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* ''Film/ClerksII'': "Yo, this taste like piss and flies, don't it?"

->''"It tastes exactly like licking a shag carpet!"''
-->-- '''Harris K. Telemacher,''' ''Film/LAStory''

--->'''James''': "It has a hint of...[[OohMeAccentsSlipping how you say]]...jet fuel. With ze aftertaste of burning tortoise. And for some reason, I can't swallow it."

-->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!

-->'''Cassidy''': "That stuff they make from bacon grease? It tastes like fucking semen!"\\

-->'''Jon:''' Irma, Is this tea or coffee?\\

-->'''Pierce:''' When I burp, it tastes exactly like caterpillars.\\

-->What touched my palette was a taste that I could only describe as being similar to that of beetroot covered in earwax, with chunks of tarmac thrown in for good measure. With a scrunched up face, I struggled to swallow the concoction down – my throat seemed to be trying its best to utterly reject the whatever-it-was that I knew I had to digest.

-->Joan stroked her dog behind the ear and asked if there was any water available.\\

-->"Oh, man, it smells like the locker room at Flight Camp," Rainbow Dash said. "You never forget that smell, no matter how hard you try..."\\

--->'''Snape:''' Just sip this, Headmaster. You'll be fine in a moment.\\

--->''"How does Ronnie Ron taste, master?" Harry spat out an eyeball. "Like some kid with eyes."''

-->'''Sirius:''' Bloody hell! It tastes like Snivellus's shorts.\\

--->'''Harry:''' What was in that Madame Pomfrey? It tastes like Dudley's used gym socks mixed with cauldron sludge!

-->'''Malon''': I've seen what alcohol did to my father after my mother died. I've seen what it does to Ingo. I'd rather not go down that path if I can help it. (''beat'') That, and I think it tastes like horse piss.\\

-->'''Luna:''' I'm surprised you'd know what that tastes like, Celestia.\\

'''Luna:''' ''[eyes widen]''\\

-->'''Syrus:''' How was it?\\

-->'''Ladybug:''' This tastes just like crap.\\

* ''Film/ClerksII'': "Hey Silent Bob, does this shit taste like piss and flies to you too?" Subverted, in that their burger actually ''is'' covered in urine and dead flies, [[note]] Randall prepares it for a customer that he hates, but the guy decides to give it to Jay and Silent Bob.[[/note]] though neither of them is aware of that.

--> '''Lt. Pascal:''' Jesus, Buckman, this stuff's been on the Stingray since Korea! This can expired in 1966!
--> '''Buckman:''' (Dipping his finger into the mysterious substance and tasting it) What's the matter, sir? It still tastes like creamed corn.
--> '''Pascal:''' Except, it's DEVILED HAM!

-->What was that maniac drinking? Tastes like the Volga River at low tide.

-->"Who would slow-roast a dog's ass over a fire and serve it to their husband?"

-->'''Earl:''' Ugh. This tastes like toilet paper!\\

-->But this - this was new low. He looked at the crudely printed label on the bottle in his hand. "Beetle Beer" it proclaimed. Fair enough, he thought, I can believe that.

-->'''Edgar''': This Church of Nature tea tastes like piss water.\\

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

--->'''Fred:''' ...Just...trying to defuse the tension.

-->And what a civilization is the Greeks. They gave us science, democracy, and little cubes of meat that taste like sweat!

--->"Oh, really Dad, it tastes like you beat a skunk to death with a salmon!"

-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' You can't drink the water here. Josie's pipes have issues.\\

'''Karen Page:''' ''[laughs]'' Oh, ew, ew!\\

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

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

-->'''Mason''': This juice tastes like ass! Here, you try it!\\

-->"You call this a cigar! It tastes like the inside of a lumberjack's boot!"

* 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.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': While drinking [[BadToTheLastDrop bad coffee]] in "Down Among the Dead Men", Barnaby wonders if he is drinking coffee or silt.

* Some of Creator/BDylanHollis' reactions to the really bad dishes he makes in his videos come in this manner.
** The "war cake" from 1939:
--->It tastes like a boot! Like a size 10 boot!
** The soured raisin pie from 1943:
--->Tastes like a shower drain...or a bunion.
** The"water pie" from 1929:
--->It tastes like lint! Soggy lint!
** The Spam pie from 1969:
--->Noooo! [[PrecisionFStrike Goddamn]]...this is severe. Tastes like an IHOP kitchen floor.
** Tomato aspic:
--->It tastes like somebody killed Italy!

->''"The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease."''
-->-- ''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"]]

** ''Fanfic/ThirtyHs'':
--->''"How does Ronnie Ron taste, master?" Harry spat out an eyeball. "Like some kid with eyes."''

* The Mutilation Ball episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'' had this trope when the janitor gives Thrasher and Blastus a performance-enhancing serum that "tastes like gasoline and feet" and comes from a pipe down by the playground.
* A RunningGag on ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' (Each one [[ItMakesSenseInContext makes sense in context]]):

Contrast with TastesLikeChicken. Not to be confused with an instance of someone [[ImAHumanitarian actually tasting a foot]]. Or [[FeeFiFauxPas metaphorically tasting their foot]]. If someone is ''really'' eating a foot, then the trope might be IAteWhat, with a side order of AgonyOfTheFeet for the person getting their feet eaten.

* According to ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'', green peppers taste like crotch.

* In the "Australian Table Wine" sketch on the Creator/MontyPython album ''Monty Python's Previous Record'', Creator/EricIdle describes an Australian wine, ''Nuits St Wogga Wogga'', as "having a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit".

* Played for laughs in ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'': at one point two soldiers are eating the camp's food and one of them compares its taste to boiled truck tires. His colleague wholeheartedly agrees... and not only keeps eating with gusto but also asks if he can finish his part too. Turns out he likes boiled truck tires.

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* In an early episode the Swedish children series ''Pip-Larssons: Kastrullresan'', the titular Larsson family had cabbage soup (consisting of ''nothing'' but cabbage) for dinner, not because they wanted to, but because they couldn't afford anything else. While they were eating, the husband tried to placate his upset wife (since it was his fault they had no money) by saying that the soup tasted really good, whereupon one of the youngest children deadpanned that it tasted like sock.

* 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):

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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': Gobo teams up with Cotterpin to find the Cavern of Lost Dreams, the original city of the Doozers, who used mushrooms as their building material. The Cavern is composed of a network of firm, brick-like columns, arches, and walls, in contrast to the more streamlined, modernist Doozer towers, but Gobo figures that if Doozers made them, Fraggles can eat them. [[InstantlyProvenWrong He soon finds out otherwise.]]
-->'''Gobo:''' Yuck! They taste like moldy old mushrooms. Horrible!
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* In ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'', while reflecting on all the weird hobbies she and Adam have tried, many of which didn't pan out, Barbara says that their homemade kambucha "tasted like armpits". This is followed by Adam noting "We are not kambucha people; we did find that out," which could be interpreted two ways--either they're not capable of making it properly, or they discovered that they hate it in general and that, as far as they're concerned, ''all'' kambucha tastes like armpits.

* ''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.

* According to Annie in ''Series/{{Copper}}'', London's finest Earl Grey "tastes like an iron fence."

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In “The Funkmeister,” Mittens says French cheese smells like feet.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': According to Rick Castle, [[BadToTheLastDrop the coffee at NYPD]] tastes like a monkey peed in battery acid.

Contrast with TastesLikeChicken. Not to be confused with an instance of someone [[IKissYourFoot actually tasting a foot]]. Or [[FeeFiFauxPas metaphorically tasting their foot]]. If someone is ''really'' eating a foot, then the trope might be IAteWhat, with a side order of AgonyOfTheFeet for the person getting their feet eaten.

* 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''.

** And, according to Pierce, if you dip Salisbury steak in pudding it tastes just like squirrel.
* Played for laughs in ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'': at one point two soldiers are eating the camp's food and one of them compares its taste to boiled truck tires: his colleague wholeheartedly agrees... and not only keeps eating with gusto but also asks if he can finish his part too. Turns out he likes boiled truck tires.

* ''Series/BarneyMiller'': Subverted in episode "[[Recap/BarneyMillerS2E11 Rain]]". Harris drinks the BadToTheLastDrop coffee, grimaces, and says "Tastes like a roof." It does taste like a roof, because Yemana used water leaking from the ceiling.

-->And what a civilization is the Greeks. They gave us science, democracy, and ''little cubes of meat that taste like sweat!''

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': The shepherd's pie/trifle incident. Though it's almost definitely just a joke, with no intention of any sort of ContinuityNod whatsoever, there is an earlier episode where Rachel implies she likes having her toes sucked, and Ross and Rachel were together for a while.

** ''Friends'' used this joke on another occasion. Monica was experimenting with mockolate (mock chocolate) and made mockolate chip cookies. Phoebe says "This is what EVIL must taste like!" The line was originally "These must be the cookies they serve in hell!", but Lisa Kudrow couldn't get through the line without laughing.

** 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.

** While possibly being hyperbolic in the above example, House in one episode determined a patient was diabetic by [[{{Squick}} tasting her urine]] and declaring that it tasted sweeter than normal urine. (Incidentally, this was the standard way of diagnosing diabetes before modern testing procedures were invented; the full name of diabetes is ''diabetes mellitus'', which means, more or less "honey-tasting urine.")

* Related joke: In one episode of ''Series/NightCourt'', Bull is struck by lightning. Art speculates that it must have been like French-kissing a light socket. Bull, trying to be helpful, replies, "No, that feels different."

The name comes from the episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' where Rachel accidentally combines an English Trifle and a Shepherd's Pie, making the world's first (and hopefully last) Shepherd's Trifle. Meat, onions, whipped cream and jam? And how ''would'' Ross know what feet taste like? A sister trope to LethalChef.

** And inverted every time Ax morphs into his human form, as he truly enjoys such things as motor oil and cigarette butts.

* "Jus de chaussette" or "Sock juice" is what French used to describe [[BadToTheLastDrop bad coffee]], thanks to French soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War made their coffee by boiling the crushed beans in a bucket or a tub, then filtering it through their socks.

* In the ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' fanfic ''Fanfic/PeaceForgedInFire'' tr'Khev describes the ale at the Klingon bar where he meets Morgan as tasting "like a mugato peed in battery acid."

Contrast with TastesLikeChicken. Not to be confused with an instance of someone [[IKissYourFoot actually tasting a foot]]. Or [[FeeFiFauxPas metaphorically tasting their foot]]. If someone is ''really'' eating a foot, then the trope might be IAteWhat.

* Cilantro (''coriander leaves'' to people outside the USA). Some people of Northern European descent have a variation to the genes that control their olfactory receptors, which causes it to taste very different than it does to people without the variation. The taste is commonly described as "soapy" or metallic.

* Tristan says this in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' when eating hospital food. His brother thinks he's exaggerating but then tries the food and immediately agrees.

* 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 world's nicest handful of gravel! Justified as Ossett used to be a spa in the late 19th - early 20th century .

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':