13 Delightfully Odd Foods That Could Have Come Straight From A Dr. Seuss Book

Try it, you'll love it!

"Don't knock it 'till you've tried it!" That's the moral of Theodor Seuss Geisel's all-time classic about a child harassing a man until he agrees to sample an oddly colored meat dish that turns out to be delicious.

In the culinary realm, we've learned, there are a ton of bizarre-looking (yet delightful) versions of everyday foods that would seem right at home on a table in Whoville. Below are some of these strange Seussian creations -- and, again, don't knock them 'till you've tried them.

Would you like pink pancakes here or there?

beet cakes

Red velvet pancakes with beets courtesy of Kitchen Vignettes.

Or mashed cauliflower anywhere?

mashed cauli

Mashed purple cauliflower recipe by Eat Your Beets.

Some garden veggies in a house?

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Curlicue bits of the fiddlehead fern plant are harvested in the Northeastern U.S. and parts of Europe. They make a tasty dish when cooked with a little garlic.

Fruity tartlets with a mouse?

starfruit tartlet

Tartlet recipe adapted from The Sundy House Restaurant & Inn by The Kitchen Prep.

Would you eat green waffles in a box?

green waffles

Spirulina-Mango waffles over at Farmers Market Vegan.

Purply carrots with a fox?

purple carrots

Roasted carrot recipe on Food Blogga.

A hot pink smoothie in a car?

pink smoothie

Dragon fruit smoothie recipe by My Sugar 'n' Spice.

How about blue cornbread, near or far?

blue muffins

Jalepeno-cheddar blue corn muffins at Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks.

Tasty rice, you will see. You may like it in a tree.

spicy green rice

Mexican green rice recipe by The Texan New Yorker.

Would you -- could you -- eat spinach cake on a train?

greencake

Spinach cake recipe by The Crackerbox Kitchen.

Or purple ice cream in the rain?

blueberry ice cream

Blueberry ice cream recipe by The Baker Chick.

Pink mac and cheese with a goat?

beet mac

Roasted beet mac and cheese recipe from The Realistic Nutritionist.

Delicious cake pops on a boat?

lorax cake pops

Lorax cake pop recipe from Bakerella.

You may like some French-fried yams.

purple fries

Okay, they're not technically yams. Purple sweet potato fries recipe created by Miss Buttercup.

And maybe even green eggs and ham.

green eggs ham

Interpretation by 100 Days of Real Food.

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