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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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130724032804/http://curryaddicts.co.uk/phaal.php phaal.]<ref>It's basically just bits of chicken drowned in [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]].</ref> Have a glass of milk handy. Even beer won't do any good, and water might even make things worse.
* 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.
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* 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.
* [[MythBusters]] once tested various methods of curing the burn from chillis. One of them was using wasabi. Grant (who was using jalapeños for the initial burn) was in pain. Tory (who was using the hotter habaneros) not only liked it but wanted more.
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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]] ==
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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...
=== [[Film]] ===▼
* 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 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".▼
* ''[[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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'''Mad:''' "Ah, you're a man who knows your breads." }}
:* Apart from dwarf bread, dwarf cuisine consists of "what the dwarfs found underground -- rats, snails, worms (useful protein), bits of stone and so on". Dwarfs are famed for their sauces, since no-one would eat rat without something to hide the taste. In Ankh-Morpork, "fusion" cusine aimed at humans is designed to ''look'' a bit like actual dwarf cookery, while being in a very real sense nothing like it.
:* In ''[[
:* This shows up again in ''[[
:* Further ''[[Discworld]]'' example: CMOT Dibbler's sausage-inna-bun. It's possible that the books exaggerate, but they're described as the culinary equivalent of a B-movie: [[So Bad It's Good|they're absolutely awful, yet somehow appealing.]]
:* His [[
:* And yet another: Sam Vimes is the first man to be brave enough to refuse to eat the "tribal delicacies" of the D'hregs, guessing that the D'hregs are having him on and that nobody could eat that rubbish. {{spoiler|He's right.}}
:* Although it's doubtful that he actually intended to ''digest'' the thing, a performer in ''[[
:* In ''[[A Hat Full
* ''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.
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* 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.
▲=== [[Film]] ===
▲* 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 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 Action TV]] ===▼
* 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.
** 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.▼
==== [[Periodicals]] ====▼
** In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'', Ezri implies that you're supposed to eat it whole, and alive.▼
* 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: ▼
{{quote|'''Fat Lady:''' So, how's the garlic soup in this restaurant?▼
'''Male Customer:''' SUPERB!▼
'''Fat Lady''': ''(now with an [[Ash Face]] and burned hair, to waiter)'': One garlic soup, please.}}▼
▲
▲** In ''[[Star Trek:
** 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.
▲=== Periodicals ===
▲* 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:
* ''[[Garfield]]'':
▲{{quote|'''Fat Lady:''' So, how's the garlic soup in this restaurant?
** 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!]
▲'''Male Customer:''' SUPERB!
** In [https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1985/08/15 another strip], he tries Jon's lemonade; it ''really'' needs sugar.
▲'''Fat Lady''': ''(now with an [[Ash Face]] and burned hair, to waiter)'': One garlic soup, please.}}
=== [[Tabletop Game]]s ===
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* 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''.▼
* Lampshaded in ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]''. In one dungeon infested with undead, you can find a piece of cheese. If one didn't think a piece of cheese found in thousand-years old ruins would be bad to eat, the description for the cheese even says "It's quite smelly and no doubt highly deadly. Only the unwise would eat it." Eating it results in a big Damage over Time-effect that lasts for 20 minutes, in addition to the character title "The Unwise".▼
* Cuisine in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is a bizarre and frightening thing. You can buy innocuous enough food from vendors, like grapes, bread, fruit juice, tea, or filtered water, but if you pick up the Cooking skill, bad things start to happen immediately. If you can kill it and it's not obviously sentient (with the exception of murlocs), somebody's figured out a way to make it into a stat-boosting food. You can learn to make bat wings, rat stew, spider cake, wolf steak, bear burgers, rhino stew, ravager sausages, chimera chops, and a brand of chili so hot that it causes you to randomly breathe flame, among many other options.▼
** Bear is the odd man out on this list, as it is in fact quite a tasty meal.▼
* Subverted by the "Sinner's Sandwich" in ''[[Deadly Premonition]]''. Upon hearing its long list of bizarre ingredients, York assumes it's this type of food, meant to be eaten as atonement for one's sins. Upon actually trying it, however, he announces that it is in fact delicious.▼
** To wit: [[Cordon Bleugh Chef|Turkey, jam, and breakfast cereal on your bread of choice]]. There are more than a few posts on various websites and forums [[Truth in Television|that attest the sandwich is in fact as delicious as York says it is,]] with the cereal and turkey creating a pleasant balance of crunchy and firm textures while the jam takes front and center on the flavor.▼
* [[Lethal Chef|Chie and Yukiko]] in ''[[Persona 4]]'' make something like this, Yosuke aptly names it "Mystery food X", you can choose to eat it willingly (granted your courage is high enough) or be forced to eat it because there's no other way out, one bite makes the protagonist and [[Fan Nickname|Brosuke]] faint with a very loud crash as they hit the table.▼
* 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]] ===
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* ''[[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.
▲=== [[Video Games]] ===
▲* 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''.
▲* Lampshaded in ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]''. In one dungeon infested with undead, you can find a piece of cheese. If one didn't think a piece of cheese found in thousand-years old ruins would be bad to eat, the description for the cheese even says "It's quite smelly and no doubt highly deadly. Only the unwise would eat it." Eating it results in a big Damage over Time-effect that lasts for 20 minutes, in addition to the character title "The Unwise".
▲* Cuisine in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is a bizarre and frightening thing. You can buy innocuous enough food from vendors, like grapes, bread, fruit juice, tea, or filtered water, but if you pick up the Cooking skill, bad things start to happen immediately. If you can kill it and it's not obviously sentient (with the exception of murlocs), somebody's figured out a way to make it into a stat-boosting food. You can learn to make bat wings, rat stew, spider cake, wolf steak, bear burgers, rhino stew, ravager sausages, chimera chops, and a brand of chili so hot that it causes you to randomly breathe flame, among many other options.
▲** Bear is the odd man out on this list, as it is in fact quite a tasty meal.
▲* Subverted by the "Sinner's Sandwich" in ''[[Deadly Premonition]]''. Upon hearing its long list of bizarre ingredients, York assumes it's this type of food, meant to be eaten as atonement for one's sins. Upon actually trying it, however, he announces that it is in fact delicious.
▲** To wit: [[Cordon Bleugh Chef|Turkey, jam, and breakfast cereal on your bread of choice]]. There are more than a few posts on various websites and forums [[Truth in Television|that attest the sandwich is in fact as delicious as York says it is,]] with the cereal and turkey creating a pleasant balance of crunchy and firm textures while the jam takes front and center on the flavor.
▲* [[Lethal Chef|Chie and Yukiko]] in ''[[Persona 4]]'' make something like this, Yosuke aptly names it "Mystery food X", you can choose to eat it willingly (granted your courage is high enough) or be forced to eat it because there's no other way out, one bite makes the protagonist and [[Fan Nickname|Brosuke]] faint with a very loud crash as they hit the table.
▲* 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.
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