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    Basic Trope: A character can only make one kind of food, if they try anything else they are a lethal chef

    • Straight: Bob can only make hard boiled eggs
    • Exaggerated: Bob cannot even make soft boiled eggs! Any attempts to diversify the menu end up with him setting the stove on fire.
    • Downplayed: Bob can only make dishes that involve eggs.
    • Justified: Bob is a lazy cook who never bothered to learn more than one dish.
      • Bob doesn't care about being a good cook, but he does love boiled eggs.
    • Inverted: Bob can cook nearly everything under the sun EXCEPT hard boiled eggs.
    • Subverted: It's Bob's turn to make breakfast, and everyone expects he'll make boiled eggs, they wake up and see he has made some rather tasty looking pancakes.
    • Double Subverted: The pancakes only look tasty! They really taste horrible!
    • Parodied: Whenever Bob attempts to diversify his cooking, things end up blowing up, somebody get poisoned or worse...the food causes a zombie apocalypse!
    • Zig Zagged: Sometimes, Bob can make other dishes perfectly. Sometimes, it turns out so horribly that he had to resort to hard-boiled eggs.
    • Averted: Bob is a decent cook who can cook several dishes.
      • Bob is an awful cook and can't even make one thing right.
    • Enforced: ???
    • Lampshaded: ???
    • Invoked: ???
    • Exploited: ???
    • Defied: Bob learns to cook something else.
    • Discussed: "Bob, I think you should learn to cook something else. I'm getting bored of these hard-boiled eggs."
    • Conversed: ???

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