History Main / CartoonMeat

** Steaks are either ribeye or T-bone, because apparently steak isn't steak without some sort of bone in the middle. The meat may be colored bright red, even if it's supposed to be fully cooked.

** Bacon is almost always depicted as side bacon (aka streaky bacon), since it can be simplified to alternating stripes of red (meat) and white (fat).

Bones that stick out from Cartoon Meat are most likely to look like {{Stock Femur Bone}}s, unless the meat is fish or ribs, where they're more likely to be rib bones.

* Most of the meat in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' is of the manga meat variety. Given the appetites of the main characters a lot of it is consumed at any inn or restaurant they stop in.

*** The game also has regular and "prime" meat (classic steak slabs with a strip of fat around them, of varying thickness),drumsticks and bird thighs, "gourmet" meat (stocky manga meat) and whole birds.[[note]]Some birds have an approx. 1/50 chance to drop ''two'' of these when killed.[[/note]]

* Well-done and Rare Steaks and Raw Meat from ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' take the form of one of these. Turning them into Tinged, Drugged or Poisoned Meats turns them yellow, blue or purple, respectively.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': ''Don't Starve'''s ham bat was ported to ''[=TF2=]'' under the name "The Ham Shank", with Genuine quality ones being [[PreorderBonus awarded to those who preordered the source material]]. It's very much the same design, only 3D modeled.

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* In the Season 10 end credits sequence for ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', one of the characters that passes by Careful S. is Big M., who is carrying a stick with manga meat tied to it with a string. Little M. chases after the meat, trying to eat it.
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': A golden trophy shaped like manga meat appears in ''Happy Happy Bang! Bang!'' episode 28.
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* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': When it's announced that anyone who ate the fish airline meal will get food poisoning, the pilot looks down to his meal tray, which shows a complete fish skeleton.

* The official unicode emojis include [[https://emojipedia.org/poultry-leg/ a brown chicken leg with a bone sticking out]], [[https://emojipedia.org/bacon/ red-and-white striped bacon]], [[https://emojipedia.org/cut-of-meat/ a bright red slab of steak]] (either a T-bone or ribeye, depending on the operating system), and [[https://emojipedia.org/meat-on-bone/ a cylindrical hunk of meat with bones sticking out of both sides.]]

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* In the Season 10 end credits sequence for ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', one of the characters that passes by Careful S. is Big M., who is carrying a stick with manga meat tied to it with a string. Little M. chases after the meat, trying to eat it.
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': A golden trophy shaped like manga meat appears in ''Happy Happy Bang! Bang!'' episode 28.
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* The "[[https://items.jellyneo.net/item/7720/ bronto bite]]" item on ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' is a roughly cylindrical slab of meat on a bone.

Bones that stick out from Cartoon Meat are most likely to look like [[StockFemurBone Stock Femur Bones]], unless the meat is fish or ribs, where they're more likely to be rib bones.

*** The game also has regular and "prime" meat (classic steak slabs with a strip of fat around them, of varying thickness), drumsticks and bird thighs, "gourmet" meat (stocky manga meat) and whole birds.[[note]]Some birds have an approx. 1/50 chance to drop ''two'' of these when killed.[[/note]]

** ''VideoGame/MarioParty DS'': The minigame "Dizzy Rotisserie" has a team of three try to stay on top of a cylindrical cut, while the solo player tries to spin them off.

* In''Film/{{Airplane}}'', when it's announced that anyone who ate the fish airline meal will get food poisoning, the pilot looks down to his meal tray, which shows a complete fish skeleton.

* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': The ham bat is a [[EdibleBludgeon weapon]] that looks like at drumstick chopped with pink in the middle. The weapon is held by the bone and swung around hitting things with the meat end of it. Aside from some crock pot dishes, most meat is cartoon meat.

* '''Manga meat''', or '''ano niku''' (Japanese for "that meat"): Generic meat from an unspecified source, portrayed as a roughly cylindrical slab still attached to the bone, with said bone sticking out both ends to serve as a convenient handle while eating. The meat itself is very chewy, sometimes even stretchy. In spite of the name, this version does pop up in western works, too--sometimes with just one bone, so it looks more like a giant drumstick.

** Fish skeletons--sometimes with an intact head and tail fins attached to a spine that's been otherwise picked clean--are a popular meal for cats, raccoons, or anyone who has to dumpster-dive for food.

Bones that stick-out from Cartoon Meat are most likely to look like [[StockFemurBone Stock Femur Bones]], unless the meat is fish or ribs, where they're more likely to be rib bones.

* In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE52Island "island"]], a starving Strong Bad [[MeatOVision imagines Homestar becoming a big, red, T-bone steak in the classic style]].

** Fish can be depicted as a cooked whole fish, half-fish filets, or in slices. Whole fish may be [[NoCartoonFish drawn in much more realistic detail]] than the rest of a series. Tuna and salmon are the most common, and the meat is usually pink (salmon pink, naturally). Herring will also appear as kippers, though drawn as whole raw fish rather that cooked fish in cut butterfly fashion.

** Fish can be depicted as a cooked whole fish, half-fish filets, or in slices. Whole fish may be [[NoCartoonFish drawn in much more realistic detail]] than the rest of a series. Tuna and salmon are the most common, and the meat is usually pink (salmon pink, naturally).

** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has the [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Power_Steak Power Steak]] and [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Bone-In_Cut Bone-In Cut]] items, which are cartoonish depictions of a steak and a piece of meat on a bone, respectively, with the latter being drawn in the came's characteristic {{Retraux}} blocky style.

Subtrope of StockFoodDepictions.
Compare with CartoonCheese, which is its counterpart for, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cheese]], and EveryPizzaIsPepperoni for its pizza counterpart. In video games, this often goes hand-in-hand with HyperactiveMetabolism and InexplicablyPreservedDungeonMeat. For extremely detailed depictions of meat, see FoodPorn.

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** ''VideoGame/MarioParty DS'': * The minigame "Dizzy Rotisserie" has a team of three try to stay on top of a cylindrical cut, while the solo player tries to spin them off.

Bones that stick-out from Cartoon Meat are most likely to look like [[StockFemurBone Stock Femur Bones]], unless the meat is fish or ribs, where they're more likely to be rib bones. Compare with CartoonCheese, which is its counterpart for, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cheese]], and EveryPizzaIsPepperoni for its pizza counterpart. In video games, this often goes hand-in-hand with HyperactiveMetabolism and InexplicablyPreservedDungeonMeat. For extremely detailed depictions of meat, see FoodPorn.

Bones that stick-out from Cartoon Meat are most likely to look like [[StockFemurBone Stock Femur Bones]], unless the meat is fish or ribs, where they're more likely to be rib bones. Compare with CartoonCheese, which is its counterpart for, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cheese]], and EveryPizzaIsPepperoni, for the this trope and CartoonCheese combined with bread. In video games, this often goes hand-in-hand with HyperactiveMetabolism and InexplicablyPreservedDungeonMeat. For extremely detailed depictions of meat, see FoodPorn.

Bones that stick-out from Cartoon Meat are most likely to look like [[StockFemurBone Stock Femur Bones]], unless the meat is fish or ribs, where they're more likely to be rib bones. Compare with CartoonCheese, which is its counterpart for, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cheese.]] In video games, this often goes hand-in-hand with HyperactiveMetabolism and InexplicablyPreservedDungeonMeat. For extremely detailed depictions of meat, see FoodPorn.

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** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda1'': The Monster Bait item takes the form of stock manga meat. Its advertised purpose of distracting baddies isn't terribly useful (only the weaker ones seem to go for it), but you still have to buy the stuff as it's also a PlotCoupon in disguise that [[GiveMeYourInventoryItem you have to trade to progress through the game]].

*** The game also has regular and "prime" meat (classic steak slabs with a strip of fat around them, of varying thickness), drumsticks and bird thighs, "gourmet" meat (stocky manga meat) and whole birds.[[note]]Some birds have an approx. 1/50 chance to drop ''two'' of these when killed.[[/note]

** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda 1986 original]] featured the Monster Bait item, which took the form of stock manga meat. Its advertised purpose of distracting baddies isn't terribly useful (only the weaker ones seem to go for it), but you still have to buy the stuff as it's also a PlotCoupon in disguise that [[GiveMeYourInventoryItem you have to trade to progress through the game]].
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the Goron delicacy "Rock Sirloin" takes the manga meat shape, only made of rock instead of meat.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' have both a Goron steak, and a minigame on Tokay island that involves manga meat.
** The item reappears in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', where they're called "Rock Roasts", and this time you have to heat them up before you can eat them. The game also has regular meat, "prime" meat, drumsticks and bird thighs, "gourmet" meat (that one is manga meat) and whole birds.[[note]]Some birds have an approx. 1/50 chance to drop ''two'' of those when killed.[[/note]
* When you hunt in ''VideoGame/LittleDragonsCafe'', the prey poofs away and pieces of brown Cartoon Meat appear. This is simply for the overworld, as the ingredients are properly identified and more realistic looking.