History PlayingWith / IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Straight''': Alice eats a vegetable and nearly retches.

* '''Averted''': Alice's favourite foods are apples, ice cream, bran flakes, and bacon; her least favourites are broccoli, chocolate, and cheeseburgers.

* '''Justified''':
** The body likes the taste of what it's accustomed to. Alice eats fast food on a daily basis - and health food only at gunpoint.
** Alice's mother used to have two specialities - dry chicken with vegetables boiled grey and bitter, and banoffee pie. Alice learned that healthy stuff tastes awful, and swore off it for life.
* '''Inverted''':
** Junk food tastes like "cardboard and shame".
** If it tastes good, it's bad for you; the tastiest dish Alice ever had was banana pudding her ex-boyfriend had secretly laced with arsenic.
* '''Deconstructed:''' Alice's boyfriend is eternally frustrated at how picky an eater she is, and nags her that she's harming her body. She develops a heart condition from never eating healthy food, and eventually has a minor heart attack.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice determines to cut down to eating the ''really'' unhealthy stuff only in moderation. Her boyfriend takes her on a ''cordon bleu'' cookery course, and they learn how to make food that tastes good without being unhealthy. Her favourite dish is still banoffee pie with ice cream.
* '''Zig-Zagged''':

** Alice hates the classic vegetables and some healthy things; but will regularly eat other stuff that is healthy.

* '''Enforced''': "Everyone knows health food tastes like crap. Let's make that into a RunningGag."
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "If it's good for me, why does it taste so unspeakably vile?"
* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice goes into convulsions/{{Waterfall Puke}}s when she tastes healthy food.
** FatIdiot/[[FatBastard Bastard]]/ BigFun
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice is perceived as unwise and unhealthy due to her poor diet and is treated as such. She may even flat out ''refuse'' to eat it and be anorexic.

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** Alice decides to start eating healthy and eats the mice from the nearby nuclear power plant, Alice understandably gets sick

* '''Subverted''': Alice tastes broccoli - and ''likes'' it.

* '''Justified''': The body likes the taste of what it's accustomed to. Alice eats fast food on a daily basis - and health food only at gunpoint.

* '''Inverted''': Junk food tastes like "cardboard and shame".

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice has a love-hate relationship with vegetables and tofu.

* '''Lampshaded''': "If it's good for me, why does it taste so unspeakably vile?"

** Alice ''can'' take broccoli. As long as it's smothered in cheese sauce.

* '''Deconstructed:''' Alice's boyfriend is eternally frustrated at how picky an eater she is, and nags her that she's harming her body. She develops a heart condition from never eating healthy food, and eventually has a minor heart attack.

* '''Straight''': Alice refuses to eat it because it tastes ''terrible''.
* '''Exaggerated''': Healthy food tastes like poop and dirty gym shorts.
* '''Averted''': Healthy food tastes pleasant, almost as good as junk food.

* '''Justified''': What tastes bad is actually medicine; specifically so you don't take too much.
** The body likes the taste of what it's accustomed to. Alice eats fast food on a daily basis - and health food only at gunpoint.

* '''Deconstructed:''' Alice develops a heart condition from never eating healthy food, and eventually has a heart attack.
* '''Reconstructed''':She pulls through. She swears off junk food after getting lipo, a stomach stapling, and arterial replacement. She forces herself to eat healthy food, and finds that it's an acquired taste.

* '''Defied''': Health food doesn't have a noxious taste.

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* '''Inverted''': Junk food tastes like "spiders, hate, and old socks".

** It's all in the preparation; Alice will hate vegetables that are cooked but will eat them raw.
** Alice hates vegetables; but other healthy stuff she'll love.
* '''Defied''': Health food doesn't have a noxious taste.

* '''Played for Drama''': Alice is perceived as unwise and unhealthy due to her poor diet and is treated as such.

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** FatIdiot/[[FatBastard Bastard]]

** The body likes the taste of what it's accustomed to. Alice eats fast food on a daily basis-and health food only at gunpoint.

* '''Reconstructed''':She pulls through. She swears off junk food after getting lipo, a stomach stapling, and arterial replacement. She forces herself to eat healthy food, and finds that it's an aquired taste.

** Alice ''can'' take Broccoli. As long as it's smothered in cheese sauce.

* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice goes into convulsions/ {{Waterfall Puke}}s when she tastes healthy food.
** FatIdiot/ [[FatBastard Bastard]]

* '''Played for Drama''': Alice is percived as unwise and unhealthy due to her poor diet and is treated as such

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* '''Lampshaded''': "If it's good for me, why does it taste like death?"

* '''Played for Drama''': Alice suffers severe malnutrition from refusing to eat bad-tasting healthy food and goes into a coma

* '''Averted''': Healthy food tastes pleasant, almost as good as fat food.

* '''Played for Drama''': ???

* '''PlayedForDrama''': See "deconstructed".

* '''PlayedForDrama''': See "deconstructed".