Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,623
edits
Masochist's Meal: Difference between revisions
Moved lit example out of tv, added example, replaced redirect
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (Copyedit (minor)) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (Moved lit example out of tv, added example, replaced redirect) |
||
Line 49:
* 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.
Line 130:
=== [[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".▼
=== [[Literature]] ===
Line 154 ⟶ 165:
* 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.▼
** In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'', Ezri implies that you're supposed to eat it whole, and alive.▼
▲
▲** 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!}}
=== [[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:
{{quote|'''Fat Lady:''' So, how's the garlic soup in this restaurant?
| |||