# Foods with the most unappetizing names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600 "2015-05-09T03:21:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/21 "2015-05-09T09:23:11Z")
Guacemole Delish, but such an ugly name! ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/22 "2015-05-09T09:54:26Z")
Goulash. Sounds like _ghoul_ash. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/23 "2015-05-09T10:20:14Z")
Pigs-in-a-blanket ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/24 "2015-05-09T10:50:31Z")
Chinese gooseberry. ---
**Author:** ![Kiyoshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kiyoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiyoshi)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/25 "2015-05-09T11:45:23Z")
Spray cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/26 "2015-05-09T11:47:15Z")
Haggis. Gross AND gross sounding. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/27 "2015-05-09T11:59:43Z")
Offal. I guess it sounds marginally better than intestines, but that’s about the only thing it’s got going for it. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/28 "2015-05-09T13:21:11Z")
Strange flavored sauce ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/29 "2015-05-09T13:50:52Z")
Cock a Leekie ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/30 "2015-05-09T14:03:22Z")
Eggplant It’s not egg shaped, it’s not white, it doesn’t even remotely resemble an egg in any way, shape, or form. If you called it, say, a “purple squash”, I’d probably at least try it. But EGGPLANT? Bleh, I’ll just have the water please. ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/31 "2015-05-09T14:20:00Z")
I agree with George Carlin, yogurt! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/32 "2015-05-09T14:28:38Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > As a name, sweetbreads actually do \*sound \*appetizing. It makes you think of something that’s both sweet and a type of bread (e.g., Hawaiian bread or shortbread). Unfortunately, sweetbreads are neither of these. Now, if this thread was about foods with the most **deceptive** names, sweetbreads would win in a walk. A sweetbread is a type of meat That is neither bread nor sweet. So since it’s neither sweet nor bread I think I’ll have a bun instead. –Ogden Nash ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/33 "2015-05-09T14:39:09Z")
[Monkeygland Sauce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_gland_sauce) Head Cheese Thousand-year-old egg ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/34 "2015-05-09T14:41:46Z")
> [@Apocalypso](#): > > Eggplant > It’s not egg shaped, it’s not white That’s racist! But seriously - some cultivars, especially older ones, are white/yellow. Like [these](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant#/media/File:Three_Types_of_Eggplant.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/35 "2015-05-09T14:55:07Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > That’s racist! > > But seriously - some cultivars, especially older ones, are white/yellow. Like [these](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant#/media/File:Three_Types_of_Eggplant.jpg). In addition, Thai and Indian eggplant are egg shaped and roughly somewhere between a chicken and a goose egg in size. The Thai ones are even light in color, about the shade of a white grape. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/36 "2015-05-09T16:50:44Z")
> [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](#): > > Haggis. Gross AND gross sounding. Have you tried it? ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/37 "2015-05-09T16:54:27Z")
We say “calamari” since no one would eat it if you called it “fried squid”. So who decided to keep “pig’s feet” as it is? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/38 "2015-05-09T17:06:51Z")
Cod tongues (a big deal in Newfoundland) Poutine (cause it’s got, you know, pou in it) Scrapple and (I did not know of this variant until just now) Livermush. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/39 "2015-05-09T17:17:31Z")
Gazpacho. Vichyssoise. Too sibilant. > [@eulalia](#): > > Pocari Sweat There’s also anything involving the unfortunately named Calpis. ---
**Author:** ![Teach-me-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Teach-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach-me-not)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/40 "2015-05-09T17:38:24Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Cod tongues (a big deal in Newfoundland) > > Poutine (cause it’s got, you know, pou in it) > > Scrapple and (I did not know of this variant until just now) Livermush. From the [wiki page for poutine](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine): > [@](#): > > In other meanings of _poutine_, the existence of a relation to the English word _pudding_ is uncertain. One of these additional meanings — the one from which the name of the dish with fries is thought to derive — is “unappetizing mixture of various foods, usually leftovers.” 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600.md?page=3)