History Main / TrojanVeggies

* Supposedly, this is the origin of Kongen af Danmark (lit. "King of Denmark"), an aniseed-flavored Danish hard candy. When King Christian V had throat pains, he was prescribed aniseed oil by his doctor. He didn't like the taste, so the doctor blended it with sugar and a small amount of beetroot juice.

* ''Literature/GregoryTheTerribleEater'': When Gregory the goat refuses to eat trash and only wants to eat human food, Dr. Ram recommends to his parents that they start small and give him a new food each day. Over the next few days, Gregory's mom makes spaghetti with a shoelace, string beans mixed with a rubber heel cut into small pieces, vegetable soup in a can (but he has to eat the can, too) and ice cream (but also he has to eat the carton).

* ''Literature/GregoryTheTerribleEater'': When Gregory the goat refuses to eat trash and only wants to eat human food, Dr. Ram recommends to his parents that they start small and give him a new food each day. Over the next few days, Gregory's mom makes spaghetti with a shoelace, green beans with a rubber heel cut into small pieces, and vegetable soup in a can (he has to eat the can, too).

* ''Webcomic/TheVeganArtbook'': In [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/60/2d/d0/602dd07a4243178bbf3a6f83fe35efe3.jpg this]] strip, Brie/Plausibel tricks some non-vegans into eating vegan food by pretending some unknown vegan dish is chicken.

** In ''Cabin Fever'', the middle school replaces the unhealthy food in the cafeteria with healthier food. The French fries are replaced with something called "Extreme Sports Stix," but everyone quickly realizes they're just sliced carrots.

* ''Literature/RamonaQuimby'': In ''Ramona and Her Father'', after Picky-picky the cat eats the family's Halloween jack-o-lantern, Mrs. Quimby saves the remains of the pumpkin for next week's dinners. The family soon gets sick of pumpkin pie and pumpkin custard; Beezus confesses to Ramona that she thinks their mother tried to hide pumpkin in the meatloaf, but she wasn't sure because everything was all mixed together.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "[[Recap/ArthurS2E3DWThePickyEaterBusterAndTheDaredevils D.W. the Picky Eater]]", Arthur and Buster give D.W. a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and she eats it. D.W. learns that the boys tricked her by putting spinach in the sandwich to get her to like it, only for her to spit it out. At the end of the episode, D.W. eats a Little Bo Peep Pot Pie and she loves it. It is revealed that the pie has spinach in it, which she admits that she loves.

* ''WebAnimation/FizzysLunchLab'': In one episode, Professor Fizzy visits a girl named Nelly Nitpick who doesn't like vegetables. He gives her a burger and she likes it. Fizzy then tells Nelly that it was a black bean burger. At first she is disgusted, but Nelly really likes the black bean burger anyway.

* In [[https://www.fmylife.com/article/nice-try_405707.html this story from FMyLife.com]], someone fed her husband a vegan beef burger without telling him what it was so she could show him that it tasted exactly the same as a real beef burger. It did not work; after taking a single bite, he spat it across the kitchen because he thought the meat had expired.

* Creator/DonaldTrump is notorious for his hatred of vegetables, which created some concerns during his Presidency, as Presidents are supposed to meet a certain standard of fitness. [[https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/how-trumps-former-doctor-tricked-him-into-eating-vegetables.html At least one]] of his former physicians has admitted that they had to resort to hiding vegetables in his food to try and bring his weight under control. There was also [[https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/how-trumps-former-doctor-tricked-him-into-eating-vegetables.html considerable concern]] during his trip to India in 2020, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a vegetarian and Trump's favorite foods, like steak and burgers, are hard to come by in a country where cows are revered.

* In the 1970s, American Kitchen came out with a line of French-fry/vegetable hybrids called [[http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-frozen-dept-i-hate-peas.html “I Hate _________”]] (Peas, Corn, Carrots, etc.). They weren’t around very long.
* Creator/BrandonSanderson tells anecdotes about his wife hiding veggies in his children’s smoothies and enticing them to drink them because, “They’re green, like boogers!”

* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/DidntKnowIWantedThat/comments/fx5yr3/there_is_a_sippy_cup_designed_to_trick_kids_into/ This sippy cup]] is designed to make it easier for small children to take liquid medicine. It is designed with a secret compartment under the lid, so that when a child drinks from it, the medicine goes down first, followed by their favorite juice.

* ''{{Website/Neopets}}: The description of the Pea and Carrot-Stuffed Turkey is "If your Neopet won't eat their veggies, you might want to try this dish."

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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Dolorous Edd, a steward of the Night's Watch, hates prunes and recalls one meal where Three-Finger Hobb chopped up some prunes and hid them in a hen with chestnuts and carrots.

* ''Series/ModernFamily'': In the episode "Arrested", Cam, who recently took a vegan cooking class, makes Alex and Luke "faux-con", bacon made out of soy, for breakfast in an effort to prove to Mitch (who hates faux-con and was easily able to tell the difference between it and real bacon) that it's just as good as real bacon. While the kids initially enjoy it and don't notice the difference until Cam tells them, Luke is highly allergic to soy and has to be taken to the hospital.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/43485478 I Will Touch the Skies - A Pokemon Fanfiction]]", Grace has purchased some vitamins to help get her Pokemon stronger. However, her Togetic is a PickyEater, preferring to eat only Oran Berries, so she has to crush up the berries and hide the powder within to get her Togetic to eat it. It's noted that Togetic was eyeing the food suspiciously, but ate it anyway, helped by the fact that vitamins don't taste like anything in this fanfic.

** In the episode "Undercover Veggies," Alton makes three dishes with parsnips hidden in them to win a bet against his veggie-averse, but highly perceptive, niece that he could get her to ask for seconds of vegetables before her visit with him was over.

* A vegetarian/vegan character tries to prove that not all veggies are DisgustingVegetarianFood by preparing "regular" food for someone and then revealing it was vegetarian after they've finished eating it. ([[DontTryThisAtHome Please do not try this in real life]], because you might accidentally give someone food with an ingredient they're allergic to. Wheat, soy, and nuts, three of the most common vegetarian staples, are also common allergies.)

** Another Literature/{{Discworld}} book, ''Literature/MakingMoney'', has an inversion: Moist hated liver and other offal, and always hid it under his vegetable or potato.

** Another Literature/{{Discworld}} book, ''Literature/GoingPostal'', has an inversion: Moist hated liver and other offal, and always hid it under his vegetable or potato.

And no, kids. This "Trojan" is neither about a computer virus added in those vegetables, nor those rubber balloons your parents talk about before they "wrestle" in their bedroom.

* A vegetarian/vegan character tries to prove that not all veggies are DisgustingVegetarianFood by preparing "regular" food for someone and then revealing it was vegetarian after they've finished eating it. (DontTryThisAtHome, because you might accidentally give someone food with an ingredient they're allergic to. Wheat, soy, and nuts, three of the most common vegetarian staples, are also common allergies.)

* Invoked in the kid's lit novella ''Liver Cookies.'' The deuteragonists decide that if [[IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou healthy food tastes awful,]] and junk food tastes good, the solution is to hide the dreadful tasting health food in great-tasting junk food, coming up with the "company name" of HJ (short for "Healthy Junk"). The male half of the pairing comes up with the idea after having to eat liver and onions for supper and being given a cookie for dessert. The resultant cookies taste alright at first, but have liver's distinctive aftertaste.

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And no, kids. This "Trojan" is neither about a computer virus added in those vegetables, nor those things your parents talk about before they "wrestle" in their bedroom.

And no, kids. This "Trojan" is neither about a computer virus added in those vegetables, nor those things your parents talk about before they "wrestle" in the bedroom.

* The "Angery" one-shot comic, originally posted on Website/{{Facebook}} in 2016, begins with Meme Man ordering a "steank with NO VEGETALS." When he is just about to take a bite of meat, Green de la Bean ([[AnthropomorphicFood an anthropomorphic green bean]]) appears saying "did someone said NO VEGETALS?" and takes a running leap into Meme Man's mouth. Meme Man then says "i taste a VEGETAL" and, in the final panel, "ANGERY" with GlowingEyesOfDoom and a fiery background.