History Main / ItTastesLikeFeet

** Alan once delivered an anecdote which included being given a chocolate bar by a pesioner, which taste like 'Old ladies' cupboards.'

* Russell Howard was given an ice lolly made of soup in an episode of ''Genius''. He described the taste as "like licking a 70-year-old's ankle."

* A professional food taster in BetterOffTed samples a piece of artificially grown beef. He describes it as tasting like "Despair".

* Rob Schneider one appeared on a talkshow in Singapore, during a regional tour to promote DeuceBigalow - he was treated to several regional fruits, including the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian durian]] which he described as tasting like "men's locker room".

-->'''Taste Tester:''' It tastes...familiar.
-->'''Linda:''' Like beef?
-->'''Taste Tester:''' No...
-->'''Ted:''' [[TastesLikeChicken Or chicken]]? We'll take chicken.
-->'''Taste Tester:''' No, it tastes like...despair?
-->-- ''BetterOffTed'', on cloned beef

* MisterAsterisk ''NeonGenesisEvangelion TheAbridgedSeries'', when the entry plug of EVA 001 fills with LCL Shinji comments that it tastes like primordial soup, [[spoiler: subverted since LCL ''is'' primordial soup but as with this trope Shinji would have no reason to know what that tasted like]].

* Example of a positive comparison in ''PaperTowns'': Lacey tastes a [=GoFast=] bar for the first time and says it "tastes like hope feels". Ben describes the taste of [=GoFast=] bars as "what blood tastes like to mosquitoes", which was probably ''intended'' as a positive comparison but makes them sound a lot less appealing.

* Subverted in one of Joan Hess's ClaireMalloy mysteries, where a character takes the time to specify that he's never tasted horse piss, but suspects it's a lot like the lousy homemade beer he's sampling.

* One episode of ''KrattsCreatures'' focusing on baboons had one of the hosts eat an acacia leaf. Upon being asked what it tasted like, he replied, "Green. Very green."
* ''BetterOffTed'': "it tastes like...despair".

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* It was originally a reference to a cologne, but surely ''[[{{Nirvana}} Smells Like Teen Spirit'']] rates a mention?

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* TastesLikeDiabetes and TastesLikeFriendship on [[TVTropes this very wiki]]!
* The website ''[[http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/hearts/hearts.html How Much Is Inside]]'' once did a tally of the phrases within a bag of candy hearts. They also taste-tested each color and concluded that the "pink" hearts taste like "cherry cough syrup and foot."

*** When making the Vomit flavor, they used an old rejected Pizza formula, added extra pepperoni, and just a hint of citric acid. ModernMarvels is wonderful, isn't it?

* Lewis Black once said this:
-->[=NyQuil=] comes in two colors: red and green. It's the only stuff in the world that tastes like [''beat''] red and green.
* Denis Leary once reminisces about how when he was a kid, NyQuil only came in "green fucking death" flavor.

* When consuming a tiny bottle of absinthe in ''KingdomOfLoathing'', the resulting message says the absinthe "tastes like licorice, pain, and green."
** In RealLife, it also has an aftertaste of depravity and decadence.

** In one recent [[http://reallifecomics.com/archive/090102.html strip]], Liz and Greg bring "the world's first sparkling liqueur" to a new year's party.
--->'''Liz:''' How does it taste?\\
'''Greg:''' ''Pink''. Very, ''very'' pink.
* ''FilthyLies'': The cast taste a certain kind of beer for the first time and all find it horrible. Ted declares that it tastes "like going down on a dead hooker." When the others look at him strangely, he says "What? I thought she was just bored!"

* ''[[http://malfunctionjunction.net/?p=261 Malfunction Junction]]'': "I just found out what the worst Chinese food in the world tastes like. ... It tasted like ''communism.'' Like a Maoist army oppressed my tongue, then moved south to commit human rights violations against my gastrointestinal system. I'm pretty sure this stuff violates UN rules."

* ''PennyArcade'' decides that 'blue' [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/4/ can indeed]] be a flavor.
** But ''only'' in the context of slush-based beverages.

** There's also ''Das Bus:'' "How are [those berries], Ralph?" "...Tastes like...burning..."
*** Ralph would know a thing or two about burning, since he has an imaginary leprechaun friend that [[PyroManiac compels him to burn things]].

** In the episode ''Roswell That Ends Well'', Fry puts a metal popcorn container in the microwave causing the room to inexplicably start changing color. His only response to this is, "What smells like blue?"
** And after Nibbler [[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralizes him]]: "Did everything just taste purple for a second?"
*** Although really, the latter two are more of a case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia synaesthesia]], a fairly common disorder (it's estimated that 1 in 23 has some form of it) that also occasionally happens in the wake of neural damage (Fry being who he is, I suspect he's had quite a bit of this).
**** Given that, due to his being his own grandfather, his brain doesn't produce a particular brain wave whose absence in other people (and robots, and presumably certain trees) seems to cause them to barely be able to function, this explanation makes sense.

* The famous line from ''SaladFingers'' episode 2: Marjorie Stewart-Baxter, you taste like sunshine dust!
** Also- "Hubert Cumberdale, you taste like soot and poo."

* Happened in ''{{Doug}}'' when the school is selling chocolate door to door. Doug couldn't make any sales because the residents complain they taste like cement. When he and Mr. Swirly discovered that cement got into the chocolate in the factory.

--->'''Esk''' (to bartender): "Milk. You know, ''milk''. You get it from cows.\\

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** That's not all, the cheese is made by using a certain culture of bacteria. The SAME bacteria is known to cause foot odor.

* The website [[http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/hearts/hearts.html ''How Much Is Inside'']] once did a tally of the phrases within a bag of candy hearts. They also taste-tested each color and concluded that the "pink" hearts taste like "cherry cough syrup and foot."

* I was once accused of this for saying "This tastes how horse food smells." The people I was with actually did ask how I knew what horse food tasted like. Which I didn't even find out until, like, a month later. (Very grainy, not unlike granola; but it wasn't the same kind of horse food I was referring to the first time.)

-->'''Taste Tester:''' It tastes...familiar.
-->'''Linda:''' Like beef?
-->'''Taste Tester:''' No...
-->'''Ted:''' [[TastesLikeChicken Or chicken]]? We'll take chicken.
-->'''Taste Tester:''' No, it tastes like...despair?
-->-- ''BetterOffTed'', on cloned beef

** But only in the context of slush-related beverages.

** This troper is particularly fond of fresh grilled sardines, and the sardine-flavored beans actually taste rather more like sugar than sardines.

--->* pause*

** TwoWords: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak Kopi Luwak]]

* Parodied the ''{{Discworld}}'' book ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment''. Igor comments that the beer tastes like [[SpeechImpediment horthe pithth]], and when asked if he's ever drunk horse piss, responds in the positive. Later, after the barkeep has been "persuaded" to produce the good stuff, Igor sticks with the original beer, commenting "Look, I never thaid I didn't ''like'' it."

* In ''{{Animorphs}}'', this is Lampshaded when Rachel comments that a force field they're swimming through generates a sensation 'like chewing on aluminum foil with a mouth full of fillings' and Marco asks her how she'd know what that feels like...

* Jessica in ''TrueBlood'', on the taste of A- flavor True Blood: "Less like ass than the A+ , but more like ass than the B-."

-->'''Waynetta:''' I just...know.

* One of the beverages in DragonAge, a mead, is described as "Sweet and flowery as a spring morning, with a bitter aftertaste of daddy's-going-of-to-war-and-never-coming-home".

*In ''DaveBarry Does Japan'' Dave describes trying out a Japanese energy drink called Hugo, and all he can say is "it better be healthful, because it tastes like wolverine spit."
**Dave Barry has French kissed Hugh Jackman?
**[[{{Rule34}} Damn it, don't get the Internet started again...]]

*''In It Takes Two'', a character samples escargot for the first time, and comments that it tastes like a balloon. She had a point.

***Although really, the latter two is more of a case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia synaesthesia]], a fairly common disorder (it's estimated that 1 in 23 has some form of it) that also occasionally happens in the wake of neural damage (Fry being who he is, I suspect he's had quite a bit of this).

* BioWare seems to love this trope, as ''JadeEmpire'' gives what could possibily be the MostTriumphantExample in regards to a restorative potion to sober up a drunken character.

The name comes from the episode of ''{{Friends}}'' where Rachel accidentally combines an English Trifle and a Shepherd's Pie. See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v_BE6lFE0o&playnext_from=TL&videos=F-MIl0APFFI here]].Meat, onions, whipped cream and jam? And just how ''would'' Ross know what feet taste like? A sister trope to LethalChef.

**In another episode, Brent description of Oscar's homemade beer:

* BioWare seems to love this trope, as JadeEmpire gives what could possibily be the MostTriumphantExample in regards to a restorative potion to sober up a drunken character.

* {{Gai-Gin}} describes Japanese seafood as smelling "like a sperm whale just vomited" and "like a shark's vagina".