While a boiled steak would certainly taste terrible, as a strictly salt, pepper, ripping hot cast iron, steak enjoyer, steak tastes just fine by itself. Well by itself with the Maillard reaction.

I’m thinking of the hot dogs. While being chewed, swallowed, and digested seems like a horrible end, it can’t really be much worse than their conception was to begin with. Such is the life of a hot dog.