Did aspic get mentioned yet? An actual food with a name even less appetizing than what it really is.
Blancmange.
US-style fish and chips doesn’t usually come with this, and I avoided trying it for a long time. Theoretically, it sounds like something awful: I don’t like peas, and “mushy” is one of the most unappetizing adjectives to pair with it, until they invent human fleshlike peas. But I do enjoy them.
Being American doesn’t help, as I just learned that. It’s a New England thing.
Since they’re talking about common parlance and not scientific categories, does scrod cover “black cod,” aka sablefish, which is not a cod?
Speaking of fish, they found “Patagonian toothfish” hard to sell, until they renamed it “Chilean sea bass.”
The only reason the mention of it doesn’t give me “good username/post combo” comments is that there is nothing hiding in geoduck: all the horrors are exposed on first look. If they look innocent to you, you must’ve seen some horrors in Vietnam or something! 
Well played.
The only reason the mention of it doesn’t give me “good username/post combo” comments is that there is nothing hiding in geoduck: all the horrors are exposed on first look. If they look innocent to you, you must’ve seen some horrors in Vietnam or something! 
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Aaak, you are so right. I meant to convey that the NAME wasn’t too weird looking. The creature itself? Hideous!
Succotash - sounds even worse when you describe the ingredients (to me, anyway).
Or as Jay Pritchett said, “Well it looks like vomit, so I’m not *poutine *it in my mouth.”
Niños envueltos (wrapped kids)
Ropa vieja (old clothes)
Olla podrida (rotten pot)
Ají just reminded me of another one:
Spaghetti alla puttanesca (“spaghetti as if made by a whore”)
Pigeon Pie or meat pie. I saw Sweeny Todd on Broadway at an impressionable age.
From the “See Also” part: cow cod soup. Sounds gross, which means it must be good, right? Rum + banana + hot hot peppers + bull penis. YMMV…
I was just looking up a recipe for Cajun Dirty Rice. The one from Emeril calls for a spice mix called Emeril’s Essence. Sounds like a fart joke. No thanks.
You ain’t seen nothing yet! In French, * essence * means "gasoline. " :eek:
These still haven’t been mentioned (unless I missed them):
Burgoo
Sauerkraut
Liver cheese
Monkey bread
Patagonia Tooth Fish…AKA: Chilean Sea Bass
You been hangin’ out in eastern Kentucky/SE Ohio/West Virginia? 
You can buy bull penises as dog treats. Really. The package says “beef pizzles” but I know what they’re talking about.
:rolleyes:
Grits.
Almost. I lived in Northern Kentucky, traveled all over Ohio, and have a friend who lives in WV.
I thought about putting goetta on the list before deciding the name wasn’t that bad.
Someone on these boards once flipped out about the name “buckeye” for those chocolate and peanut butter balls.