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** In a ''[[Family Circus]]'' cartoon, Dolly says raisins are "dead grapes".
* Jokes about prunes - and prune juice - are common, as some people think of them as natural laxatives. (They do contain some mild natural laxatives plus dietary fiber; however, there is no actual proof that they are effective as a home remedy for constipation.) The word "prune" has also been used as an epithet directed at old women (as wrinkled as the fruit). Some distributors have stopped using the word "prune" on packaging labels and called them "dried plums".
* Fictional example, the Devil Fruits in ''[[One Piece]]'', these taste ''horrible'' to whoever uses them, the typical reaction being the user feeling like they'd been poisoned. Even tough folks like Sabo are disgusted after dong so. Fortunately, anyone who isn't suicidal will never do so more than once in their lives.
== Meat, organs, etc. ==
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** It also makes a nice lunch meat, especially with mustard.
** Lobster and oysters had this happen to them as well, and now they're the most expensive things at the fish counter.
* For that matter, it seems like most of the meat from any given carcass (be it beef, pork, chicken or anything else) that is readily consumed is the skeletal muscle, while most of the organs and other body parts are usually met with disgust. Mostly due to reminding people that it was once a living animal. However, depending on the chef's culture and
** [[Bill Cosby]] has a bit where he expresses distaste for various animal parts, including chitterlings (pig intestines; "That's part of the lower tract. Ain't no food down there!"), tripe (sheep's stomach), sweetbreads (calves' or lambs' testicles), and brains ("I can't bite down on nothing nobody's been thinking with.").
** In Hispanic countries, hígado encebollado (bovine liver steaks fried along with onions) is one of the most widespread disliked food, due to liver being both of a strong flavor and very easy to get dry and unappetizing if cooked for too long.
* Anchovies. In fiction, when a pizza order is phoned in, [[Least-Common Pizza Topping|"no anchovies"]] may be specifically mentioned.
** In the first ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movie, Michaelangelo, on the phone with the pizzeria, is saying: "...no anchovies, and I mean ''no'' anchovies. You put anchovies on this thing and you're in ''big trouble'', okay?"
*** He's okay with them in [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)| the 1987 cartoon]], however, going so far as to bring pizzas to Irma's birthday party that includes one with anchovies and butterscotch. Shredder, on the other hand, hates them, given [[Anything But That|
** Inverted in the ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode "Nighty Nightmare," where Garfield complains because a pizza ''doesn't'' have anchovies on it.
*** After all, [[Stock Animal Diet|Garfield's a cat]].
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** It has to be said most children in the UK will only eat cod and tuna, so the idea of eating other fish is offputting for them.
* For Norwegians (and Americans of Norwegian descent), lutefisk tops the list. It's cod soaked in lye until it resembles fish-flavored gelatin. To make it more bearable, it's usually drowned in butter and wrapped in potato flatbread called ''lefse.''
* The heroine of ''[[Gai-Gin]]'' hates seafood and complains that one of the things she hates about living in Japan is that "they eat absolutely any crap that comes crawling out of the ocean". She also hates tomatoes, and this causes problems when eating with a very traditional Japanese family who
* Escargot is often viewed unfavorably outside of Europe, as the thought of eating snails makes a lot of people uncomfortable. It's one of the very few foods that [[Garfield]] will not eat. This is most likely due to the fact that in most people's minds, snails are often lumped in with "bugs", which aren't readily eaten or really considered a food in Western cuisine. This is all the more apparent when you consider how people who readily consume clams (which are also mollusks) may show disgust at eating snails.
** In an episode of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', Trini cooked escargot (which she made into brownies for some reason) for the Rangers, who loved it - right up until Billy told them what it was, at which point they spat it out.
* Frog legs are another French dish that Americans often find hard to stomach. The thought of eating amphibians sounds unpleasant to folks in the States, although in certain parts of the Deep South, frog legs are a popular local delicacy.
** In ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' (again) both Zach and his girlfriend are put off by this after going to a French restaurant. On the other hand, Skull loves them; it's hinted that his family is [[Secretly Wealthy]] and he's used to unusual dishes.
* In the United States military, creamed chipped beef on toast (a common breakfast food, made by rehydrating chipped beef<ref>A product made of dried beef shaped into round flexible "chips." At one point, Hormel, which makes the stuff, described chipped beef on its website as being "like bresaola, but not as tasty."</ref> in a pale imitation of a bechamel sauce and pouring it over toast) is the subject of a lot of jokes. In army slang it is known by the dysphemism "S.O.S.", meaning "Shit On a Shingle", "Stew On a Shingle", "Same Old Stuff", "Something On a Shingle", or occasionally "Save Our Stomachs". Jokes about it were common among other humor about the bad chow on ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''. Strangely, people actually pay to eat this stuff in certain parts of the East Coast; chipped beef on toast is a typical breakfast item at diners in [[Joisey|New Jersey]].
** This was, however, inverted in one episode of ''[[Home Improvement]]'' where [[Military Brat]] Jill fondly remembers chipped beef on toast.
* It's hard to find anyone who will portray Spam (or canned meat in general) in a positive light in the mainland U.S., despite its popularity as a
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has a purely fantastical example with fiends - they taste so utterly disgusting that not even the most savage of Prime-native apex predators will prey on them a second time. ''The Book of Vile Darkness'' even states that trying to do so can cause a horrible supernatural disease called Soul Rot.
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** Traditional medieval-era fruitcakes were allegedly quite tasty. The ones we hand around now are missing the most important ingredient from those days, which is alcohol. Submerging a traditional fruitcakes in an alcohol-spiked syrup tends to improve their texture and flavor. Torta negra, the Latinamerican equivalent of Christmas cake, have the dried and candied fruit on in macerated in alcohol for months, which may have contributed to the dish having less of an stigma in the region
** The fruitcake Link can make in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]]'', is a subversion, as it's a ''very'' hard-to-make dish that requires specific ingredients. (An Apple or Wildberry, one other fruit, Tabantha Wheat, and Cane Sugar.) The result is Fruitcake which gives Link a buff depending on the ''specific'' "one other fruit". This is Zelda's favorite dessert, Link getting the recipe from her journal.
** In general, baked products made with dried or candied fruit tend to be something of a stock yuck.
* The classic British Stock Yuck is the Pot Noodle, which is borderline inedible without precision preparation. ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' did this one (where Lister declined eating one in favour of ''dog food''), while in a ''[[Skins]]'' episode, Johnny White proved to Thomas how HARD he was and how he was a man Not To Be Fucked With by eating one.
* Rhubarb Pie. Frequently used by [[Disney Comics]], where it's depicted as a pie filled with gray-green sludge. In reality rhubarb may be an acquired taste, its tartness being comparable to that of a lemon, but its actual appearance is something like a celery stalk with a very pretty shade of red. Rhubarb being a vegetable, there are many more ways to cook it horribly than to cook it properly, also contributing to its' status as a yuck.
* Mince pie (or mincemeat pie or Christmas pie) is a holiday dessert that was once popular in Britain. The traditional recipe for the filling of this pie (which is, in fact, usually small tarts) is beef tongue, beef suet, raisins, currants, mace, cloves, nutmeg, brown sugar, apples, lemons, brandy and orange peel; occasionally, goose, veal, lamb or mutton is used in place of beef. While many who view this as unappetizing will claim it was an “old world” taste, the truth is there were plenty of gourmets who were put off by it even then; [[Samuel Johnson]] wrote of an “old Puritan” friend of his who was turned off by mince pie and similar foods. Most modern mince pies are simply mixed fruit and nuts, but the traditional type is still not unheard of, so few are willing to try something presented as “mince”.
* Figgy pudding (or plum pudding or Christmas pudding) is something most Americans only know of from the song “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”. Another holdover from traditional times, it is made from spices, dried fruit (often plums and/or figs, as the name implies) and suet, and then cooked via steaming, later served with ice cream or custard; some recipes call for molasses, brandy, or beer. Whatever the exact composition, it usually comes out of the oven looking like an unappetizing brown dome. Learning that this dessert was once also made with meat and chopped vegetables and that it was once made at the beginning of Advent (December 3rd) and set to rest until Christmas is another big turn-off.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifle Trifle], another old dessert that has gained a bad reputation in modern times. Sort of a fruity gelatin type of dish, it is a layered dessert consisting of a layer of sponge cake (sometimes soaked in sherry or brandy) or lady fingers cookies, then a layer of fruit, gelatin, and/or jelly, and then a layer of whipped cream, in that order, served in a glass or clear bowl. This seems nice, but unless served very fresh, the bottom cake/cookie layer tends to become soggy by the time it is served, and the knowledge that it was once intended as a way to use up leftovers (like stale bread) in 18th Century Britain turns a lot of folks off. (It’s not a coincidence that “trifle” is now a word meaning “something of little value or importance”.) Plus the famous [[Thanksgiving Episode]] of ''[[Friends]]'' where [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]] Rachel’s infamous attempt to make it results in something barely edible, a [[Colbert Bump]] in reverse.
* Panettone bread, an odd cake-bread hybrid with fruit, is a lot like fruitcake, only lighter. It is very popular in Italy, especially in Milan, but not much so anywhere else save regions with a high amount of Italian expats and their descendants. There are actually scores of recipes online posted for ways to use leftover Panettone (like French toast and bread pudding) suggesting they were posted for those who tried serving it at parties but ended up with most of it uneaten. In Latin America, where Italian migration has made panettone a Christmas staple, [[Broken Base| there are online fights]] between the people who do like traditional panettone and the people who prefer either chocolate panettone or the similar but fruit-less pandoro.
== Vegetables ==
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** [[Kids Next Door|Numbuh Five]] kinda likes black licorice.
** The salmiak to almost anyone outside Finland. Then again, when you take a mineral salt and turn it into candy the reaction can't be that unexpected, at least until people get used to the idea of salty, bitter "sweets".
** In ''[[DuckTales]]'', [[Ditzy Genius]] Gyro Gearloose does indeed like black licorice, which is why he
* Candy corn, waxy taste and texure, likely the most unpopular Halloween candy:
** In ''[[Animaniacs]]'' , Skippy's reaction to getting them from Benny on while trick or treating is [[Catch Phrase|"SPEEEW!!"]]. Slappy doesn't like them much either.
* Vanilla ice cream; while not unpleasant, it is often considered boring. This is the reason "vanilla" is often a synonym for "plain" or "generic".
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