# 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:** 6
**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 12, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/101 "2015-05-12T03:18:35Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > You can buy bull penises as dog treats. Really. The package says “beef pizzles” but I know what they’re talking about. > > :rolleyes: The brand my sister buys is called “bully sticks”. It’s a dried bull penis. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/102 "2015-05-12T03:35:18Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Anything with “froth” on it. And it looks awful, too. Like someone spit on your food. “Fusion cuisine” weirds me out too. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/103 "2015-05-12T04:05:58Z")
Rapeseed oil. They had to rename it Canola oil. [But there are still holdouts.](http://static.theglobeandmail.ca/99d/news/national/article24058138.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/TIS101_Sask_Rape_Slogan_20150421.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/104 "2015-05-12T06:16:08Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Grits. I can’t help feeling that grits must be gritty in texture; but if I’m right, aren’t they basically like porridge? ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/105 "2015-05-12T07:05:44Z")
> [@Sangahyando](#): > > I can’t help feeling that grits must be gritty in texture; but if I’m right, aren’t they basically like porridge? More like polenta. ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/106 "2015-05-12T07:24:25Z")
Kumquats Mullet Pork skins ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/107 "2015-05-12T08:56:08Z")
According to Wikipedia, the **[crappie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crappie)** is supposed to be among the best-tasting freshwater fish, though you’d never guess this if all you had to go on was the name. Ditto for the **[slimehead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slimehead)** and **[toothfish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissostichus)**, popular food fishes more commonly sold under the names “orange roughy” and “Chilean sea bass”, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![Callysta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Callysta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Callysta)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/108 "2015-05-12T12:39:22Z")
Pu Pu Platter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu\_pu\_platte](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_pu_platte) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/109 "2015-05-12T13:33:20Z")
_Kreplach_ and for that matter pretty much any other Jewish food. I never ate a _kishka_ as a kid but I sure remember freezing mine off. How can anything a yummy as _rugelach_be so unpleasant to the ears? No offense to our Jewish Dopers (I \*am \*one ) but Yiddish is not the prettiest of languages. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/110 "2015-05-12T15:45:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rapeseed oil. They had to rename it Canola oil. Well, yes, but there’s a little more to it. Canola is actually a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred for its low erucic acid and glucosinolate content. Rapeseed oil was banned from the US for human consumption by the FDA in 1956. The Canadians developed canola in 1974 (that’s where the “can” in canola comes from) and renamed to “canola” for marketing purposes to distinguish it from “rapeseed oil,” and both the negative associations with rapeseed oil itself, as well as the root word “rape.” ---
**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 12, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/111 "2015-05-12T16:28:46Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > According to Wikipedia, the **[crappie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crappie)** is supposed to be among the best-tasting freshwater fish, though you’d never guess this if all you had to go on was the name. > > Ditto for the **[slimehead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slimehead)** and **[toothfish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissostichus)**, popular food fishes more commonly sold under the names “orange roughy” and “Chilean sea bass”, respectively. Well, in the case of crappie, it’s pronounced _croppy_. There was a disconnect for me the first time that I ever saw it in print. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/112 "2015-05-12T16:37:04Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Well, in the case of crappie, it’s pronounced _croppy_. There was a disconnect for me the first time that I ever saw it in print. Merriam-Webster agrees with you, but the Oxford English Dictionary says it’s pronounced the same as “crappy” (and marks it as an Americanism, so this isn’t an American vs. British thing). ---
**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 12, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/113 "2015-05-12T16:51:44Z")
I used to fish for and eat crappie (it’s delicious) and always pronounced it croppy. This was in East Texas, and everyone I knew pronounced it that way. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/114 "2015-05-12T18:04:26Z")
Crappies are great eating indeed. Small, but so tasty. They are fun to fish for, too. They give you a good fight but aren’t too strong for a youngster to handle. I grew up fishing for them along the MN-Canada border. I learned there that the name ‘crappie’ is an Americanization of the French name for the fish - Crapet or Crapet-Soleil. Since the French pronunciation would be crop-PAY, the Americanization is CROPee. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/115 "2015-05-12T18:27:29Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > I used to fish for and eat crappie (it’s delicious) and always pronounced it croppy. This was in East Texas, and everyone I knew pronounced it that way. Yep, “croppie” here in Illinois and the general Midwest is the only way I’ve heard it. Though it does appear to be [a matter of some regional debate.](http://www.crappie.com/crappie/main-crappie-fishing-forum/79775-word-crappie/) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/116 "2015-05-13T18:44:54Z")
When I used to travel in asia for work I would often come across either items that did not sound good to me, or that their translations were completely literal. “What’s in the Fat of Snow Toad Soup?” “The belly fat of the toad is cut off and boiled until it makes a soup” Other great items: Jelly Nest with Silver Fungus Hog Anus Soup I forget the name but the yakitori fried chicken anuses Birds nest soup (even more odd I found it canned!) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/117 "2015-05-13T19:04:26Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > “What’s in the Fat of Snow Toad Soup?” > “The belly fat of the toad is cut off and boiled until it makes a soup” Skimming over this I thought for a minute I was in the “Great songs with terrible lyrics” thread. ---
**Author:** ![LouLou7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@LouLou7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouLou7)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/118 "2015-05-13T23:30:54Z")
Buckeyes. OMG, can you imagine eating the eyeballs of a deer? ICK!!! 😛 ---
**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 14, 2015, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/119 "2015-05-14T04:37:50Z")
"Oh, Mr. Sanford, I am so happy–you like the fish eyes! " ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600/120 "2015-05-14T06:09:22Z")
A Japanese rice bowl with chicken and eggs is called “oyakodon” which would literally translate as “parent and child rice bowl.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-with-the-most-unappetizing-names/719600.md?page=7)