiming it has 17,000,000 Scoville Heat Units. [[Beyond the Impossible| (That's about a million more than pure capsaicin, the scale's theoretical limit.)]] Putting one drop on his gumbo causes Boimler to collapse after 30 seconds of agony; Mariner, on the other hand, ''puts the whole bottle'' on hers and calls it a "nice kick".
== Other Dodgy Foods in [[Real Life]] ==
* Fugu, or Japanese blowfish, carries tetrodotoxin (TTX, one of the most potent neurotoxin in the world) in their skin and internal organs. Death by TTX is extremely nasty: rapid full-body paralysis followed by slow asphyxiation, and the patient remains conscious throughout the ordeal; there is no known antidote (one wonders how they discovered which bits were safe to eat). Aspiring fugu chefs must take a 3-year course, and the final exam requires the students to prepare a plate of fugu, then ''eat'' it. Only 30% of applicants pass (most of them fail the written portion, EMS is on hand to take care of everyone else). Averted nowadays, as most Japanese restaurants serve farm-raised fugu, whose diet does not contain the poisony stuff they need to be screamingly toxic. The finished dish is then sprinkled with a ''very'' small amount of bottled toxin to get the tingly/numb lips and tongue (if the numbness spreads past your neck, go to the nearest emergency room as fast as your and your friend's legs can carry you).
** Fugu is supposed to have a narcotic effect. Apparently it's good enough to be worth the risk of waking up in your own grave (the active ingredient is a key component in the zombification process - really, no kidding). What some people will go through just to catch a buzz.
** A famous Japanese actor once killed himself after eating four Fugu livers on a dare. (The Liver is the most poisonous part of the fish)
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* There is a specialty restaurant in New York where people pay through the nose to eat such things as deep-fried tarantula.
** You can also roast them, apparently, together with other delicious creatures, like cockroaches and centipedes among others...
* People have been known to eat live scorpions. Yes, live as in "still got the poisonous stinger".
* In Cambodia, certain villages started eating tarantulas under the Khmer Rouge regime due to famine. They got used to it and still eat them. Arachnophobes of the world, unite.
* Spartans ate [[wikipedia:Black soup|Black Soup]]. It was made of pig's blood and vinegar. There was an emulsifier in it to stop the blood coagulating. The Romans meanwhile ate the less disgusting but equally challenging Nettle soup.
** Blood-based soups and sausages exist in many cultures around the world. Of course, they usually have a few more ingredients besides just blood and vinegar, so it's a little easier to choke down.
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* [[wikipedia:Casu marzu|Casu Marzu]], a Sardinian delicacy. The cheese gets its unique flavour and odour from the live insect larvae that inhabit it, but you have to be careful when eating it because said larvae are known to [[Body Horror|jump into the eyes of diners or live on in their intestines as parasites.]]
* It's almost impossible to get real kefir, a liquid dairy product, in the United States, as it contains so many (harmless) strains of living bacteria, fungi and protozoa that it's considered "contaminated" by FDA standards, even fresh from the vat. Genuine kefir is ''so'' alive that the lumpy curds it's derived from not only grow larger inside those vats, but actually split in two as they grow, as if the lumps themselves are reproducing microorganisms.
** In a sense, they are. Biologists believe that such compound colonies of protozoa, that existed in the bacterial mats on the early Earth, were predecessors of all multicell organisms. BTW, kefir grains don't really split. Being lumps of starchy fibrous matrix, produced by bacteria as a substrate to live on, they simply grow large enough to be broken by any agitation of the lquid.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XsqLXCsen0 This infoMania Viral Video Film School]. [[Don't Try This At Home|Please don't become one of these people.]]
** Actually, the girl who ate the light bulb seems to be a fun person to hang out with.
* Everything mentioned in the [http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/ Steve, Don't Eat It!] series of articles from [http://www.thesneeze.com/ The Sneeze] (except perhaps the "tree brain," which a mushroom fan would instantly recognize as not only edible, but
* The Travel Channel show ''Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern'' and the follow up ''Bizarre World with Andrew Zimmern'' is all about this trope.
* Another Travel Channel show ''No Reservations'' with Anthony Bourdain has moments of this trope.
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* Hardtack. An incredibly dense and hard form of bread, valued more for the fact that it will never go bad if kept dry than for its edibility. The standard Civil War solution to consuming it was to whack it against a hard surface to knock ''most'' of the weevils out, then soaking it in your cup of coffee to soften it up enough to chew. Still consumed in a few places a long way away from regular resupply.
** Like the "British Food" example above hardtack isn't so much ''bad'' as it is ''bland.'' Think of a biscuit or cookie made out of unsalted hard pretzel dough and you'll have an idea of what it tastes like.
* ''Lutefisk'', an alleged Scandinavian delicacy. Essentially, you take a perfectly good fish and let it rot slightly, then soak it in lye and smoke it. Then, you soak it in water to get all the lye out, boil it, and serve it with innocent mashed potatoes which had done nothing to deserve the treatment. The resulting substance often tastes like a science experiment gone tragically wrong.
** There is also Surströmming, which is herring that has fermented. Sold in tins that usually bend and warp from gases released during the process. A polarising delicacy, as you either love it or try to avoid it like the plague (quite literally, as a single tin can stink up a whole building). Unexpecting non-natives have been known to try to alert authorities about biohazards when presented with the dish for the first time.
* Everything from ''[http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Banquet/Banquet.html The Old Wolf's Banquet from Hell]'', from a certain point of view.
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* Tadashi of ''[[Onidere]]'' is one of two people able to eat [[Lethal Chef|Saya's]] cooking. Every time someone tries it, there is a flashback to the worst pain they have ever endured, and then a multiplier. For Tadashi it was ''30 times worse than stubbing his little toe as a child''. That was the first bite. The [[Gargle Blaster|tea]] served afterwards? ''Five times worse than 'the entire meal'''.
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', anything that England cooks is this, due to his preparation. The only character who can eat his food without suffering is America, since he grew up eating his food (he doesn't like it, however). Finland's food is also this, due to the ingredients such as salmiakki, and even his dog describes it as "poison".
* In ''[[Ranma ½
** Again, when Ukyou was sick and Ranma, Akane, and Konatsu volunteered to tend to her restaurant, Akane's okonomiyaki [[Lethal Chef|were so gruesome]] no one would eat them. Ranma is then inspired to hold a similar contest, with a prize going to whoever could finish their whole meal. Akane [[Berserk Button|was not amused]].
** And ''also'' related to [[Lethal Chef|Akane]]: after a whole saga involving her trying to get Ranma to eat her [[Cordon Bleugh Chef|home-made cookies]], he finally takes them just to make her happy. He spends the next week bedridden. The several dozen incriminating photographs he had [[Eat the Evidence|disposed of]] earlier probably didn't help.
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=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* In ''[[Asterix]] on Corsica'', there's a cheese which smell can knock out non-Corsicans and occasionally explodes. Related to Casu Marzu? It's not the right island, but close...
* Played with in ''[[Men of War]]'' when the villagers perform an elaborate ceremony serving the invading mercenaries large eggs containing unborn chicks which they choke down out of respect. Turns out it's a practical joke.▼
{{quote|''Nick (a mercenary)'': So you guys eat this all the time or is just for... uhm... ceremonies?
''Po (a villager)'': Are you kidding? We don't eat that shit! }}▼
* In ''[[Star Trek]]: Generations'', Data has just acquired emotions, and is having a drink (type unstated) in Ten Forward. He tastes it twice, concludes "I ''hate'' this! It is ''revolting''!" ... and then immediately accepts Guinan's offer of a refill.▼
** His expression says he just doesn't understand what he's talking about. [[Fridge Logic|He's got a dictionary in his head, but is clearly unable to access it.]]▼
*** His expression is because he's in joy of being able to understand hate and revulsion. I am similarly pleased by the terrible scent of
* In ''[[End of Days]]'', Schwarzenegger's character is seen starting his day by mixing coffee, beer, pepto bismol, leftover chinese food, and a slice of pizza dropped on the floor in a blender and then chugging the resulting concoction. Ick.▼
** ''Stone Cold'' did practically the same thing, but subverted it in that Joe was blending slop for his pet iguana. The lizard doesn't eat it, either.▼
* In ''[[The A-Team (film)|The
* ''[[The Dark Crystal]]''; much like Klingons, mentioned below, many of the foods the Sheksis eat are not dead yet when served.
=== [[Literature]] ===
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'''Rincewind:''' "—never have been able to club the sharks to death?"
'''Mad:''' "Ah, you're a man who knows your breads." }}
* ''All'' of Pervian food in Robert Asprin's ''[[Myth Adventures]]''. As Aahz once put it: "The biggest problem with Pervian food is to keep it from crawling away from your dish while you are eating it..." And it stinks.
** In the comic book, they mention that they serve this stuff on purpose to scare away would-be interdimensional tourists.
** On one occasion, Skeeve walked into a Pervish restaurant and ordered something Klahddish... only to be served a stuffed Klahd. {{spoiler|Not really, but only because the place didn't have a license to serve sentient creatures.}}
** Gleep the baby dragon is sometimes seen swallowing unidentified things he's found in gutters or basements. Usually Skeeve is glad ''not'' to have a clue what they are, as the number of legs sticking out between his pet's jaws is disturbing enough.
* Just about everything Miss Mush cooks in the ''[[Wayside School]]'' series.
* Moonglow in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe is not unpleasant to eat (the description makes it sound rather like an Asian pear), but requires a ninety-seven step process carried out by a trained chef to make it safely edible.
* In ''[[Bridge of Birds]],'' improperly prepared porcupine meat - and when we say improper, we mean such as ''cutting the meat into pieces of the wrong shape'' - will kill you in a [[Nightmare Fuel|horrible way that we won't even go into here.]]
** Well, maybe...it must be noted that "porcupine poisoning" doesn't ''actually'' happen to anyone in the book. Two characters ''claim'' that it happened to someone as part of a ruse. The whole scene reads like some finicky gourmet's preferences got mixed up with actual cautions, similar to those concerning fugu, to create an [[Urban Legend]] of epic proportions.
* The ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' novel ''Dragon's Honor'' seems to take this to its logical extreme. Our intrepid crew is having dinner on a planet based on ancient China, and Picard's politeness regarding the local (hideous) cuisine bites him on the butt. The emperor orders the most elaborate dish possible. It hasn't been prepared in a hundred years, and it's an honor just to be part of the staff cooking it. It's a vile conglomeration of miscellaneous animal parts, mostly from venomous creatures. Picard has been eating stuff that makes fugu look palatable all night, and says that he can't eat it. Continuing to be dense, the emperor suspects that Picard may not want any because it was prepared wrong. He tosses a bit of it to a dog, who dies within seconds.
** The dog died because the dish was poisoned on purpose, not because it was improperly prepared. But that wasn't why Picard refused to eat it. It's just that after all the other vile pieces of 'gourmet cuisine' he had consumed over the course of that wedding feast, he just couldn't bring himself to swallow something that smelled like a Klingon locker room.▼
==== [[
* From ''[[Mad|MAD #161]]'', Don Martin's "One Evening in Spain" starts with a fat lady sitting at a table in a restaurant next to a guy eating soup:
▲* Played with in ''[[Men of War]]'' when the villagers perform an elaborate ceremony serving the invading mercenaries large eggs containing unborn chicks which they choke down out of respect. Turns out it's a practical joke.
{{quote|''
'''Male Customer:''' SUPERB!
▲''Po (a villager)'': Are you kidding? We don't eat that shit! }}
'''Fat Lady''': ''(now with an [[Ash Face]] and burned hair, to waiter)'': One garlic soup, please.}}
▲* In ''[[Star Trek]]: Generations'', Data has just acquired emotions, and is having a drink (type unstated) in Ten Forward. He tastes it twice, concludes "I ''hate'' this! It is ''revolting''!" ... and then immediately accepts Guinan's offer of a refill.
▲** His expression says he just doesn't understand what he's talking about. [[Fridge Logic|He's got a dictionary in his head, but is clearly unable to access it.]]
▲*** His expression is because he's in joy of being able to understand hate and revulsion. I am similarly pleased by the terrible scent of skunk -- it is enjoyable for me to endure such an assault on the senses.
▲* In ''[[End of Days]]'', Schwarzenegger's character is seen starting his day by mixing coffee, beer, pepto bismol, leftover chinese food, and a slice of pizza dropped on the floor in a blender and then chugging the resulting concoction. Ick.
▲** ''Stone Cold'' did practically the same thing, but subverted it in that Joe was blending slop for his pet iguana. The lizard doesn't eat it, either.
▲* In ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]'', Murdoch makes Face and B.A. some steaks that have been burnt beyond imagining through the application of gunpowder on the meat. He then offers them some of his "secret sauce", which is antifreeze. Face complains of Bell's Palsy, so Murdoch tells him to "take it like a man".
=== [[Live
▲* The ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' novel ''Dragon's Honor'' seems to take this to its logical extreme. Our intrepid crew is having dinner on a planet based on ancient China, and Picard's politeness regarding the local (hideous) cuisine bites him on the butt. The emperor orders the most elaborate dish possible. It hasn't been prepared in a hundred years, and it's an honor just to be part of the staff cooking it. It's a vile conglomeration of miscellaneous animal parts, mostly from venomous creatures. Picard has been eating stuff that makes fugu look palatable all night, and says that he can't eat it. Continuing to be dense, the emperor suspects that Picard may not want any because it was prepared wrong. He tosses a bit of it to a dog, who dies within seconds.
** In ''[[Star Trek:
▲** The dog died because the dish was poisoned on purpose, not because it was improperly prepared. But that wasn't why Picard refused to eat it. It's just that after all the other vile pieces of 'gourmet cuisine' he had consumed over the course of that wedding feast, he just couldn't bring himself to swallow something that smelled like a Klingon locker room.
▲** In [[Star Trek]] Klingon food and drink are often like this. Example: Gagh is unprocessed serpent worms, usually eaten live. The taste is revolting and it is eaten solely for the unique sensation of the gagh spasming in one's mouth and stomach in their death throes.
▲** In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'', Ezri implies that you're supposed to eat it whole, and alive.
** In another ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' novel, Riker becomes violently ill from having lunch with Worf and accidentally eating some Klingon foods that are indigestible to humans. His reaction after being treated? "Bring on the next course."
** Klingon tea is deadly to humans and not particularly good for Klingons. It's consumed in a ceremony with two or more participants as a test of courage and to show that "Death is an experience best shared".
* There's an episode of ''[[CSI:
* In the very first episode of ''[[Lois and Clark]]'', Superman had to deal with a ticking bomb, he couldn't disarm it or throw it away fast enough. So, he ate it and the ground shook from the explosion. Superman just burped.
* ''[[Top Gear]]'': Jeremy Clarkson's [[Rated "M" for Manly|extremely manly]] V8 smoothie.
** It works as a drink up until Jeremy added the brick.
* Invoked in one episode of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'':
{{quote|'''Holly:''' Nothing wrong with dog's milk: full of goodness; full of vitamins; full of marrow-bone jelly! Lasts longer than any other type of milk, dog's milk.
'''Lister:''' Why's that?
'''Holly:''' No bugger will drink it!}}
* In season 3 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the Ascension - the ritual where the Mayor plans to turn himself into a demon - requires a lot of preparation, which includes eating the spider-like creatures that reside in [[Artifact of Doom| the Box of Gavrok]]. He doesn’t remark on the taste but does claim they are high in fiber; even one of his vampire minions looks grossed out watching him.
▲=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* "Yumyuck moss", in [http://goblins.keenspot.com/d/20060310.html this] ''[[Goblins]]'' comic.▼
{{quote|'''Minmax''': "You dwarves actually ''eat'' that crap?"▼
'''Forgath''': "Yeah, but we're usually drunk." }}▼
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' gives us the [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-12 Pancake Mount Doom Meal] - "A dozen flapjacks, a variety of fruit fillings, sides of bacon, sausage, hash browns, three kinds of syrup, and your choice of eggs" at the standard [[Greasy Spoon]] restaurant. Though the food itself is edible (and likely delicious), it's the quantity that pushes it into this territory. Naturally, only husky people have managed to finish it... [[Big Eater|and Grace]].▼
=== [[
* ''[[Garfield]]'':
* Toyed with in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. When a guy is trying to get in the Salty Spitoon:▼
** At his fourth birthday, Garfield is so anxious to eat his birthday cake that he swallows it whole, [https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1982/06/19 and forgets to blow out the candles first!]
{{quote|'''Reg:''' How tough are ya?▼
** In [https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1985/08/15 another strip], he tries Jon's lemonade; it ''really'' needs sugar.
'''Tough Guy:''' How tough am I? HOW TOUGH AM I?! I had a bowl of nails for breakfast this morning!▼
'''Reg:''' Yeah, so?▼
=== [[Tabletop Game]]s ===
'''Tough Guy:''' '''Without any milk.'''▼
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'': Demonic cults are known for horrific rituals, but few are worse than the Final Feast, used by worshippers of Zuggtmoy, the Demon Lady of Fungus. This ritual has two uses: It can be forced upon prisoners intended as [[Human Sacrifice]], or used to test the worthiness of anyone who desires to become a Thrall of Zuggtmoy. To be found worthy, a cultist must consume the entire Feast and not only survive, but remain conscious. (Of course, even ''attempting'' to partake of the Feast willingly will definitely push a cultist past the [[Moral Event Horizon]], if they haven’t passed it already.) The Feast is held on a table made of warped wood constructed from coffins that once held victims murdered by the cult (this naturally requires grave robbing), and consists of five courses, all of which are poisonous and many of which are remains of dangerous plant and fungus monsters.
'''Reg:''' (visibly impressed) Oh, you can go in. Sorry about that, sir. }}▼
** The first course is bitter ale brewed from striped toadstool. Next is the appetizer, a platter of boiled id moss (it’s possible to cheat a little here, because if the id moss is slow-boiled, it’s not as toxic, but tastes far more revolting). Soup comes next, chilled slime mold soup with rotting mushrooms and terinav root. The main course is a violet fungus tentacle cooked with a glaze made from a variety noxious molds and mildews. Finally, dessert - most toxic of all - is a small stack of phycomid stalks served in a thick, bitter-tasting black syrup made from basidirond sap and sprinkled with yellow mold spores.
* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' has an episode with this. The pain lovers pizza (land mines, barb wire, sand bags, bomb stuffed crust.) and the unlucky pizza (after eating he got an anvil on his head, a safe, a piano with a player(cupid))▼
** Of course, anyone who dies from the Feast may be luckier than those who survive it. Anyone (prisoner or cultist) who succumbs to the poison without dying is subjected to Zuggtmoy’s Cradle ([[Buried Alive|which is]] [[Eaten Alive|much, much worse]]). A prisoner who manages to survive and stay conscious at least gains the cult’s respect, and is returned to whatever they use as a prison and left to starve to death. Naturally, however, cultists who survive and stay conscious become Thralls, surrendering their humanity to become mortal agents of Zuggtmoy with terrible dark powers.
* ''[[Scarred Lands]]'': druids who worship Gaurak the Glutton can turn themselves into fatlings, vile reflections of Gaurak himself by finding and eating "putrid, greasy melons" that grow in special areas. It's doubtful they taste very good.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* In ''[[Undertale]]'', the hot dogs you can buy from Sans in Hotland are safe to eat, but bark when you eat them, which is kind of unsettling. (He's a skeleton, after all.) Visit him a second time and he gives you a hot cat, which is like a hot dog but ''meows'' when you eat it. Neither of these occur if you're playing in Serious Mode.
* In ''[[Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice]]'', one quest you must do for the Divine Child in order to achieve the [[Golden Ending]] is bring her two Persimmons of the Serpent, which is a nice name for Dried Serpent Viscera. As in, snake guts. Fortunately, ''you'' do not have to eat them, ''she'' does. While she tells you to leave the room so she can do so, you can eavesdrop, and the sounds from within make it clear they make her ''very'' sick. Poor kid.
* In ''[[River City Girls 2]]'' (part of what is very much a [[Widget Series]]), the two anti-heroines run into [[Granola Girl| Kaori]]:
{{quote|'''Kaori:''' Where are you headed?
'''Misako:''' To the mall, it seems.
'''Kaori:''' Ooh! When you get there you should try their new Mocha Durian Wheatgrass Smoothies!
'''Kyoko:''' That sounds disgusting…
'''Kaori:''' It is!}}
* Delicious Fruit is what the people of ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' eat. You know, those enormously lethal, gravity-defying apple/cherry/things that kill you in one hit? ([[One-Hit-Point Wonder|just like]] [[Everything Trying to Kill You|everything else]]) According to the creator of the game, people have to knock them off trees with sticks and then they boil them ''three times'' to eliminate all the poison. If you only boil a Delicious Fruit twice, it turns into a bouncing ripe red ''engine of death'', as evidenced by the ''Breakout'' level. And people ''eat'' these things!
** But... they're Delicious...
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has all kinds of unpleasant foods, like [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Brain-meltingly-hot_chicken_wings brain-meltingly-hot chicken wings] or [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Centipede_eggs centipede eggs], which inflict damage, substat-loss, or a negative status effect if you eat them. [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Dwarf_bread Dwarf bread] is included as a shout-out to the Discworld example above, and although you have the option of eating it, you can also throw it at enemies to stun them. However, special mention goes to [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Black_pudding_(food) black pudding], which is described thusly: "This is either a sausage made of congealed animal blood, or an acidic underground-dwelling scavenging ooze. Either way, mmmm-yummy." Sure enough, if you try to eat it, it has a 35% chance of ''attacking you''. There's actually a trophy you can earn for defeating 240 of them in combat... which takes about ''three straight months'' (real-world time) of stuffing your face with black pudding ''every day''.
** There are several meals and drinks that can only be created when your bartender-innabox or chef-innabox explodes. They're universally horrible things, such as the "white chocolate and tomato pizza" and the "tomato daiquiri". Consuming enough of these two get you the Weeping Pizza and Disgusting Cocktail trophies, respectively.
** Another special mention must go to [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/World%27s_most_unappetizing_beverage World's most unappetizing beverage], which is... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|you know]].<ref>It consists of hair dissolved in depilatory cream.</ref>
* In ''[[Jade Empire]]'' you can meet Chai Jin, an exotic chef. The dishes are revolting and downright damaging - depending on what you choose you'll hurt your body, mind or spirit - but if you sit through three courses of escalating grief to your system, you won't have to pay. You can then also try his newest meal, which is so horrid he won't even describe it, and which he hasn't even tried himself yet. If you survive the thoroughly harrowing cuisine, you can either warn him of its danger or tell him it's delicious. If you choose the latter, he will sample the food and ''drop dead''.
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* In ''[[Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na]]: Moonlight Cradle'', Trattoria Samon begins offering intensely spicy pasta dishes. One of the side stories involves Karen and Wreathlit trying to one-up each other: Karen succeeds in finishing the spiciest dish available, while Wreath gives up in the final round, leaving Karen to finish her plate.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', for one quest you have to imitate a world famous chef and make his signature dish (which you have to improvise for), the player has the option of adding some absolutely insane ingredients (Vampire dust? A septim? ''[[Squick|A giant's toe?!]]'') Humorously enough, if you choose the most outrageous options the dish actually turns out ''fantasticly'' despite the dodgy items you put in there.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
▲* "Yumyuck moss", in [http://goblins.keenspot.com/d/20060310.html this] ''[[Goblins]]'' comic.
▲{{quote|'''Minmax''': "You dwarves actually ''eat'' that crap?"
▲'''Forgath''': "Yeah, but we're usually drunk." }}
▲* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' gives us the [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-12 Pancake Mount Doom Meal] - "A dozen flapjacks, a variety of fruit fillings, sides of bacon, sausage, hash browns, three kinds of syrup, and your choice of eggs" at the standard [[Greasy Spoon]] restaurant. Though the food itself is edible (and likely delicious), it's the quantity that pushes it into this territory. Naturally, only husky people have managed to finish it... [[Big Eater|and Grace]].
* ''[[Freefall]]'' has Mr. Raibert. "[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2700/fc02680.htm His usual]" pizza toppings are hot peppers, sugar and ground coffee beans. The latter may be because he's a [[Triple Shifter]] and seems to have developed tolerance to [[Klatchian Coffee|extreme doses of caffeine]].
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
▲* Toyed with in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. When a guy is trying to get in the Salty Spitoon:
▲{{quote|'''Reg:''' How tough are ya?
▲'''Tough Guy:''' How tough am I? HOW TOUGH AM I?! I had a bowl of nails for breakfast this morning!
▲'''Reg:''' Yeah, so?
▲'''Tough Guy:''' '''Without any milk.'''
▲'''Reg:''' (visibly impressed) Oh, you can go in. Sorry about that, sir. }}
▲* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' has an episode with this. The pain lovers pizza (land mines, barb wire, sand bags, bomb stuffed crust.) and the unlucky pizza (after eating he got an anvil on his head, a safe, a piano with a player(cupid))
* In one ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoon, it's Spike's birthday, and his (and Tom's) owner has prepared a delicious-looking steak and birthday cake for him; but is saving them for ''after'' taking Spike to the pet groomer. As Spike is dragged away (with the owner stating they'll be back in an hour) he orders Tom to keep an eye on the food; Tom makes an honest attempt, but Jerry intervenes, and both the cake and steak are destroyed. Tom panics and makes some hasty replacements, taking a circular piece of wood and painting it to look like a steak, and then puts some toy wagon tires together and covers them with frosting. Amazingly, when Spike gets back, he not only fails to notice this, he starts eating it as if there's noting wrong. Sadly for Tom, just when it seems he's going to avoid any punishment, Spike decides to share with him, and won't take "no" for an answer.
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