History LethalChef / Webcomics

** One three-part story featured an "IronChef Ramen Noodle" cook-off between [[TheLoonie Igor]] and [[IAmNotWeasel Carson the muskrat]]. Carson's entry consisted of flavouring and generic tofu dogs, and prompted the question "This used to be organic?" from the judges. [[spoiler: He wins anyway, despite Igor's entry being "like tasting clouds", because his entry reminds the judges of college dorm food - "The best years of our lives!"]]

** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00217.htm The Golden Trough]] is an all-you-can-eat restaurant staffed by lethal chefs who cook with low-quality ingredients. Parents take their children there as punishment.

* This trope was a RunningGag for the college strip TheClassMenagerie, with the dorm cafeteria food being a frequent target. Scott and Kevin managed to bribe RulesLawyer and RA Dani with junk food just by pointing out the crappy menu for the evening (Okra Surprise). Another strip had the cast being forced to literally fight their dinner when the beef stew turned out to be so undercooked it was still putting up a fight.

** Tony is also this trope, though due to his clumsiness and being very absentminded rather than actual incompetence.

* This trope was a RunningGag for the college strip ClassMenagerie, with the dorm cafeteria food being a frequent target. Scott and Kevin managed to bribe RulesLawyer and RA Dani with junk food just by pointing out the crappy menu for the evening (Okra Surprise). Another strip had the cast being forced to literally fight their dinner when the beef stew turned out to be so undercooked it was still putting up a fight.

* The [[http://www.bogleech.com/awfulhospital/124 Harmburger]] of Webcomic/AwfulHospital.

* For ''Blog/SliceOfLife,'' since it is set in a bakery, everypony falls prey to this trope sooner or later.

* For ''Blog/SliceOfLife,'' since it is set in a bakery, eveerypony falls prey to this trope sooner or later.

** Moloch's cooking is so bad that a fellow inmate claims that she would rather eat his engines -- he only has the job because he's the only person who can stand being in the evil sentient kitchen built for a ''literal'' Lethal Chef.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3149 Squigley tries -- before ordering a pizza]].
* In the MegaCrossover FanWebcomic ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' [[Theatre/LesMiserables Javert's]] mother [[spoiler: [[KingArthur Morgan the Healer]]]]. Her pies rival [[Film/{{SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}} Mrs. Lovett's]]. Worst pies in London? Worst. Pies. In. FRANCE! This 'verse (so the SpinOff s ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'' and ''Webcomic/DownTheStreet'' included) also has [[Film/{{SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}} Mrs. Lovett]], who actually [[OneNoteCook isn't as lethal]] as her reputation makes her out to be, and [[ThePhantomOfTheOpera Christine Daaé]], who couldn't bake an edible cookie if her life depended on it.

* Ace from ''Webcomic/TooMuchInformation'' is in all other ways TheAce, but he likes hot food. ''Really'' hot food. As in, puts hot sauce on his pancakes. His housemates won't let him share in the cooking duties. Anything he fixes is bright red from all the hot sauce, and is edible only to him, and some kittens with black holes for digestive systems.

* ''Webcomic/AllOverTheHouse'' regularly feature's the unfortunate results of Tesrin's attempts to cook, such as in [[http://www.alloverthehouse.net/?p=53 this strip]] and [[http://www.alloverthehouse.net/?p=66 this strip]]

* In ''{{Drowtales}}'', Chirinide attempts to cook a bird for her faithful bodyguard Shan'naal. She fails to realize that you have to pluck and gut the bird ''before'' you put it in the oven. She also tries to start said (non-magical) oven with an enormous [[PlayingWithFire fireball]].
** Remarkably, Tur'geis says he'd eat it anyway, and Ariel actually remarks it smells ''good''. This leads Nuru'lara to conclude that Sarghress-born have no taste.

* In ''{{Drowtales}}'', Chirinide attempts to cook a bird for her faithful bodyguard Shan'naal. She fails to realize that you have to pluck and gut the bird ''before'' you put it in the oven. She also tries to start said (non-magical) oven with an enormous [[PlayingWithFire fireball]]. Two people not only express that they would be willing to eat it, one even thinks it smells ''good''.

* In ''{{Drowtales}}'', Chirinide attempts to cook a bird for her faithful bodyguard Shan'naal. She fails to realize that you have to pluck and gut the bird ''before'' you put it in the oven. She also tries to start said (non-magical) oven with an enormous [[PlayingWithFire fireball]].

* Yeon from ''TowerOfGod'' has only cooked for the team once. When she wanted to try again for Viole's sake, the rest of the team tried their best to dissuade her, a dark background of doom appeared, and [[TokenMiniMoe Miseng]] even started to cry.
* ''{{All Over the House}}'' regularly feature's the unfortunate results of Tesrin's attempts to cook, such as in [[http://www.alloverthehouse.net/?p=53 this strip]] and [[http://www.alloverthehouse.net/?p=66 this strip]]
* ''{{College Roomies from Hell}}!!!'' Marsha is a {{webcomic}} lethal chef, causing stomachs to be pumped and a single bite from one of her cakes sending someone to the hospital. Mike doesn't dare say anything, suspecting (correctly) that she'd dump him for it; her roommates openly complain and go to great lengths to keep her away from the kitchen, but she seems to think this is just spite.
* In ''[[DanAndMabsFurryAdventures Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'', Mab's brownies are repeatedly mentioned to be "the stuff of nightmares" and haunt the dreams of Jyrras even years after trying them. She also has the apparent ability to make ovens explode just by trying to use them, but that might be an [[WalkingTechbane usual reaction between Faes and technology]], according to some filler strips...
* ''Bruno'' had the title character staying in an isolated house with the writer Stanley, who managed to ruin everything he cooked for her. Subverted at the end of the storyline, where he reveals that he's an excellent cook; he initially made inedible food because he wanted to be left alone, and kept doing it because Bruno's reaction was so hilarious.
* Pat from ''{{Achewood}}'' may not be a completely lethal chef, but the vegan meals he serves to the other characters aren't all that tasty, either. In one strip, he offers them some of his homemade chocolate-covered cherries -- which turn out to be stewed prunes covered in carob. For this injustice, Todd shanks him in the leg with a toothpick.
* Crystal from ''SluggyFreelance'' is apparently a lethal ''bartender''. There's her infamous "Survivor Nights" (in which her patrons vote off her various alcoholic concoctions from the menu), and the fact she's created drinks such as Prince Charles (tastes like ear) and Cheeseburger Margarita ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]]).
* Ace from ''TooMuchInformation'' is in all other ways TheAce, but he likes hot food. ''Really'' hot food. As in, puts hot sauce on his pancakes. His housemates won't let him share in the cooking duties. Anything he fixes is bright red from all the hot sauce, and is edible only to him, and some kittens with black holes for digestive systems.

--->'''Agatha''': ''She uses poison?!''
--->'''Gil''': Well, ''I'' always thought she just ''couldn't make coffee''. But ''now'' I'm ''not so sure''.
* In the older archives for the webcomic ''AbsurdNotions'' the horror of the dining hall is only hinted at, but the author's notes go into great detail. Suffice it to say that their spaghetti sauce was ''legally actionable.''
* Two examples from ''DorkTower'':

* Anne in ''{{SSDD}}'' apparently has a [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20021129.html reputation]] among her roommates for having horrendous cooking skills, her homemade wine is [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20011207.html particularly dangerous]].

* Early in ''ExploitationNow'', Bimbo made some clam chowder that was not only inedible but, when flushed down the toilet, summoned an EldritchAbomination that destroyed her apartment building.
* Two appear in ''WebComic/EightBitTheater''. There was the restaurant with biscuits made out of "solid goddamned lead," and then came Red Mage's shoe sandwiches:

* ''{{Nodwick}}'': Piffany is [[SupremeChef an inversion]], and is so good at baking that ''cosmic war can be averted by giving the gods her brownie recipe''. Yeagar, on the other hand...

* Merv from ''HeadDoctorProductions'' makes food with magic. The problem isn't so much the taste or edibility of his meals as their tendency to bleed, or to be possessed, or to open up [[{{Hellgate}} portals into the minds of disturbed people.]] Yum.
* ''TheAdventuresOfPudding'' features a [[http://siapudding.blogspot.com/2007/09/baking-song.html collective effort]]. There's always someone...
* [[http://www.stationv3.com/d/20030511.html The Chef]] on ''StationV3'' "is an expert in the preparation of what can loosely be termed 'food' on a good day."
* Two examples from ''{{Narbonic}}'':

* ''{{Our Little Adventure}}'' has Pauline. One such instance involved a dead bird Angelika was going to throw in Julie's tent as a prank, and the other involved 'things that are like Chicken' and 'things that are like vegetables.'
* ''VenusEnvy'': Zoe.
* ''EvilPlanTheWebcomic'': Problem: Little sister Kristen's food kills. Solution: Elder, mad scientist brother Stanley uses it to kill his foes. By filling a vat with it and dropping them in.

* In MSFHigh there are at least two, Alouette and Lana. While their food may technically be edible, it tends to become alive and hunger for flesh.

** It's probably not a coincidence that in some of his cameos in ''Webcomic/{{Jack}}'' Vinci runs a bakery in hell.

* Yeon from ''TowerOfGod'' has only cooked for the team once. When she wanted to try again for Viole's sake, the rest of the team tried their best to dissuade her and [[TokenMiniMoe Miseng]] even started to cry.
** The dark background of doom that immediately sprang up upon her stating her intent during this sequence was... also a fair indication as to how epically bad the first time must have been.