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*** ''FinalFantasyXII'' gets rather meta: Flan the food was designed after Flan the monster.
** Also in ''FinalFantasyX'', Wakka wonders out loud how many steaks one can get out of a Behemoth.
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*** ''FinalFantasyXII'' ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' gets rather meta: Flan the food was designed after Flan the monster.
** Also in''FinalFantasyX'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Wakka wonders out loud how many steaks one can get out of a Behemoth.
** Also in
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* TheCritic when Jay meets Alice's ex-husband Cyrus as he was about to confess his feelings for her:
-->'''Cyrus:''' I'd like to thank you for helping my wife. It's more then what I did.
-->'''Jay:''' Well, there are a lot of people in New York who would of done what I did. They're called putzes!
-->'''Cyrus:''' Hmm... I like pepperoni on my putzes.
-->'''Jay:''' I'll bet you do.
-->'''Cyrus:''' I'd like to thank you for helping my wife. It's more then what I did.
-->'''Jay:''' Well, there are a lot of people in New York who would of done what I did. They're called putzes!
-->'''Cyrus:''' Hmm... I like pepperoni on my putzes.
-->'''Jay:''' I'll bet you do.
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** Which was again refferenced in XII, where Behemoths [[RandomlyDrops sometimes drop an item]] called "Behemoth Steak".
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* In ''StreetFighterAlpha 3'', Birdie admires Honda's hairstyle, leading the latter to introduce him to the concept of sumo.
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* Babies, in what [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian Freud called the "oral phase"]], seem to use "stick it in your mouth" as their default object identification protocol. Especially when teething.
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** To be fair,teething. This is because babies' eyesight is not all that good, and most of their working touch receptors are on their lips, so "stick it in your mouth" is just a method to feel it better, rather than a legitimate attempt to eat it.
** To be fair,
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* [[TheSimpsons Homer]] does his "mmmm" CatchPhrase with many inedible things:
--> mmmm... Pi
--> (after spraying his eggs with mace) mmmm... incapacitating *passes out*
--> mmmm... Pi
--> (after spraying his eggs with mace) mmmm... incapacitating *passes out*
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** 1853: A customer keeps returning their french fries because they're "too thick" after one time to many, the chef decides to cut them ridiculously thin to see the guest's reaction. Thus potato chips are born.
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* The ''Times'' columnist Bernard Levin once wrote a column in which he asked, inter alia, "Can you eat quarks?". Sir Alan Cottrell wrote a brief letter in reply:
-->Sir: Mr Bernard Levin asks 'Can you eat quarks?' I estimate that he eats 500,000,000,000,000,000,001 quarks a day.
-->Sir: Mr Bernard Levin asks 'Can you eat quarks?' I estimate that he eats 500,000,000,000,000,000,001 quarks a day.
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* In ''CorrectorYui'', the impossibly computer-illiterate title character initially mistakes "delete" for "dessert" and wonders where the food is. (Asamiya Kia's rewrite of the manga has her think it's "Doritos", but it leads to the same thing.) This kicks off a RunningGag of her mistaking "delete" for any similar-sounding words.
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* In ''CorrectorYui'', ''Anime/CorrectorYui'', the impossibly computer-illiterate title character initially mistakes "delete" for "dessert" and wonders where the food is. (Asamiya Kia's rewrite of the manga has her think it's "Doritos", but it leads to the same thing.) This kicks off a RunningGag of her mistaking "delete" for any similar-sounding words.
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* ''TheOrderOfTheStick''. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0720.html The Empress of Blood]] asks this about Elan. Problem is, since she's a voracious red dragon, he would be perfectly edible for her.
* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/17/ This]] ''PennyArcade'' strip. (Although some people do eat the placenta.)
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* ''TheOrderOfTheStick''.''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick''. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0720.html The Empress of Blood]] asks this about Elan. Problem is, since she's a voracious red dragon, he would be perfectly edible for her.
* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/17/ This]]''PennyArcade'' ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip. (Although some people do eat the placenta.)
* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/17/ This]]
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* From [[Film/{{Clue}} Clue]]:
-->'''Wadsworth:''' "Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die."
-->'''Prof. Plum:''' Die?
-->'''Wadsworth:''' Merely quoting, sir, from Alfred Lord Tennyson.
-->'''Col. Mustard:''' Hm, I prefer Kipling myself. "The female of the species is more deadly than the male." You like Kipling, Miss Scarlet?
-->'''Miss Scarlet:''' Sure, I'll eat anything.
-->'''Wadsworth:''' "Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die."
-->'''Prof. Plum:''' Die?
-->'''Wadsworth:''' Merely quoting, sir, from Alfred Lord Tennyson.
-->'''Col. Mustard:''' Hm, I prefer Kipling myself. "The female of the species is more deadly than the male." You like Kipling, Miss Scarlet?
-->'''Miss Scarlet:''' Sure, I'll eat anything.
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* In "Toriko", when the warden of honey prison activates her love pheromones, Zebra isn't affected and asks what are pheromones and [[http://www.mangareader.net/toriko/128/8 if he can eat them.]]
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** Its actually a well established fact that most sharks think humans taste disgusting, so [[WildMassGuessing presumably]], a shark that has "attacked" a human once won't do it again because they've already "identified" human-shaped things as "not for eating"
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*** This [[WildMassGuessing ''might'']] be a [[ShoutOut reference]] to the fact that [[TheBible in the actual book]] the Behemoth ([[SingleSpecimenSpecies there's only one of them]]) will be butchered and eaten by all the righteous people during the apocalypse. [[HumansAreBastards Those couple of guys]] will eat for years!
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*** This [[WildMassGuessing ''might'']] ''[[WildMassGuessing might]]'' be a [[ShoutOut reference]] to the fact that [[TheBible in the actual book]] the Behemoth ([[SingleSpecimenSpecies there's only one of them]]) will be butchered and eaten by all the righteous people during the apocalypse. [[HumansAreBastards Those couple of guys]] will eat for years!
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*** This ''might'' be a [[ShoutOut reference]] to the fact that [[TheBible in the actual book]] the Behemoth ([[SingleSpecimenSpecies there's only one of them]]) will be butchered and eaten by all the righteous people during the apocalypse. [[Snark Those couple]] [[HumansAreBastards of guys]] will eat for years!
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*** This ''might'' be a [[ShoutOut reference]] to the fact that [[TheBible in the actual book]] the Behemoth ([[SingleSpecimenSpecies there's only one of them]]) will be butchered and eaten by all the righteous people during the apocalypse. [[Snark Those couple]] [[HumansAreBastards of guys]] will eat for years!
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* From the manga, ''Sleeper'', we have:
--> '''[[ChildrenAreInnocent Ryu]]''': What's a mad dog? What's a license? Is it a demon? ''[[ExtremeOmnivore Can we eat it?]]''
--> '''[[ChildrenAreInnocent Ryu]]''': What's a mad dog? What's a license? Is it a demon? ''[[ExtremeOmnivore Can we eat it?]]''
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* Alice from ''PandoraHearts'' takes this approach to both abstract and physical objects.
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* ''MahouSenseiNegima'': [[IdiotHero Idiot]] [[TheLancer Lancer]] Kotarō, in asking WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove.
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* In an episode of TheBeverlyHillbillies, BigEater Jethro is threatened with a karate chop. He's looking forward to it because it he thinks it's like a pork chop. He later insists on getting one even though the person he's asking is a highly ranked martial artists who begs him not to ask for it. He also asks for a "judo roll" and a "sumo crush", thinking they're food. Each time he gets exactly what he asked for but doesn't get it and thinks he's being attacked for no good reason.
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* In an episode of TheBeverlyHillbillies, ''TheBeverlyHillbillies'', BigEater Jethro is threatened with a karate chop. He's looking forward to it because it he thinks it's like a pork chop. He later insists on getting one even though the person he's asking is a highly ranked martial artists who begs him not to ask for it. He also asks for a "judo roll" and a "sumo crush", thinking they're food. Each time he gets exactly what he asked for but doesn't get it and thinks he's being attacked for no good reason.
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* As found on ''NotAlwaysRight'': Even the word [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-abbreviation-abberation/10765 abbreviation]] is not safe.
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-->-- '''female orc joke''', ''{{World of Warcraft}}''
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Stock line for an IdiotHero, BigEater or ExtremeOmnivore. Usually used to convey how out of touch a character is with whatever they are asking to eat.
Related to SniffSniffNom. Also see IAteWhat
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''LoveHina'': Kaolla Su. At least in the manga, her standard question whenever she hears a new word/phrase/concept is "Can you eat it?" But then Kaolla is the kind of person who will absentmindedly gnaw on someone's limbs in her sleep if she share a bed with them.... She asks whether Tokyo University is a food at one point.
-->'''Kaolla:''' What's Tokiyo-ewe? Is it a snack?
** There used to be a Kaolla Su shrine with "Can I eat it?" on its banner, displayed next to [[DoubleEntendre a picture of Su in a swimsuit]].
* ''DragonBall''
** When Chi-Chi offers to be Goku's bride during an early TournamentArc, he accepts readily. Some years later when she comes to get revenge on his failure to fulfill the promise, it is revealed that he had thought a bride was a kind of food. Although this was [[{{Woolseyism}} only in the dub]] -- in the Japanese version he was mistaking "engagement" (kon'yaku) with "konjac" (konnyaku), [[LostInTranslation which would make no sense in English]].
** He has also asked the same thing about the eponymous {{MacGuffin}}s.
** Also, in the {{Non Serial Movie}}s and games, Goten is revealed to have no idea his dad's real name is Kakarotto, usually thinking [[PunnyName they're talking about some sort of vegetable.]]
* ''GurrenLagann''
** From Jorgun and Balinbo: "Atmosphere? [[HulkSpeak What that?]] Can you eat it?"
** And from the same characters in ''[[CompilationMovie Lagann-hen]]'': "We've never had a mission before! Can you eat it?"
* ''MahouSenseiNegima!'': [[IdiotHero Idiot]] [[TheLancer Lancer]] Kotarō, in asking WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove.
* ''KodomoNoJikan'': "What's 'recording'? Is it tasty?"
* ''AxisPowersHetalia'':
-->'''Italy:''' [[DrivesLikeCrazy Traffic laws?]] I've never eaten that sort of thing.
* Also, in ''TheSlayers'', when Martina claims that Gourry is to be her fiancé, Gourry asks, "What's a fiancé? IS IT A PICKLE?! Hmmmm, but is it sweet or sour?"
* This priceless bit from a ''{{Naruto}}'' filler:
-->"French or soft. Which do you prefer?"\\
"Are you talking about food?"\\
''(laughs)'' "Oh ''Lord''. ''Kissing''."
* ''FinalFantasyUnlimited'':
-->'''Fungo:''' What is a "thief"? Can you... eat it?
* Ryuichi of ''{{Gravitation}}'' is quoted as saying "What's talent? Something tasty?"
** '''[[UnusualEuphemism Y]][[MemeticMutation e]][[SailorMoon s]][[FetishFuel .]]'''
* In chapter 19 of ''SoraNoOtoshimono'', Nymph acted like this. She kept asking, "Does wrestling taste good?" while licking a candied apple.
* ''KamichamaKarin''. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpyjA2Wpdtw&feature=channel episode 1 preview]] has Karin mistaking the resident [[TalkingAnimal talking cat's]] VerbalTic for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashi a type of soup]].
* ''Escaflowne'':
-->"A pager isn't something you eat!"\\
"That's for me to decide."
* Yuuji pulls this on Yoshi in ''BakaToTestToShokanju'' in the light novel.
-->"OK, the real fight starts now."\\
"Wait, Yuuji! You never trusted me from the beginning!"\\
"Trust? What is that? Is it edible?"
* In ''CorrectorYui'', the impossibly computer-illiterate title character initially mistakes "delete" for "dessert" and wonders where the food is. (Asamiya Kia's rewrite of the manga has her think it's "Doritos", but it leads to the same thing.) This kicks off a RunningGag of her mistaking "delete" for any similar-sounding words.
* In ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'', Juumonji's straight-laced father is described as originally thinking that American football (''amefuto'') was some kind of candy (since ''ame'' means "sweet" in Japanese).
* In the English translation of the ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'' manga, at one point Ciel is asking Sebastian who would teach him how to dance (as there was no time to get his normal dance tutors to), and points out that none of the others there would be able to teach him. Said others are shown drawn in a {{Chibi}} style, with "Does waltz taste yummy?" above them.
* In ''{{Mai-HiME}}'', Mikoto demonstrates [[NoSocialSkills her upbringing]] to her classmates.
-->'''Mikoto:''' [[VaporWear What's bra?... Is it edible?]]
* In ''CowboyBebop'', this is also a common question coming from Ed. No surprise, as she's a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and the heroes are [[PerpetualPoverty regularly starving]].
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* ''LuckyLuke''
** Used for several crooks, including Averell Dalton.
** [[DogsAreDumb Rantanplan]] usually doesn't even ask himself the question, and go straight to [[ExtremeOmnivore trying to eat whatever he finds]].
* From ''ArchieComics''; not the actual phrase, but same idea:
-->'''Dilton:''' That [[ExtremeOmnivore Jughead]] stuffs himself silly.\\
'''Veronica:''' We can't tolerate this sort of conduct.\\
'''Dilton:''' Jughead! Have a little decorum!\\
'''Jughead:''' Okay.\\
''(looks around the banquet table)''\\
'''Jughead:''' Where is it?
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* ''DragonBallZAbridged'' features this exchange:
-->'''Piccolo:''' It's called sarcasm!\\
'''Goku:''' What's that taste like?\\
'''Piccolo:''' DAMN IT, Goku!
* ''YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
-->'''Kaiba:''' It's a figure of speech, Mokie.\\
'''Mokuba:''' Oh. Can I eat it?
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* In ''GroundhogDay'':
-->'''Phil Connors:''' Do you ever have déjà vu, Mrs. Lancaster?\\
'''Mrs. Lancaster:''' ''(serving breakfast)'' I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen.
* In ''{{Help}}'', there is a scene where George is holding a cymbal. He then takes a bite out of it.
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* ''{{Discworld}}''
** It must be repeatedly explained to Archchancellor Ridcully that Rincewind is a wizard, not a type of cheese.
-->'''Ridcully:''' Sounds a sort of name you'd associate with cheese, I mean, a pound of Mature Rincewind, it rolls off the tongue...
** Also, a variation in ''Unseen Academicals'':
-->'''Glenda:''' So you quite liked [the football game], then.\\
'''Nutt:''' Oh yes! The ambience was wonderful!\\
'''Glenda:''' I didn't try those, but the pease pudding is usually good.
* ''TheHobbit'' features the trolls debating what a hobbit is and if you can eat one. Them being trolls, the answer is ''yes''. Although, they ultimately decide that he's so small and miserable that it would be too much trouble to skin and bone him for the little meat that he has, and throw him away, almost forgetting about him. Now, thirteen drwarves with him, there's an idea for a good meal.
* Stock line from Ned Land from ''TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea''. Professor Arronax and Conseil have a keen interest in wildlife, whereas Ned's interest is purely culinary.
* In ''TheChroniclesOfPrydain'', Orddu asks "What is a Gurgi? Do you eat it or sit on it?"
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* Vanessa's line from the series finale of ''SmallWonder'': "Humans sure are weird. I wonder if they taste good?"
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Upon being presented with the game Simon, [[PodPeople Trumpy]] gets the riff, "Can I eat it? It looks so good."
* ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'': The post-apocalyptic gameshow. "What ''was'' hope?" "Was it a spice?" "What's a spice?"
* In the ''MyNameIsEarl'' episode "Sticks and Stones", when talking about the stock market:
-->'''Randy:''' I'm confused. You own twenty thousand dollars worth of Kripsy Kremes, but you still have to pay for donuts?\\
'''Paul:''' I don't get donuts, I get dividends.\\
'''Earl:''' Mmm, dividends... are they like those little powdered munchkins?
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* ''TalesOfSymphonia'':
-->'''Lloyd:''' Professor, what's a philanderer? Is it something you eat?
* ''MegamanBattleNetwork 6'': The most blatant signs of Lan's {{Flanderization}} are the times he asks this.
* Teddie in ''{{Persona 4}}'': "Proof...? I told you, I don't know what that is. Is it tasty?"
* ''SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'':
-->'''[[TheDitz Danette]]:''' Revowasshun? Wuzzat? Is it food? Does it taste good?
* ''{{Touhou}}''
** In ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', Reimu's normal route, she encounters this twice...
-->'''Rumia:''' [[MemeticMutation Are you the kind of person I can eat?]]\\
'''Reimu:''' Ever heard the phrase... "Good medicine tastes bad"?\\
[...]\\
'''Reimu:''' I'm a normal [[{{Miko}} shrine maiden]].\\
'''Meiling:''' That's good to hear. Certainly, [[ShameIfSomethingHappened I've heard that shrine maidens make for good eating]] ...\\
'''Reimu:''' Don't spread rumors like that!
** Marisa turns it on its head:
-->'''Patchouli:''' Then maybe I'll help myself.\\
'''Marisa:''' I'm really tasty.\\
'''Patchouli:''' Let's see, how to easily remove unneeded portions of food ...\\
[...]\\
'''Reimila:''' So, what are you here for? I'm already quite full, but ...\\
'''Marisa:''' Okay, but y'know, I'm hungry.\\
'''Remilia:''' ... You can eat me.\\
'''Marisa:''' You don't say?
** One of Cirno's fanmade theme songs theme song, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXCZ90Xk9bo Odenpa LOVE GIRL]]", has lyrics that nicely illustrates her [[{{Baka}} idiocy]] with gems like "Is an abacus yummy? (I can't eat it!)"
** This trope is also played with in one of the canon short stories. Marisa ''shows'' Reimu a prism, explains what it is, and adds, "You can't eat it," even though there's no reason to think Reimu would try to eat a hunk of glass. Reimu nonchalantly agrees that it seems hard, and the conversation continues.
* In ''MySims Kingdom'', when Rusty steals a horseshoe, Gabby decides to round up a posse. Just then, you and your assistants walk up. Gabby says he's found his posse. Buddy asks if it's a kind of soup...
* ''ChronoTrigger'':
-->'''Ayla:''' Pretty! Big! This Rainbow Shell? Can eat?
** Alya's first instinct on meeting Frog is also to ask if she can cook him.
** The party promptly shifts the conversation to asking if she's seen Magus. "Cape one more tasty?"
* WildChild Shea from ''HarvestMoon DS: Island of Happiness'':
-->'''Shea:''' Marriage? What that? Taste good?
* ''FinalFantasyX''
** Variation: when your party battles the Dark Flans in Zanarkand, Rikku takes one look and muses, "Hmmm... is that edible?" A FanFic even makes a ShoutOut to this, when Rikku jokes that Wakka describes Lulu's cooking as tasting like "burnt Flan".
*** Of course, the joke is in the real world, flan ''is'' a type of food.
*** ''FinalFantasyXII'' gets rather meta: Flan the food was designed after Flan the monster.
** Also in ''FinalFantasyX'', Wakka wonders out loud how many steaks one can get out of a Behemoth.
* A RunningGag in ''MetalGearSolid 3'' has Para-Medic describing the local wildlife and flora, with Snake asking what it tastes like. In his case, though, he ''can'' eat it, which seems to reliably {{Squick}} out Para-Medic even though Snake has little other choice in the tropical rainforest that is the Russian wilderness.
** Taken to horrible levels in one of the ''SuperSmashBros. Brawl'' easter egg transmissions where Snake contemplates eating ''Yoshi''.
* In ''BlazBlue'' [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Taokaka's]] standard response to anything new is to ask if it's edible, even "black squiggly" [[EldritchAbomination Arakune]], or an intangible concept:
-->'''Tao:''' What's "unemployed"? Does it taste good?
* In ''{{Lufia}} 2'', an NPC says that he heard that, to do a basic game function, you must press a controller button. But he has no idea what a "Y button" is, so he wonders if it's edible.
* In the Tiny Chao Garden found in [[SonicAdventureSeries certain]] ''SonicTheHedgehog'' [[SonicAdvanceTrilogy games]], your Chao will sometimes ask "What is political reform? Is it tasty?"
* A variant in ''TheSpaceBar''. In the brief (but hilarious) segment playing as... intellectually wanting... alien Thud, you describe most objects by their edibility. For instance the bazooka is "Long. Heavy. Not edible." Despite this description, you can attempt to eat it.
* In ''{{Castlevania}} Judgment'':
-->'''Golem:''' [[HulkSpeak Love?]] [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove What love?]] [[HulkSpeak Love tasty?]]
* In ''PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords'', one of the eventual party members is an ExtremeOmnivore called Drong. The player character is in the service of Queen Gwendolyn, and wants to return to the palace and report to her. Drong immediately inquires, "What's a Queen Gwendolyn? Can I eat it?" Of course, he can ''technically'' eat Queen Gwendolyn.
* BigEater TokenLoli Rika in ''SakuraWars V'' doesn't know what Santa is and asks if she can eat it.
* ''GitarooMan'', upon losing to [[WarmupBoss Panpeus]]:
-->'''Panpeus:''' The Gitaroo is mine! Can I eat it?
* In ''DigimonWorld'', when Tokomon is explaining how time works in the Digital World, he asks if "seasons" are something you can eat.
* In ''StreetFighterAlpha 3'', Birdie admires Honda's hairstyle, leading the latter to introduce him to the concept of sumo.
-->'''Birdie:''' Sumo? What's that? Some kind of raw fish dish?
* In ''EpicBattleFantasy'', Matt comments that the enemies in a beach area don't look particularly [[ExtremeOmnivore tasty]].
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* A ''[[HomestarRunner Teen Girl Squad]]'' issue has three of the girls discussing their prom dresses. Meanwhile, tomboyish What's Her Face wonders aloud whether a "dress" is "a food".
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* In ''FauxPas'', Cindy often wonders if something new can be eaten. (Small wonder, as she's surrounded by animals [[CarnivoreConfusion she would normally eat]] if they would stop befriending her.)
* ''TheOrderOfTheStick''. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0720.html The Empress of Blood]] asks this about Elan. Problem is, since she's a voracious red dragon, he would be perfectly edible for her.
* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/17/ This]] ''PennyArcade'' strip. (Although some people do eat the placenta.)
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* Inverted in [[http://failblog.org/2010/09/22/epic-fail-photos-snooki-fail/ this]] ''Fail Blog'' post.
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* ''FamilyGuy''
** Lois tells Peter that his idea for a parade float based on an episode of ''WhosTheBoss'' is a little esoteric, and we cut to Pete's brain as it attempts to decipher what "esoteric" means. "Does it mean 'sexy'?'" "No, no, it means delicious!" so Peter declares to her, "Lois, ''Who's The Boss?'' is not a food!"
-->'''Brian:''' Swing and a miss.
** Also this:
-->'''Stewie:''' We are in a sexless marriage! We have yet to have sex!\\
'''Olivia:''' Do you even know what sex ''is''?!\\
'''Stewie:''' That's not the poi... don't change the... It's a kind of cake?
* ''CodeLyoko'', episode 70 "Skidbladnir":
-->'''Yumi:''' It's [[EveryoneKnowsMorse Morse code]], turkey!\\
'''Odd:''' Morse code turkey? Sounds pretty scrumptious...
::(Even better in the French version...)
-->'''Yumi:''' Mais c'est du morse, banane !\\
'''Odd:''' Du morse-banane ? Ç'a l'air bon, c'est japonais ?
* ''{{Chowder}}'':
-->'''Chowder:''' Pepper spray? That sounds delicious! ''(gets sprayed in the face)'' AHHH!! I was wrong!! I was horribly wrong!!!
** Fun fact: Dave's Insanity Sauce, a super-hot habanero extract sauce, has a "private reserve" variety with "twice the heat". In a contest to see which was spicier, Dave's Insanity Sauce weighed in at a higher Scovill rating than self-defense pepper spray. (Which, incidentally, you might be able to cook with.)
* Taken to its logical extreme in ''RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure''. [[JabbaTableManners The Greedy]], believing that a "sweetheart" is an edible object, attempts to steal Ann's candy heart to cure his own unhappiness.
* A variation occurs in ''Dot and Keeto''. Dot, shrunk down to the size of a bug and looking for the root that will change her back to normal size, encounters a praying mantis. The mantis asks if she wants anything to eat, and she tells him that what she wants is "like a carrot." The mantis then asks how many legs a "carrot" has.
* In the ChristmasSpecial ''O Christmas Tree'', a squirrel attempts to explain christmas lights to a bear.
-->'''Squirrel:''' You gotta plug 'em in. They're electric.\\
'''Bear:''' What does that mean?\\
'''Squirrel:''' Oh, I don't believe this. Don't you know what electricity is?\\
'''Bear:''' Some kind of fish?\\
'''Squirrel:''' ''({{facepalm}})''
* ''DragonTales'' gives us an example:
--> '''Wheezie:''' We're so close I can taste it!\\
'''Ord:''' Oh? What's it taste like?\\
'''Wheezie:''' It's just an expression, silly!\\
'''Ord:''' Oh... What's an expression taste like?
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* Babies, in what [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian Freud called the "oral phase"]], seem to use "stick it in your mouth" as their default object identification protocol. Especially when teething.
** To be fair, babies' eyesight is not all that good, and most of their working touch receptors are on their lips, so "stick it in your mouth" is just a method to feel it better, rather than a legitimate attempt to eat it.
* Dogs: the old joke being a [[DogsAreDumb dog's thought process]] on finding something goes "If it's moving, chase it. If it's not moving, eat it. If you can't eat it, have sex with it."
** Similar to babies above; since dogs don't have hands, the best way for them to get a feel for something is to put their mouth on it.
* Humanity runs on this. How many foods are created by letting something spoil under specific conditions? Pickles, cheese, salami, beer, butter, etc. Basically, the invention of new food goes something like this:
-->Step 1: Store something.\\
Step 2: X in my Y! (It's more likely than you think.)\\
Step 3: This stuff doesn't smell that bad. It's still good. Om nom nom nom.\\
Step 4: This is delicious... I'm a genius!\\
Step 5: ???\\
Step 6: Profit!
** Another one: leavened bread was probably the result it being unintentionally left to rest long enough for yeast to cause the dough rising; the first person to eat it would have seem eating a strange new thing.
* Strangely enough, ''[[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks sharks]]'' are big time users of this trope. When a shark encounters something unusual, the first thing it will try to do is figure out what it is. Because sharks have no hands, they have to use their mouths. And because they have no lips, in order to touch it they have to bite it. Ouch. This is actually what causes a lot of the unprovoked shark attacks on humans, especially with the Great White. The shark in question either wants to figure out what we are, or thinks we might be a weird seal. Hence the shark attacks where a shark takes one bite or so and leaves. Of course, [[SubvertedTrope sometimes they]] ''[[SubvertedTrope don't]]''.
** The problem, of course, being that these investigations are made with two-foot wide jaws that can exert a 5 ton bite force. This is the rough equivalent of examining an egg by hitting it with a sledgehammer attached to your tongue.
** This also serves to explain why sharks' stomach contents are so legendarily eclectic.
* As found on ''NotAlwaysRight'': Even the word [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-abbreviation-abberation/10765 abbreviation]] is not safe.
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