History Main / ItTastesLikeFeet

** The FunnyAneurysmMoment (or HilariousInHindsight) occurs in a later issue. [[spoiler: Cassidy DOES know what it tastes like, as he blew a guy regularly for heroin at one of the lowest points of his (un)life.]]

** Also, the weakest ''baijiu'' is allowed to be is 40% ABV, or 80 proof (standard proof for most Western liquor); ''maotai'' (one of the more renowned forms) often clocks in at 53% (106 proof). Many other forms are 60% (120 proof), and a few forms, such as ''fenjiu'' and ''gaolangjiu''[[note]]If you've seen ''Film/RedSorghum'', this is what they're making at that distillery[[/note]] can get up to [[GargleBlaster 63% or 65% (126-130 proof)]], at which point they are literally flammable. When you remember that we actually do use alcohol for fuel... And at banquets, [[RedChina Communist Party]] officials are likely to take several drinks of ''baijiu'', sometimes taken as shots (particularly if a toast is proposed). Suffice it to say that when it comes to drinking, the Chinese do not play games.

* Virtually anything grape-flavored can be described as tasting very purple. Most of them taste nothing like grapes.

-->Huh. Did everything just taste purple for a second

* The friend of [[https://notalwaysright.com/must-have-tried-some-every-flavor-beans/29452/ a submitter]] to [[NotAlwaysRight/SisterSites Not Always Friendly]] describes dandelion juice as tasting like earwax.

* The friend of [[http://notalwaysfriendly.com/must-have-tried-some-every-flavor-beans/36142 a submitter]] to [[NotAlwaysRight/SisterSites Not Always Friendly]] describes dandelion juice as tasting like earwax.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'':

-->-- ''As Read on Radio/CarTalk'', "[[https://www.cartalk.com/radio/letter/worst-analogies-high-school-essays-0 Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay]]"

-->'''Ross:''' [[TropeNamers It tastes like feet!]]\\

* The Jewish organization Aish put up a video of Ashkenazim trying Sephardic food and vice versa. When the ''feshnogge'' (calf's foot jelly, an Ashkenazi delicacy) comes out, a Sephardic man gingerly tries it and declares, "It's made of feet. And tastes like feet."

** In the Western world, jelly was originally made from gelatin derived from cow hooves.

* Valerian Root.

* Fritos taste and smell like feet. Or maybe feet taste like Fritos.

-->-- ''Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay''

* In ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' one of the midwives meets an Irish Catholic priest regarding one of her patients (a girl who ran away from Ireland to London). The priest offers tea and apologies for only having Fig Newtons to go with them, as they "taste[] like... treacle. Wrapped in a doormat."

-->"This porridge tastes like cardboard."//

'''Joey:''' *still eating* I like it.\\

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Sookie and Lorelai just had a rather useless class about opening an inn and they reach a refreshment table, hoping to make up the admission fee in cookies.\\
-->'''Lorelai''': These better be the best damn cookies in the world.
'''Sookie''': [eats one] And they taste like feet.

* ''Series/{{GOOD EATS}}'': Fish sauce is used to add the flavour of "cat food and athletic sock...but in a good way".

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* [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1988/03/15/ From]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
-->'''Jon:''' "Irma, Is this tea or coffee?"\\
'''Irma:''' "What does it taste like?"\\
'''Jon:''' "It tastes like turpentine!"\\
'''Irma:''' "Oh, that's our coffee. Our tea tastes like transmission fluid."
* From ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'':
-->'''Pierce:''' When I burp, it tastes exactly like caterpillars.\\
'''D'ijon:''' I don't even want to know how you know that.
** In another strip, Jeremy describes wheatgrass juice as tasting "like licking the underside of an old John Deere riding lawnmower!"
** And, according to Pierce, if you dip Salisbury steak in pudding it tastes just like squirrel.

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* Creator/LewisBlack describes red and green [=NyQuil=] as the only things in the world that taste like red and green.
* Creator/DaveChappelle has described grape "drink" (not to be confused with grape juice) as consisting of "sugar, water, and of course [[TastesLikePurple purple]]."
* After someone described the taste of Vegemite as "like licking a cat's ass," comic Creator/BillyConnolly asked, "How does she know?"
* Original flavor ''[=NyQuil=]'': Let Creator/DenisLeary explain:
-->I love [=NyQuil=], man. Because [=NyQuil=] has never changed, man. It's never changed. All the other medicines are doing that inner-child thing. "We know that there’s a small child inside of you, so now we have grape and cherry and orange flavor." Not [=NyQuil=]! They still have the original green death fucking flavor! You know why!? Because it doesn't matter what it tastes like! It's so strong you go, ''wheeze'' "Hey this stuff really tastes like.." Bang! Yer in the coma already!
* In a sketch on a Creator/MontyPython album, Creator/EricIdle describes an Australian wine, ''Nuits St Wogga Wogga'', as ''having a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit''.
* Creator/DylanMoran once gave a summary of the consistency of a particular wine as follows: "Moccasins... denture fixture fluid... it's extraordinary. Lovely for when you're being chased by the Stasi. In a railway tunnel. Going to meet The Monk."
** That was more of a mockery of professional wine tasters - there being in his own opinion "two kinds of wine - wine that makes you go 'Mmm, that's okay, can we have eight of those? Give us eight of those!' and another one that makes you go 'Arrrrgh Jesus, what is that?!'"
*** "...and occasionally, you get a subtle one, that makes you go 'Urk! Ack! Hmm, that's quite all right!'"
* Jim Norton, on the apparently metallic taste of a certain bodily fluid: "It tastes like I drank the bad guy from ''Film/{{Terminator 2|JudgmentDay}}'' "
* Nick Swardson said, at one point, that he wants to be very difficult when he's an old man, and as an example said that he would complain about restaurant food, specifically, sending it back while complaining that it tastes like "wolf pussy."

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* In ''How to Talk Minnesotan: TheMusical'' one of the songs is a commercial for the fictional Hakinblip Cough Syrup. One of the cast members (Ed the middle-aged farmer) isn't enthused about the idea, saying that the stuff "tastes like the bottom of my rowboat."
* In the song "Master of the House" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', the inn's patrons sing that Thénardier's stew tastes like something he scraped off the street, and his wine is like turpentine and he pressed it with his feet. (There is, in fact, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsina a wine that is supposed to taste like turpentine]], being made with actual pine resin, but we doubt that Thénardier was serving that.)
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[[folder:Urban Legends]]
* A high school biology teacher tells the class that human semen is 80% sugar. A student (usually female) raises her hand and asks, "How come it tastes like salt, then?" He responds ([[ScienceMarchesOn incorrectly]]) that the taste buds for sweetness are at the tip of the tongue, not the back of the throat.
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* One of the ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' books has a story where the main character eats ice-cream every day but is getting bored with the flavours. Ms. Jewls creates ice-cream named after her, but she can't taste it because it tastes the same as when she's tasting nothing; everyone else claims it tastes wonderful. The next few weeks have them going through the entire class, with everyone having a taste relating somehow to their personality, and everyone agreeing that Todd tastes the best. He apparently tasted so good that every so often, the ice-cream girl would try to take a bite out of his arm.

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* The ''Series/DeadGorgeous'' "Gold" contains this exchange:
-->"This porridge tastes like cardboard."//
"You've eaten cardboard?"

-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' You can't drink the water here. Josie's pipes have issues.//
'''Matt Murdock:''' Rust, mold.//
'''Foggy Nelson:''' I think I can actually see the bacteria floating in there.//
'''Karen Page:''' ''[laughs]'' Oh, ew, ew!//
'''Matt Murdock:''' See, that-that's why we, uh, keep our cocktails neat.//
'''Foggy Nelson:''' Pretend you're abroad. On vacation someplace exotic, but no mojitos. Josie just throws mint in the beer.//

-->'''Karen Page:''' Do you drink wine? ''[catches herself]'' Shit, I know that.//
'''Matt Murdock:''' I don't drink anything they don't serve at Josie's.//

* In the song "Master of the House" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', the inn's patrons sing that Thénardier's stew tastes like something he scraped off the street and his wine is like turpentine and he pressed it with his feet. (There is, in fact, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsina a wine that is supposed to taste like turpentine]], being made with actual pine resin, but we doubt that Thénardier was serving that.)

* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': During the omelet cook-off, when Kanji tries Yukiko's omelette, he initially describes the taste as "boneless" ("sterile" in the manga localization). Yukiko angrily points out that that is not a word you use to describe taste and demands that he tell her whether or not it tastes good, at which point Kanji clarifies that it's because the omelet has no taste at all.

-->'''JC Denton:''' "How are the drinks here?"
-->'''Renault:''' "Great if you like rat piss."
-->'''JC Denton:''' [[DeadpanSnarker "Never tried it."]]
* When consuming a tiny bottle of absinthe in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', the resulting message says the absinthe "tastes like licorice, [[TastesLikePurple pain, and green.]]"
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'':
-->'''Moira Brown:''' "Hey! I think I've discovered a new way to cook Radroach meat! Still tastes like old feet, though."
** In an unrelated incident Three Dog says that Nuka-Cola Quantum "tastes like radscorpion shit and turns your piss blue. Or does it taste like radscorpion piss and turn your shit blue? Whatever."[[note]]The isotope, strontium-90, does cause your piss to glow a soft blue. And apparently, Three Dog doesn't like the added taste of pomegranates...[[/note]]

* Creator/BioWare seems to love this trope, as ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' gives a good one in regards to a HideousHangoverCure.
-->'''Three Sheets Dutong:''' I hate that restorative potion! Ugh! That stuff tastes like vomit baked in a glaze of goat hair and garnished with a sprinkling of horse dung.

* In ''The Secret Armory of General Knoxx'' DLC of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', the titular General Knoxx describes [[DeathWorld Pandora]] as smelling like "Hemorrhoids wrapped in bacon".
* Early on in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', Lissa complains that the meal of bear meat the party has prepared smells like old boots. "Wait, I take that back-- [[InsultToRocks boots smell better!]]"
** The Avatar at one point makes a carrot stew that everyone complained tasted like dishwater. Panne, coming from a race of rabbit people, is the only one that actually liked it.
* Used and justified in ''Videogame/SunlessSea'', when the Bandaged Chef-Paramount fails to render a [[AlienLunch Strange Catch]] edible. He will tell you that, no matter what he tried (and he tried every single one of his techniques in a kitchen that looks more like an alchemist's lab), every part of what you caught, down to the last atom, tastes like the boatswain's socks. And yes, he will tell you he ''actually sampled them'', as there's nothing he won't do in the pursuit of culinary exploration.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'': Shaun's tasting notes from the beer bottle collectibles are full of this, since it turns out that beer from small breweries operating before food safety standards... [[NostalgiaFilter isn't as great as Shaun expected "traditional English small-brewery beer" to be.]] He at one point mentions that they all have "side notes of sturgeon and the dark tears of a recently divorced ploughman" and wonders if Rebecca is trolling him by messing with his taste impressions through the Helix.
* In one cutscene in ''Videogame/StardewValley'', Pam compares the taste of some potato juice the farmer prepares for her with "fermented baboon kidneys".

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Grif, while under the effects of a malfunctioning speed unit, mentions that he can smell clouds.
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': After eating Darkness Snake's head in [=VRcade=], Perry says it "tastes like evil".

* ''Webcomic/OdoriPark'': Sprout's opinion of his Japanese mom's cooking is a little too informal...[[http://www.odoripark.com/2012/03/26/four-letter-words/]]
* One ''Webcomic/FriendlyHostility'' strip features Derringer, at Fox's urging, brushing his teeth with expired toothpaste. He promptly exclaims, "Gross! It tastes like going down on a chick on the rag!" When Fox looks at him skeptically, he says that toothpaste should not be used after six months; Fox replies, "Shut up, Captain Redwings."
* One ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'' [[http://reallifecomics.com/archive/060809.html strip]] has Greg trying the "Potion" drink marketed in Japan to promote ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI''. He takes one sip, then comments that it tastes "like ten thousand asses".
* ''Webcomic/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!"
* A non-food-related LampshadeHanging can be found in [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20050817.html this]] ''Webcomic/SuicideForHire'' strip.
* Done literally in [[http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20081210 this]] ''Punch an' Pie''.
* Lampshaded in [[http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20090525 this]] ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'' strip.

* Junior in ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'' has described both the smell of burnt eyeball (himself) and the taste of a homemade joint as being "like an old Arab woman".

* ''Webcomic/GaiGin'' describes Japanese seafood as smelling "like a sperm whale just vomited" and "like a shark's vagina". (Sperm whale vomit is more commonly known as ambergris, which has a sweet smell and is used as a base ingredient in perfumes, so that's not so unusual to know. The shark's vagina, on the other hand...)
* Aubrey in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' doesn't quite fulfill this trope when she complains that her coffee tastes "like a diaper smells"--but she almost does when she adds that she "could menstruate a better cup of coffee than this!" At another point, [=PeeJee=] describes a polluted swamp thus: "If a shit were to take a shit, I'm pretty sure that's how it would smell."
* Dmitri in ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'' claims that his coffee tastes like asteroid. Justified as it is actually synthesized from space debris.
* ''Webcomic/{{Krakow}}'': Kia's cooking apparently tastes like a clown raping one's mouth. Good luck figuring that one out.

* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', when Faye [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1923 visits the Secret Bakery,]] she has a mixed opinion of their offerings.
-->'''Faye:''' Your pastries might be better than ours, but your coffee is over-roasted and smells like feet.
* Smell variation in ''Webcomic/TerminalLance'': [[http://terminallance.com/2011/07/01/terminal-lance-necropocalypse-part-vi/ “Necropocalypse” Part VI.,]]
--> '''Abe:''' Jesus. This place smells like ... sweaty baby powder queefed out of a rotting sea lion's cunt.
* According to Tycho of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade,'' Red Bull tastes like "Gonorrhea and semen."
-->'''Gabe:''' [[TakeThat Oh! So, better than Pepsi!]]"
* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': Wally gulped some vampires, before releasing them. All he has to say is that they taste like rice cakes.

* A comment regarding that reading the recaps of a particular recapper at the website Website/TelevisionWithoutPity was "like drinking gasoline," prompted one of the owners of the website to comment "...stop drinking gasoline…the hell?"

* In the WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation review of the ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' reboot Yahtzee compares the taste of Pepsi to the taste of "someone wringing out his old gym socks into my mouth."
* In ''Machinima/FreemansMind'', Gordon says bullsquid snot "tastes like dead caterpillars." Similarly, based on the smell after [[KillItWithFire roasting the tentacles]] in Blast Pit, he says he's pretty sure it tastes [[AvertedTrope nothing]] [[TastesLikeChicken like chicken]]. He surmises it would instead taste like grasshoppers, admitting he's never tried them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' review by WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, Tamara hates the closet because it smells like dead armpit. With how many people Critic's killed, they probably would know what that smells like.

* [=YouTuber=] Atomic Shrimp [[https://youtu.be/vruA6K4HEY4 taste tested]] a cheeseburger in a can. His final thoughts were that it tasted like the smell of dogs' feet: a healthy dog's clean feet have an earthy, mushroomy smell, and the burger tasted like that.

* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse keels over after drinking Penfold's tea, so he subjects to an analyzer. It deduced that it was low-grade dishwater. (It wasn't Penfold's fault--a global tea theft had everyone's tea substituted with low-grade dishwater.) From the episode "Ee-Tea!"

-->'''Riley''': "This tastes like tree bark!"
-->'''Todd''' (reading the label): "Now with 48% more tree bark."

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In [[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E1Bang the season 2 premiere]], the Nelson & Murdock trio are relaxing after work with a game of billiards at Josie's. Karen goes to grab a pitcher of water:
-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' You can't drink the water here. Josie's pipes have issues.
-->'''Matt Murdock:''' Rust, mold.
-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' I think I can actually see the bacteria floating in there.
-->'''Karen Page:''' ''[laughs]'' Oh, ew, ew!
-->'''Matt Murdock:''' See, that-that's why we, uh, keep our cocktails neat.
-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' Pretend you're abroad. On vacation someplace exotic, but no mojitos. Josie just throws mint in the beer.
-->'''Matt Murdock:''' ''[laughs]'' Right.
** In "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E5Kinbaku Kinbaku]]", during Matt and Karen's date, they first attempt to go to a stuffy upscale restaurant:
-->'''Karen Page:''' Do you drink wine? ''[catches herself]'' Shit, I know that.
-->'''Matt Murdock:''' I don't drink anything they don't serve at Josie's.
-->'''Karen Page:''' Yeah, well, I don't see swill on the menu.
* ''Series/LittleLunch'': In "The Pavlova", Rory says that Mrs. Goncha's disgusting pavlova tasted like soap. Debra Jo says she wouldn't know because she has never eaten soap.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': While drinking [[BadToTheLastDrop bad coffee]] in "Down Among the Dead Men", Barnaby wonders if he is drinking coffee or silt.
* ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'': In "Always Tell the Truth (But Not Always) Thing!", Crispo becomes a Caustic Critic in his cookery class. He tells one pair their cookies are "Too buttery... As in too much butt!" and compares his teacher's cookies to elephant dung.
* In a scene in the fourth episode of ''[[Series/TheJoeSchmoShow Joe Schmo 2]]'', deleted from the broadcast episode but included on the DVD, Derek serves the group an awful British breakfast. T.J. comments that it tastes like "boiled ass," causing someone to ask just what exactly that tastes like.
* In ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' one of the midwives meets an Irish Catholic priest regarding one of her patients (a girl who ran away from Ireland to London). The priest offers tea and apologies for only having Fig Newtons to go with them, as they "taste[] like... treacle. Wrapped in a doormat."
* On ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'', Andy and Barney both comment that Aunt Bea's infamous pickles taste like they've been floating in kerosene.
* On ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff'', a contestant was criticized for decorating her cake with a non-edible marigold. Co-host Creator/NoelFielding immediately put it in his mouth, then spit it out. He said it tasted like "a clown's nose."
* On ''Series/FullHouse'' Danny makes the dish he first cooked for his girlfriend Vicky "turkey in a boot" (diced turkey and creamed vegetables in a pastry shaped like a boot). After Joey accidentally drops the dish on the floor, Vicky confesses to Danny that she never actually liked the dish, explaining that it tasted like it sounds.

* Del The Funky Homosapian's "If You Must" is LOADED with some rather interesting comparisons to what things smell like to him (the song is about him being around those that didn't practice good hygiene, after all). The interesting thing, though, is that he inverts this in the second verse by saying this line ABOUT someone's feet:
-->''One's fool's feet smelled like it struck some matchsticks.''
* Aerosmith's "Eat The Rich" has this line about something that you would probably metaphorically be able to eat (concerning Steven Tyler's opinion about snobby rich people):
-->''Their attitudes may taste like shit. But go real good with wine''

-->'''Pierce:''' When I burp, it tastes exactly like caterpillars.
-->'''D'ijon:''' I don't even want to know how you know that.

* [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1988/03/15/ From]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
-->'''Jon:''' "Irma, Is this tea or coffee?"
-->'''Irma:''' "What does it taste like?"
-->'''Jon:''' "It tastes like turpentine!"
--> '''Irma:''' "Oh, that's our coffee. Our tea tastes like transmission fluid."

* After someone described the taste of Vegemite as "like licking a cat's ass," comic Billy Connolly asked, "How does she know?"
** Music/AmandaPalmer has an entire song on the evils of Vegemite, which includes "It tastes like sadness. It tastes like batteries. It tastes like asses." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVKPrQv1H8I Enjoy it for yourself.]]
** Steve Harvey was given a sample of Vegemite by an Australian-born audience member on an episode of his talk show. His response? "Vegemite sounds like a pesticide. That's about damn near what it tastes like."

* Dylan Moran once gave a summary of the consistency of a particular wine as follows: "Moccasins... denture fixture fluid... it's extraordinary. Lovely for when you're being chased by the Stasi. In a railway tunnel. Going to meet The Monk."
** That was more of a mockery of professional wine tasters - there being in his own opinion "two kinds of wine - wine that makes you go 'Mmm, that's okay, can we have eight of those? Give us eight of those!' and another one that makes you go 'Arrrrgh Jesus, what is that?!'"
*** "...and occasionally, you get a subtle one, that makes you go 'Urk! Ack! Hmm, that's quite all right!'"

** Creator/LewisBlack describes red and green [=NyQuil=] as the only things in the world that taste like red and green.

* In the song "Master of the House" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', the inn's patrons sing that Thénardier's stew tastes like something he scraped off the street and his wine is like turpentine. (There is, in fact, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsina a wine that is supposed to taste like turpentine]], being made with actual pine resin, but we doubt that Thénardier was serving that.)
* In ''How to Talk Minnesotan: TheMusical'' one of the songs is a commercial for the fictional Hakinblip Cough Syrup. One of the cast members (Ed the middle-aged farmer) isn't enthused about the idea, saying that the stuff "tastes like the bottom of my rowboat."

* ''[[Series/Charmed1998 Charmed]]'': comes complete with a LastSecondWordSwap that doesn't make things better. Piper drinks a potion, gags, then says, "Ugh, it tastes like ass... phalt."

* Hyde talking to Kelso in ''Series/That70sShow'':
-->"What's convenient isn't always what's best. If it was, this frozen pizza wouldn't taste like monkey butt."
* One episode of ''Series/ArthurOfTheBritons'' had Arthur attempting to unite two tribes. During a feast, he suggests the two tribes swap their bread. This almost leads to a riot as each side tries the other's bread and declares it to be 'frog spawn' or some other insult.
* Downplayed on ''Series/SaluteYourShorts'' when Sponge drank some of Telly's bulk-up formula.
--> '''Sponge:''' This tastes like Donkeylips's socks' smell!
* In ''Series/{{Porridge}}'', Fletch tastes the brew made by the local [[MilitaryMoonshiner moonshiner]] which comes served in a disinfectant bottle. Fletch remarks that they're supposed to take the disinfectant out first.
* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Sheldon, who hates Greek food, indulges Leonard and tries a lamb kebab:
-->And what a civilization is the Greeks. They gave us science, democracy, and ''little cubes of meat that taste like sweat!''
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' the gang orders burgers. Everybody finds them delicious, except Marshall.
--> '''Marshall''': When you've had the best burger in New York City, every other burger tastes like my grandpa's feet. But you guys eat up, enjoy my grandpa's feet.
* Subverted in ''Series/{{Leverage}}''. Parker walks up to a guard and asks, "does this smell like chloroform to you?" before knocking him out with it.
* Creator/GordonRamsay can get a bit colorful when describing one of his chef's badly cooked dishes on ''Series/HellsKitchen''. He at one point describes a soup as tasting like gnat's piss, and also describes a slice of undercooked meat as being "like a bison's penis."
* A contestant on ''Series/{{Chopped}}'', faced with lutefisk as an ingredient, remarked that he'd never even heard of it before, then (after reluctantly tasting it) that it was like biting into an old kitchen sponge. Which, for the record, he denied he'd ever done.
* Averted in ''Series/LostGirl''. Foot soup actually tastes pretty good. So good in fact, Kenzi didn't know it was foot soup until she was told. [[IAteWhat She didn't take it well]].
* Happens with Brody's homemade health tonic in ''Series/ReallyMe''. In a StrangeMindsThinkAlike moment, everybody who tastes it likens its flavour to some type of mythological creature in a bathing facility of some kind; e.g. "a gnome's steam bath" or "a hairy troll's hot tub".
* In ''Series/PartyDown'', Steve Guttenberg tries to teach some of the caterers how to be cultured by giving them fine wine. They give a variety of responses as to what they taste, including "rope" and "dirt." Guttenburg compliments them.
* ''Series/OneTreeHill'' finale: according to Chris, Chase's drink tastes like the devil's ass.

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Sookie and Lorelai just had a rather useless class about opening an inn and they reach a refreshment table, hoping to make up the admission fee in cookies.
-->'''Lorelai''': These better be the best damn cookies in the world.
-->'''Sookie''': [eats one] And they taste like feet.
** In another episode Lorelai and Rory are very hungry, but they refuse to go downstairs because Lorelai says they will end up having to chit-chat with Boston dentist also staying in their B & B and answer boring questions about life in Stars Hollow. Lorelai finds fuzzy certs in her purse. After eating it, she says it tasted like keys.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'':
** After drinking the coffee in the cafeteria, Jane tells Stanley he should take his dirty socks out of the coffee maker.
** In "Love the Way You Lie", Frankie complains that a health drink tastes like "Sweat and rotten celery". {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when Frost tells him to stop drinking it, and that he also should stop drinking his own sweat.
* ''Series/ElleryQueen'': In "The Adventure of the Hard-Hearted Huckster", Flannigan complains about the taste of cigar:
-->"You call this a cigar! It tastes like the inside of a lumberjack's boot!"
* [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Obligatory...]] Buffy is downing straight alcohol in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E5LifeSerial}} Life Serial]]" to [[DrowningMySorrows drown her sorrows.]] However, she is not a drinker, [[GargleBlaster and she's downing mixer drinks straight,]] so to her and even to most seasoned drinkers it would taste like feet.
* ''Series/DeadGorgeous'' contains this exchange:
-->"This porridge tastes like cardboard."
-->"You've eaten cardboard?"
* ''Series/{{Hustle}}'': In "Eat Yourself Slender", a mark (being rude to a waitress as the marks always are) complains that his beer tastes like "warm monkey spit".
* Played with on ''Series/HomeImprovement''. Randy's having a birthday party and the pretty girl slips on the dance floor that Tim overwaxed, twisting her ankle. Not have a bag of ice, apparently, Tim soaks her foot in the bowl of punch to keep down swelling. When her father arrives to pick her up and helps himself to the punch, he comments on its good taste. When told his daughter "helped make it", he says it tastes like she had a hand in it.
* ''Series/DeathInParadise'':
** In "Predicting Murder", Inspector Poole comments that a local cocktail consisted of nothing but rum, lime, and ice, but somehow tasted like paint stripper.
** Poole's fever-induced description of Camille's mother's chicken soup in "An Unhelpful Aid" is colourful, if less than flattering.
* According to Annie in ''Series/{{Copper}}'', London's finest Earl Grey "tastes like an iron fence."
* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'':
--> '''Jayne (on entering the ship's dining area'''): It smells like crotch.
--> '''Simon''': Could you ''not'' do that? Like, ''ever?''
* ''Series/{{GOOD EATS}}'': Fish sauce is used to add the flavour of "cat food and athletic sock...but in a good way".
* In one episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Charlie improvised a song when trying to get a kid to hurry up and finish his dinner: "I like corn, it tastes real neat. I don't like peas, they taste like feet."
* ''Series/CanadasWorstDriver'': During Season 5's DrivingStick challenge, Jacob comments that the smoke coming out of the car "smells like burning babies". (It was actually the smell of a destroyed gearbox ... or, as Andrew put it, "the smell of burning money".)