History Main / ItTastesLikeFeet

* In the Creator/DrSeuss book ''Literature/ScrambledEggsSuper'', Peter T. Hooper avoids the eggs of the Twiddler Owls, because, “I new that the eggs of those fellows who twiddle, taste sort of like dust from inside a brass fiddle.” He also avoids the stroodle (who’s “sort of a stork, but with fur like a poodle”), claiming “the yolks of [their] eggs taste like fleece, and the whites taste like very old bicycle grease.”

-->''Their attitudes may taste like shit. But go real good with wine''

* True to his appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', Belome does this after licking people in ''Fanfic/YouGotHaruhiRolled''. Highlights include [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Fujiwara]] tasting like "[[JerkAss burnt asshole]]".

* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' has a subversion. Tony tastes baked beanstalk (no, not baked beans. BEANSTALK). "It tastes like an old mattress!" "No, it doesn't. Old mattresses have a sweaty, meaty taste."

* An [[https://medium.com/@everywhereist/bros-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever-3466c98cdbdf "oyster loaf that tasted like Newark airport"]] - served at a Michelin star restaurant

* In the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''[=/=]''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' crossover ''Fanfic/SOEAmericanDream'', Mari has some Meals Ready to Eat over on the "American Dream". One {{Omake}} showcases a possible scene where some SHIELD maintenance personnel say they loaded up [=MREs=] that were expired by the time of Second Impact on the Dream's galley as payback for Mari kicking their asses during her training.

* In ''[[WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld Stampy's Lovely World]]'', early attempts made by Stampy to bake his own breakfast cake resulted in cakes that tasted like (among other things) dog fur, doorknobs, fish, and soggy newspapers, to the point that it was a RunningGag for 27 episodes in a row.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': The experiment log for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-261 SCP-261]], a vending machine that dispenses strange candy when used, has the test subjects describing the flavors of some of the snacks as such.

* In ''Confessions From the Principal's Chair'', one of Robin's first acts as substitute principal of her new middle school [[ItMakesSenseInContext (it's a long story)]] is breaking up a [[Foodfight spaghetti fight]] between two 1st graders. When she asks them why they're throwing spaghetti at each other, they say that they won't eat it because it "tastes like butt." Cue Robin [[LampshadeHanging asking them how they know what butt tastes like.]]

* 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.

-->'''Karen Page:''' Do you drink wine? ''[catches herself]'' Shit, I know that.\\

Furthermore, someone doesn't have to particularly be turned off completely by certain things to say that something smells or tastes like thing if said thing was not taken care of properly (for instance, those that have foot fetishes might still be turned completely off by unkept feet, in case someone thought foot fetishists would be offended by this trope; they might be just a bit more descriptive).

** Much earlier on, in ''Literature/EqualRites'';

--> Jesus, Buckman, this stuff's been on the Stingray since Korea! This can expired in 1966!//
What's the matter, sir, it still tastes like creamed corn...//
Except, it's DEVILED HAM!

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Grif, while under the effects of a malfunctioning speed unit, mentions that he can smell clouds.

* 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.

* A slight variation from an episode of ''Series/MythBusters'': Kari is working with a pile of some noxious goo, and she comments that it "feels like guts". She then immediately adds "and, ''yes'', I know what guts feel like. I've been working on this show for years."
** Subverted when Kari was filling a Goliath beetle simulaid with yogurt "bug guts": "Yes, I do know what bug guts taste like. Thanks to this show." [[CallBack Cue flashback]] to the "Cold Feet" myth, where she [[ItMakesSenseInContext ate two insects for science]].
** In another episode, Adam was the official guinea pig to test a mouthwash myth. Of course, before testing, he needed to have really bad breath. He described one of the culinary delights offered up to create this as "stinky foot cheese".
*** He was probably talking about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburger_cheese Limburger]], which certainly ''smells'' like feet: it contains literally the same bacteria.

* 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}}'' "

* And fans of Ossett Breweries offerings [[note]] A small but popular brewery in the North of England [[/note]] describe the beer - ''all the beers'' they brew - as having the taste of the worlds nicest handful of gravel! Justified as Ossett used to be a spa in the late 19th - early 20th century

* In the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''[=/=]''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' crossover ''Fanfic/SOEAmericanDream'', Mari has some Meals Ready to Eat over on the "American Dream". One {{Omake}} showcases a possible scene where some SHIELD maintenance personnel say they loaded up [=MREs=] [[UpToEleven that were expired by the time of Second Impact]] on the Dream's galley as payback for Mari kicking their asses during her training.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{What A Cartoon| Show}}'' short ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls in "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins"'', Buttercup complains that Fuzzy's meat jam tastes like dog food.

-->'''George:''' What is this, anyway?
-->'''Jane:''' What's it taste like, George?
-->'''George:''' Well, this coffee tastes like rocket fuel.
-->'''Jane:''' Then it's not coffee. It's tea.

* When Private is accidentally dosed with a TruthSerum in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', he confesses that Skipper's monkfish surprise "tastes like elephant sweat, but everyone pretends they like it to spare Skipper's fragile ego".