History Main / FromMyOwnPersonalGarden

** This trope is also justified: Nemo bother to mention the food because his guest, TheProfessor Aronnax, is starving, and [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Nemo wants to convince him that it’s possible to survive without any “Civilized world” product]].

* In ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike,'' while negotiating with an insurrectionist community for repairs for their ship the bridge crew of the ''Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice'' are treated to refreshments that Governor Jiles brags are grown from the hydroponics gardens in the asteroid.

* Mercilessly warped in ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' during the second tea party. Beato starts bragging about how [[spoiler:every dish Rosa is eating was made from her siblings]].

* Played in a horribly straight way with the products of the [[EldritchLocation Garden of Nurgle]], Chaos God of Despair and Decay from TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} and TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} mythos. Roughly everything [[{{Plaguemaster}} Nurgle]] makes is a [[MysticalPlague horrifying, grotesque disease]], and likely to make you DeaderThanDead ([[TheCorruption unless you join in with him]]). Nurgle [[BlueAndOrangeMorality considers these to be gifts]], and will [[AffablyEvil jovially bestow them onto a populace, now matter how ungrateful they will be in the end]].

!Examples:

* Sent up in ''{{Bottom}}'', when Richie attempts this ("All the ingredients in tonight's main meal have either been grown, found or foraged") despite living in a grotty garden-less upper floor flat in the middle of London:

* On an episode of ''SanfordAndSon,'' Grady serves a dinner with food served from the garden he's been growing. He doesn't realize that marijuna has been growing in the garden and he mixes it in with the salad and invites two cops to have dinner. HilarityEnsues.

* The ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' two-parter "Year of Hell" has a NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine scene where Tom Paris gets the opportunity to taste the typical food of alien civilizations that ''never existed''! The BigBad Annorax has [[RetGone wiped them out of time itself]], and keeps the [[LastOfHisKind last artifacts of their culture]] on his ship. Granted, this stuff was not grown by Annorax himself, but at least the access is quite exclusive.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' plays it for laughs '''and''' creeps.

** Note: as vampiric entities feeding on lifeforce, Wraith have no need for "normal" food on their ships; although they can enjoy eating it, they derive no nourishment from it. Also, the entire human population of the Pegasus galaxy is Wraith cattle, hence the trope.

* ''JusticeLeague'': In the episode ''Hereafter'', after {{Superman}} realizes the futility of fighting Vandal Savage, the latter invites the former to lunch. The food is great because [[TheSlowPath Vandal Savage has had 30,000 years to rediscover the principles of agriculture]].
** As it turns out, not only is it futile to fight Vandal Savage, but [[spoiler: he has effectively done a slow HeelFaceTurn in the many years since the end of civilization, and is one of the uncommon non-villainous examples of this trope to the point that he helps send Superman back in time and tells Superman to do whatever it takes to stop past him]].
* A version of this shows up in ''TransformersAnimated''. [[BigBad Mega]][[MagnificentBastard tron]] [[ManipulativeBastard convinces the Constructobots to join the Decepticons]] with some [[AGlassOfChianti wineglass-shaped]] barrels of high quality oil. When the construtobots comment that the "Autobot's oil [[BestBeerEver tastes like water next to this stuff]]" Megatron mentions that it's his "private blend".

* ''TheBlackHole'' is the TropeNamer. [[BigBad Reinhart]] tries to pass off the garden as "tiny" but it was, in fact, huge [[spoiler:in order to feed the entire zombified crew]].

* In ''[[Literature/CircleOfMagic Street Magic]]'', when Briar is entering the stronghold of the Big Bad, he notices at once the luxuriant and flourishing gardens of the rich widow -- very strange in a landscape that is in the middle of a desert (the city is a FantasyCounterpartCulture to a Middle Eastern one). [[GreenThumb When he asks the plants how they're so strong,]] they answer "[[SoylentGreen Rich food!]]" This is before Briar learns what the widow is using as fertilizer...

* In ''[[Literature/CircleOfMagic Street Magic]]'', when Briar is entering the stronghold of the Big Bad, he notices at once the luxuriant and flourishing gardens of the rich widow -- very strange in a landscape that has been suffering from a long drought. [[GreenThumb When he asks the plants how they're so strong,]] they answer "[[SoylentGreen Rich food!]]" This is before Briar learns what the widow is using as fertilizer...

** Not that that's much better than [[YouDoNotWantToKnow what gelatin is normally made of]].[[note]]Boiled pig skin, mostly. And now you know.[[/note]]

* On an episode of ''SanfordandSon,'' Grady serves a dinner with food served from the garden he's been growing. He doesn't realize that marijuna has been growing in the garden and he mixes it in with the salad and invites two cops to have dinner. HilarityEnsues.

--> '''Guest''' (to Kramer): "You made this salad?"

* In Franchise/{{Halo}}: FirstStrike, while negotiating with an insurrectionist community for repairs for their ship the bridge crew of the ''Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice'' are treated to refreshments that Governor Jiles brags are grown from the hydroponics gardens in the asteroid.

** Note: as vampiric entities feeding on lifeforce, Wraith have no need for "normal" food on their ships, although they can enjoy eating it. Also, the entire human population of the Pegasus galaxy is Wraith cattle, hence the trope.

** Note: as vampiric entities feeding on lifeforce, Wraith have no need for "normal" food on their ships. Also, the entire human population of the Pegasus galaxy is Wraith cattle, hence the trope.

Alice invites Bob to dinner, or lunch. Bob is impressed by the excellent cooking, and Alice smugly informs him everything was grown in her very exclusive garden. Interestingly, Alice is usually a villain, either because villains are the ones who tend to have [[SmallNameBigEgo big egos]] and be obsessed with living "off the grid" somewhere in Waco or because HitlerWasAVegetarian.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' plays it for laughs '''and''' NightmareFuel.

* A variation in ''[[TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]'': Captain Nemo informs his prisoners that everything they are eating was taken from the ocean. One of them is less than thrilled to know he's eating [[{{Squick}} octopus embryo gelatin.]]

* Parodied hilariously in ''{{Seinfeld}}'':