History Main / EvenBeggarsWontChooseIt

* A commercial features a woman in a post-apocalyptic scenario stumbling onto a bunker where the people welcome her and assure her they have everything they need to survive for years. She's thrilled, until she realizes that the only peanut butter they have is off-brand, prompting her to take her chances on the surface world in hopes of finding better peanut butter.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'': Despite not being manufactured for over five hundred years, there are ''still'' extant original-model ''Banshee'' 'mechs because no commander in his or her right mind would have ever actively deployed them.[[note]]They're effectively close-range combatants with no weapons that actually work up close, or for that matter any way of reliably getting into close range.[[/note]] Eventually, however, advances in technology (and recovery of certain LostTechnology) allowed for new models that could actually do the job for which they were designed.

* In ''Series/OneFootInTheGrave'', Victor buys a lurid sweater that he eventually decides to throw away -- in a litter-bin next to a park bench he's sitting on. While he's still there, a tramp comes along and goes through the bin's contents -- and throws the sweater back.

** In one episode, this trope doubled as a TakeThat to their old sponsor Butterfinger where Chief Wiggum tried to throw the candy into fire only for it to be thrown back, unharmed. "Even the fire doesn't want them" Wiggum comments. They lost the sponsor because of that.

* US Military rations are called [=MREs=] (Meals Ready to Eat, often joked to be "three lies for the price of one" -- they're not meals, they're not ready, and you definitely can't eat them). According to some, the letters stand for [[FunWithAcronyms Meals Rejected by Ethiopians]] and countless other variations. The seriousness varies immensely by era, country and the specific item.

** In another, when Bart and Milhouse are looking after the Comic Guy's shop, Milhouse makes a terrible investment by buying a lot of comics starring a nerdy hero called "Biclops". Bart complains that they'll never sell it and not even birds will use them for their nests. On queue, an angry crow flies into the store with a copy in its talons, which he proceeds to angrily rip to shreds before leaving.

Inverse of TooDesperateToBePicky.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'': In one episode, Garfield tried to get rid of an accordion of Jon's but his effort to give it away only result in it getting quickly returned. Heck even trying to ditch it in the lake prompts a ''mer-man'' to swim up and throw it back.

* Military rations are called [=MREs=] (Meals Ready to Eat, often joked to be "three lies for the price of one": it's not a meal, it's not ready, and you definitely can't eat it). According to some the letters stand for [[FunWithAcronyms Meals Rejected by Ethiopians]] and countless other variations. The seriousness varies immensely by era, country and specific item.

* The Angry Video Game Nerd has been known to make insults like this for his reviews.

* In ''Franchise/TheGuild'' a homeless person tries Vork's "found object stew" and rejects it in disgust.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'', the massively destructive SuccessionCrisis known as [[GreatOffscreenWar the Succession Wars]] devastated the game's setting, rendering entire production lines of the setting's [[HumongousMecha signature BattleMechs]] completely extinct. Even under these conditions, however, a majority of the ''Charger'', ''Banshee'' and ''[=UrbanMech=]'' models survived all 200 years of it, even without new ones being built, because they were so terrible ''no-one wanted them in their front lines'' and relegating them to garrison duty while sending untrained infantry and (gasp!) ''tanks'' to the front lines instead..
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--> '''Marie Antoinette''': Then let them eat Taco Bell Dorito Crunchwrap Supremes.

--> '''Messenger''': [[TakeThat They aren't]] ''[[TakeThat that]]'' [[TakeThat desperate!]]

* ''{{Literature/Mort}}'': On seeing the suit Mort is wearing in hopes of getting a job (from a shop famed for budget clothing), Death has this to say: [[AC:It certainly adds a new terror to poverty.]]

** Again with Jerry's car and its "mutant funk BO". The inside is SO smelly no one else wants it. He ends up leaving it at a curb with the keys inside, next to a homeless guy. The homeless guy gets inside, and the credits roll on a freeze-frame of his face which makes it pretty obvious he's not going to take it either.

* Military rations are called MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat, often joked to be "three lies for the price of one": it's not a meal, it's not ready, and you definitely can't eat it). According to some the letters stand for [[FunWithAcronyms Meals Rejected by Ethiopians]] and countless other variations. The seriousness varies immensely by era, country and specific item.

* ''{{Discworld/Mort}}'': On seeing the suit Mort is wearing in hopes of getting a job (from a shop famed for budget clothing), Death has this to say: [[AC:It certainly adds a new terror to poverty.]]

** Jerry finds himself suddenly repulsed by his GirlOfTheWeek and unable to kiss her after discovering that she not only went out with Newman, but that Newman was the one who ended the relationship. The thought of dating a woman who is below the standards of a man he doesn't think should even ''have'' standards in the first place is just too much for him to bear.

* When the New Zealand based dog food manufacturer Mighty Mix [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4664884.stm tried to donate Raw Dry Nourish]] (a ration pack that was ''not'' dog food) to Kenya, the Kenyans angrily refused. Even though she explained it wasn't dog food and it was created for exactly this situation (Kenya had declared the situation a national disaster) ''and'' that the CEO ate the mixture, they still refused.

* [[Radio/ThePhilHarrisAliceFayeShow Phil Harris]]' "The Thing" (the song that provides the current page quote follows the life-long HumiliationConga of a man that finds a thing (which is never described) on the beach and everybody who sees it gets outraged that he has it (even Saint Peter himself gets angry, ''sending the poor man to Hell just for owning it''). Sure enough, he tries to give it away to a poor man (after trying to pawn it off ended with the shop keeper kicking him out and threatening to call the cops) and the poor man decides to run away when he sees it.