# Unappetizing food names!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782 "2000-05-17T19:01:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**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 24, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782/61 "2000-05-24T19:43:12Z")
In the early 1980s, _Games_ Magazine ran a short item on Japanese processed foods and the (not so successful) efforts to give them appropriate names. _Crunky_–a choclate bar like Nestle’s Crunch. _Quick Quench_–a brand of lemon drops. _Creap_–a non-dairy coffee creamer and last–and worst– _Pocari Sweat_–a powdered drink mix, a Japanese counterpart, apparently, of Gatorade. (Which itself sounds unappetizing–I prefer lemonade, made with lemons, or orangeade, made with oranges!!) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Brunetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Brunetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunetter)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782/62 "2000-05-24T21:13:29Z")
Seems like my main memory of childhood is being forced to eat my parents’ slumgullion - recipe follows: Grab everything in the fridge. Put it in a frying pan. Make it hot, then eat it. Sample slumgullions include: Kraft dinner, hamburger helper, corn, beans (all reheated). Apparently, this is still legal under current child abuse laws. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782/63 "2001-08-22T21:33:18Z")
That line about Tomato Aspic broke me up!!! :D:D I forgot to include one item our parents introduced us to: Potatoes Au Gratin. As an English-speaking family from Indiana we would never give this term its French pronunciation (compare the Indiana pronunciation of “Terre Haute”), but our parents pronounced it “aw GROT-ten,” and my brother and sister and I pronounced it “ogg rotten.” Still we ate it. Dirty rice, squid, scrod, tomato aspic, potatoes ogg rotten…anybody want this tuna sandwich? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782/64 "2001-08-22T21:39:01Z")
Anything at all that is described as being _encrusted_ When I worked as a waiter they would have something like almond _encrusted_ tuna and I would cringe everytime I had to say it. YUCK ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782/65 "2001-08-22T22:11:03Z")
Toad in the Hole Cock-a-leeky soup ---
**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:** [August 22, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782/66 "2001-08-22T22:22:25Z")
Bubble and squeak ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782/67 "2001-08-22T22:38:56Z")
“Monkey butthole surprise” OK. I made that up. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782/68 "2001-08-22T23:20:30Z")
**Kumquats** (The smallest citrus fruit. The name sounds like a calisthenic that females perform after sex to prevent pregnancy.) **Pickled Beaver** (An Inuit delicacy, I hear. Last year, an entire extended family was nearly wiped out because they all ate some spoiled Pickled Beaver.) **Churros** (A long, skinny Mexican pastry. I’m not sure if the name reminds me of a male “coochie coochie” dancer, or a Mandarin burro.) **Liverwurst** (Anything that’s “wurst” automatically sounds unappealing, but liver makes it sound doubly gross. It’s a pork liver and chicken liver pate, really, and quite delicious on white toast with some sliced onions.) **Chitterlings** (pronounced “CHIT-lins,” and they are pigs intestines… one of the few foods that is more disgusting than the name sounds.) **Chupachups** (Mexican lollipops. The name roughly translates to “sucky-sucks.” But I’m always reminded of a Brazilian she-male porn video I was once subjected to, in which during the foreplay scenes, those on the receiving end were always saying “chupa, chupa” over and over again.) And it’s “ **Pu Pu Platter** ,” an assortment of meat-based appetizers and a little sterno hibachi to sizzle them over. And I haven’t seen one in decades… apparently they’re only common in the Northeast US. Great treat for kids… it’s bite sized food, they get to play with fire, and they will be entertained to no end by the name. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782/69 "2001-08-22T23:38:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Last year, an entire extended family was nearly wiped out because they all ate some spoiled Pickled Beaver I know it’s bad form to quote to your own post – but I just found a [cite](http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut010131/nvt10126_23.html) on the beaver, and it’s even worse than that: It’s called **Stinky Beaver**. And they ate it anyway. Can you imagine the headlines? “Stinky Beaver Kills 13” [sub]I guess Dad was right after all![/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unappetizing-food-names/19782.md?page=3)