Masochist's Meal: Difference between revisions

*:* 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 ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'' there's a parody of fugu which contains a poison that, if not removed, causes the eater to expand like a blowfish and explode. It's traditionally served with roots that need to be prepared exactly over several days, or else they react catastrophically with stomach acid. This is described as 'fish and chips For Men'.

*:* This shows up again in ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', being used by the [[Evil Chancellor]].

*:* 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 [[Discworld/The Last Continent|Fourecks]] counterpart, Fair Go Dibbler, serves a meat pie floater. Apparently you have to be astonishingly drunk to consider eating one a good idea.

*:* 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 ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'' is seen applying mustard to a blade in preparation for his sword-swallowing stage act.

*:* In ''A Hat Full Of Sky'', one of the flashbacks Tiffany experiences from a past victim of the Hiver is that of a long-ago desert queen who'd poisoned her enemies. Emerging from the memory-flash, the young witch groggily murmurs about a scorpion sandwich.