# Amusing Iron Chef Theme Ingredients **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846 "2001-11-12T02:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/21 "2001-11-13T16:49:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fredge \* > **Use just everyday, common ingredients** You obviously missed the great [**"Big Batlle Leftovers"**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1402270#post1402270) ---
**Author:** ![Fredge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Fredge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fredge)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/22 "2001-11-13T18:39:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Why A Duck \* > > You obviously missed the great [**"Big Batlle Leftovers"**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1402270#post1402270) I surely did. Thanks for the link **Why A Duck**. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/23 "2001-11-13T20:53:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cliffy \* > \*\*Chairman Kaga announced the theme ingredient, rock crab, in english since they were in the U.S. However, Chairman Kaga is Japanese and obviously doesn’t speak a lot of english. He whips off the cover and, in the most dramatic voice he can muster: > > **LOCK CLAB!** > > I laughed so hard I had to concentrate on breathing.\*\* I prefer _Mahn_go myself. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/24 "2001-11-13T23:49:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fredge \* > \*\*Frank’n’beans > Chef Boy-Ar-Dee anything > Bologna > Peanut butter > Kraft Mac-n-cheese (Kraft Dinner) > > What say you Fenris, JavaMaven, et al? \*\* Three things: #1) It’s not keeping in IC tradition to use pre-made meal stuff like Chef Boy-Ar-Dee or Kraft Mac’n’cheese (in other words, franks-n-beans, out! Hot-Dogs, or beans, in). On the other hand nuthin’ wrong with “common” ingredients. 1. The weirdest (and grossest) ingredients were, IMHO: Honorable mention: Morimoto, in his early “Shock value is more important than taste” days made a glop of ketchup, spaghetti, some kind of inappropriate meat (tuna?) and served it on a hot dog bun. Runner Up: Natto (a fermented bean thing. Imagine baked beans covered with marshmallow topping and left to sit out in the sun. I have no idea how it _tastes_, but it looks like Satan’s own Rice Crispy Treats from Hell. First Prize: Soft Roe. From male fish. “Wha?” I thought “Male fish don’t have roe…roe is fish-eggs. Males don’t lay eggs, they have…urk. Fish sperm!” (this was confirmed elsewhere) It looked like blocks of yellowy-grey play-doh and, horror of horrors, one of the Iron Chefs made it into \< gag retch \> Fish Sperm Ice Cream. \< blatent plug \> #3) Ain’t gonna be any more SD Iron Chef without more judges. So pony up folks, if you’re interested, sign up [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=95013&pagenumber=2). I only just won my title as IC and as current SDMB Iron Chef, I say to you “Will my cuisine reign supreme? There’s only one way to know. Be a judge!” current SDMB IC Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Fredge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Fredge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fredge)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/25 "2001-11-14T13:19:50Z")
Just a reminder to Iron Chef fans: [Iron Chef USA](http://www.ironchefusatv.com/) is this Friday on UPN. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > #1) It’s not keeping in IC tradition to use pre-made meal stuff like Chef Boy-Ar-Dee or Kraft Mac’n’cheese (in other words, franks-n-beans, out! Hot-Dogs, or beans, in). On the other hand nuthin’ wrong with “common” ingredients. I was envisioning the use of pre-made meal stuff to build a bigger item. Not just a bowl of Man’n’cheese, but what can be blended with the mac’n’cheese to create something that transcends mac’n’cheese. Oh well - just a thought. > [@](#): > > #3) Ain’t gonna be any more SD Iron Chef without more judges. So pony up folks, if you’re interested, sign up [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=95013&pagenumber=2). I only just won my title as IC and as current SDMB Iron Chef, I say to you “Will my cuisine reign supreme? There’s only one way to know. Be a judge!” I’m willing to offer my opinions, but as I said above, I’m not much use when things like truffles or foia gras or caviar are used. ---
**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/26 "2001-11-14T17:26:13Z")
I’d really like to see the Vegemite battle someone mentioned. Gah! Every time we watch the show my husband and I dream up battles with ingredients the chefs and judges don’t know, like moose or cactus. That would be fun. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/27 "2001-11-14T17:41:48Z")
Hog jowls. Nutella. Pickled pig’s feet. Whatever the brand name is of the hottest hot pepper-based sauce ever created (I’d search for it, but I’m lazy.) Ouzo. Moonshine. Elementary school cafeteria mystery meat. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/28 "2001-11-14T18:19:52Z")
You all have seen [this](http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2000/08/31/bolling/index.html), right? ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/29 "2001-11-15T01:32:53Z")
I’ve been threatening to inflict my own private version of an Iron Chef Battle **Spam** on some of my wife’s friends for a while now. Personally, I’m kind of intrigued by the prospect of trying to make a viable dessert out of the stuff… ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/30 "2001-11-15T01:37:38Z")
**Blarg** beat me to it - I missed Spam on my initial reading of the thread. Sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846/31 "2001-11-15T05:34:06Z")
Children would be very intersting. The monkey brains would be cool but the monkeys start the show alive and the IC has to subdue them. Why not dog? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-iron-chef-theme-ingredients/92846.md?page=1)