# Dishes made with Anger **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [April 4, 2026, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017 "2026-04-04T04:55:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/21 "2026-04-04T15:33:34Z")
If you want to punch something repeatedly, just make a loaf of bread and knead it by hand. After ten minutes of that, you’ll be too tired to be angry. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/22 "2026-04-04T15:41:15Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > I’ve never made that particular recipe, but it seems pretty much like a variation on a shoo-fly pie, which I have had and liked. I suppose you could tone down the intensity if you aren’t that angry. I’ve never had shoo-fly pie, but I recognized the similarities in the recipes. It also reminded me of a nutless pecan pie recipe with extra stuff thrown in. I think it was the cinnamon that ruined it. Or maybe the molasses. Those two flavors didn’t play well together with chocolate on top of everything. I like all the flavors individually, but not in a hodgepodge. It was just too much. And I guess I haven’t been angry enough to make a pie like that again! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/23 "2026-04-04T16:15:28Z")
It sounds waaaaay too sweet for me! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/24 "2026-04-04T16:26:01Z")
I didn’t know the [Weekly World News columnist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Anger) did a cookbook! He must have been madder than microwave user at an Iron Chef competition. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/25 "2026-04-04T16:30:25Z")
Not so much a dish as a cup of coffee… I’m sure there was anger in Jodie Foster’s mind when slipping cyanide into creepy Martin Sheen’s coffee in _The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane_. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/26 "2026-04-04T16:39:43Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > It sounds waaaaay too sweet for me! It was for me, too. What made me angry was I had made it to bring as dessert for a very special dinner made by the most accomplished home cook I know, and I wanted it to be really memorable! It was… but not for reasons I’d hoped. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/27 "2026-04-04T22:51:37Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Are these dishes best served cold? (or is that just revenge?) _Silly aside: I’ve always hated that expression. Do the Klingons really strike you as those who have the patience for such an approach?_ ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/28 "2026-04-05T00:55:19Z")
New England Boiled Dinner seems like who ever created it was either mad at the ingredients, the people eating it, or both. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/29 "2026-04-05T01:17:13Z")
here is one “angry” dish: Nashville hot chicken originated in the 1930s in **Nashville, Tennessee** , born from a revenge plot by the girlfriend of Thornton Prince, a notorious womanizer. She doused his fried chicken in cayenne pepper to teach him a lesson, but he loved it, leading to the creation of what is now ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/30 "2026-04-05T02:50:25Z")
The special meals Jane served to Blanche in **Whatever Happened to Baby Jane**. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/31 "2026-04-05T03:22:17Z")
And then whip the cream! Whip it good!! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/32 "2026-04-05T04:50:05Z")
Hey, hey, hey. This thread’s for dishes made with anger, not kink. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/33 "2026-04-05T08:56:41Z")
In **Theater of Blood** , Vincent Price makes a really nice soufflé. From Robert Morley’s poodles. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/34 "2026-04-05T09:16:18Z")
[_Eating Raoul_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_Raoul)! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/35 "2026-04-05T12:15:22Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Beat those eggs, and keep beating them… Beat ‘em like they owe you money. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/36 "2026-04-05T13:52:53Z")
You know it’s actually an old French saying, right? The fact that it’s a food simile is a good hint. The Kilngon thing was a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Meatwater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meatwater/32/20074_2.png) [@Meatwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatwater)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/37 "2026-04-05T15:02:24Z")
Anything you get from Waffle House. Always made with contempt and tobacco ash. When you pull in the parking lot and see your cook crouched by the entrance with a cigarette in his mouth followed by him putting it out with a audible sigh as he heads in, you know the food gonna be good. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/38 "2026-04-05T17:20:25Z")
Assassin’s spaghetti: > **[Spaghetti all'assassina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_all'assassina)** > > Spaghetti all'assassina (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Italian: \[spaˈɡetti allassasˈsiːna\]; lit. 'assassin's manner spaghetti'), also known as spaghetti bruciati (Italian: \[spaˈɡetti bruˈtʃaːti\]; lit. 'burnt spaghetti'), is a pasta dish. Instead of being boiled in salted water and finished in sauce, the spaghetti is cooked direc... ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/39 "2026-04-05T19:29:55Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Vincent Price makes a really nice soufflé. From Robert Morley’s poodles. He was just riffing on _Titus Andronicus_, Act 5, Scene 3. But I would doubt that a meat pie made from the flesh of the last two sons of the Empress, served to her and the Emperor, would taste better for the rage behind its preparation. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017/40 "2026-04-05T20:30:08Z")
After a little research, it seems it wasn’t a soufflé, just a meat pie. With little doggie heads poking up out of it. Coincidentally, “Poodle Soufflé,” is the current working name for the hoary old “drying out the wet dog in the microwave by a space cadet” wives’ tale, at least according to Google. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishes-made-with-anger/1029017.md?page=3)