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Haute cuisine or grande cuisine; the food of the wealthy people, the cuisine of "high-level" establishments, gourmet restaurants, and luxury hotels. Haute cuisine is characterized by the meticulous preparation and careful presentation of food at a high price. And in fiction, often the source of ridicule, with humor usually focussed on one or both of the following aspects: The food is, at best, bland, or at worst highly unusual. If the food is weird-looking instead of gross, the excuse will be that the chef is striving for artistic value. See High-Class Cannibal for a particularly unpleasant option. The proportions will be very small, unable to satisfy anyone, thus leaving the guests hungry even after consuming an entire "meal". City People Eat Sushi used to be an example of this back when sushi was considered exotic, weird, and expensive by westerners, but since The '80s sushi has become popular amongst all demographics. Molecular gastronomy serves as a go-to modern example, due to its use of specialized equipment and its tendency to render ingredients into unrecognizable and confusing forms. This trope often overlaps with Conspicuous Consumption when it involves rare or expensive ingredients, exceptional technical expertise from the chef, or loads of time and effort — regardless of whether it actually produces a palatable meal. Often, it only has the appearance of those things, revealing the diners' pretentiousness. Frequently involves a Stock "Yuck!" and a Formal Full Array of Cutlery. Compare to Wine Is Classy, Hollywood Cuisine, and French Cuisine Is Haughty, food stereotypes which might appear alongside this trope. See also Foreign Queasine, where unappealing dishes come from a strange place of origin; Snooty Haute Cuisine, where the focus is on the wealth and high standards of those who can afford it; and Exotic Entree, where the food is a sign of evil rather than wealth and taste. Overlaps with Micro Dieting in the "ridiculously small portions" variation. |
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In Dragon Age, Orlesian food tends to fall into this. The wealthiest nobles enjoy things like ham which is reputed to taste like despair (something of a running gag for the fandom) and a cocktail called aquae lucidus, which is made from wyvern venom and causes powerful hallucinations. It's worth noting that Orlais is the game world's equivalent of Bourbon-era France. | |
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Parks and Recreation: Parodied with a "molecular mixology" bar where, among other things, Bud Light beer is transformed into a candy floss-like confection and a cocktail is sublimated into an "aromasphere". The working-class visitors are confused and dismayed. | |
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The Reddit community /r/WeWantPlates/ collects pictures of bizarre and unappetizing objects restaurant food is served in instead of plates. | |
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Mr. Bean: Played for Laughs when Mr. Bean treats himself to a birthday meal at a fancy restaurant. He orders steak tartare without knowing what it is, reluctantly tries one bite, and spends the rest of the meal trying to dispose of the rest. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Discussed in this strip with regard to ruining ordinary dishes by adding overly fancy ingredients. | |
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Being a manga about how any cooking style can make tasty food, Food Wars! manages to zig-zag this with Alice Nakiri's focus on molecular gastronomy. While her meals taste good to the judges and she's not seen as any lower for focusing on the science side of food, she's often on the losing side because she doesn't take the customers' experience with the food into consideration. Once she's able to prepare a dish that uses her tech to add flair rather than be a close approximation, she starts to improve on her way of cooking. | |
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Funky Cops: In "A Fool's Errand", the duo stay in a fancy hotel as part of their assignment to protect a VIP, and see pizzas on the menu, including a small preview picture of them. They soon find out that said preview picture was the actual size of the pizzas themselves. | |
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In Rats, Bats and Vats, main character Chip was an indentured servant at a fancy French restaurant before the war broke out. He notes several times how the patrons would come in and pay outrageous prices for tiny dishes. It's his dream, if he ever wins his freedom, to open a steakhouse right next door to the restaurant so the rich people who previously scorned him will have to go next to it and watch his patrons eat huge portions of meat served at a fraction of the price of their fancy, unfilling meals. | |
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Discworld: In Hogfather, the manager of an expensive Quirmian (Fantasy Counterpart Culture French) restaurant discovers the ingredients have all been replaced by mud and old boots, and explains to a bewildered waiter that this doesn't matter. In Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, Nanny suggests that dishes that fetch a high price in Ankh-Morpork for being "exotic" were invented by desperate people who didn't have access to conventional foods. "Nobody is going to invent shark-fin soup because they want to." The Curious Squid in Jingo are mentioned as tasting awful, but are worthwhile to fishermen because they can be sold to chefs who use their skill to create dishes containing no trace of the squid whatsoever. Maskerade has a subversion when the Anhk-Morpork opera makes Brindisian (Italian-ish) food for the visiting singer. This being Ankh-Morpork, they don't actually know how to make it, burning the pasta. Fortunately Nanny Ogg makes traditional food, claiming there's no need to make foreign food for foreigners (and the singer himself being from Ankh-Morpork but taking a foreign stage name cries at finally eating home food again). |
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Always Be My Maybe: When Sasha and Marcus go on a double date to an expensive restaurant, the dishes are all very pretentious, very small, and very expensive — their multi-course meal of venison (that comes with headphones that play the sound of the animal dying), a tiny greens-and-seafood salad (microgreens served with dehydrated seaweed and "fish dandruff"), asparagus soup "extracted with a centrifuge", the flavor of Caesar salad, and lavender "sugar bubbles" for dessert. It all comes up to $6,400. This crops up again when Sasha's own restaurant food is discussed. A celebrity chef, she leans towards small portions, especially when compared to how Asian dishes are traditionally served at home — large and hearty. |
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Maskerade has a subversion when the Anhk-Morpork opera makes Brindisian (Italian-ish) food for the visiting singer. This being Ankh-Morpork, they don't actually know how to make it, burning the pasta. Fortunately Nanny Ogg makes traditional food, claiming there's no need to make foreign food for foreigners (and the singer himself being from Ankh-Morpork but taking a foreign stage name cries at finally eating home food again). | |
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EarthBound (1994) features trout yogurt, popular among the wealthy of Fourside. | |
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In the Sonic Boom episode "My Fair Sticksy", when Sticks gets nominated for an Awardy Award, she and her friends are invited to attend the award ceremony. Upon going there, Sonic and Knuckles find such fancy foods as asparagus crostini, hempseed quiche, and goat cheese with red radicchio spread. Knuckles tries the goat cheese with red radicchio spread and finds it tastes terrible, so he calls it "goat cheese in a red crud-icchio spread". This quickly earns him the admiration of Professor Cluckins and Admiral Beaverton, who tell him he had the audacity to say what they're all thinking. | |
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Pig: The food options at Eurydice are portrayed as utterly ridiculous, and Rob criticizes Derek severely for having opened the restaurant rather than the pub he always wanted. Derek agrees. | |
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The Curious Squid in Jingo are mentioned as tasting awful, but are worthwhile to fishermen because they can be sold to chefs who use their skill to create dishes containing no trace of the squid whatsoever. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: One Dark Brotherhood quest has the player character Kill and Replace a world-renowned chef, then recreate his signature dish with a touch of extra poison. If they choose the "strange" dialogue options, they add a sweetroll, vampire dust, and a giant's toe to the dish, and the confused sous-chef defers to "The Gourmet's" presumed genius. | |
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Babish Culinary Universe: When challenged to make a seven-course tasting menu on "Stump Sohla", Sohla mentions a time when she spent too much money on a fancy dinner composed of tiny tasting plates and wound up leaving hungry (and angry). | |
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One issue of MAD Magazine has a restaurant reviewer for flies gave a bad review to a nouvelle cuisine restaurant, noting that it served tiny portions on enormous plates. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In one comic published in the Dutch Donald Duck magazine, Goofy, while teaching the reader about the history of cuisine, tries to open his own fancy restaurant, but the inspection committee keeps turning him down because the plates are too full until Goofy has reduced the portions to ridiculously tiny amounts. | |
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In Jackie Chan Adventures, the Rabbit Talisman is first discovered lodged into the shell of a Galapagos tortoise that was sold to a club of rich people who liked to eat endangered animals. | |
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The Nutty Professor (1996): Sherman's parents attend a high-class soiree thrown by the college. While his mother is charmed by the elegant servings, his father is annoyed, saying he can't be filled up on tiny food and asking where the real food is. | |
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Angel Moxie: The main character decides to try some fancy food after getting a lot of money, and decides to go to a fancy restaurant. She says that she doesn't understand what the big deal is, although she admits the appetizer is tasty, only for her date to clarify that is actually the main course. | |
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Archer: When the gang goes undercover at a Hollywood gala, Ray, Pam, and Cyril are forced to act as servers, and the food they're serving is things like kobe beef tartare sliders and mini quiches made from endangered eggs. Archer stacks them all together to make a tiny sandwich. | |
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Arthur's Perfect Christmas: Downplayed with a special holiday brunch at "La Bruncherie" ("A Fancy Place for Brunch!"). Buster's dish is essentially a cheese omelette reduced to small, unrecognizable nuggets, so he ends up ordering a side dish of the parsley garnish. | |
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The Bone Maker: Kreya and Jentt's meal at a friend's opulent estate begins with an artfully plated something that looks like a squishy white square and tastes of herbal soap. They spit it out in unison but, fortunately, find the other courses much more palatable. | |
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Parodied in Psychonauts 2 when Sam tries to disguise the very questionable composition of her pancakes behind haute cuisine buzzwords. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "Chez Platypus", the duo's parents took them to a trendy restaurant that served tiny portions (with Phineas jokingly asking to borrow his dad's glasses in order to see his food). As such, Ferb is still hungry the following morning. It inspires the boys to open a restaurant that is both trendy and serves decent portions. | |
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On The Ricky Gervais Show, Ricky once told a story about how he took Karl Pilkington to The Ivy, a fancy restaurant in London. Karl ate a blob of wasabi, apparently thinking that it was haute cuisine and that the wasabi was just one mushy pea being served in a tiny portion. | |
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Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: The main characters get a taste of British high society at the Oxford commemoration ball. It's a mixed experience for many reasons, but they're equal parts confused and disgusted by some of the fancy desserts: | |
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Esmé Squalor of A Series of Unfortunate Events enjoys this trope, being The Fashionista with everything, including food. Her signature drink early on is the "aqueous martini" (cold water with an olive in it) before she moves on to parsley soda. She also enjoys frequenting "Cafe Salmonella", a restaurant where literally every meal (including soup, salad, sabayon, bread, and ice cream) is made using primarily salmon. | |
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In Hogfather, the manager of an expensive Quirmian (Fantasy Counterpart Culture French) restaurant discovers the ingredients have all been replaced by mud and old boots, and explains to a bewildered waiter that this doesn't matter. | |
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The Wheel of Time: Farm Boy-turned-General Mat Cauthon acquires two menservants used to working for high-ranking nobility, who serve him perplexingly fancy food in their efforts to outdo each other. Mat's confusion at being served an artistic arrangement of smoked tongues and quail eggs is compounded by the fact that the servants somehow acquired the ingredients in the middle of a cross-country voyage. | |
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In Good Omens, nouvelle cuisine was invented by Famine (of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse), who loves the idea of very rich people spending a lot of money to go hungry. When introduced, he's just had lunch at a very exclusive restaurant, consisting of "a string bean, a pea, and a sliver of chicken breast, aesthetically arranged on a square china plate", a dish which he personally invented some time ago in Paris. | |
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On the Futurama episode "Three Hundred Big Boys", Zoidberg spends his $300 refund on foie gras and caviar but is disappointed to find out that it's just goose liver and fish eggs. | |
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Psychonauts: The only way to recruit the Hearty Knight in Waterloo World and win the level is to offer him only the finest meal as befits "an elite warrior of my stature." And since he's a Frenchman, the meal is of course escargot, i.e., snails. Parodied in Psychonauts 2 when Sam tries to disguise the very questionable composition of her pancakes behind haute cuisine buzzwords. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy states that "an Antarean parakeet gland stuck on a small stick is a revolting but much-sought-after cocktail delicacy and very large sums of money are often paid for them by very rich idiots who want to impress other very rich idiots." | |
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Gentefied: Chris's more outlandish fusion ideas that prove to be popular with the rich hipster crowd are called out as weird by his more tradition-inclined family. Watermelon radish tacos, anyone? | |
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Good Omens (2019): As in the novel, Famine is responsible for high-end cuisine's small portions as a way of starving people. His introductory scene sees him dining with an associate at a molecular gastronomy restaurant. The "first course" is a balloon of lavender-scented air that the waiter sprays in their faces. | |
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The Menu takes place in a very exclusive and expensive restaurant run by one Julian Slowik, so naturally this trope pops up, such as with the "breadless bread plate" (a meal made up of small dollops of the kind of condiments you'd typically dip bread into). The dishes end up going from merely weird and pretentious to disturbing once it's revealed that they're tied into how Slowik has become disillusioned with the industry and as a result is planning on killing everyone in the restaurant once the evening ends, himself included. | |
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Pretty much every restaurant dish in American Psycho is artistically bizarre. Some are even inedible (mud soup and charcoal arugula) — or so Patrick describes them. | |
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The current page quote comes from This Bites!. While training in the Kamabakka Kingdom, Sanji is told to continue learning the island's cooking techniques that he'll need to learn how to use a rotary evaporator, a real device that's typically only used in chemical labs. Sanji is understandably skeptical. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" does the "ludicrously tiny portions" variation when young Applejack attends dinner with her Manehattan relatives and gets served a tiny orange kernel of something in brown sauce with a single sprig of wheat. In "Spice Up Your Life", Rarity and Pinkie go to the upper-class city of Canterlot to fix a friendship problem. It turns out a father and daughter duo of Indian-inspired ponies are fighting because their restaurant is unpopular. Nopony visits their restaurant, the Tasty Treat, because it hasn't been rated yet, and the highly influential critic Zesty Gourmand dislikes it because the food is nonconformist compared to other restaurants in the area (which are all identical, right down to the decor). Pinkie, however, finds the other restaurants displeasing due to their small proportions and bland-tasting food. In the end, after a grand reopening impresses the locals, all the restaurants go back to their thing, while Zesty is ridiculed and her opinion invalidated. |
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In Asterix the Gladiator, Asterix and Obelix are invited for a quick lunch by a wealthy Roman. Obelix is particularly disappointed to discover it consists of very small toasts of pâtés made with nightingale tongues, roach gums, or sturgeon eggs (aka caviar). Later on, he asks for some real food instead, like wild boars. | |
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Changeling: The Lost: Exaggerated with the Knights of the Knowledge of the Tongue, an Entitlement for whom perfect food is everything. For this, they'll plumb the depths of the Land of Faerie for the most exotic goblin fruits (and meats, sometimes sapient) to produce dishes that might Taste Like Purple and induce literal Foodgasms, at minimum. | |
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In Ramona Quimby, the book "Ramona Forever" has Howie's uncle Hobart and Ramona's aunt Bea get married. At the wedding, which is a very formal occasion, they eat very small sandwiches, leaving everyone unsatisfied and hungry. | |
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L.A. Story: The portions at L'Idiot are absolutely tiny. | |
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In The Hunger Games franchise, the Capitol party-goers have a special drink that causes the drinker to vomit so they can eat more food. | |
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Demolition Man: Taco Bell, the last surviving restaurant in the future, is treated as an incredibly high-class establishment. The food served appears to be condiments separated onto individual chips or miniature tortillas with a decorative drizzle of sauce. | |
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Hell's Kitchen: Season 4 saw Matt, whose Signature Dish was "Exotic Tartare", a food version of Frankenstein's Monster made of raw venison, raw quail egg, lime zest, olive oil, diver scallops, caviar, capers, and grated white chocolate. Essentially, Matt thought throwing various highbrow ingredients together made something even more highbrow. It was the first Signature Dish Gordon Ramsay puked out instead of spitting out. | |
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In the South Park episode "Creme Fraiche", Randy has taken to obsessively watching Food Porn shows on the Food Network and recreating their complex recipes, even taking the job as the chef of South Park Elementary. The kids, however, just want simple foods like Pop-Tarts and chicken nuggets. | |
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Clan cats in Warrior Cats view cat pellets as bland and disgusting food that only pets like. Sure, kittypets always have food in abundance, but it's gross compared to freshly-hunted prey. | |
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Back to School: Low-brow connoisseur Thorton Melon decides his shrewish wife's hors d'ouerves are not enough for his appetite and decides to turn them into a large hoagie. The guests are amused; his wife isn't. | |
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Ratatouille: As the movie takes place in a French nouvelle cuisine restaurant, the food, including the eponymous ratatouille, is served in small portions. However, it is presented in a realistic manner, not comically exaggerated, and nobody points it out in-universe. | |
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Frasier: Invoked by Daphne (who is from Manchester) in an argument with Niles over whether he's haughty, and she says he'd eat a worm if she only gave it a French name. | |
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Pokémon X and Y takes place in the France-inspired Kalos region, so the more expensive the restaurant, the more eccentric the food is and the longer your servers go on about it. Dishes include soup made from a 3,000-year-old bone boiled in snow for 100 days and a 180-year-old aged blue cheese that is described as smelling so strongly that it'll burn your nose. The exception is Sushi High Roller, a ridiculously exclusive and very expensive restaurant whose full-course meal consists of... five different forms of sushi, delivered with to-the-point descriptions. | |
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Subverted in the fifth Don't Hug Me I'm Scared video. The Faux Affably Evil Anthropomorphic Food characters are vastly uninformed about proper eating and biology. They believe "fancy foods" are bad for you. The problem is that their definition of "fancy, show-offy foods" consists of cooked meats, fruits, eggs, and basically anything healthy while plain or low-nutrition foods like bread and cream are deemed healthy. One of the foods is a talking steak, by the way. | |
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Abunai Sisters: In "Abunai Dinner", the fancy (poisoned) Chinese meal Matsumoto tries to trick the sisters into eating consists of a single meatball. Matsumoto claims that it's a 4000-year-old recipe favored by the Empress Dowager herself. | |
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My Dinner with Andre: Wally remarks he didn't expect his quail dish to be so small while eating as Cafe Des Artistes. | |
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