Wikipedia:Unusual articles/Food

Food[edit]

Think this Chinese character is threatening? You'll need to write it twice to describe your favorite Shaanxi noodles.

Engastration – here in the form of turducken.

Alcohol-infused whipped cream	Do you like to squirt whipped cream right into your mouth from the bottle? This should spice that right up.
Among Us chicken nugget	A Chicken McNugget resembling a video game character which sold for almost US$100,000 on eBay.
Ant egg soup	A nostalgic soup with a "distinctive, sour pop".
Ayds	Ayds was a great way to lose weight, until the mid-1980s...
Bacon Explosion	Not as dangerous as it sounds.
Bacon ice cream	They said we were mad... they said we could never combine the world's two greatest foods. They were wrong!
Banana production in Iceland	Weirder than fermented shark?
Biangbiang noodles	A type of Chinese noodle whose name is written with an incredibly complex Chinese character.
Boneless Fish	A frozen fish scaled, gutted and deboned, then glued to its original shape using a food-grade enzyme.
British Rail sandwich	A culinary match to the quality of the train service.
Carmine	A common food dye manufactured from insects.
Casu martzu	Italian "maggot cheese" – cheese designed to be eaten while it is infested with cheese fly larvae.
Century egg	A Chinese dish which involves preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg for several weeks to several months before eating.
Chả rươi	Vietnamese dish made from the polychaete worm.
Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats	Possibly the most racist snack ever.
Chubby bunny	A common (but sometimes lethal) game played with marshmallows.
Cockle bread	Bread made by English women in the seventeenth century that involved kneading and pressing against the woman's buttocks.
Competitive eating	In which the main goal is the quick and vast consumption of food.
Cookie cake	Schrödinger's dessert.
Deep-fried Mars bar	A Scottish delicacy, often touted as an example of their diet's unhealthiness. See also deep fried Twinkies, deep fried pizza, and deep fried Oreos.
Dilberito	A vegan burrito promoted by Dilbert. "Because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail." - Dilbert creator Scott Adams
Dishwasher salmon	Salmon cooked using the heat from a dishwasher.
Charles Domery	A Polish soldier noted for his unusually large appetite. While imprisoned in England, he remained ravenous despite being put on ten times the rations of other inmates, eating the prison cat, at least twenty rats and, on a regular basis, the prison candles.
Doug	Its record as "world's biggest potato" was denied due to mistaken identity.
Durian	King of fruits. King of smells?
Edible underwear	Yes, this exists.
Engastration	Dishes consisting of animals stuffed into each other. Turducken and whole stuffed camel are prominent examples.
Eyes (cheese)	There are eyes in the cheese, but no cheese in the eyes.
Flies' graveyard	A delicacy in the United Kingdom.
Fool's Gold Loaf	A sandwich consisting of a single warmed, hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with the contents of one jar of creamy peanut butter, one jar of grape jelly, and a pound of bacon. Reportedly a favorite of Elvis.
Freedom fries	"I know what'll teach France for not wanting to invade Iraq... we'll rename our food!" -Bob Ney, 2003
Fried spider	Exactly as it sounds – and a regional delicacy in Cambodia.
Fruit ketchup	Plum ketchup, anyone?
Adolf Hitler and vegetarianism	Hitler believed that a vegetarian diet could both alleviate his personal health problems and spiritually renew the Aryan race.
Hedgehog Flavour Crisps	If you think that usual crisps are boring, try this.
Hitler bacon	Can it possibly be kosher?
Hottest chili pepper	Gettin' silly with chili.
Hufu	For all you vegetarian cannibals out there, the tofu product designed to look and taste like human flesh.
Human placentophagy	The consumption of a newborn's placenta is common among mammals; humans do it too.
Kit Kats in Japan	There have been more than 300 limited-edition seasonal and regional flavors of Kit Kats produced in Japan since 2000.
Ketchup as a vegetable	Makes junk food seem healthier.
Kosher locust	Can Jews eat grasshoppers?
Kuai Kuai culture	In Taiwan, it is considered fortuitous to place a particular brand of snack next to machines.
Latke–Hamantash Debate	The debate of the century that began in 1946 and has never been resolved. About Jewish food.
Luther Burger	Described as a "cardiologist's worst nightmare".
Lychee and Dog Meat Festival	Vegans are the only group who can oppose this festival without any fear of hypocrisy.
McWords	McDonald's has their own language now.
Michel Lotito	Known as Monsieur Mangetout (or "Mr Eat-all").
Milbenkäse	A type of German cheese containing live mites, which are eaten along with the cheese.
Monkey brains	A supposed delicacy that has been made famous through films.
None pizza with left beef	An infamous online pizza order.
Nutellagate	In which Columbia University students stole Nutella at a rapid rate.
Alferd Packer	Before Dahmer there was Packer...
Pieing	A slapstick stunt, or a kind of political protest. And there's even a list of victims.
Products produced from The Simpsons	Fictional trademarks gone real.
Rhubarb Triangle	A recipe or a dangerous area to fly through?
Roadkill cuisine	Yes, Skunk a la Michelin sounds tasty to some people.
Salmon chaos	The turmoil of salmon.
Šakotis	Rotisserie ~~chicken~~ cake, anyone?
San-nakji	Small octopuses eaten alive with sesame oil.
Sealed crustless sandwich	A patented peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Spotted dick	Actually a type of pudding.
Square watermelon	Rather expensive and very much inedible.
Stargazy pie	A Cornish fish pie that looks back at you.
Stinky tofu	Fermented soybean curd is apparently a delicacy for some people. One external link describes its scent as "a used tampon baking in the desert."
Superman (ice cream flavor)	It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... ice cream?
Surströmming	A Swedish dish consisting of fermented herring, said to have the worst smell in the world.
Takeru Kobayashi	A slightly built Japanese competitive eater. He has consumed 63 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and holds a host of eating records for other foods.
Testicles as food	Available fresh during castration season.
Toast sandwich	An English dish with an "extravagance of blandness". Add salt and pepper to taste.
La Tomatina	A gigantic food fight with a ham-topped greased pole as the start.
Sonya Thomas	What weighs 105 pounds (48 kg) and eats more hot dogs in 12 minutes than most people do all summer?
United States military chocolate	Originally designed to taste "little better than a boiled potato." Not much has changed.
Unusually shaped vegetable	"While some examples are just oddly shaped, others are heralded for their amusing appearance, often representing a body part such as the buttocks."
Vantage loaf	The bread that makes a baker's dozen.
Virgin boy egg	Eggs cooked with the help of young boys' urine.
Volkswagen currywurst	Volkswagen's best-selling product isn't cars, but sausages.
"Who Ate All the Pies?"	A chant sung by football fans in England and Scotland, aimed at supposedly overweight footballers, officials or opposing supporters.

Beverages[edit]

1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal	A wine scandal where it was discovered that Austrian wineries were putting a toxic component of antifreeze into their wines to make them sweeter.
Beer can pyramid	Or beeramid, if you prefer.
Civet coffee	Not coffee made from civets, but rather from ordinary coffee beans the civet has, well, excreted.
Cock ale	A type of ale that has a bag stuffed with a parboiled, skinned and gutted chicken later added.
Cola wars	A marketing battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
Diet Coke and Mentos eruption	Diet Coke + Mentos = geyser.
Fucking Hell	A German beer named after the Austrian village of Fucking. (It was renamed Fugging in 2021, so there goes the fun...)
Ganesha drinking milk miracle	Hindu statues drinking milk.
Grapefruit juice–drug interactions	Be careful – that delicious food item could be dangerous to prescription-drug users.
H₂NO	Why drink tap water, when you can pay to have a cool, refreshing glass of Coca-Cola or freshly chilled bottled tap water?
If-by-whiskey	A famous speech successfully both attacking and defending booze.
ISO 3103	The ISO standard cup of tea.
OpenCola	The world's first open-source beverage.
Pepsi Number Fever	Large-scale riots in the Philippines in 1992 that led to the deaths of five people. The cause? A failed PepsiCo promotional event.
Pussy	The drink's pure, it's your mind that's the problem.
Snake wine	A type of Vietnamese wine that includes a whole venomous snake in the bottle.
Speyer wine bottle	They say a fine wine gets better with age... how about 1700 years?
Vodka eyeballing	Here's looking at you, kid.

Restaurants[edit]

Claudia Sanders Dinner House	A restaurant founded by Colonel Sanders and his wife Claudia after he became unhappy with changes at KFC, which was in turn sued by KFC.
Conflict Kitchen	A Pittsburgh take-out restaurant that exclusively served ethnic foods from countries in which the United States was in conflict.
Cross Cafe	A Hitler-themed Indian restaurant, formerly known as "Hitlers' Cross" [sic].
Dinner in the Sky	Enjoy a delicious meal—suspended 150 feet (46 m) in the air.
Fortezza Medicea restaurant	Elegant, fine dining in a high-security prison.
Hamburger University	Where McDonald's employees learn their stuff.
Heart Attack Grill	Noted for its 8,000-calorie "Quadruple Bypass Burger". It also lives up to its name.
Ithaa	The world's first underwater restaurant.
Jewish-American patronage of Chinese restaurants	For lack of dairy products, proximity in inner cities, and open hours during Christian holidays.
Kayabukiya Tavern	A Japanese restaurant where guests are served by employed monkeys.
Loving Hut	A vegan restaurant run by a cult. Get to watch "Supreme Master TV" in nearly all of their locations!
MaDonal	A McDonald's knock-off in Iraq.
McDonald's ice cream machine	Always broken.
McDonald's urban legends	Is that worm meat in your Big Mac?
Modern Toilet Restaurant	A restaurant chain whose furniture and decor is based on – yes – toilets.
Original Spanish Kitchen	A Los Angeles restaurant that suddenly and unexpectedly closed in 1961, giving rise to an urban legend about the fate of its proprietors. The restaurant's contents – even as far as the place settings – remained untouched for decades.
Pyongyang	A restaurant chain whose sole proprietor is the Government of North Korea.
Seriously McDonalds	Not seriously, in fact, because this new policy that black customers would pay more at McDonald's was an obvious (but believed) hoax.
The Shed at Dulwich	TripAdvisor's #1 fake restaurant.