# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/41 "2015-05-09T18:17:35Z")
Not a food, exactly (although I had an uncle who treated it as such), but one of my favorite names was a now defunct St Louis product with the delightful name of “Griesedieck Brothers Beer”. Generates quite a mental image. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/42 "2015-05-09T19:26:49Z")
The common (and delicious) Chinese dish “fish-flavored eggplant”. The “fish flavor” doesn’t actually refer to fish, but rather to a sweet-and-sour sauce traditionally paired with fish. Still, I always do a little double take when ordering it. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/43 "2015-05-09T19:43:26Z")
My friend’s Chinese restaurant used to have “fish flavored chicken” and it used fish sauce in its cooking. Now it’s “Yuei shan chicken” and sells better. I’m sure I mangled the spelling. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/44 "2015-05-09T19:48:10Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Have you tried it? Yes. I had to force myself to swallow one small bite. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/45 "2015-05-09T19:55:31Z")
On the flip side of the coin, “virgin boy eggs” is a name that’s slightly _less_ unappetizing than describing [what it actually is.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_boy_egg) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/46 "2015-05-09T20:30:02Z")
I won’t be having the pupu platter. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/47 "2015-05-09T21:07:05Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Bitter melon […] Bitter melon? I take that in pill form, as directed by my doctor. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/48 "2015-05-09T21:23:23Z")
Dirty Rice (a delicious Cajun dish) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/49 "2015-05-09T21:48:13Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > 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 I like eels Except as meals And the way they feels –Ogden Nash I’ve had eel. It’s just a long, skinny fish. :dubious: Spotted dick is good, too; it’s a British dessert. For me, it’s anything with the word “jerk” in it. That word has too many negative connotations to represent something appetizing MHO. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/50 "2015-05-09T22:55:32Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > For me, it’s anything with the word “jerk” in it. That word has too many negative connotations to represent something appetizing MHO. Oh that’s a good one. “Jerk chicken?” No thanks, let him jerk himself. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/51 "2015-05-09T23:17:42Z")
Fried calamari is actually pretty good-which is to say, its good for dipping into marinara sauce (or tartar sauce). As seafood goes, it’s pretty tasteless. When i was a kid, it was sold as lobster trap bait-nobody ate it. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/52 "2015-05-09T23:41:05Z")
All the ones I was going to post have been taken. So I’ll just add this: _“Spotted Dick? That’s not a dessert, it’s a loathsome disease!”_ ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/53 "2015-05-10T02:07:54Z")
> [@Kiyoshi](#): > > Spray cheese. The stuff doesn’t really come out of the can as a spray, like deodorant or hair spray. Might I suggest “squirt cheese” as a more appetizing moniker? ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/54 "2015-05-10T02:16:04Z")
Walleye, even though there is nothing wrong with the fish itself (it’s a pretty standard white fish for fillets) but the name puts me completely off. I just don’t think the name of a food should be the same as the name of a medical condition. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/55 "2015-05-10T03:13:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > On the flip side of the coin, “virgin boy eggs” is a name that’s slightly _less_ unappetizing than describing [what it actually is.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_boy_egg) Good lord, that is up there with maggot cheese for worst food ideas in human history. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/56 "2015-05-10T03:58:26Z")
Anything with “froth” on it. And it looks awful, too. Like someone spit on your food. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/57 "2015-05-10T04:16:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > On the flip side of the coin, “virgin boy eggs” is a name that’s slightly _less_ unappetizing than describing [what it actually is.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_boy_egg) You have wonder what kind of weirdo would think of something like this. And it’s funny that we have a poster named “Mangetout” (“eats everything”) in this thread. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/58 "2015-05-10T04:58:35Z")
Gefilte fish? ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/59 "2015-05-10T05:31:26Z")
Aspic ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/60 "2015-05-10T06:02:58Z")
> [@Daylate](#): > > Not a food, exactly (although I had an uncle who treated it as such), but one of my favorite names was a now defunct St Louis product with the delightful name of “Griesedieck Brothers Beer”. Generates quite a mental image. They’re back since 2002, unless that has changed since. There is also [Aass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aass_Brewery) beer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600.md?page=4)