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We all know not to judge a book by its cover, but what about food? Chances are, if something smells and looks repulsive, it'll taste just as bad. After all, how could that plate of green eggs be anything other than rotten, or that bowl of murky, gray mush be anything other than nauseating? This is especially true if we're expected to taste something that isn't often eaten in our culture, such as a middle-class American being fed a bat. In many cases, a bad smell, texture, or appearance will be an immediate sign that the food should not be eaten, for our own safety. After all, who really wants to eat a Mess on a Plate? And sometimes, our senses will be lying to us. That bowl of bat wings will be the best thing the American has ever tasted, that gray mush will turn out to be a very rare and delicious type of soup, and someone will discover that they really do like green eggs and ham. Characters who decide to be open-minded will be rewarded with a delicious meal and may be pleasantly surprised that someone they thought was a Lethal Chef is actually a skilled chef whose presentation just needs some work. They may learn An Aesop about trying new things while they're at it. Like I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham (which covers more than just food), the character carries some preconceived notion that they will hate the thing, but they eventually try it and realize they were wrong. In this case, though, the thing genuinely doesn't look appetizing to begin with. May overlap with Foreign Queasine and Cordon Bleugh Chef, if the prepared food is gross-looking to someone, but they end up liking it after they try it. The food may Taste Like Chicken. See also If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You, where a character makes assumptions about food based on its taste rather than appearance. Examples |
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In The World Ends with You, During week 2, Joshua and Neku go to a ramen shop struggling to keep up with its competitor on the same street. The shop owner offers them a special ramen he created, which Neku thinks looks disgusting. Before he can say anything, Joshua orders two of them and after being pressured into eating it, Neku realizes that it tastes great. | |
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Orihime from Bleach is actually a very good cook, but her tendency to use bizarre ingredients that don't seem to go together at all makes her look like a Cordon Bleugh Chef. | |
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A few episodes of Iron Chef featured chefs who made some questionable-looking but delicious dishes. The Japanese series featured an ice cream episode with the crab ice cream described as "not at all fishy and surprisingly good". Chefs had, over a number of episodes, attempted some kind of fish ice cream, which the tasting panel hated. Finally, Stephanie Izard, challenged with yellowfin tuna, dared make an ice cream with it, and she finally pulled off a fish ice cream that worked. The American show had beer sherbet in the Battle Oktoberfest (featuring Bavarian ingredients). The caramelized bacon on top of the ice cream threw people off, but the judges loved it. | |
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In The Smurfs, Grouchy lands in a pile of M&Ms which look normal but they look to him like the droppings of some creature in Smurf Village. However, when he eats one, he enjoys them. | |
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Date A Live: "The Seventh Spirit", the first episode of season 3, starts with all the girls of Shido's harem making a stew consisting of all of their favorite foods, such as fried chicken, an ice cream cone, and a lollipop. The result is a grotesque, bubbling blob radiating a sickeningly purple color. To almost everyone's surprise, though, when Shido tastes it... it's actually pretty good. Disbelievingly, some of the girls try it and find that the taste is surprisingly pleasant. | |
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Nao Sadatsuka in Food Wars! specialises in these. The curry laksa she makes for the Fall Classic preliminaries has jet-black roux that looks like a bowlful of used engine oil and smells like the contents of a sewer, but once the judges take a bite they can't stop eating. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: In a strip: On some occasions, Calvin's mom jokes that she's made something over-the-top disgusting for dinner, like fried monkey heads or spider pie. Invariably, this intrigues Calvin enough that he tries it with an open mind and actually likes it—but Calvin's dad gets grossed out and can't finish his meal. |
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The Rocko's Modern Life episode “Bedfellows� has Heffer make his specialty, the “Heffer Deluxe�, for dinner. It looks terrible and has all manner of disgusting ingredients, but it actually tastes very good. Rocko loved it before Heffer told him what was in it. | |
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In one Garfield strip, Jon makes "weenie gelatin", a green hunk of jello/jelly with sausages poking out. Garfield eats it and remarks that his mouth liked it, but his stomach is still making up its mind. | |
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Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World: A skit that plays when Emil is temporarily locked in Ratatosk Mode has him serve something that Tenebrae compares to Marta's cooking. When they actually eat it, however, they find the taste is no different than normal Emil's usual cooking. | |
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Persona 4 Golden: Marie's Valentine's chocolates are emitting an odor you can pick up through the box and are moving. They're also so delicious that the main character can't stop eating them once he tastes them. | |
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In Red Dwarf, this is a (drunken) Rimmer's opinion of Lister's triple-decker fried eggs with chili sauce and chutney sandwich. He's at first appalled, but then he realizes he actually likes it; although he likens it to a cross between food and bowel surgery, he also notes it somehow works, and goes on a drunken ramble about how this sandwich suits Lister's personality to a T, since Lister should annoy and disgust people, but somehow he's charismatic and likable. Hardcore fans who have been bold enough to replicate the dish in reality report that the trope holds true in real life; you wouldn't think it from the description, but it's actually quite tasty. They do usually recommend a sweet chutney. |
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In Stella Glow, Lisette's cooking turns all her food purple, but it tastes perfectly fine. The main character notes that he's eaten her cooking so often that he's not even bothered by the color anymore. | |
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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts has an inverted case with Mizuki Himeji's cooking; it looks delicious, but tastes awful due to the borderline lethal ingredients she uses. | |
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Arthur: In "Opposites Distract", Bitzi offers Arthur and Buster a dish of spaghetti and marshmallow balls, which appears to be a plate of spaghetti with meatballs topped with giant marshmallows. Arthur even admits that it's surprisingly good. In "Dad's Dessert Dilemma," Mr. Read sends a honey cake baked in the shape of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to school for a party honoring Galileo. Arthur thinks the cake looks ridiculous and assumes that everyone will find it disgusting, so he tries to hide it - that is until Mr. Ratburn finds and samples it. He exclaims it's delicious, prompting the other kids to try it as well, and they love it, too, to Arthur's dismay. |
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Samurai Deeper Kyo: Sakuya's attempt to make some green tea result in a cup filled with what seems to be bubbling green magma. It actually tastes delicious. | |
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Angela Nicely: In “Cupcake Wars!�, Angela makes cupcakes but tries to ice them in rainbow colours, resulting in the icings mixing together. The result is cupcakes that taste good but have ugly brown icing. | |
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In Green Eggs and Ham, the unnamed target of the titular dish refuses to try the Palette-Swapped Alien Food, but he eventually gives in. He takes a bite and realizes that he really, really likes green eggs and ham. | |
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M*A*S*H: In "Too Many Cooks", the recuperating Private Paul Conway spends his time at the 4077th cooking for the personnel, using what little ingredients he has to work with, but applying his ingenuity; at first, his dishes (such as Spam Parmesan) may sound and look awful, but they turn out to smell and taste so wonderful that the camp practically lines up outside the Mess Tent for his culinary delights. | |
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Downplayed in The Loud House episode "Friend or Faux?". Lisa invents some "kelp leather" which looks like a greyish-green, slimy lump but it doesn't taste bad. However, it doesn't taste good either; it actually has no taste at all. | |
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Recess: In "Don't Ask Me", Spinelli feel she's hit on an improvement to the school cafeteria's cornbread: layering lime gelatin on it, as it works as a lubricating agent to the dry cornbread. The other kids are disgusted by this, but Gus eventually tries it out for himself, and he agrees that it actually tastes good. In "Chez Vince", Vince is wrangled into improving the cafeteria food. To vat of gray mush the lunch ladies identify as, "Meat... mostly", Vince adds various different ingredients, ranging from different spices and other additives like eggs and onions. The meat still looks exactly the same, but the added ingredients to go over really well with both the students and the lunch ladies. |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In the short, "Hyper Corn", Jimmy's parents serve creamed corn for dinner. Jimmy refuses to eat it because, in his words, "It looks like somebody already digested it", and he tries to get rid of it by stuffing it into his hypercube. Unfortunately, Hugh mistakes the hypercube for a Rubik's cube and causes the creamed corn stored inside to fly everywhere. Some of it lands in Jimmy's mouth, and it's at this point that Jimmy finds out it actually tastes delicious. In the movie "Win, Lose and Kaboom", the characters compete on an alien game show. During an eating challenge, Carl tries the disgusting-looking alien dish of Plutonian Gut Chunks and finds it quite tasty. Conversely, the alien contestant finds a banana cream pie so repulsive that it causes his head to explode. |
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In the Little Princess episode "I Want Baked Beans", Princess sees a plate of baked beans and exclaims, "They look like rabbit poos!" before eating them and deciding she likes them. | |
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Case Closed: In one arc, Ran's old schoolmate Asami teaches her how to bake lemon pie to serve to her friends. Asami deliberately gave her the wrong recipe, and Ran's pie looks half-burnt and the crust is poorly constructed, but everyone agrees that, despite its amateurish appearance, it tastes really good. | |
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The page quote comes from the Futurama episode "The 30% Iron Chef", in which Bender enters a cooking contest. His dish looks disgusting, but the judges love it and he's declared the winner. Then it turns out it tastes better because it was laced with LSD. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Food Fight", Timmy wishes his mother were a great chef so he wouldn't have to eat her nasty-looking food. She enters a cooking competition and loses this gift (due to fairy rules forbidding magic being used to win competitions) and cooks up one of her squid casserole. Timmy volunteers to eat it to save his mother from humiliation... only to find that the meal is absolutely delicious, so much so that it wins the competition. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog brand curry. The blue coloring might turn many people off, but it taste just as good as common curry sauce. | |
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In Phi-Brain: Puzzle of God, Nonoha is normally a great chef, and the only person who hates her food is Kaito. She tries to invoke Lethal Chef in episode 19, hoping doing so will produce food Kaito likes. Despite her dish's very ominous appearance and glowing purple aura, the food still tastes good. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: In Death or Glory, the breakfast Jurgen makes one day is described as "gray and lumpy". It smells appetizing, and Cain comments that after eating the whatever-it-was, he felt ready for anything the day might hold, so it must have tasted good. | |
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In an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, the buffalo served Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie bowls of vile-looking green mush, perhaps a stew. Dash is revulsed at the look of it. Pinkie, however, gobbles hers quickly and asks for more, so presumably, it was better than it looked. Or she's just nuts. Traditional Pie family Hearth's Warming Eve dinner is rock soup, which is a green broth with an actual rock (the size of a hoof) per serving. Applejack, not wanting to offend Pie family tradition, reluctantly eats it, and immediately regurgitates the rock. Igneous Rock Pie (Pinkie's father) is seen taking a bite out of his rock, and Pinkie herself gladly gobbles everything in her bowl and asks for seconds. |
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In Kill la Kill, Sukuyo Mankanshoku's croquettes are made of weird, unidentifiable ingredients and, in one scene, have something still moving around in them when served. Despite this, her husband, children and Ryuuko find them delicious. | |
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Robotzi: In the episode "Condiment", Mo and F.O.C.A. have a cooking competition in which both try to cook chicken. F.O.C.A.'s food looks normal and tastes good, but he thinks Mo's dish is better, despite being a Mess on a Plate. However, he becomes grossed out after finding out Mo's secret ingredient note It's semen. | |
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The Golden Girls has multiple episodes in which Rose, having come from St. Olaf, Minnesota (a strange but charming small farm town with cultural roots in Scandinavia) cooks bizarre cuisines that have some kind of quirk to them. One notable one is Sperheoven Krispies, which, according to Rose, are done cooking when the smell of them makes you want to vomit, but taste like cheesecake, chocolate ice cream, and strawberries - to eat one, she, Blanche, and Dorothy plug their noses with one hand and eat with the other. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: One episode of the Advanced Generation series is about this. The main characters come across two competing restaurants whose chefs are Pokémon, a Sneasel and a Mr. Mime. The Sneasel's food looks bland but tastes great, while the food cooked by Mr. Mime is visually appealing but tastes terrible. | |
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In one episode of Sailor Moon R, near the end of the episode, Usagi creates some curry, which looks pretty awful. However, upon her, Mamoru, and Chibiusa tasting the curry, it turns out that it's delicious. In the Super S movie, Usagi and Chibiusa make cookies. Usagi's invert this, looking decent, but tasting horrible. Chibiusa's cookies, which look terrible, play this trope straight. Fans usually takes this to mean Usagi can either make food look presentable or taste delicious, just never at the same time. |
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My Girlfriend is Shobitch: Subverted when Akiho is trying to complete a cooking assignment in class to impress Haruka (her boyfriend) and makes a horrific-looking mess. Her friend Misaki volunteers to test it and gushes that it's very good to Akiho's delight. However, as soon as Akiho walks away, a sickly Misaki begs Haruka to never let Akiho know about "her condition", whereupon she keels over and her spirit ascends to the heavens. | |
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In Ensemble Stars!, this is Ritsu's specialty: all of his cooking ends up looking very strange and incredibly unappetising, but anyone who eats it admits that the taste is pretty good. One suggests that if people could eat it without opening their eyes his cooking would be really popular. | |
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Valvrave the Liberator features the class-president in home ec. The meals she cooks look terrible, but anyone brave enough to actually taste them find them delicious. It's to the point that when the class needs funds for the war with Dorssia, the local entrepreneur recommends processing one of her dishes into a snack-bar and selling them to the people of The Moon. | |
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The Quack Pack episode "Tasty Paste" centers around Huey, Dewey and Louie making money off a substance that looks like green slop, but tastes very delicious. | |
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The Quintessential Quintuplets: Making an effort to sabotage Fuutarou's attempts to tutor her sisters, Nino proposes a cooking competition between herself and Miku after Miku is the last sister still willing to study, stating that the study session will end if she wins. Nino makes a delectable dish that shows she clearly knows her way around a kitchen, while Miku makes a very haphazard and ugly dish made from cooked rice, ketchup, and some kind of sauce. However, when Fuutarou tries both of them, he says that they're both equally good. Ultimately played with though, since Fuutarou had been previously established as someone too poor to be picky about his tastes, so how good Miku's dish actually was is left in question. Still, Miku swoons when Fuutarou compliments her cooking and later makes an effort to improve in order to win him over. | |
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In the What A Cartoon! Show cartoon "The Kitchen Casanova", a man attempts to cook a lovely dinner for his visiting girlfriend; however, a series of different comical mishaps in the kitchen result in every dish he tries to prepare getting ruined. Even attempting a salad ends in failure. Finally, he presents her with a gross-looking mound of mush consisting of various different animal parts (and presumably human as well). The man finally has an emotional breakdown, so the woman samples the dish out of sympathy, but she finds it to be tasty, much to his surprise. The more they eat, the more animalistic they become. They finish the dish and eat up the plates, silverware, and even the table. | |
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