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* Coconut is oddly frequent, especially when it's a filling for chocolates.
** Angelica Pickles from ''[[Rugrats]]'' said she hates coconut when she took a box of chocolates (with the help of Chuckie who was her slave after she saved him).
** In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' a little girl grew to Hulk-like proportions because the Delightful Children from Down the Lane had a coconut cake at their birthday party.
** And after Peter Griffin (''[[Family Guy]]'') cut into a giant cake, he was more upset that the frosting was coconut than the fact that he cut into the stripper who was hiding inside the cake.
** Most of the characters in ''[[Peanuts]]'' hate coconut, just as creator Charles M. Schulz did.
** There's a line in a ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' deleted scene revealing that Matt hates coconut. And is allergic to avocado, which suggests that getting out of L.A. may have been the best thing he could possibly do for himself.
** [[Zombieland
** [[Xkcd
** Stuart from ''[[Mad TV]]'' hates coconut and spits out any cake that has any in it.
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== Multi-ingredient dishes ==
* The Scottish dish, [[wikipedia:Haggis|Haggis]], is another one that shows up from time to time - appearing a few times in the ''[[Earthworm Jim (
** [[Samurai Jack|"What is... haggis?"]] [[Highlander
** Also used in one of the ''[[Outlander (
** When [[Johnny Bravo]] went to Scotland, he defended his haggis valiantly against the Loch Ness Monster...until a ''[[Braveheart]]'' parody told him what was in it, at which point he gladly handed it over to Nessie.
** When told by his fellow engineer that all haggis tastes like ass, [[Shout-Out|Kenneth]] [[Star Trek|Donnelly]] of ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' responds that, when prepared by the right chef, "it can taste like mighty fine ass."
** Inverted by Florence of ''[[
** In the more recent Scooby Doo movies, Haggis is the one food that Scooby and Shaggy won't eat in any quantity. This, from a dog with a palette for sandwiches taller than he is, and a man who eats what are essentially milkbones.
** 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.
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** 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.
** Fruitcake is only nasty if one makes it using a lot of candied fruit and sugar to yield a very sticky, dense, sugary cake. There are recipes for fruitcake which call for ''dried'' fruits (e.g. dried apricots and cranberries) and less sugar that actually make a tasty fruitcake.
** It crops up in an unexpected dating and baking metaphor on ''[[Little Mosque
{{quote| ''The cake could look good and still be crummy. Or it may be a fruitcake and you know how we all feel about fruitcake...''}}
** 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.
* The classic British Stock Yuck is the Pot Noodle, which is borderline inedible without precision preparation. ''[[
* 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.
== Vegetables ==
* Brussels sprouts, and other greens like broccoli, cauliflower or spinach. The quote at the top of the page is from a New Yorker cartoon about broccoli, covering two at once.
** If you read the news tickers, you'll see how the ''[[Sim City
** The second ''[[Animorphs
** One of the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes of ''[[The Simpsons (
** ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''had an episode where the children of town had to help them defeat the evil Broccoloids by (shudder!) eating them.
*** They had giant vats of cheese to help.
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'''Eddie:''' Well why are we 'aving them then?<br />
'''Richie:''' ''Because it's Christmas!'' }}
** Numbah 4 of [[Codename: Kids Next Door]] accidentally ate a brussel sprout once while blinded by boredom, causing the rest of his team to undergo an [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]] to get it out before it caused a viral infection that would make him [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|an obedient, well behaved child]]. Broccoli is also universally disliked, adults hate them and pawn them off on kids but can handle them, but to kids, it's kryptonite, when 362 is forced to eat through it to stop an [[Evil Plan]], it sends her into a coma for two weeks.
** Recently, as TV cookery shows and celebrity chefs make an increasing impact, the Brussels Sprout has made something of a comeback as people learn to cook them properly - lightly blanched and then tossed with some bits of bacon and onion.
*** Or one could simply sautee brussels sprouts cut in half in a little rendered bacon fat along with onions and fresh garlic, sprinkle a little salt and pepper, and serve them with crumbles of the reserved crispy bacon on top. Delicious.
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* Oddly enough, in Japan ''carrots'' are considered a [[Stock Yuck]] for picky children.
** Usagi from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' doesn't like them either; ironic as her name sound exactly like the word [[Stock Animal Diet|"rabbit"]].
** Ryo Hazuki from ''[[
** Kou Uraki from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]'' is famous for his hatred of carrots.
** Omochao says something about promising to eat all of his/her carrots in ''Sonic Adventure 2'' (Battle) if held long enough.
** In the ''[[
** In ''[[
** Even giant Zentraedi children hate them in ''[[Macross Frontier]]''. Although these particular carrots are rainbow-colored and the size of preteens, so whether or not they have a point is up for debate.
** A little girl in [[Tampopo]] has one with a hole in it strung with a piece of a string and a sign that says "Do not feed me sweets". A man getting over a toothache gives her his ice cream.
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* Mushrooms. To many people, they look horrible unprepared, and the fact there are poisonous ones in the wild which can kill you is enough to put anybody off.
* The Stock Yuck for children in Japan is green bell peppers.
** In ''[[
** [[Blaz Blue|Bang Shishigami]] has just two things in this world that he cannot stand: lies, and evil, and LIES and BELLPEPPEEEERRRSS.
** Shin has a disgust for green peppers in ''[[Crayon Shin
** [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** Combining two [[Stock Yuck]] on one character, there are three things Misty from [[Pokémon]] hates: carrots (see above), peppers, and bugs.
== Sweets ==
* Even chocolates aren't spared from this trope. Every box will have an undesirable piece, often the one filled with orange creme. Sometimes one character searches futilely for the legend.
** In ''[[The Simpsons (
** The Revel adverts play with this trope making it into a [[Russian Roulette]] style game. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XIa3C4a2Lw Coffee]
* Black Jelly beans.
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