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.
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.
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.
Yes. I had to force myself to swallow one small bite.
On the flip side of the coin, “virgin boy eggs” is a name that’s slightly less unappetizing than describing what it actually is.
I won’t be having the pupu platter.
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Bitter melon? I take that in pill form, as directed by my doctor.
Dirty Rice (a delicious Cajun dish)
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.
Oh that’s a good one. “Jerk chicken?” No thanks, let him jerk himself.
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.
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!”
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?
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.
Good lord, that is up there with maggot cheese for worst food ideas in human history.
Anything with “froth” on it. And it looks awful, too. Like someone spit on your food.
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. 
Gefilte fish?
Aspic
They’re back since 2002, unless that has changed since.
There is also Aass beer.