I was in Costa Rica once and the chef at the place we were staying was super excited to show us his cheesecake as we were from the NY area. He was building it up and building it up...

When it came out it was made from queso and ... not good. He had very obviously never actually tasted a cheesecake before making his version.

Costa Rican cheesecake is now our go to reference for when we get inexplicably bad food of some kind.