History Main / PaletteSwappedAlienFood

* ''MoronsFromOuterSpace'' mentioned a space beer that was green.

*** One episode in the original series featured the drinking of something that (when one of the characters drinking it was prompted) was identified as "Well, it's... uh... it's green." Of course, this was after several bottles of alcohol -- presumably it has an actual name.
*** [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] has a CallBack to this line when Data can find no better descriptor for an unknown alcoholic drink from Guinan's stash, later identified by Picard as Aldebaran whiskey. Presumably not the same drink as above, as Scotty, who consumed both, did not recognize the second. (That, or he was too drunk the last time to remember.)

* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': A part of the classic three-part Bortronian meal, the hoagie, basically resembles a submarine sandwich except the bread is red.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch,'' Jumba and Pleakley attempt to bait Stitch with what appears to be an ordinary chicken drumstick... which is also bright green, and covered in purple spots.

See also AlienLunch, for alien food that no human could stomach.

* In ''VideoGame/ElderScrollsOnline'', the food in the Daedric realm of Fargrave is all unusually-colored varations of normal food: pink vegetables, bright purple ham with white speckles, orange bread, and sweetrolls with ''blue'' frosting.

* Hagro biscuit in ''Series/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' looks like a blue panini topped with guacamole.

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* ''Webcomic/BlueMilkSpecial'' on [[http://www.bluemilkspecial.com/comic/blue-milk-special/ page 100]] Luke explains that the blue milk is bantha milk, however [[IAteWhat what Han's drinking]] is the blue milk ''special'', which comes from ''male'' banthas.

* Creator/DrSeuss' ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' is probably the most famous literary example. Although this is something of a subversion, since the way that you turn scrambled eggs green is by adding grape jelly: an ingredient which one would normally find on a breakfast plate anyway. Thus making it less strange than it sounds or appears.

* Creator/DrSeuss' ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' is probably the most famous literary example.

The culinary equivalent of RubberForeheadAliens. Alien cuisine has a suspicious tendency to look like Earth food ripped from its terrestrial context and subjected to food colouring -- leading to things like [[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam green egg yolks]], glow-in-the-dark yellow sauces, obsidian berries, and blue meat.

The more humanoid the aliens in question, the more plausible this trope becomes. Green-skinned people who are shaped just like humans might very well share a biome with red-skinned vegetables that are shaped just like asparagus.

* In ''Disney/LiloAndStitch,'' Jumba and Pleakley attempt to bait Stitch with what appears to be an ordinary chicken drumstick... which is also bright green, and covered in purple spots.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' had [[MemeticMutation BLUE MILK!]]

* Shows up on occasion in ''Series/StargateSG1''. Lampshaded in the parody episode "Wormhole X-Treme!": "You think they have ''apples'' on an alien planet?... Look, get some kiwis, and spray-paint them red." Subverted by the little FoodPills the Asgard eat.

* In ''Disney/LiloAndStitch,'' Jumba and Pleakly attempt to bait Stitch with what appears to be an ordinary chicken drumstick... which is also bright green, and covered in purple spots.

* It is hardly unheard-of for chicken eggs to have moderately dark, greenish yolks, though commercially produced eggs in some countries tend to a brighter yellow (with differences in prefered shade; Germans for example prefer a saturated, slightly dark yellow, while the Polish prefer a faint, bright yellow instead). There are also breeds of chicken that consistently lay eggs with green shells. There are also blue, pink, gray, and probably others.

* And it is hardly unheard-of for chicken eggs to have moderately dark, greenish yolks, though commercially produced eggs in some countries tend to a brighter yellow. There are also breeds of chicken that consistently lay eggs with green shells. There are also blue, pink, gray, and probably others.

* Razer eats a grey steak in ''GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries''. Bonus points for eating it exactly like you would eat a steak.
* A downplayed example in an episode of ''{{Arthur}}'' featuring George's mother being puzzled by a purple object she picks up in the grocery store that turns out to be purple okra, which Sue Ellen's father claims is delicious (so this would be PaletteSwappedAlienFood with Alien just meaning from another country on Earth).

The culinary equivalent of RubberForeheadAliens. Alien cuisine has a suspicious tendency to look like Earth food ripped from its terrestrial context and subjected to food colouring -- leading to things like green egg yolks, glow-in-the-dark yellow sauces, obsidian berries, and blue meat.

** A memorable inversion occurs when G'Kar serves a fellow Narn Swedish meatballs because it resembles and tastes like a native dish called breen. G'Kar then mentions that every alien species has inexplicably invented a dish resembling Swedish meatballs.