Masochist's Meal: Difference between revisions

 

=== [[Anime and Manga]] ===

** 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:27-30_9677_5458.jpg|huge blob of wasabi on it]]. The title says it all ("M" standing for "Masochism").

* 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.

* Ange from ''[[Little Brother]]'' carries around a spray canister of ''diluted capsicum''.

* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' original series novel "Uhura's Song" (shut up, it's [[Better Than It Sounds]]) introduces "tail-kinkers," little hard berries that seem to be the size and texture of a peppercorn, but which offer the spicy equivalent of some of the stronger peppers. Beware when eating a stew made by the local [[Trickster Archetype]], or you may just bite down on a tiny little ball of pain.

 

=== [[Live Action TV]] ===

=== [[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).

** 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.]]

** Jason also once played a prank on his father by dumping Tabasco sauce into his cup of coffee.

* The curry in ''[[Super Smash Brothers]] Brawl'' is so hot it causes characters to run around the stage spitting fire.

** It originally appeared in ''[[Kirby]]'s Dream Land''.

* In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'' W.P. Grindstump is the proud owner of a Fugu Jolokia Pepper. He won it by being able to place his tongue on the outer skin of the pepper for a full 10 seconds, and now offers a challenge for anyone who would place their tongue on the pepper for ''a full 11 seconds!'' No mean feat, as not only is the pepper spicy beyond all sanity, even on the outer skin (wheras most real-life peppers have their heat in the juice or seeds), but it is also hot temperature-wise to the tongue, to the point that Guybrush's skin nearly burns when he tries touching the pepper with his good hand; he needs to numb up his tongue if he wants to win the challenge.

* The [[Sega Genesis]] game ''Donald Duck's [[Quackshot]]'' allows Donald to collect hot peppers. Eating enough of them causes him to [[Turns Red|turn red]] and throw a temper tantrum, becoming temporarily invincible.

 

=== [[Web Comics]] ===

{{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?}}

* In ''[[Rhapsodies]]'' Blossom isn't allowed to take her curry to [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=2403 potlucks anymore.]

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer," Chief Wiggum challenges Homer to try his chili made with extra-hot peppers "grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum." Homer screams in pain with the first taste, but after coating his tongue with wax, he successfully eats four whole peppers to everyone's shock. Then he begins to hallucinate.

* 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.

 

 

=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===

* 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 One Half|Ranma 1/2]]'', [[Old Master|Cologne]] gets a hold of an order of Chinese noodles with an absolutely ''horrific'' taste (they managed to knock her, Shampoo, and Mousse out, they were so vile.) But she has crates and crates of the stuff, so, to get rid of it, the Cat Cafè holds a contest: she'll hide a mystical "noodle of strength" in a mountain of the rancid ones. Cue the egotistical martial artists in town (and a few [[Muggles]]) scarfing their way to the (quite literal) afterlife. Oh, and the strength-giving noodle? It tasted even ''worse''. And it didn't work as advertised.

** 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.

** The very first time Akane's cooking entered the scene, Ranma and Genma retched and gagged, but didn't even call Akane out on it (yet) and instead just ran away. When Ryoga tasted it, he was visibly in ''serious pain'' but he kept grinning madly and eating it just for the joy of having Akane's cooking. In the original manga version, cue Ranma himself forcing himself to eat it just to prove to Akane that he liked it too (in other words, to prevent from being "shown up" by Ryoga). Needless to say, that was the last time in the series he would ''dare'' to try giving her cooking a chance, and otherwise would have to be forced to eat it.

 

=== [[Comic Books]] ===

'''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.

** 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.]]

** 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.}}

** 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.

* ''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.

** 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.

** ''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.

 

=== [[Live Action TV]] ===

** 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.

** 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 New York]]'' where they have the deep fried tarantulas and stuff like that, the murder weapon was live squid, which was supposed to be eaten live.

* ''[[Top Gear]]'': Jeremy Clarkson's [[Rated "M" for Manly|extremely manly]] V8 smoothie.

** It works as a drink up until Jeremy added the brick.

{{quote| '''Minmax''': "You dwarves actually ''eat'' that crap?"<br />

'''Forgath''': "Yeah, but we're usually drunk." }}

 

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

{{quote| '''Reg:''' How tough are ya?<br />

'''Tough Guy:''' How tough am I? HOW TOUGH AM I?! I had a bowl of nails for breakfast this morning!<br />

* ''[[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.

* 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''.

* 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.

** 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 ''[[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.