History Main / StewedAlive

* Some crabs are cooked this way, dipped alive in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court-bouillon court-bouillon]] (though it's already hot when it happens), and likewise with lobsters (in court-bouillon as well as a variety of other dishes). Both typically have to be kept alive up to the point of cooking, and many restaurants that serve them (like Red Lobster) show their stocks in publicly-viewable tanks. Hence the infamously incoherent quote by Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi of ''Series/JerseyShore'' fame: "That's why I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that -- because [[CaptainObvious they're alive when you kill it]]."

* The 1985 movie of ''Film/KingSolomonsMines'' has TheHero and TheChick being thrown into an enormous cooking pot. They escape by swimming back and forth until the pot turns over and they roll away downhill.

* In the Franchise/{{Splatoon}} series’ [[MultiMookMelee Salmon Run mode]], you’ll sometimes have a special wave where the Salmonids you’re fighting ride into battle with a giant, fully functioning grill, effectively inflicting this upon themselves. This ties in with the species trait of being NotAfraidToDie, as well as the fact that they believe that [[LetsMeetTheMeat being eaten by those victorious over them is the greatest honour possible]].

*** "Mile-Hi Grub" ends with Thes the lion being tossed out of an airplane after trying and failing to eat Squeaks, and landing on an island. He is next scene in what he thinks is a hot-tub attended by another squirrel... only for said squirrel to whip out a fork and knife. Cue an OhCrap moment from Thes as he realizes that he's in a cooking pot and surrounded by an entire pack of hungry, meat-eating squirrels...

* Happens to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny countless times:

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13349364/2/Atonement Atonement]]'' Harry dreams that Voldemort and his Death Eaters cook him in the cauldron used during Voldemort's rebirth ceremony.

* Up until 2021 Dutch amusement park ''De Efteling'' featured a merry-go-round called "Monsieur Cannibale" in which visitors were seated in "cooking pots" gyrating around the figure of a cannibal chef, accompanied by the song "Monsieur Cannibale" by French artist Sacha Distel.

A subtrope of CookingTheLiveMeal. Like MeatOVision, this trope is often PlayedForLaughs as a form of BlackComedyCannibalism, though getting boiled alive for real ranks as one of the [[CookedToDeath less pleasant ways to die]]. On the other hand, EatenAlive is more likely to be [[PrimalFear played for horror]].

* A tribe of pygmies try to do this to Rebecca Cunningham in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Talespin}}'' episode "The Bigger They Are, The Louder They Oink." She doesn't like it.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', Becky's truffle hunting expedition turns sour when they're caught by natives who try to cook her ''and'' the pig she brought to sniff the truffles out. Naturally the natives add plenty of truffles to the stew.

* Up until 2021 Dutch amusement park ''De Efteling'' featured a merr-go-round called "Monsieur Cannibale" in which visitors were seated in "cooking pots" gyrating around the figure of a cannibal chef, accompanied by the song "Monsieur Cannibale" by French artist Sacha Distel.

Like MeatOVision, this trope is often PlayedForLaughs as a form of BlackComedyCannibalism, though getting boiled alive for real ranks as one of the [[CookedToDeath less pleasant ways to die]]. On the other hand, EatenAlive is more likely to be [[PrimalFear played for horror]].

Like MeatOVision, this trope is often PlayedForLaughs as a form of BlackComedyCannibalism, though getting boiled alive for real ranks as one of the [[CruelAndUnusualDeath less pleasant ways to die]]. On the other hand, EatenAlive is more likely to be [[PrimalFear played for horror]].

* One episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' has a cannibalistic but otherwise ordinary elderly couple stew a young hitchhiker ''in their hot tub.''

* In the PointAndClick adventure ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}'', anthropomorphic wolf B.B. Wolf knocks out Drew and Flux. When they come to again, they are in a cooking pot with a fire underneath, with B. B. Wolf cutting carrots and adding the slices into the pot.

* ''1000 Ways to Die'' in the death referred to as "Reef Stew" a meat loving Fijian tribe has to reluctantly go vegetarian during typhoon season yet that didn't stop them from having a boiling cauldron on the beach. They grow desperate for meat and even contemplate throwing some of their village's women into the pot, but their plight is short lived. Two shipwrecked drug smugglers wash up on the beach and they beg the Chief for food, instead he knocks them out and the wake up being boiled alive in the cauldron. After five hours their bodies become edible and the tribe hosted a "Finger Licking' Good" luau with the smuggler's severed heads as the centerpiece.

* In the old PC quest game ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}'', there was a B.B. Wolf who tried to do this to the protagonist.

** ''WesternAnimation/HiawathasRabbitHunt''. A joke version of the Native American mythological character tries to capture Bugs and cook him in a pot.
** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_Is_Witch Which is Witch?]]''. While Bugs is exploring DarkestAfrica, a witch doctor tries to cook him in a pot - not to eat him, but to use him as an ingredient in a potion.
** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbitson_Crusoe Rabbitson Crusoe]]''. While they're trapped on a desert island, Yosemite Sam tries to cook Bugs by throwing him in a stewing pot.
** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Hare Bill of Hare]]''. Bugs is trying to cook a meal in a kettle. The Tasmanian Devil comes along and throws Bugs into his own pot.
** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackiki_Wabbit Wackiki Wabbit]]''. A couple of castaways try to cook Bugs in a pot. He initially treats it like a spa day, as seen up top.
** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Ball_Bunny 8 Ball Bunny]]''. While Bugs is taking a penguin back to the South Pole, both of them are captured by South American natives and put in a huge stew pot to cook.
** ''WesternAnimation/RabbitsFeat''. Wile E. Coyote tries to cook him this way.
** ''WesternAnimation/HareTonic'' is a more modern variation, where Elmer takes Bugs home to stew him. Having already set Elmer up for failure, Bugs helpfully puts himself in the pot.