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** Daphne from ''[[Frasier]]'' once scared the rest of the family out of the house (so she could have a date over) by loudly announcing she was going to cook haggis and sheep's head stew for dinner.

** Subverted in an episode of ''[[Home Improvement]]'' where Wilson is cooking haggis for his date; Tim is at first put off when Wilson tells him what it's made of, but then he seems to think it at least smells pretty good.

* Fruitcake in general (at least in the United States; "Christmas cake" has similar connotations in Britain) is depicted as something everyone gives during the holidays but nobody actually likes. The old joke goes that there's only one fruitcake, and we've all been passing it around for decades and decades. It usually looks like a brick in wrapping paper and, when set down, makes a sound like metal clanking or glass breaking.

* Fruitcake in general (at least in the United States; "Christmas cake" has similar connotations in Britain) is depicted as something everyone gives during the holidays but nobody actually likes. The old joke (popularized by [[Johnny Carson]] goes that there's only one fruitcake, and we've all been passing it around for decades and decades. It usually looks like a brick in wrapping paper and, when set down, makes a sound like metal clanking or glass breaking. What makes fruitcake especially unappetizing is that it is very dry, the reason for its long shelf life; most serious attempts at a better fruitcake recipe emphasize making it moister.

** Comedian Jim Gaffigan mentions fruitcake in one of his bits about cake in general: "Fruit: good. Cake: great. Fruitcake: nasty crap."

** In the 1960s, the Irish Rovers recorded "Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake", a song about a singularly inedible holiday fruit cake. Given that it was written in ''1883'', this shows that this subtrope is [[Older Than Radio]], at the very least.

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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 candied fruit tend to be something of a stock yuck. Traditional fruit panettone has the same status as fruitcake in Europe and Latinamerica (when not being victim of warring fandoms between the people who do like traditional panettone and the people who prefer either chocolate panettone or the fruit-less pandoro).

** In general, baked products made with dried or candied fruit tend to be something of a stock yuck. Traditional fruit panettone has the same status as fruitcake in Europe and Latinamerica (when not being victim of warring fandoms between the people who do like traditional panettone and the people who prefer either chocolate panettone or the fruit-less pandoro).

* 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.