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Mess on a Plate
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It's often argued that presentation is one of the most important aspects of how you serve food, and a common saying among chefs is that "you first eat with your eyes." Cooks who produce this food apparently expect everyone eating to be blind. It could take several forms — maybe it's collapsed into an indistinct brown or grey glop in a bowl. It would be a misshapen mound that vaguely looks like a cake. Random tentacles and eyes could be mixed in. If it's a cake, expect the decorations to be something out of the wildest imagination of a Nightmare Fetishist (whether or not the cook is actually one). The appearance of the dish is no indication of its taste, and the most common outcome of this trope is that the food is actually delicious. Those wary of the dish at first may even find it Orgasmically Delicious when they get up the courage to try it. Keep in mind, of course, that this is completely distinct from a Lethal Chef or a Cordon Bleugh Chef — in fact, while food such as this is a frequent indicator of one of those two tropes, it's increasingly common to have overlap with Impossibly Delicious Food (though most people will expect it to Taste Like Feet). If the "food" in-question is more-or-less unidentifiable AND it tastes absolutely horrid, but actually contains nutrients to sustain life, then it's a case of Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious. Can easily be Truth in Television — even in culinary schools, presentation is taught distinct from flavor, and it's fairly common for students to be much better at the latter. |
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Akane of Ranma ½ combines this with Lethal Chef — she creates food that is both inedible and hideous to look at. The only exception is her curry, which is edible (if bland)... but still hideous to look at. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, cooking with incompatible ingredients will result in the Dubious Food, a dish so gross that you can't even look at it. It's even Censored for Comedy in its icon. You still recover a little bit of health from eating it, though. | |
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The Simpsons: Several episodes have the family eating indistinct grey slop, likely due to artist shorthand, since the food isn't supposed to be disgusting. One episode in particular has Homer try to make food from a giant pile of sugar he stole from a crashed tanker truck, with the result that not only does the food look like slop, it is nauseatingly sweet and full of debris and broken glass. Another episode, which uses a "Rashomon"-Style narrative has Marge serving a healthy new breakfast food called Muslix, which is pretty much just a sticky, blobby mess. She also gave Maggie Juicelix to drink, which turns out to have the consistency of glue. |
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In one Stuart Ashen video, he uncans a tinned chicken, which has degenerated into a sickly mass of pink-and-yellow slime with a chicken skeleton in it. He jokes that the mere sight should have turned his whole audience into vegetarians. | |
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In Sleeping Beauty, the fairies decide to make a dress and birthday cake for Aurora. Having sworn not to do magic, they quickly start to fumble everything up. The cake is made with whole eggs (shells still on), is (somehow) layered and iced before baking, and looks like The Leaning Tower of Pisa if it were painted by Picasso. They finally decide screw it and fix everything with magic. | |
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The food that Morpheus and his crew eat aboard the Nebuchadnezzar in The Matrix: a half-congealed whitish goop dispensed from a nozzle. Mouse and Apoc compare it to runny eggs and a bowl of snot, respectively. | |
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Space Janitors, similar to Starship Troopers above, has rations that have the consistency and look of different kinds of thin pudding, served in a segmented tray. It's outright called "Mush", and it's referred to by color instead of flavor (except for the dessert "Sweet mush", which is pink and has sprinkles floating in it). However, Imperial citizens regard eating good, proper meat on par with cannibalism (almost certainly a joke and not any political agenda from the team). | |
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In the The Outer Limits (1995) episode "The Sentence", the food served at the prison consists of unappetizing goop that comes out of an automatic dispenser. To add insult to injury, cutbacks to the prison's budget have resulted in the machine malfunctioning and not even properly dispensing food. | |
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Ryo from Otomen can occasionally (usually with Asuka's help) produce food that tastes decent. However, it will invariably look terrible. | |
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One episode of Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire had a Sneasel that cooked food that looked terrible, but tasted great. It was contrasted with a Mr. Mime whose food looked appetising, but tasted terrible. | |
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The protagonist of Serendipity Next Door is a food lover and a very good cook, but judging by the reactions of other characters, the food she makes tends to look uniformly horrible even though it tastes just fine. When she makes dinner for Shinobu and Keiichi, the latter complains that every single dish is brown. This seems to be mostly coming from an attitude that what a meal looks like shouldn't affect the taste; when Masaomi complains about her cheap dishes, she asserts that it tastes just as good on a cheap plate as an expensive one, and is surprised when he counters that how food is presented affects how good people think it will be. | |
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The curry dish that Nao Sadatsuka from Food Wars! made for the Fall Classic prelims looks and smells like dirty sewers, but it's actually very delicious, and is the first dish from the batch to score 80s (until then, the average scores had been 30s). | |
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Frequently produced by Calvin's mom in Calvin and Hobbes. In several strips, it's actually sentient, either trying to escape or quoting Hamlet at him. | |
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Jon's cooking in Garfield tends to be this, as does the stuff served at the greasy-spoon diner he and Garfield frequent. | |
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Whateley Universe: A few instances: From Ayla and the Late Trevor James Goodkind, as part of Ayla's experience traveling by air in coach: Meals at the Academy itself vary greatly in quality, despite having several expert chefs on the cooking staff, in part because of the volume served daily (with 600 teenaged students, several of whom are epic Big Eaters), and in part because of the need to accommodate some students with radically atypical nutritional needs (such as live animals or odd metal supplements). While there are usually some excellent dishes available (and Ayla has a special deal with the chefs to get even better treats on a semi-regular basis), the majority of it is standard cafeteria fare, served on steam trays in staggering quantities ("You name it, there was fifty pounds of it somewhere on that long line"). Consequently, presentation generally takes a back seat. It is specifically noted that the main difference in the faculty dining room is not the food itself, but it being plated by the staff for the sake of presentation. Things take a dark turn for Sheltered Aristocrat Ayla during the renovation of the main cafeteria, as the staff had to make do with an older kitchen that was in serious disrepair. The results stand in stark contrast to the Food Porn in most of the other Phase stories. From Dorms of Our Lives, the 'carnivore special', which, if not terrible disgusting, is at least strange: |
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On one episode of King of the Hill, Cotton sends Bobby to military school to toughen him up. When Bobby keeps goofing off, Cotton has all the cadets make one revolting pile of their lunch leftovers and forces him to eat it as punishment. | |
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Starship Troopers (the movie) has a scene where the recruits are in the chow line, loading up their trays with what appear to be different colors of pudding. Emphasized by one of them holding a ladle full up at eye level and disgustedly pouring it out. | |
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Johnny Bago: When Johnny temporarily joins a circus (not that he wanted to join, he was blackmailed into it) the owner/ringmaster literally feeds the circus workers on garbage leftover from the previous day's crowds, all of which looks like scoops of brown blegh. | |
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A popular classic Sesame Street skit has Ernie making a plate of mashed banana with ice cubes and gravy on it. Bert is disgusted by its mere appearance, but guess what Oscar thinks? | |
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The Cook from the Sturmtruppen will often serve this. It was once exagerrated when the mess came alive as a Blob Monster in a parody of Frankenstein. | |
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In Don't Starve, a failed/invalid cooking recipe will result in "Wet Goop." | |
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In Persona 4, nearly every female character is incapable of cooking, and multiple scenes make references to this. | |
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In the Turning Red fanfic The Great Red Panda Rescue, Mei is kidnapped and made to eat what is only described as "mush". | |
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Schlock Mercenary: A restaurant chain serves "smutto", a combination of corn smut (basically mold), and natto (fermented soybeans). It looks, smells and tastes so vile that even Schlock (who'll eat pretty much anything) hesitates before eating it. Subsequently, someone cooked it in real life. It doesn't look all that much more edible, until it's rolled in a tortilla — which at least holds the goo in. |
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The stew served at the cafeteria that provides lunch to Winston Smith and his coworkers in Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's pinkish-gray with a metallic odor and has cubes of spongy fake meat floating in it. A spill of the stuff on a tabletop is described as "a filthy liquid mess that had the appearance of vomit." | |
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Sam & Fuzzy has a storyline where Sam refused to leave his apartment for a week due to severe depression from being fired from his job. As their food runs out, he ends up making this for dinner. | |
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Monster Musume: Everything Miia cooks looks like this. It's inevitably a groteque purple color with a foul miasma coming from it, usually with visible fish skeletons, charred bits of meat, and disgusting looking globs of something floating in it. Eating it inevitably makes the person who tries it sick (except for Suu, who's an Extreme Omnivore and can actually handle it). When Rin, the daughter of Rachnera's previous host family, is tricked into eating some she says that it "smells like bug spray and death." | |
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In Fallout 4, you can explore the post-apocalyptic ruins of Suffolk County Charter School, where you can find some oddly pink ghouls, trays splattered with pink globs of still-edible "food paste," and some terminal entries and holotapes explaining what happened. The principal evidently secured extra funding by agreeing to test out a government "Nutritional Alternative Paste Program" at the school, and thus banned all other foods, over the protests of students and faculty. | |
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In one of the Myth Adventures stories, Skeeve, having never seen spaghetti, describes it as white worms or snakes covered with blood red sauce. | |
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Stargate SG-1: In the season 2 episode "Prison", the titular alien lockup facility serves all prisoners nothing but a thin gruel that looks like wallpaper paste and based on O'Neill's reaction, smells very unappealing. It apparently tastes all right, but that might just be because he's used to MREs. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, cooking with incompatible ingredients will result in the Dubious Food, a dish so gross that you can't even look at it. It's even Censored for Comedy in its icon. You still recover a little bit of health from eating it, though. There's also an unlockable recipe for Dubious Food in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity with specific ingredients (two Durians, two Rock Salts, and two Hot-Footed Frogs). Using it gives you double Rupees but -20% max health during a mission. The flavor text is exactly the same as the above. |
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Our Miss Brooks: Some of Mrs. Davis' Cordon Bleugh Chef dishes fall into this category. | |
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Star Trek occasionally has food that is unappetizing to behold. Synthesized food in the original series, and occasionally replicated food from the later series, tends to get this treatment. | |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: Stew, the staple food of adventurers. It doesn't necessarily taste bad, but its main qualities are that it's dense bordering on viscous, a suspicious shade of very dark brown, and you can't, at least not very easily, tell what's in it — and that it's so ubiquitous that you will get incredibly tired of eating it, to the point where the entry for "Food" reads "1. See STEW." | |
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In The Bliss Bakery, Rose sends her little brother to collect a magic ingredient. He brings her the wrong one, which looks exactly like the one she wanted, and the cookies that should have become pink and pretty turn black. | |
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In Lexx, this is the kind of food the Lexx produces for the crew. Stanley copes by imagining that the meals the Lexx serves him are exotic dishes. | |
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The soup Chef Muk cooks in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon fanfic Legendary Genesis is described as looking similar to the sludge making up her body. | |
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Case Closed: When Ran (or Rachel) tried to bake a lemon pie for the first time ever in volume 18, it turned up looking messy and burnt. But everyone says it tastes good. | |
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Bender's final presentation in the Futurama episode "The 30% Iron Chef". Subverted however when it turns out the "Essence of pure flavor" Bender was given earlier in the episode is really water mixed with LSD, so the only reason the food tastes good is because the judges are high. Earlier, Bender's rancid-looking cooking was deemed acceptable tasting by Helmut Spargle but also killed him by making his stomach explode. |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: England's food is mostly portrayed as an indeterminable black mess. Sometimes it even gets pixeled out to emphasize this. | |
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In one episode of The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy and his dad are put off by his mom's cooking, preferring takeout. She's quite upset when they won't try it. Timmy wishes his mom could cook as well as she thinks she does, and she's magicked into a good chef. However, the spell breaks when she enters a cooking competition, revealing she can cook, but she can't make it look good. | |
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The omelet from hell Latrine serves to King John in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. There are intact eyeballs in it, and that's not the most visually disturbing part. | |
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In Young Sheldon S4 E18, Georgie gives Mary some soup to cheer her up. It's condensed soup straight from the can, and he neglected to add water. | |
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In Feet of Clay, Vimes suspects Vetinari is being poisoned by something inside the palace so he sends out for a Klatchian takeaway for him on the rationale that "they can't poison all the food in the city". Vetinari's reaction is to Stab the Salad and ask Vimes "did someone already eat this?" | |
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The "Hot Lunch" jam from the first Fame movie implies that the song's subject, Sadie the serving lady, does this on the regular. One of her famous dishes is simply "blue", which could be a stew but no one knows for sure. | |
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Foxtrot: Surprisingly, not Andy's cooking, though it frequently involves tofu. The cafeteria glop qualifies, however. | |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel): One issue shows Joe candidates going through Training from Hell. This includes their meals, which are described by Chef of Iron Roadblock as "mystery meat on a shingle"note A Bowdlerization of real-life army slang expression "shit on a shingle". One of the candidates muses "How do they get it so gray?" In another issue, Roadblock says that SOS is the only thing he hates worse than having to do a nighttime HALO jump. | |
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Naru from Love Hina is known to produce food that looks awful but tastes good. | |
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In Better Off Dead, Lane's mother spoons grey-green goo (with raisins!) directly onto his plate. He pokes it with his fork and it crawls away. | |
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Asterix: The food served by the Roman army in Asterix The Legionaire is just corn, cheese and bacon rations cooked together in a yellowish goop to save time, the idea being that a diet of terrible food will make the soldiers meaner and fiercer. While normally willing to put up with a lot on his adventures, even Asterix refuses to live off something this nasty for their whole time in the army, and after he and Obelix have a quick "chat" with the cook, their squadron get served a good deal more palatable food for the rest of the story. | |
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In Moving Pictures, Many of the workers at Holy Wood eat at Borgle's commissary, which serves of cheap bowls of nasty-tasting "seafood" stew (in that whatever's in it was, at one point, scooped out of the ocean). | |
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There's also an unlockable recipe for Dubious Food in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity with specific ingredients (two Durians, two Rock Salts, and two Hot-Footed Frogs). Using it gives you double Rupees but -20% max health during a mission. The flavor text is exactly the same as the above. | |
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Usagi in Sailor Moon is usually just a general Lethal Chef producing only food that both looks and tastes awful. However in the second season she pulls off making a curry that looks literally like a mess on a plate but that actually tastes pretty good. In the third film her daughter Chibi-Usa makes some badly decorated cookies that taste lovely, Usagi herself in this instance does the reverse... her cookies look nice but taste bad. | |
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Tina from Ai Yori Aoshi. As Taeko discovered, Tina's inability to make anything looking good did not stop her from making food that actually tastes good. | |
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Kamp Koral: Plankton's camp food is always seen as a gross mass of a jello-like substance on a plate. All of the campers hate it, and it's implied to have some degree of sentience. | |
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In the Legend of Korra fanfic a million miles of fun, the "Grand Slam Croquette" is a fritter containing boiled eggs, duck sausage, curried pork, red bean paste, and sticky rice. The description garners a cringe from Ghazan. | |
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In Accepted, Glen creates a recipe he calls "Wads" that look like a well, wad of melted chocolaty goo. The others recoil at first, but once they get brave enough to taste them they rave that it's the greatest thing they've ever eaten. | |
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Asuna's first cake from the first anime adaptation of Negima! Magister Negi Magi. The second came out looking much better. Appropriate, as she's an Expy of Naru above. | |
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The Lilo & Stitch fanfic Alpha and Omega: In one chapter, the cafeteria lady serves them "mushroom-and-mashed-potato-surprise". As 302 quips: When 349 tried to rob the Chef, Jumba had to pay her double her salary to not force-feed the experiment "Last Tuesday Surprise". In another chapter, the food is described thusly: |
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In an episode of the classic paramedics drama Emergency!, the heroes save the life of a celebrity chef, who rewards them with an autographed copy of his latest book. When they later try to put together a dinner for the rest of the crew at their station using the book, they swiftly realize that they did something wrong and that dinner is ruined. They dump everything they were cooking into a single pot in order to hide the evidence. Just as they're taking it out back to dump it, the fire crew comes back and assumes dinner is ready. Despite having an odd gray color and the consistency of paper mache paste, the "stew" is universally deemed fantastically delicious by the other fire fighters, and the crew expects it to be made again in the future. | |
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In RimWorld, instead of having a chef prepare meals of X quality using Y ingredients, you can just throw a bunch of foodstuffs into a nutrient paste dispenser that excretes... well, a green paste on a plate. Between the presentation and flavor, eating food paste gives colonists a mood penalty (unless they belong to a transhuman ideology), but the stuff is the most efficient way to generate meals from raw food, and never gives colonists food poisoning. | |
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In Artemis Fowl, a sandwich that Artemis tried to make is described as looking like an explosion on a plate. | |
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My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): "Lunch" on Captain Celaeno's ship is a brown porridge with bits of grass in it. "Pudding" looks exactly the same, minus the grass. | |
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In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the cafeteria food in one episode apparently consists of "meat glop, fruit glop, vegetable glop, and glop glop." | |
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Babylon 5 occasionally has food that is unappetizing to behold. The dish Spoo comes to mind. | |
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