- Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire has an odd case, combined with Alien Lunch. Poiled slurgs are perfectly edible by hominid, carbon-based life forms, so they are food, even when they're steamed in wixxel grease — typically used as an oven cleaner. They just require a lot of antacid.
Haven't read the comic, and am not about to read the entire thing just to find this bit, but isn't this just Alien Lunch?
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Those westerners curious as to what we eat that other cultures find gross and bizarre can check out this reddit thread of mine: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/game7o/people_not_from_the_western_world_whats_something/
I found that the most common answers were PB&Js, which are actually seen as a very bizarre combination, the Monte Cristo sandwitch (a deep fried ham&cheese sandwitch covered in powdere sugar and which you dip into rasberry jam), and all those weird deep fried foods one normally only finds at the county fair. Also turns out that some parts of China are so rural that the people there have never heard of freaking bread or dairy, which humans have been eating for tens of thousands of years!
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- Overlapping with Alien Lunch is Daniel Jackson's first encounter with Abydos cuisine in the Stargate movie - which is a lovingly prepared roasted desert lizard. After an experimental bite, he decides that it Tastes Like Chicken, which he attempts (with limited success) to communicate to his hosts.
This trope can't "overlap with Alien Lunch": since it's a meal from another planet, it's Alien Lunch (and the example is already on that page).
Think we can make a special exception to No Real Life Examples Please for Vegemite? Us Australians practically revel in the fact that everyone else finds it practically inedible!
Edited by ArcaneAzmadi Always expect the worst and you can only be pleasantly surprised.
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I think we should have real life examples, but simply not say if it looks bad or not.
I mean simply saying its foreign food is enough for it to be a real life example no?
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No, because this trope is about quirky, often disgusting-looking food.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
No, it's huitlacoche.
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I'm adding Everything - From a Certain Point of View tommorow. Reply if you think this is a bad idea.
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That's a good question. I mean, what the heck is the point of the page if there's no section on real food?
I guess they were afraid of offending someone's national cuisine (yes, I just replied to my own comment).
Mostly due to the overload of marginally related troper tales. Restored from archives but Real life is in desperate need of editing to get rid of the natter. May need its own subpage as it would still be long and would allow for better organization.
It seems to me that many of the entries are just Stock "Yuck!", with no actual foreignness involved. I may go through them and do a thorough clean-up.