History LethalChef / ComicBooks

* A ''ComicBook/DisneyComics'' Donald Duck story had Donald trying to barbecue steaks but ending up burning them so badly that his nephews proclaimed them to be as hard as rocks. The final panel showed Donald calling a paving company to cancel his order for flagstone steps because he'd "made other arrangements..."

* Two examples from the comic book version of ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}'':

** [[Characters/XMenMutants Moira MacTaggert]] and her coffee. If there was a complaint desk in [[Comicbook/{{Excalibur}} Excalibur's]] Muir Island base, probably this would be on the top. To the extent that when Kitty volunteered to take Pete Wisdom to London to check on a friend of his, Brian told him "Buy some coffee while you're there! We've run out of Rory's good stuff." And it didn't even escape Xavier's notice. He once quipped that Jubilee was using Moira's coffee to lubricate her roller skates, and also remarked on it during a video-phone call with Moira:

** Veronica Lodge. Being the SpoiledBrat RichBitch that she is, [[BerserkButton don't even suggest]] that her cooking is anything less than superb. In one comic, Veronica was preparing what Archie called "rainbow cookies". Since they looked like ordinary cookies, Mr. Lodge asked what he meant by that. Archie responded with "Sometimes they make you turn blue, sometimes they make you turn red, sometimes they make you turn green..." Later in the comic, the president of a food company tried her cookies, and the result prompted Archie to say, "Purple? Never seen that color before!"

** Another comic shows Reggie eating some dinner Ronnie's cooked for him, but he finds it inedible; so he dumps the whole plateful into the dog's dish, then tells Ronnie [[BlatantLies that the food was superb]]. A moment later, the dog sniffs at the food in his dish -- ''and picks up his dish with one paw and empties the whole lot back into Reggie's plate''.

* The cook from ''{{ComicBook/Asterix}} The Legionary'' is a subversion. Ordered to cook legionary rations according to legionary standards (flour, bacon and cheese, in one pot to save time), his food is almost inedible (it's implied the Romans deliberately feed their troops bad food to keep them in an angry, combative mood), but given proper ingredients and the motivation to use them, he can work wonders.

* ''Franchise/{{Popeye}}'': Granny has somehow managed to burn water and her biscuits have been used to pave driveways. Her cooking is so bad, Popeye, Poopdeck Pappy and Swee'pea only allow her to cook one meal a year, and on that day, they usually sneak out to Roughhouse for a hamburger.

* The Cook from ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'': his spaghetti are known for strangling soldiers; he once turned the lunch in a living monster; when the Sergeant added motor oil to his soup, nobody noticed the difference until a motorist asked for his oil can back; and in one infamous occasion, he knowingly served food infected with ''cholera'' (the battalion was decimated). In a variation, it's implied he does it ''on purpose'': early on he wasn't bad (for a military cook), but then the troop, the officers, and even a ''general'' snobbed his food for ''laundry water'', and from then on he became a LethalChef... Unless he's cooking some celebratory meal, in which case he'll cook a ''soldier''.

** Will's attempts at cooking includes things like baking with powdered soap in place of flour.

** ComicBook/MoiraMacTaggert and her coffee. If there was a complaint desk in [[Comicbook/{{Excalibur}} Excalibur's]] Muir Island base, probably this would be on the top. To the extent that when Kitty volunteered to take Pete Wisdom to London to check on a friend of his, Brian told him "Buy some coffee while you're there! We've run out of Rory's good stuff." And it didn't even escape Xavier's notice. He once quipped that Jubilee was using Moira's coffee to lubricate her roller skates, and also remarked on it during a video-phone call with Moira:

* ComicBook/GreenArrow has a chili so legendarily bad (or maybe just [[MasochistsMeal insanely spicy]]) that even invulnerable superheroes refuse to eat it. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili And you can make it at home!]] Its also a Main/ChekhovsGun in ''ComicBook/{{Trinity}}''. ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' reveals that he also has a just as bad coffee blend.

* ComicBook/GreenArrow has a chili so legendarily bad (or maybe just [[MasochistsMeal insanely spicy]]) that even invulnerable superheroes refuse to eat it. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili And you can make it at home!]] Its also a Main/ChekovsGun in ''ComicBook/{{Trinity}}''. ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' reveals that he also has a just as bad coffee blend.

* ComicBook/GreenArrow has a chili so legendarily bad (or maybe just [[MasochistsMeal insanely spicy]]) that even invulnerable superheroes refuse to eat it. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili And you can make it at home!]] Its also a Main/CheknovsGun in ''ComicBook/Trinity''. ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' reveals that he also has a just as bad coffee blend.

* ComicBook/GreenArrow has a chili so legendarily bad (or maybe just [[MasochistsMeal insanely spicy]]) that even invulnerable superheroes refuse to eat it. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili And you can make it at home!]] ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' reveals that he also has a just as bad coffee blend.

--->'''Jubilee''': Yeah. And at least one shoe

** Another comic shows Reggie eating some dinner Ronnie's cooked for him, but he finds it inedible; so he dumps the whole plateful into the dog's dish, then tells Ronnie [[BlatantLies that the food was superb]]. A moment later, the dog sniffs at the food in his dish--''and picks up his dish with one paw and empties the whole lot back into Reggie's plate''.
** Ms. Beazly, the lunch lady. Students who eat at the cafeteria are inevitably shown later doubled over in poisoned agony, and the school staff isn't too fond of her food either. One case of stomach cramps she was blamed for, though, [[NotMeThisTime was actually the result of some stickers popular around the Riverdale High students]]; their glue was toxic enough to cause them. When Archie with Professor Flutesnoot's help proves this one time she was ''innocent'' Mr. Weatherbee is quick to reinstate her--and Ms. Beazly gives Archie a gourmet-level meal in thanks!
* Olive from ''ComicBook/{{The Beano}}'' (she's a "School Dinner-lady", who is a Lethal Chef subtype of her own). Her "Tea" was actually a highly-reactive acid-like corrosive; her oxtail soup moos and flicks its tail; the skin on her custard couldn't be broken with a pickaxe, and so on.
* During the short time ComicBook/{{Spider Man}}'s Aunt May was dating Willie Lumpkin, Peter was seriously turned off by his lasagna. In one story, he took them and Mary Jane to a special art exhibit after eating it, and spent most of the time trying to find a place where he could throw up. (And in the second part of the story the next issue, he implies that he's taking Kristy to the museum simply to avoid having to eat it again.)

* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** ComicBook/MoiraMacTaggert and her coffee. If there was a complaint desk in [[Comicbook/{{Excalibur}} Excalibur's]] Muir Island base, probably this would be on the top. To the extent that when Kitty volunteered to take Pete Wisdom to London to check on a friend of his, Brian told him "Buy some coffee while you're there! We've run out of Rory's good stuff." And it didn't even escape Xavier's notice. He once quipped that Jubilee was using Moira's coffee to lubricate her roller skates, and also remarked on it during a video-phone call with Moira:
-->'''Moira:''' Och, it's noon and I'm still barely up. It's the break o' dawn wi' you and ye look fresh as a daisy. Ye make me sick, Charles Xavier.
-->'''Professor X:''' No, Moira. It's your '''coffee''' that makes you sick.
** Hilariously ComicBook/EmmaFrost proved to be one in ''ComicBook/GenerationX'' where she attempted to create a Tomato and Cheese Omelette for her students and lacking any ripe tomatoes substituted with ''Heinz's Ketchup'' with poor results.
--->'''Synch''': Are eggs supposed to breathe?
--->'''Husk''': Are we being punished Ma'am?
--->'''Emma Frost''': What's wrong? I made this with own two hands.
--->'''Jubilee''': Yeah. And at least one shoe

* In ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', Gran'ma Ben/Rose's teacher tries to put stinky cheese on Smiley's quiche and serves up some disgusting green stew that practically everyone despises. Bartleby, on the other hand, loves it.
* The Cook from ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'': his spaghetti are known for strangling soldiers; he once turned the lunch in a living monster; when the Sergeant added motor oil to his soup, nobody noticed the difference until a motorist asked for his oil can back; and in one infamous occasion, he knowingly served food infected with ''cholera'' (the battalion was decimated). In a variation, it's implied he does it ''on purpose'': early on he wasn't bad (for a military cook), but then the troop, the officers, and even a ''general'' snobbed his food for ''laundry water'', and from then on he became a LethalChef... Unless he's cooking some celebratory meal, in which case he'll cook a ''soldier''.

* ''Franchise/{{Popeye}}'': Granny has somehow managed to burn water and her biscuits have been used to pave driveways. Her cooking is so bad, Popeye, Poopdeck Pappy and Swee'pea only allow her to cook one meal a year, and on that day, they usually sneak out to Roughhouse for a hamburger.
* ComicBook/GreenArrow has a chili so legendarily bad (or maybe just [[MasochistsMeal insanely spicy]]) that even invulnerable superheroes refuse to eat it. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili And you can make it at home!]] ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' reveals that he also has a just as bad coffee blend.
* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': One of the [[RunningGag Running Gags]] associated with Ofelia, with the aggravating factor that she believes herself to be a great cook. Mortadelo and Filemón would often ask for some of her homemade dishes, only to use it as rat poison or to purge their bowels.
* The cook from ''{{ComicBook/Asterix}} The Legionary'' is a subversion. Ordered to cook legionary rations according to legionary standards (flour, bacon and cheese, in one pot to save time), his food is almost inedible (it's implied the Romans deliberately feed their troops bad food to keep them in an angry, combative mood), but given proper ingredients and the motivation to use them, he can work wonders.
* A ''ComicBook/DisneyComics'' Donald Duck story had Donald trying to barbecue steaks but ending up burning them so badly that his nephews proclaimed them to be as hard as rocks. The final panel showed Donald calling a paving company to cancel his order for flagstone steps because he'd "made other arrangements..."

* ComicBook/GreenArrow has a chili so legendarily bad (or maybe just [[MasochistsMeal insanely spicy]]) that even invulnerable superheroes refuse to eat it. [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili And you can make it at home!]]
** ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' reveals that he also has a just as bad coffee blend.

** He not only tries to mix fish and strawberries with cream and alcohol, he actually manages to make a ''living sauce'', which escapes its bowl to crawl around...
** He also invented the "horror kitchen".
** And almost assassinated the president with a flambéd crêpe. Apparently, he was using rocket fuel as the flambéing reagent.

* Franchise/ArchieComics:

*** Given Emma has spent most of her life as a RichBitch and likely had servants to do the cooking for her [[JustifiedTrope it makes sense]] that she'd suck at it, it's also more amusing considering her rival ComicBook/JeanGrey is a SupremeChef.

* Moira [=MacTaggert=] and her coffee. If there was a complaint desk in [[Comicbook/{{Excalibur}} Excalibur's]] Muir Island base, probably this would be on the top. To the extent that when Kitty volunteered to take Pete Wisdom to London to check on a friend of his, Brian told him "Buy some coffee while you're there! We've run out of Rory's good stuff." And it didn't even escape Xavier's notice. He once quipped that Jubilee was using Moira's coffee to lubricate her roller skates, and also remarked on it during a video-phone call with Moira:

* Granny from ''{{Popeye}}'' has somehow managed to burn water and her biscuits have been used to pave driveways. Her cooking is so bad, Popeye, Poopdeck Pappy and Swee'pea only allow her to cook one meal a year, and on that day, they usually sneak out to Roughhouse for a hamburger.

* The Cook from ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}''. His spaghetti is known for strangling soldiers and he once turned the lunch in a living monster. When the Sergeant added motor oil to his soup, nobody noticed the difference until a motorist asked for his oil can back.

* Yosefa from the Israeli comic ''ComicBook/{{Zbeng}}!'' specializes in inedible, rock hard doughnuts. She once used a batch of radioactive yeast to make them extra fluffy, which created a gigantic mutant doughnut that threatened to crush the school.
** And even worse, she has a truly loving boyfriend, who eats everything she cooks. He is a model patient in the hospital's stomach pumping section...

** The Robins from WebComic/LilGotham arn't much better, if their attempt to cook for Alfred was any indication.

-->'''[[KidSidekick Tim]]:''' It's okay, it's tuna sandwich. [[TemptingFate How could anyone fail that?]]... ''(one bite later)'' ... ''[[EpicFail That's ]]''[[EpicFail how]].

* During the short time ComicBook/{{Spider Man}}'s Aunt May was dating Willie Lumpkin, Peter was seriously turned off by his lasagna. In one story, he took them and Mary Jane to a special art exhibit after eating it, and spent most of the time trying to find a place where he could throw up.