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| 16 | ->'''Gneelicks:''' ''(proudly)'' The Food of the Future! Chlorella algae.\ |
| 17 | '''Buster:''' ''(spitting out his mouthful)'' WHAT! You're serving us pond scum? |
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| 23 | This trope covers instances in which a character eats or drinks something [[SenselessPhagia unaware of what they're consuming]] and then finds out what it is, to their dismay. Typically results in a SpitTake, VomitDiscretionShot [[VomitIndiscretionShot (or not)]], DiscreetDiningDisposal, or some other response once the discovery is made. |
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| 25 | Almost always produces lots of {{squick}} and NauseaFuel. Might lead to ItTastesLikeFeet when the dust settles. Often played for laughs as a form of VulgarHumor. A common lead-up is to have the unfortunate consumer use SommelierSpeak to describe the item's supposedly rich and complex flavor before being told that what was consumed was not the delicacy they originally thought it was. |
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| 27 | This trope often overlaps with others such as ForeignQueasine, ReducedToRatburgers, GargleBlaster, MasochistsMeal, FireBreathingDiner, and AsiansEatPets. Bob unknowingly drinking Rigelian bloodwine ("a delicacy on my planet!") is this trope if Bob retches and then [[DiscreetDrinkDisposal pours it]] onto an [[ThatPoorPlant unsuspecting potted plant]]. Alice not knowing what chicken eggs are and unknowingly eating them, only to SpitTake upon learning they come out of chicken bottoms, is this trope as well. |
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| 29 | Occasionally subverted by having a character (an ExtremeOmnivore, perhaps) find out what they are consuming, then just shrug their shoulders and keep on chowing down. |
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| 31 | Compare EatThat and SecretIngredient. Contrast with BizarreTasteInFood and UnconventionalFoodUsage. Also see CordonBleughChef, LethalChef and EvilChef, three people who may be involved with this trope. CoolClearWater might be in play for the drink-based version of this trope. Subtropes include YoureDrinkingBreastMilk, RevengeIsADishBestServed, TheSecretOfLongPorkPies, and PoopingFood. The darkest possible variation is FamilialCannibalismSurprise. |
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| 34 | !!Examples Subpages: |
| 35 | [[index]] |
| 36 | * IAteWhat/LiveActionTV |
| 37 | * IAteWhat/WesternAnimation |
| 38 | [[/index]] |
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| 40 | !!Other Examples: |
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| 44 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 45 | * One commercial begins with a couple waking up to their kids serving them pancakes in bed. The dad takes a big bite as the mom [[OhCrap realizes something]] and whispers to him, "We don't have the stuff to make pancakes." That's when it's revealed to be a commercial for Pepto Bismol. The extended version of the commercial takes it even a step further as the girl proudly adds, [[NauseaFuel "We made the syrup too."]] |
| 46 | * One [[https://www.luerzersarchive.com/en/magazine/commercial-detail/federal-express-19489.html 2001 FedEx commercial]] had a group of Japanese businessmen taking a call from their Texan client, expressing thanks to him for the shipment of beef jerky they're eating at the moment. |
| 47 | -->'''Client''': Gee boys, wish I could take credit, but I didn't send y'all any jerky.\ |
| 48 | '''Businessman''': You didn't?\ |
| 49 | '''Client''': No. Last gift I sent you was that box of filet mignons about two months ago. Y'all got that, didn't ya? [''the businessmen examine their "jerky" in horror, then run to puke somewhere''] |
| 50 | * One Canadian Cheese commercial in the mid-90's had [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Mina cook Dracula]] a lovely casserole, containing "...a single clove of garlic!" as its final ingredient. Dracula has just swallowed (with a cartoony "GULP!" sound-effect), and has an expression you'd expect from [[VampiresHateGarlic someone with a severe allergy who's just been told a half-second too late.]] |
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| 52 | |
| 53 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 54 | * ''Anime/BattleGirlsTimeParadox'' has Hideyoshi become sick, so Nobunaga gives her a secret medicine passed down through the Oda family for generations. Sengoku-era medicine happens to be boiled dried horse manure, mixed in with some slugs and worms. It bears repeating: ''slugs and worms mixed into horse manure, passed down for generations''. And they wonder why Hideyoshi's fever gets worse. |
| 55 | * In ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'', Legosi is invited to dinner by Yafya, the current holder of the Sublime Beastar title, who serves him the most delicious carrots Legosi has ever had. Then Yafya reveals that the carrots are fertilized with [[spoiler:the corpses of carnivore criminals that Yafya has murdered, and threatens to do the same thing to Legosi if he doesn't apologize for being born a carnivore]]. [[TheToothHurts Legosi responds to this by ripping out all of his own teeth.]] |
| 56 | * ''Manga/CountCain'' plays this absolutely for drama in [[spoiler: Doctor Jezebel]]'s backstory, showing him to have been a sensitive child who loved his pet lamb Snark, and hated to eat meat because he didn't like the thought of animals dying to sustain him. His father told him one night that he could see Snark if he polished off his dinner. Guess what dinner was. |
| 57 | * Chilchuck and, later, Marcille from ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' both suffer major freak outs when they find out Laios added fish men eggs to their porridge. Apparently they made it nice and crunchy. |
| 58 | * Variant: Noi and Shin in ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'' aren't thrilled to find out what they've eaten in En's restaurant. It's mushrooms, no real alterations there... but they were originally ''people En transformed with his magic''. |
| 59 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 60 | ** ''Manga/DragonBall'': Launch serves Krillin and Master Roshi fish. They say it is excellent, then she says it is puffer fish. They freak out and end up bedridden from the poison. Goku is spared because he lost the trial Master Roshi had put him and Krillin through in which only the winner would get to eat dinner. [[LaserGuidedKarma A trial Krillin won by cheating]]. |
| 61 | ** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Majin Buu offers Hercule some candy that he transformed some people into. The horrified Hercule spits it out when Buu turns his back. Subverted, because Hercule knew the candy was made of people from the get-go, and only put them in his mouth in the first place to avoid angering Buu. |
| 62 | * Occurs halfway into ''[[https://comick.app/comic/cambyses-no-kuji/ojxGY The Draw of Cambyess]]'' (a one-shot manga from Creator/FujikoFujio), when the protagonist, Sark, unexpectedly gets flung several millennia into the future from Assyrian times from entering a dimensional portal. He meets a mysterious young woman, Estel, who apparently lives alone in a scientific facility, and dines with her only to find out the food was made of HumanResources. |
| 63 | --> '''Young woman''': We had a draw. We went into cold sleep 23 times. I'm the ''only'' one left.\ |
| 64 | '''Sark''': That means... that meat cube...\ |
| 65 | '''Estel''': [[WhamLine Uncle Henry. He WAS a kind man]].\ |
| 66 | [''cue an epic OhCrap on Sark's face''] |
| 67 | * In ''Literature/FateZero'', Zouken Matou feeds Kariya a Crest Worm to increase his magical powers. After he eats it, Zouken reveals that worm had previously violated Sakura and stolen her virginity. Kariya flips out and cries, while [[{{Sadist}} Zouken]] enjoys seeing him suffer. |
| 68 | * In ''Manga/HeterogeniaLinguistico'', the werewolves give Hakaba an unknown but tasty circular disc of food for breakfast. When he asks what it is, they answer with a word he doesn't know yet. Later, he checks the Professor's notes and discovers it's a slice of giant earthworm. In a later chapter he eats some fresh worm guts, knowing exactly what they are, and admits it's pretty good. |
| 69 | * More of an "I Drank What?" example happened in episode 3 of ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit''. Sharo suggests an unnamed herbal tea for Cocoa. She then brings out some cookies, but Cocoa says they aren't sweet. Sharo then tells her that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnema_sylvestre the tea she drank]] numbs your tongue's sweet receptors for a short while. |
| 70 | * Chapter 13 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' ends with the reveal that the coffee that Kaguya and Shirogane were drinking was actually Kopi Luwak (i.e. processed from civet droppings). |
| 71 | * In ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'', just when a humongous flaming asteroid is closing in on Dream Land, most of the citizens decide to reveal secrets they kept from their friends, with Chef Kawasaki revealing to Ebrum and Like that he accidentally fed them something that they shouldn't have eaten. They both react with shock and beg Kawasaki to not say whatever it was as they're better off not knowing what they ate. |
| 72 | * In chapter 31 of ''[[Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life]]'', Kanna makes some homemade candles shaped like brands of chocolate and chocolate-shelled ice cream as her summer craftwork for school. The candles get accidentally eaten by Ilulu looking for a late-night snack. She admitted they were delicious (and tasted a little like wax) while apologizing. |
| 73 | * In ''Manga/{{NPC}}'', Galador the orc refrains from eating sapient creatures due to ethical reasons, and routinely hunts animals and monsters for food, such as the local werewolves. When he realizes that the captured werewolf is perfectly sapient, can talk, and has a ''name''... as was presumably the case with the ones he just ate, and have been eating for a while... well, bathroom calls. Ironically, his freeloading amazon "wife" has no concerns about the ethics of it whatsoever |
| 74 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'': A Johto episode features a Ninetales with powerful illusion abilities. Jessie, James, and Meowth, who are all starving, find rooms that are full of delicious food, such as a room filled with popcorn. But when Ninetales returns to its Poké Ball, all of the illusions vanish and they discover they were eating leaves the whole time. |
| 75 | * In season 2 of ''Literature/ReZero'', Subaru notices something funny about the tea Echidna serves to him. Echidna states in response that it is made from one of her bodily fluids, to which Subaru responds “What the hell did you just make me drink?!”. |
| 76 | * In ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'', Yukari the Koala's introduction and motivation for joining the Cooking Club is centered around trying to discover the tasty food she ate as a child that ''wasn't'' the eucalyptus her family always ate. When it's revealed that mother koalas feed their babies their own poop to help them develop vital antibodies, Yukari is shocked at the fact ''that'' was what she ate. However, she quickly goes on to embrace it as her TrademarkFavoriteFood besides eucalyptus. |
| 77 | * {{Played For| Laughs}} BlackComedy in ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'' Episode 5, courtesy of [[StudentCouncilPresident Anna]] [[{{Yandere}} Nishikinomiya]]'s cookies. [[spoiler: They were made with her "[[UnusualEuphemism Love Nectar]]" mixed into the dough.]] Tanukichi's immediate reaction upon finding out about this after having a bite is to [[{{Squick}} rush to the nearest drinking fountain to wash his mouth out.]] |
| 78 | * Another variant in ''Manga/SilverSpoon'' -- Hachiken finds out firsthand what a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca#Birds cloaca]] is and loses his appetite for eggs for most of the day. [[BrickJoke Quite a while later]], he decides he doesn't care anymore. |
| 79 | * In one episode of ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' when Gourry and Lina are eating fish that they caught, Lina eats every part of the fish, but then Gourry points out that if she eats the fish's stomach, she is also eating the worms they used to catch the fish, [[WaterfallPuke grossing her out]]. |
| 80 | * In Episode 6 of ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', Souta makes cupcakes filled with wasabi, which he gives to his unsuspecting sister Kanade and her friend Hibiki. Both girls take a bite and turn green, then go chasing after Souta for his prank. |
| 81 | * In ''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'', everyone celebrates Kenshi's excellent cooking. They ask what his secret is, and he innocently reveals he crushes dried bugs into powder and sprinkles the food with it. The only one who doesn't freak out is the nature-attuned elf Aura, who says it's genius and she should have thought of that. Kenshi doesn't understand why everybody else is freaking out. |
| 82 | * In the ''Literature/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'' OVA, Maria tricks Basara into eating Mio's panties by rolling them into balls to look like dumplings and putting them in soup. When he finds out, he beats her up. The only consolation is that Maria used her magic to make the panties digestible. |
| 83 | * A couple times in ''Anime/TheTowerOfDruaga''. Melt absolutely hates "Sea Peppers", crab sized "insects" who's bodies look just like a green pepper, and strictly forbids Coopa to use them in her cooking. In one episode he spots her using them and chastises her only for her to reveal that she's been secretly putting them in EVERY meal because they're so nutritious and she knows better than him. He's less than pleased. Later just about everyone gets [[{{Squick}} squicked out]] when they learn they're eating Roper Tentacles. |
| 84 | * Played for deadly seriousness in ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}''. Kirie, the heroine, is suitably shocked when she finds out the "mushrooms" she's been eating are actually [[spoiler: the placentas of the mosquito-women's bloodsucking babies]] and again when she finds out she's been eating [[spoiler: the people who turned into snails]]. |
| 85 | * At one point in ''Manga/ZatchBell'' the group are at a ruins site where they find a stream of drinkable water. Tia is happily drinking until she sees Zatch is now swimming in it. [[NakedPeopleAreFunny Naked]]. She goes ballistic and starts strangling him, while Kiyo just calmly tells her to drink from further upstream. |
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| 88 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 89 | * Creator/JeffFoxworthy tells a tale of when his daughter made a little peanut butter and jelly sandwich with Ritz crackers. He's just polished it off when... |
| 90 | -->'''Jeff's daughter:''' You wanna know how I ''made'' it?\ |
| 91 | '''Jeff:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' ''Maybe.''\ |
| 92 | '''Jeff's daughter:''' Well, I got two crackers and then I got some peanuts and I chewed them up and spit them on one cracker, then I got some raisins and I chewed them up and spit them on the other one.\ |
| 93 | ''[audience is roaring in laughter at this point]''\ |
| 94 | '''Jeff's daughter:''' You want me to make you another peanut butter and jelly sandwich?\ |
| 95 | '''Jeff:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' No, honey. I am full as a tick...but I bet ''your mom'' would like one.\ |
| 96 | ''[audience roars in laughter again]'' |
| 97 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''' "Live At Drury Lane" album has a skit about a cocktail bar that three businessmen frequent. Their choice of drinks--a special with a "twist of lemming," a "mallard fizz" (prepared by the bartender subduing and subsequently killing a duck) and "Harlem Stinger" (a black dishwasher gargling and spitting out the mixture into a glass)--all have the expected result. All three men run to the bathroom to throw up. The guy who ordered the mallard fizz is then asked if he'd care for a dog turd and tonic. |
| 98 | * One Creator/JohnMulaney routine describes a time when he was drunk enough to chug a bottle of what turned out to be perfume instead of simply smelling it first. |
| 99 | * Utah Phillips' "Moose Turd Pie" [[ShaggyDogStory sketch]] is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, although the guy eating the eponymous dish doesn't deploy this trope's title, as he [[NoodleIncident instantly recognizes it]]. |
| 100 | ** This sketch is also known as "Good, though!", after the actual final words. Anybody who complained about the cooking [[spoiler:got stuck with the additional work of being the new CampCook]]. |
| 101 | *** [[spoiler:Which explains why the cooks ''keep serving'' the likes of [[SchmuckBait moose turd pie]].]] |
| 102 | * One Creator/RonWhite comedy bit starts with him drinking with Creator/LarryTheCableGuy and waking up with a severe hangover. He takes some Excedrin and washes it down with what he thinks is Diet Coke--but is actually [[NauseaFuel Larry's spit]]. |
| 103 | ** Happens to him again with what used to be iced tea with lemon, but after two weeks looks more like a "nasty science experiment." |
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| 106 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 107 | * In ''ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese'', the caricature Chin-Kee urinates into someone's can of Coca-Cola as part of a prank. When the character later discovers this, he [[VomitDiscretionShot throws up]]. |
| 108 | ** There is a [[http://www.chinesejokes.net/jokes.php?action=read&joke=1339 (horribly racist) joke]] along those same lines. Chin-Kee is supposed to be [[EthnicScrappy a horribly ugly caricature]] of every negative Asian stereotype ever. ItMakesSenseInContext. |
| 109 | * In ''ComicBook/BlueMonday'', one of the events in an escalating prank war involved the boys sneaking pubic hair into the girls food. When the girls find out, two of them shriek and fling their burgers away in disgust, but the third one doesn't mind the taste. |
| 110 | * ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}''. The protagonist psychically knows the past of everything he eats (except beets). He ends up using his powers to [[{{Pun}} take a bite out of crime]] as all he has to do is eat a piece of, say, a murder victim to know exactly what happened to him. Expect plenty of {{squick}}. He first discovers his powers when checking out a lead on [[ItMakesSenseInContext a place illegally serving chicken soup]]. It turns out to be [[ImAHumanitarian something else entirely]]. |
| 111 | * ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 112 | ** In issue 42, Bender takes a sip from what he thinks is a barrel of brandy tied around the neck of an alien St. Bernard. The alien dog explains that what he has around his neck is actually his bladder, causing Bender to spit in disgust. |
| 113 | ** In issue 55, Bender turns out to have mistakenly put black licorice balls into the ship's fuel tanks instead of dark matter. It is then implied that Fry ate dark matter mistaking it for black licorice balls, with Fry understandably grossed out by the mix-up since dark matter is Nibblonian poop. |
| 114 | * ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' had a story where [[{{Satan}} the First of the Fallen]] showed up to collect the soul of Constantine's friend Brendan, a consummate drinker and magician. One of his last tricks was performing a working that would turn a spring under his house into pure stout, and John claims to want to "upstage" Brendan by sharing a drink with the prince of darkness. It's only once the stout goes down that John reveals the spring was blessed by a saint, making the base of the stout holy water. The First's reaction: "Interesting -- what?" [[HolyBurnsEvil And then John cuts off the spell, turning the stout back into holy water.]] |
| 115 | * In a story from the ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComics Little Archie]]'' comic, one of Little Dilton's inventions receives an alien cooking show. Little Jughead makes up a batch of cookies, following a recipe from the show. People love them until they find out what is in them. Among the ingredients are [[spoiler:wood chips]]. |
| 116 | * ''[[ComicBook/RatMan1989 Rat-Man]]'' author Leo Ortolani once made a spoof of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy. The character Dark Mouse, a parody of Darth Maul, was asked by his master (an expy of Emperor Palpatine) about what evil deeds he did that day, and he answered: "Did you think it was beer in that glass I gave you before?". Some time later, the master replied: "Did you think the cake you ate before was a chocolate one?". |
| 117 | * ''ComicBook/RedEars'': There's a comic in which a soldier and his buddies are going out on the town and when they get back to the motel open a package with some cookies that the soldier's wife sent him. Included is a video in which she admits that she's cheating on him, fellates the guy in question and spits out the result in the cookie dough. Cut to the soldiers face down on the toilet. |
| 118 | * In an issue of ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', Cheshire and Dr. Psycho dined with ComicBook/VandalSavage after failing him. During the meal, Cheshire suspiciously asks what the food was. The answer: [[spoiler:Solomon Grundy]]. Cheshire throws up, while Psycho asks for more, and Vandal Savage delivers the immortal line: |
| 119 | --> "Shut up and eat your [[spoiler:Grundy]]." |
| 120 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'': |
| 121 | ** The resident LethalChef and his less-than-healthy cuisine: in one strip his SitcomArchnemesis, the Sergeant, points out that today's soup looks like motor oil, only for him to dismiss it as childish taunts. Then a motorist asks the Sergeant to give him back his can of oil. Cue to the eating soldiers having an OhCrap moment. |
| 122 | ** In another strip, the Sergeant tells the Cook he's tasked with carrying the "special lunch" to the ill Captain. As soon as the Cook warns him not to spill it, the Sergeant swallows the whole tin and asks him what he's going to do now. Then the Cook mentions that said lunch included a powerful laxative medicine prescribed to the Captain. Cue to the Sergeant running for the toilets. |
| 123 | ** During the Africa Korps strips, the Sergeant tries to lecture the newbies on edible cacti and picks up and eats one which he claims its called "Camel Cactus" due to its resemblance to camel's poop. Cue to the camel handler: |
| 124 | -->"Hey Sarge, if you vant a fresh one you can look here!" (cue to vomit) |
| 125 | ** In one strip, a soldier orders the cheapest drink the bar has: a low-cost brew called "Old Sergeant". When he asks why it's so cheap, he gets the following explanation on its name: |
| 126 | -->"Well, sometimes ze old sarge forgets to throw away ze water after he baths" |
| 127 | ** Inverted when some unsatisfied soldiers try to kill the Sergeant [[AnimalAssassin by putting a live rattlesnake in his mess tin]]. The Sergeant mistakes the snake for an eel and eats it, going as far as asking for a second serving. |
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| 130 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 131 | * ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': |
| 132 | ** Inverted when Calvin, halfway through a hamburger, excitedly asks whether the meat in them is made out of people from Hamburg -- only to find himself too disgusted to eat the rest when he finds it's just cow. |
| 133 | ** His mother quickly catches wise to Calvin's weird ways and starts claiming that her food is something grosser than it really is to get him to eat it: stuffed peppers become "stewed monkey heads", and the rice in his soup are claimed to be maggots. It works like a charm, at least on Calvin. It does have the side effect that her husband promptly loses ''his'' appetite. |
| 134 | ** One comic has Calvin complaining about how processed and artificial modern food is, grossing Susie out, but the punchline is that Calvin is happily eating Twinkies (a food that is infamous for the long list of chemicals in its ingredients), thinking that they are healthy. |
| 135 | * ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} [[https://content.spiceworksstatic.com/service.community/p/post_images/0000130168/5641f738/attached_image/Dilbert_CEO.jpg once invented a filter that could turn raw sewage into pure drinking water]]. [[PointyHairedBoss The company's CEO]] swiped the bottom container from the filter and downed the contents only for Dilbert to explain that the clean water ended up in the ''upper'' container. Thus, as Dilbert related to Dogbert later... |
| 136 | --> '''Dilbert:''' There was some confusion about my water purification prototype, and our CEO drank [[ToiletHumor eight ounces of untreated sewage]].\ |
| 137 | '''Dogbert:''' So... best day ever?\ |
| 138 | '''Dilbert:''' It'll be hard to top. |
| 139 | * One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon had a crowd of scientists gathered around a cup with one of them saying, "What the--? This is lemonade. Where's my culture of amoebic dysentery?" while another scientist on the other side of the panel is drinking from a glass with [[OhCrap a surprised expression on his face]]. Even funnier when you remember that the most prominent symptom of dysentery is chronic diarrhea. |
| 140 | ** In real life, laboratories have rules to prevent this from happening, as things like this really have happened. Food containers should never contain anything but food, and non-food containers should never contain food, it should be clear what all containers are for, and food items should never be stored in the same refrigeration unit as lab materials. After the strip was first printed, it became ''very'' popular to post it on the refrigerator of a lab to remind people of why those rules existed. |
| 141 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' combines this one with the running gag of Andy's [[LethalChef terrible health food]] by having Roger sample something out of a soup pot, declare it to be the best thing Andy has ever cooked - only to discover that it's "a compound for sealing the cracks in the driveway." |
| 142 | -->'''Roger:''' Please tell me it's poisonous. |
| 143 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': |
| 144 | ** Jon Arbuckle [[https://twitter.com/jackteagle/status/179700302449094656 once drank dog semen.]] Or maybe not -- [[WordOfGod Jim Davis]] has said that it was a protein supplement for pregnant dogs. [[DeathOfTheAuthor You can choose not to believe him, since dog semen is a lot funnier.]] |
| 145 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1986/02/08 One of several trips to the vet.]] Jon flirts with Liz and gets pills for liver flukes. |
| 146 | ** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1979/03/01 one old strip]], Garfield pounces on a chicken in the first panel. Then Jon appears and shouts, "Garfield! Did you eat my chicken?" Then he calms down and says, "No, of course not. If you had, there would be some bones left." (Cue the OhCrap expression from Garfield.) |
| 147 | ** In another, Garfield falls asleep and dreams he's in "the Land of Large Breakfasts" where he eats a giant pancake. He wakes up, and says it was a great dream... Then he turns around and exclaims, [[MarshmallowDream "Where's my blanket?!"]] |
| 148 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1979/07/08 Garfield mistakes Jon's sweat socks for a crescent roll.]] |
| 149 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2000/04/07 Garfield didn't realize he ate the fishbowl's castle instead of the fish until Jon showed him the fish]]. |
| 150 | ** Every strip featuring [[GreasySpoon Irma's Diner]] has the potential to become this. |
| 151 | *** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2000/03/22 One particularly notable example]]. |
| 152 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1995/05/24 The time that Jon prepared old hyena meat]]. |
| 153 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2001/02/16 Garfield enjoyed his dinner until]] Jon told him it was "Back-of-the-fridge-bottom-shelf-behind-the-baking-soda stew" and he could "only make it about once every five ''years''". |
| 154 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2008/10/24 Jon liked escargot -- until he discovered what it was.]] |
| 155 | ** A variation that doesn't involve food, Garfield tries to use Jon's mouthwash: |
| 156 | --->'''Jon:''' Your breath smells funny.\ |
| 157 | '''Garfield:''' Yours would too if you'd gargled with aftershave. |
| 158 | ** [[SubvertedTrope Subversion in one strip]], where Jon and Garfield were eating Chinese takeout. Jon says he was surprised Garfield ate the octopus, causing a shocked Garfield to go into a coughing, gagging fit, only to calm down in the last panel and say, "Actually, it wasn't ''that'' bad..." |
| 159 | ** While on vacation on a remote island, Jon orders "unguah" because it's the only thing on the menu. [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1995/04/02 Then the waiter shouts "An unguah!" and stomps something on the ground.]] |
| 160 | --->'''Garfield:''' CheckPlease. |
| 161 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2011/07/07 Garfield spits the dog food he cheated Odie of once he learns it has indeed been recalled.]] |
| 162 | ** One strip had this as a RunningGag: it starts with Garfield offering an unwitting Jon dog food. When Jon asks for something to drink to get the taste out of his mouth, Garfield gives him a bottle of hot sauce. When Jon asks for something to cool his throat, Garfield gives him the goldfish's fishbowl. When Jon asks for the antidote to goldfish water, Garfield gives him a can of anchovies. The last panel has Garfield musing that this could go on for days. |
| 163 | ** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2024/03/14 One strip]] has Garfield spit out part of his burger when Jon commented on the bug zapper over the grill at a restaurant. |
| 164 | * ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': |
| 165 | ** This is Weird Pete's reaction on discovering that his character drank two pints of owl bear urine. |
| 166 | ** In another story, B.A. buys a case of "Hacky-Snacks" from Weird Pete. Only after one of them bites into a particularly rancid one do they notice that the snacks are years past their sell-by date. |
| 167 | * Suggested in [[http://www.andreagaddini.it/quino-intenditore.jpg this strip]] by Argentinian cartoonist Creator/{{Quino}}: |
| 168 | -->'''Chef:''' This sir?\ |
| 169 | '''Waiter:''' This sir. |
| 170 | * One ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'' strip had the King touring the kitchens. He tastes something in a pot, spits out and yells "You call that soup?!". One of the chefs replies "No, I call it dishwater". |
| 171 | [[/folder]] |
| 172 | |
| 173 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 174 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In "The Teacher," Bolt and Mittens sample the contents of Penny's water bottle, a blue colored energy drink, licking the spout to get the full flavor effect. Later, Penny takes the same water bottle outside. When she samples the contents, she comments on how lousy the drink tastes, noting it has a distinct flavor of dog kibble and tuna. She dumps the offending beverage out, though she never makes the connection between the flavors and her pets who drank from the bottle before she did. |
| 175 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoyWhoCriedIdiot'': Martin accidentally eats part of Bun-Bun the stuffed rabbit, mistaking it for food. |
| 176 | * In ''[[http://deluded-musings.fanficauthors.net/Call_Me_In_The_Morning/Call_Me_In_The_Morning/ Call Me In the Morning]]'', Draco thinks that Harry's using an aphrodisiac to attract girls and offers to pay Ron for the recipe. Ron, recognizing the prank potential, gives him several unlabeled recipes for things Fred and George allegedly make specifically for Harry. Draco drinks the first one, a tropical-scented suntan lotion, and promptly tosses his cookies. |
| 177 | * Hobbes unintentionally bites into a "Slab 'O Scabs" in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', thinking it was jelly toast with raisins. |
| 178 | * In a BreatherEpisode of ''Fanfic/FutariWaPrettyCureBlueMoon'', Binbeat, who's [[NeverGrewUp perpetually]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld nine]] and can't read Japanese, accidentally eats the moldy bread from Mia's science project. He's sick for the rest of the day, and doesn't even bother fighting back when his MonsterOfTheWeek is defeated, just going home and complaining about a stomachache. |
| 179 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10349675/6/Harry-Potter-and-the-Lightning-Scar Harry Potter and the Lightning Scar]]'': |
| 180 | -->Kreacher, knowing this was his last opportunity to do battle against the "mongrel half-blood," had made what ''appeared'' to be a delicious breakfast--enough that Harry forgot who he was dealing with, and bit into an innocent-looking doughnut. Unfortunately, that doughnut happened to be filled, not with cream or jam, but with mayonnaise. Retching, Harry tried to wash the taste out of his mouth with what looked like pumpkin juice, but which was in fact carefully-diluted muddy rainwater. |
| 181 | * ''Fanfic/{{Omoito}}'': Yuuka becomes concerned when she hears the black tea Alice gave her was made by Marisa with mushrooms and asks if it's safe to drink. Alice doesn't know, so Yuuka demands Alice drink it instead. |
| 182 | * ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': Having ripped out and eaten [[spoiler:somepony's ''eye'']] in the heat of battle, Wind Breaker starts retching when he has a moment to think and it finally hits him what he'd done. |
| 183 | * ''Fanfic/{{Quiververse}}'': In "New Horizons", Quiver briefly has this reaction when he realizes the "tofu" spring rolls Luster served him were actually prepared with pork, but gets over it fairly quickly, in part because he hates to waste a meal. |
| 184 | [[/folder]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 187 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie'', Red, Chuck, and Bomb go to the Mighty Eagle for help with the Piggies. Reaching his mountaintop lair, they find his famed "Lake of Wisdom." Over Red's protests, Chuck and Bomb play in it, even drinking some of the water. When Mighty Eagle shows up, the three hide, and bear witness to their hero...[[ToiletHumor relieving himself in the lake.]] The sight of it is enough to make Bomb cry while Chuck frantically tries to scrape his tongue off with a rock. |
| 188 | -->'''Red:''' Horrible turn of events, horrible. |
| 189 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'', Lucas enjoys a substance known in the ant kingdom as "honeydew", remarking that it tastes like green apple bubblegum. Only after he asks for seconds does he see that it is the end product of a worm-like creature's digestion process. |
| 190 | * ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' pulls this on poor Milo. Subverted in that it's actually just a canteen of water.[[note]]Funnily enough, nitroglycerin actually is used as a medication in real life for treating certain heart problems. Doctors will sometimes use a different name for it so that they don't scare their patients.[[/note]] |
| 191 | -->'''Vinny:''' You didn't just drink that, did you? That's not good, that's nitroglycerin. Don't move, don't breathe, don't do anything... except pray...\ |
| 192 | '''Mole:''' ''[sneaking up behind Milo]'' BOOM! |
| 193 | * ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'' : Chaz turns around to vomit when his son gives him . . . something to drink based off of something he read in one of his father's adventure/survival books. |
| 194 | -->'''Chaz''': I’m parched. Where’s the FIJI water? |
| 195 | -->'''Chazzie''': We drank it all, but here. |
| 196 | --> ''*pours a liquid in his father’s mouth with a leaf*'' |
| 197 | -->'''Chaz''': ''*gulps*'' What is it? |
| 198 | -->'''Chazzie''': ''*smiling innocently*'' My urine. |
| 199 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': Elinor is horrified to learn that the berries she's eating are poisonous nightshade berries and the water she's drinking is worm-infested. |
| 200 | * ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1'' has Melman stumbling out of a washroom with a urinal cake in his mouth ("Free mints!"). Interestingly, the typical "reveal followed by squicked-out reaction" is absent, especially considering that Melman is a raving hypochondriac most of the time. |
| 201 | ** Earlier in the film, Marty gets a thermometer from Melman as a birthday present and puts it in his mouth. He spits it out once Melman tells him it was his first ''rectal'' thermometer. |
| 202 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'', The Boy accepts a cup of what is ostensibly coffee from the trainhopper. A SpitTake occurs when the hobo removes his freshly-cleaned socks from the kettle. |
| 203 | * Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1''. Fiona is eating a meal Shrek prepared, and asks what it is. He tells her it's a weed rat (Rotisserie-style!). She seems a little surprised at first, but then keeps on eating. |
| 204 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', King Harold attempts to look busy by tasting from a dish a servant is carrying. He exclaims it's exquisite and asks what the dish is called. The servant replies "That would be the dog's breakfast, your majesty". |
| 205 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Dopey chases down a bar of soap that keeps slipping out of his hands. Amidst the slapstick the soap ends up flying into his mouth without him noticing. He persists in looking for the soap, but only after hiccuping bubbles does he eventually figure out where it went; complete with him feeling up his belly in disbelief until the hiccups continue. |
| 206 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise'': While Walter prepares an experimental formula for "concealment tech", Lance drinks the beaker it's in, thinking it's an ordinary glass of water, which causes him to turn into a pigeon. |
| 207 | -->'''Lance:''' Blegh, diet stuff has a weird aftertaste. Wh-What's the tech?\ |
| 208 | '''Walter:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Um... well, you... just drank it.]] |
| 209 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'', Cale is informed that the "spaghetti and meatballs" he was offered was actually laced with alien poop. Granted, {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Gune is the one to tell him this, but judging from Cale's reaction it's probably true. Luckily for him, unlike most examples, he didn't actually eat it. |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 213 | * ''Film/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians'' has a scene where Chloe absentmindedly munches on a dog biscuit while watching the morning news, to which she soon looks down at her hand and realizes just what she's been eating. |
| 214 | * ''Film/ThreeIdiots'': While Farhan and Rancho are eating the roti (an Indian flatbread) made by Raju's mother, Raju's paralyzed father suddenly starts making sounds asking to be scratched. Raju's mother uses the same rolling pin she was making roti with to scratch her husband's chest, and the audience is treated to a shot of chest hair still on the rolling pin as Raju's mother starts flattening another roti. Farhan and Rancho are gagging at the sight and when their friend's mother asks if they want more roti they are quick to turn it down. |
| 215 | * Jim Carrey does it again in ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls'': |
| 216 | --> '''Ace:''' My, my, my--this fruit paste is delicious. And the pottery is lovely.\ |
| 217 | '''Ouda:''' It's made from guano.\ |
| 218 | '''Ace:''' Guano! That sounds so familiar. ''(starts licking the plate)''\ |
| 219 | '''Greenwall:''' [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Bat]] droppings.\ |
| 220 | ''(Ace freezes before dropping the plate. Cue gag reflex.)'' |
| 221 | * In ''Film/{{Apaches}}'', Sharon dies after she unwittingly drinks some pesticide. PlayedForHorror rather than laughs. |
| 222 | * In ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', Austin drinks Fat Bastard's stool sample, thinking it is coffee. |
| 223 | -->'''Austin:''' Cor! This coffee smells like shit!\ |
| 224 | '''Basil:''' ''[sees the stool sample]'' ...It ''is'' shit, Austin.\ |
| 225 | '''Austin:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Oh good, then it's not just me.]] ''[[[{{Squick}} drinks]]]'' It's a little nutty. |
| 226 | * In ''Film/BlondeSavage'', Hoppy is none-too-pleased to discover he is eating snake meat in the native village. |
| 227 | * In ''Film/{{Borat}}'', Congressman Bob Barr is offered some cheese. After he eats it, Borat tells him it's made from his wife's breast milk. |
| 228 | * In the Irish short ''Film/CacaMilis'', Catherine kills the blind and chatty Paul by telling him that there was a worm in the titular cake that he ate, inducing a severe asthma attack. |
| 229 | * ''Film/CecilBDemented'': "It's goat urine!" |
| 230 | * ''Film/{{Clue}}'': Near the end, when Wadsworth is explaining who the killer is and how they did it, Mr. Green is especially nauseated upon finding out that what they had for dinner was a very popular Cantonese dish; ''monkey brains''. |
| 231 | * Subverted in ''Film/DemolitionMan''. As Spartan enjoys a contraband burger and a beer, Huxley points out that there aren't any cows living in the ruins under San Angeles. After the cook confirms that he's eating ''[[ReducedToRatburgers carne de rata]]'', Spartan pauses for a moment... and concludes that he actually enjoys it (he'd spent decades as a HumanPopsicle and then thawed out in an Orwellian {{Veganopia}}, so ''any'' meat was fine by him). |
| 232 | -->'''Spartan:''' "Not bad. In fact, it's the best burger I've had in years!" |
| 233 | * In ''Film/DennisTheMenace'', Dennis tries to clean up spilled paint with a vacuum cleaner. Reversing the vacuum causes a large blob of paint to launch into the sky and plop into a meal Mr. Wilson is cooking in his backyard. Mr. Wilson casts a DeathGlare towards Dennis' house when he tastes his food and makes the connection. |
| 234 | * In ''Film/DueDate'', Darryl unwittingly brews Ethan Tremblay's father's ashes into a coffee. After realizing that he just drank his father he takes another sip momentarily forgetting what was in the coffee. |
| 235 | * ''Film/DumbAndDumber'': |
| 236 | ** A cop who pulls Lloyd and Harry over takes a sip from a bottle of pee which he thought was beer ([[PottyEmergency Lloyd had to go to the bathroom]] ''[[PottyEmergency that]]'' [[PottyEmergency badly]]). They try to warn him, though after sipping, he immediately turns nauseated and tells them to get out of there. |
| 237 | ** Also happens when an enemy poses as a friendly hitchhiker, intending to drop pellets of rat poison into Harry and Lloyd's food. Before he can succeed in this, he needs first aid for a stomach ulcer flareup (which was induced by Harry and Lloyd's own practical joking). Harry and Lloyd try to administer his emergency medication, but they mistakenly feed him the rat poison instead. |
| 238 | * In ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo'', Harry and Lloyd drink cups of blue juice before Fraida tells them that it's embalming fluid. But they still drink it. |
| 239 | -->'''Lloyd:''' Oh... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Does it have aspartame?]]\ |
| 240 | '''Fraida:''' No.\ |
| 241 | '''Lloyd:''' [[ShrugTake Cool.]] [Both continue drinking it.] |
| 242 | * In ''Film/ElvirasHauntedHills'', the title character is a guest in a castle, and stops a servant to taste the contents of the tureen they are carrying. She comments that the cook went a little hard on the Tabasco sauce, before being informed that it's her host's chamber pot. |
| 243 | * ''Film/EpicMovie2007'': In the ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''-spoofing stretch, Edward notices what he thinks is the chocolate river, and quickly gulps some "chocolate" up in enjoyment. After a beat, Willy points out, "That's actually the sewer line," causing Edward to gag in disgust. ([[FridgeLogic How could he mistake the taste of sewage with that of chocolate?]]) |
| 244 | * In ''Film/EscanabaInDaMoonlight'', Reuben drinks a potion given to him by his Native American wife, which is said to be a special spiritual remedy of the Ojibwa tribe to bring good luck during deer hunting. They all drink it without question, after which Reuben reveals the contents. They start out innocent enough, with cow's milk, spices, maple sap and barley, then quickly go on to dried earthworms, squirrel gizzards and moose testicles. Cue SpitTake from two of the other guys, followed by CloudCuckooLander Jimmer finishing off the rest of the other guys' drinks. |
| 245 | * ''Film/{{Eternals}}'' has Kingo initially liking the beer Gilgamesh serves, but then he reveals he brews it by having the grain ferment in his saliva. Cue SpitTake. |
| 246 | * ''Film/FreshMeat'': On being told that the pork and rosemary pies her mother sent her at boarding school actually contained human flesh, she [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomits over herself]]. |
| 247 | * In ''Film/FunnyFarm'', Andy (Creator/ChevyChase) takes a liking to lamb fries and breaks the restaurant's record for the number downed in one sitting. When he finds out that they're lamb testicles, he promptly pukes, and the waiter lowers his official score. |
| 248 | * ''Film/GoliathAwaits'': One of the rescue party members is quite upset to learn that he is eating octopus eyes.. |
| 249 | * Also averted in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'': At the Slug Club Christmas party, Hermione tries some dragon tartare to get bad breath and avoid her date that evening, [[JerkJock Cormac McLaggen]]. Minutes later, Cormac tries some of it himself and asks Harry, "What's this thing I'm eating again?" Harry then says, "Dragon balls." Snape appears and Cormac ends up throwing up on his shoes. |
| 250 | * In ''Film/TheHelp'' a maid who's been unjustly fired gives her ex-employer a "chocolate" pie. When the victim discovers what she'd ''really'' been eating, her own mother finds it hilarious. |
| 251 | * ''Film/TheHollywoodKnights'': The heroes all urinate in the punch which is then served to the authority figures. |
| 252 | --> '''Policeman:''' I can't quite place it, but I've had this taste in my mouth before. |
| 253 | * In ''Film/InvisibleMom'', Laura becomes invisible after drinking her son's cola, into which, unknown to her, he had dumped a portion of her husband's invisibility powder. |
| 254 | * ''Film/{{Kingpin}}'' |
| 255 | -->'''Roy:''' Hey, I hope you don't mind, I got up a little early, so I took the liberty of milking your cow for you. Yeah, it took a little while to get her warmed up, she sure is a stubborn one, whew.\ |
| 256 | ''[takes a drink from the bucket]''\ |
| 257 | '''Mr. Boorg:''' We don't have a cow. We have a bull.\ |
| 258 | '''Roy:''' I'm gonna brush my teeth. |
| 259 | * In ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'', Elena is mortified to discover that [[spoiler:her messenger pigeon was cooked and served to her as dinner by TheDragon Ferroq.]] |
| 260 | * In ''Film/LittleMonsters'', Brian's monster friend Maurice takes him on a tour of his nightly pranks. For the last house (a bully's house -- by request), Maurice switches out the tuna salad in the bully's lunch with cat food and the apple juice with fresh urine. Next day, during lunch, Brian is audience to the hilarity. |
| 261 | * ''Film/TheLostBoys'': Michael is tricked into drinking blood by a series of illusions that make it look like his Chinese food is worms one minute, noodles the next, and again with rice/maggots.[[note]]It's left somewhat ambiguous which is the illusion and which is real.[[/note]] By the time he gets to the bottle of red liquid, he doesn't believe anything he hears. |
| 262 | --> '''David:''' ''(to Michael as he's eating some of the Chinese food)'' Maggots. You're eating maggots, Michael, how do they taste?\ |
| 263 | '''Star:''' ''(to Michael as he is about to drink from the bottle of "red wine")'' Don't. It's blood. |
| 264 | * ''Film/LoveInTheVilla'': Julie is disgusted to learn that the delicious food Charlie just served her is horse (a Veronese staple, pastissada de caval) and throws her food at him. He admits later that it was mushroom marinated to taste like meat. |
| 265 | * ''Film/MainStreetMeats'': When everyone finds out that Main Street Meats has been feeding them people meat, they all start throwing up and running away. |
| 266 | * ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'': Upon arriving on Earth, Duncan, Teela and Gwildor steal some food. Teela says it is good but wonders why it is placed on these "white sticks". Duncan matter-of-factly says the sticks are bones. Teela and Gwildor are disgusted that they have been eating a dead animal, but Duncan happily keeps eating it. |
| 267 | * Variant combined with SenselessPhagia: in ''Film/MinorityReport'', the doctor who performed the eye transplant on Anderton left him a sandwich and milk in the fridge... while also leaving rotten similars as well (after all, Anderton's temporarily blind and was responsible for his arrest). Guess which he goes for? |
| 268 | * In ''Film/MortalEngines'', Tom does a SpitTake after drinking UnCoffee with water filtered from the sewerage tank. Earlier he expresses horror that they are eating a thousand year-old Twinkie and seeing Hester drinking from a [[CoolClearWater muddy puddle]]. |
| 269 | * In ''Film/MovingViolations'', Deputy Hank performs FingertipDrugAnalysis only for Dana to tell him the white powder he is licking is actually guano. |
| 270 | * In ''[[Film/TheNakedGun Naked Gun 33⅓]]'', [[PoliceAreUseless Frank]] goes to the crime lab where [[TheLabRat Ted]] has been examining the explosive used in the bombing their investigating. Frank [[SniffSniffNom dips his finger in the petrie dish on Ted's desk, tastes it, and begins to deduce what it tastes like,]] when Ted informs him that the petrie dish contains fertilizer, evidence relating to a completely separate case. Frank makes a "yuck" face and while Ted continues his monologue, Frank grabs a random beaker full of yellow liquid off his desk to wash the taste out of his mouth with. In a double-whammy of this trope, Ted then takes the beaker off Frank's hands saying, "Let me take that urine specimen from you, Frank.", leading to the mandatory SpitTake. |
| 271 | * In ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'', during a rest stop, the family is eating lunch in a park. However they realize the food smells rather funky and is soggy. Its then that Ellen realizes that Aunt Edna's dog has wet on the basket. Clark, who was busy ogling a girl he had seen on the highway and had taken a bite of a sandwich, promptly spits it out. Edna on the other hand, shrugs and continues eating her sandwich. |
| 272 | * ''Film/NoRetreatNoSurrender2'' have this happening in the dinner scene, when Scott goes on a date with his Vietnamese girlfriend, Sulin. After witnessing a whole bout of ForeignQueasine, Scott quickly takes a mouthful of what he assumes is Chinese beancurd … only for Sulin to tell him it's monkey's brains. |
| 273 | * In ''Film/{{Oculus}}'', Kaylie Russel takes out food to eat around the mirror. The mirror, which can alter the perception of those in its radius, tricks her into biting down on a light-bulb instead of an apple. [[spoiler:It's a subversion -- turns out that it was an apple all along, but it does reasonably give Kaylie a pause of shock]]. |
| 274 | * In ''Film/ThePrivateEyes'', Don Knotts sips liquid from a black bottle while interrogating the house staff. It takes a few sips before he thinks to ask exactly what it is he's drinking, and he is informed that he's been quaffing ''ink''. A rare ink from the Middle East. Made of [[spoiler:buzzard pus]]. |
| 275 | * ''Film/ProblemChild 2'' has Junior doing this with a pitcher of lemonade that he was asked to refill by two snotty twin girls running a lemonade stand. He tops off the lemonade by peeing in it. Naturally the father of the snotty twin girls buys a glass and drinks it, describing it as ''tangy''. |
| 276 | * ''Film/RealGenius'' is the {{Trope Namer|s}}, but the actual example of this trope is in an unrelated scene, and subverts it. Chris gives Mitch a beaker of something to try, then claims it is something he found in one of the labs. As Mitch [[SpitTake spits it out]], Chris mentions that it is actually just yogurt. |
| 277 | * Holmes gets chastised by Watson in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'' for drinking a bottle of a chemical intended for use in eye surgery. The sequel has a similar line when Holmes pours himself a glass of formaldehyde. Subverted in the fact that Holmes knows perfectly well what he is drinking. |
| 278 | * In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', Grouchy lands in a candy dish full of blue M&Ms in a toy store which he mistakes for "Smurf droppings" and ends up eating them. Earlier on, Clumsy mistakes liquid soap for something edible and tries it out, only to not like the taste of it before he burps out a bubble. |
| 279 | * In ''Film/{{Striptease}}'', Ving Rhames puts a cockroach in a yogurt pot in order to make a phony lawsuit to the manufacturer. The lawyer's secretary eats the thing... and despite the "CRUNCH!" sound, she remains unfazed. |
| 280 | * In ''Film/SupermanIII'', Clark Kent and Lana Lang have a picnic out near the wheat fields with her son. Clark tastes what he thinks was good pate that Lana made, only for Lana to point out that it was dog food. Clark still continues to eat it. |
| 281 | * ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': The one person who realizes what Ms. Lovett's meat pies [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies are made of]] is [[spoiler: Toby, as when he is in the bakery, not only does he find a finger in the pie he's eating, but he gets to see a corpse falling from the chute in Todd's barber shop]]. |
| 282 | * ''Film/TheTerminator'': The police officer takes a swig out of a coffee cup: "That coffee's two hours cold." He shrugs and takes another sip, then: "And I put a cigarette out in it." This followed by a flat stare and another shrug. |
| 283 | * In ''Film/TheatreOfBlood'', Merridew discovers partway through consuming what he thinks is a special meal that he is actually eating his beloved dogs. |
| 284 | * In the WWII movie ''Film/TheyWereExpendable'', an ensign is touring the temporary camp the naval company has made, and he shows a visitor where the cook is and takes a sip of the "soup", which leads to a SpitTake. Turns out it's dishwater. |
| 285 | * A RunningGag of ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' involved various characters, usually the supporting cast, to drink what they assume to be coffee but what is really brown paint. |
| 286 | * A non-bodily waste example in ''Film/TopSecret''. |
| 287 | -->'''Nick Rivers:''' ''[grabs bottle off of table]'' Mind if I have a swig of this?\ |
| 288 | '''Chocolate Mousse:''' Go right ahead.\ |
| 289 | ''[Nick drinks, then spits it out]''\ |
| 290 | '''Nick Rivers:''' What the hell is this stuff?\ |
| 291 | '''Chocolate Mousse:''' Gasoline! HAHAHAHAHA. (glug, glug, glug) |
| 292 | * ''Film/Transylvania65000'': While Lupi is preparing lunch, Radu picks up a glass of what he thinks is grapefruit juice and drinks a mouthful. His face starts puckering up as Lupi tells him that was the lemon juice she was squeezing for the tea. |
| 293 | * In ''Film/TropicThunder'', Tugg Speedman tries to prove a decapitated head is a movie prop. He licks blood from it and nibbles some of the insides while thinking it's just corn syrup and latex. |
| 294 | * ''Film/TyrannosClaw'' have two of it's characters (both of them cavemen) coming across the remnants of a previous feast, and being hungry they eagerly gobbled up some remaining meat... until one of them realize where the meat was from, a severed, ''barbequed human hand''. Turns out they're in the lair of some monkey-people who feasts on humans, leading to both cavemen quickly digging their throats. |
| 295 | * In ''Film/{{UHF}}'', Music/WeirdAlYankovic accidentally switches a box of cookies with Yappy's Dog Treats. As he's filming product placement for the cookies, he feeds the dog biscuits to his co-star, who is disgusted by their taste but has to pretend to like them. At the end of the ad, Al recognizes his error and smoothly transitions into a pitch for the dog biscuits, which causes his co-star to run offstage and barf. "That's right! Bobbo's been eating Yappy's Dog Treats! Your dog will love that real liver and tuna taste ... [puking sounds from offstage] ... with just a hint of cheese!" |
| 296 | * In ''Film/{{Valentine}}'', Lily takes a bite of one of the chocolates sent to her, only to discover it is full of maggots. |
| 297 | * The "dog pastry" scene in ''Film/VanWilder'', where Van sends a basket of eclairs to Richard's fraternity, ostensibly as a gift from a sorority... while leaving out the fact that the cream filling was replaced [[spoiler:with dog semen]]. Only after eating them and finding them incredibly tasty (one of them even remarks "I think I've had these before!") do Richard and his fraternity brothers find the pictures that Van left at the bottom of the box showing just how the eclairs were made. Cue the [[VomitIndiscretionShot projectile vomit]]. |
| 298 | * Averted in ''Film/TheWarOfTheRoses'': The wife feeds the husband some pâté she made. Once he says it's delicious, she asks him if he's seen his dog lately, heavily implying that's what he ate. He freaks out. Later the dog is shown still alive. (Apparently the novel the movie is based on played it straight.) |
| 299 | * In ''Film/TheWarWagon'', Billy tricks Wild Horse into taking a swig from a whiskey bottle filled with nitroglycerine. When Wild Horse spits it out and angrily throws away the bottle, the resulting explosion gives the gang the distraction they need to fight back. |
| 300 | * ''Film/{{Winterskin}}'': When [[TheProtagonist Billy]] and Agnes sit down to eat a stew Agnes made, he comments on how tasty it is, and she reveals that the meat came from [[spoiler:[[CanineCompanion King]]'s flayed corpse]]. Billy reacts by spitting its contents back into the bowl. |
| 301 | [[/folder]] |
| 302 | |
| 303 | [[folder:Gamebooks]] |
| 304 | * In the fourth ''Literature/{{Sorcery}}'' book, you can eat from a jar of meatballs in the fortress' larder... only to find out it's Mutation Meatballs. Cue inescapable BodyHorror transformation. |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 308 | * A classic joke has this phrase being Socrates' [[BlackComedy final words]]. |
| 309 | * When Creator/ParisHilton had to serve time in jail in 2007 for her driving offenses, she had special dispensation to eat in her cell. One morning, the inmate cooking the oatmeal for breakfast decided to prank Paris, and having ladled out her bowl of oatmeal, proceeded to masturbate into it. Other cons working in the kitchen got in on it too, as did the guard who delivered Paris her breakfast. After she had one mouthful of her swill, her face wrinkled in disgust and she exclaimed "Eww... I can taste some oatmeal in this cum!" |
| 310 | * A biology professor announces a pop quiz: students will be forced to identify species of birds from their droppings. "Our first specimen—" He reaches into a brown paper bag and pulls out a ham sandwich. He frowns and dumps out the bag, revealing an apple and bag of chips. "My word," he blurts out, "What did I eat for lunch?" |
| 311 | * An old joke: What's worse than finding a worm in the apple you're eating? [[spoiler:Finding half a worm!]] |
| 312 | * There is also an old army joke about a visiting general inspecting the mess hall, and tasting the contents of an unnamed pot. After proclaiming the contents to taste like dishwater, the mess sergeant calmly informs him that's what it was. |
| 313 | * A large, burly man walks into a bar where another man is weeping and grabs that man's drink, downing it. The other man starts crying even harder. "Aww, don't be so sad, I'll buy you another," the large man says. The crying man wipes his eyes and says, "No, it's not that. This was the worst day of my life. My alarm didn't go off, so I got to work late. When I showed up, they fired me. When I walked outside, someone had stolen my car. While I was walking home, I got mugged - they took my wallet and all my credit cards. When I finally got home, I caught my wife with the Fed Ex guy. So I come here and decide to end it all - and then ''you'' show up, [[spoiler:and drink all my poison]]!" |
| 314 | * A tourist goes to a restaurant in Spain. He sees a heavenly smelling dish at the next table which he mistakes for two giant meatballs and asks the waiter about it. The waiter explains that they are [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criadilla bull's testicles]] from the bullfight this morning. He's undaunted and decides to order them, but the waiter explains that they can only serve them once a day (due to only having one bull fight a day) so the tourist agrees to come back tomorrow. When he does, he is disappointed to see that what's he's served is much smaller than the serving yesterday, being barely bigger than a couple of eggs. He finishes them, but then calls the waiter and demands to know why his serving was so small. The waiter explains: |
| 315 | -->"Well, señor, sometimes the bull wins." |
| 316 | * Two people are having a picnic. One asks the other, "Are spiders good to eat?" The other says, "I don't think so; why?" The first replies, "Because there was one in your sandwich." |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 320 | %% |
| 321 | %% Note: Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" is an example of I'm a Humanitarian, not this trope. |
| 322 | %% |
| 323 | * In W. F. Miksch's ''Series/TheAddamsFamily Strikes Back'', the Addamses throw a party to celebrate Grandmama's success as one of the witches in the PTA production of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}. The wife of the school principal asks for the recipe for the Demon Dip and after "witch's butter" - which gives it the blue color - and lizard entrails are mentioned, snaps that Morticia doesn't have to tell her if she doesn't want to. A similar goodie is the "Whirling Dervish Wassail," a punch which consists of "an exciting and tangy blend of quicklime, witch elm, mare's tail, Saint Elmo's fire, and several other potables which could hardly be described as inert ingredients." |
| 324 | * ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheClockworkPrincess:'' The Geisterdamen hate European food, and reveal they've been getting by on cheese they made themselves. Not from cow milk, goodness no, that'd just be ''silly''. They milk their giant spiders. Tarvek is horrified on hearing this, since he'd been eating some for himself and rather enjoying it. |
| 325 | * In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', Ax's SenseFreak tendencies resulted in him eating non-foods on several occasions. He's lucky that [[VoluntaryShapeshifting morphing]] heals. |
| 326 | ** And yet he doesn't seem to care when he eats something that's not supposed to be eaten (engine oil, cigarette butts, dryer lint, etc). Everyone else complains, but not Ax. |
| 327 | * Anodyne Liniment is a medicine that relieves aching muscles and is meant to be rubbed into skin, not taken orally. In ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'', Marilla breaks a bottle of the stuff and pours it into an old vanilla bottle. Anne Shirley gets such a cold that she couldn't tell the difference between the medicine and the bottle's original contents, and HilarityEnsues when her cake is served for tea. |
| 328 | * ''Literature/Ash2012'': At [[HauntedCastle Comraich Castle]], an expensive retreat for the disreputably connected, all the food currently being eaten suddenly transforms into [[spoiler: maggots]]. Which then [[OrificeInvasion mature into]] [[spoiler: flies]]. |
| 329 | * ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': While imprisoned in Tummuz Orgmeen, Bazil and Nesessitas are fed some sort of unidentified meat. When Bazil furiously demands that their captors reveal what it is, he is told that it is from humans killed in the arena. He does not take it well. |
| 330 | * In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator,'' after Grandma Georgina eats too many anti-aging Wonka-Vite pills and disappears, the Oompa-Loompas sing a song about a girl named Goldie Pinklesweet who greedily ate an entire jar of her grandmother's chocolates, only to realize too late that they were actually very powerful laxatives. |
| 331 | * A hotel maid in ''[[Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes Dedication]]'' finds herself compelled to eat some [[NauseaFuel semen]] left on the sheets by a talented author by a black magic spell intended to replace her rotten husband as the father of her unborn child. |
| 332 | * ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'': |
| 333 | ** The Canting Crew regularly dine on old boots. In ''{{Literature/Hogfather}}'', Death swaps their boots-and-mud Hogswatch dinner for the contents of a fancy restaurant's kitchen, so the restaurant's chefs improvise a complete menu of "aged beef" recipes from what's available. And wind up having to cook ''their own'' footwear too, when unwitting diners keep ordering more. |
| 334 | ** In ''Literature/TheTruth'', William pays a visit to the Canting Crew in their home under a bridge, and worries when they serve him a cup of tea. To his surprise, the tea turns out to be perfectly sanitary, and he relaxes...only to learn that the ''lemon'' he added was found floating in the toxic River Ankh. |
| 335 | ** In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', Pepe is looking for the bathroom in the middle of the night but finds an empty champagne bottle first. Madame unwittingly drinks it and says "this stuff has gone horribly flat." |
| 336 | ** The Seriph of Al-Khali in ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' offers Rincewind some crunchy, sweetened things on sticks. He enjoys them very much until it transpires that the Seriph had failed to understand what earlier poets meant when they used the phrase "wild honey and locusts" (the "locusts," Conina points out, should actually be a kind of fruit).[[note]]In real life the phrase is a Biblical reference, describing what John the Baptist ate in the wilderness. Some interpret the locusts to mean [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carob carob]] pods.[[/note]] |
| 337 | ** In ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'', Rincewind has this reaction several times while "enjoying" the Krullian's marine-invertebrate-based cusine, to the point where he ''does'' make a point of asking if the wine is made from "crushed octopus eyeballs" or something before he tries it. Unfortunately, he relaxes on being told "sea grapes", and has already drunk some before it's further explained that a sea grape is a kind of jellyfish. |
| 338 | ** The witches (except Nanny, who'll try anything once, or even several times) have this reaction several times with ForeignQueasine in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', including Granny says "cwussies de grennolly" were nice, but she doesn't know what it means, and Nanny making the mistake of telling her "frogs' legs", then having to pretend it's a joke name like "toad in the hole". Nanny also gleefully tells the others that Mrs Gogol's gumbo is made with lady's fingers and snakes' heads. Granny knows lady's fingers are a plant, but isn't so sure about the snakes' heads. Magrat ''does'' know they're also a plant ... and Nanny decides to let her keep believing that. |
| 339 | * The ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Timeless'' has [[BigEater Fitz]] doing this with a chunk of "cheese" he found in his friend Anji's flat, which had been abandoned for months anyway. She says she didn't have any cheese, and he is understandably perturbed. |
| 340 | * ''Literature/EpithetErasedPrisonOfPlastic'': Rick Shades, a near-literal FishOutOfWater, eats several of Phoenica's business cards, but not to worry, Phoenica [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense paid extra to get edible business cards]]. Then she mentions another upgrade she paid for. |
| 341 | -->'''Feenie:''' What if I was stranded on a desert island and I had nothing to eat but my business cards, hmm? What then? The graphic designer insisted on it. That’s why we also sprung for the option that turns the card into a signal flare when ignited.\ |
| 342 | '''Rick, swallowing his third:''' Turns the card into a what now? |
| 343 | * In ''The Gianduiotto Code'' (an Italian parody of ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode''), the protagonists and several friends are enjoying several samples of a new type of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianduiotto gianduiotti]] when their maker explains that it's made from the seeds of a type of Mesoamerican berries which are eaten by some local iguana, then recovered from the dung and prepared. And no, they're not washed before, that would completely ruin the flavor. As the narration mentions, the tasting rythm slowed down considerably after the reveal. |
| 344 | * In ''Literature/HarryPotter'' Harry, Ron, and Hermione are eating what they think is a beef casserole in Hagrid's hut... then Hermione finds a large talon in her serving. They lose their appetite pretty quickly after that. |
| 345 | * In ''Literature/TheHelp'', a servant does this to her employer. Let's just say, it's a chocolate pie, and what she puts into it is brown. She later tells the employer what, exactly, it was. And that's why you should never be mean to the people who cook your food. (Or accept food from people you treated horribly.) |
| 346 | * Sacre bleu!! In one of the earliest ''[[Creator/SeaburyQuinn Jules de Grandin]]'' stories, "The Isle of Lost Ships", de Grandin and Trowbridge are most displeased to find that they had been eating [[IAmAHumanitarian "long pig"]] at the dinner table of Goonong Besar. This is one of the few times when a villain manages to get one over the invincible Jules de Grandin. |
| 347 | * ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'': PlayedForDrama when Denna realizes that the maple candy she found is actually denner resin, a ruinously addictive [[FantasticDrug drug]]. She has to resort to eating burnt wood to neutralize the worst of it and avoid dying of an overdose, but still suffers some poisoning -- and gets out of town before the resin's former owner comes looking for her. |
| 348 | * One RunningGag of the ''{{Literature/Nightside}}'' series is for Alex, bartender at Strangefellows, to offer a beverage called "Angel's Urine" to the unsuspecting. Sales declined after word got out that it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 349 | * ''Literature/TheOccupationSaga'': {{Invoked}} in ''Between Worlds Two''. Due to their larger size requiring more calories, the Shil'vati diet tends to be higher in fats and sugars, so a noblewoman whom Jason meets in ''Between Worlds Two'' thinks she can make a killing by importing honey from Earth. Her would-be customers are ''thoroughly'' grossed out when Jason explains that honey is technically bee vomit... which turns out to be [[BatmanGambit the intended outcome]] for the trader who brought him along as her plus-one: she is able to buy up the honey cheaply and make a tidy profit from less squeamish customers. |
| 350 | * In ''Literature/PrettyLittleLiars'' Aria becomes a vegetarian after eating puffin. |
| 351 | * ''Literature/RamonaQuimby'': In ''Ramoma and Her Father'', the family is halfway through dinner when Mrs. Quimby mentions that the meat they're eating is actually tongue. Cue Beezus and Ramona freaking out and refusing to finish their food, to the exasperation of their father, who remarks that they could eat it just fine before. |
| 352 | * ''Literature/RickBrant'': In ''The Phantom Shark,'' Barty is appalled when her dinner turns out to be a kind of bat. |
| 353 | * In ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', Darren is enjoying the stew he's been served at Vampire Mountain. When he asks what's in it, Mr. Crepsley simply tells him to look up, revealing a swarm of bats hanging on the ceiling. Darren quickly loses his appetite afterwards. |
| 354 | * In the fourth ''Literature/SpySchool'' book, Alexander Hale has this reaction to learning that rocky mountain oysters are made of bull testicles right after finishing them at a restaurant. |
| 355 | * This is how Rock in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' gets sent to the bridge crews. "I may have, uh, enhanced the soup". |
| 356 | -->'''Teft:''' Wait, you put chull dung in Highprince Sadeas's soup? |
| 357 | -->'''Rock:''' Er, yes... Actually I put this thing in his bread too. And used it as a garnish on the pork steak. And made a chutney out of it for the buttered garams. Chull dung, it has many uses, I found. |
| 358 | * ''Literature/SurvivalInAnotherWorldWithMyMistress'': Attempting to court Kousuke, the harpy flock that lives in the village makes him a breakfast that includes eggs they themselves had laid that morning. Kousuke, who has finished the meal by this point, is initially grossed out and it takes a few minutes for them to explain to him it's not cannibalism as far as they're concerned: ''fertilized'' harpy eggs are gestated internally. |
| 359 | * ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': After going into how (under Domestic Animals) very few livestock seem to exist, although many cats and dogs do, there's a suggestion that this should make Tourists wonder at just what the meat in Stew is. |
| 360 | * The main character of ''Literature/TheWarOfTheFlowers'' by Creator/TadWilliams has to be told what "pixie dust" means when you're in a reality with actual pixies. |
| 361 | * In ''Literature/{{Watersong}}'', Gemma throws up when she learns that the "liquor" the sirens gave her was actually a mixture of human and siren blood. |
| 362 | * A case of "I ''[[SubvertedTrope almost]]'' ate what?" in the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novel, ''Isle of View'': Che Centaur and Jenny Elf are captives of a goblin horde. When a guard gives them a hunk of barely-cooked meat for dinner, they both refuse. (The guard says "suit yourself" and eats it himself). Jenny refused because she's a FriendToAllLivingThings and eating meat squicks her. Che's also a vegetarian, but says he wouldn't have eaten that even if he wasn't. In clarification, Che asks where the goblins would get fresh meat, since there were no livestock or meat trees around. Jenny realizes in horror that the meat could've only come from the nymph and faun they earlier saw the goblins force into a [[HatePlague hate spring]] and then watched beat each other to death. |
| 363 | * ''Literature/WarriorCats'': In [=ThunderClan=], apprentices sometimes prank kits by telling them that drops of rabbit dung are actually delicious berries. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 367 | * Music/BobDylan's "Po' Boy": |
| 368 | -->''Theatre/{{Othello}} told Desdemona,\ |
| 369 | "I'm cold, cover me with a blanket\ |
| 370 | By the way, what happened to that poisoned wine?"\ |
| 371 | She said "I gave it to you, you drank it."'' |
| 372 | * Music/TheOffspring's "Don't Pick It Up": |
| 373 | -->''I saw a little kid\ |
| 374 | As he walked around\ |
| 375 | He picked a candy bar up\ |
| 376 | Off the ground\ |
| 377 | He chowed about a half\ |
| 378 | And his face [[BlueWithShock turned blue]]\ |
| 379 | Turned out that candy bar was a [[{{Squick}} doggy-doo]]'' |
| 380 | * In the Music/RunDMC song "You Be Illin'": |
| 381 | -->''(For) Dinner, you ate it, there is none left\ |
| 382 | It was salty, with butter, and it was def\ |
| 383 | You proceeded to eat it, cause you was in the mood\ |
| 384 | But homes you did not read it was a can of dog food'' |
| 385 | * The song/sketch "Barbecue" by Dutch comedian Andre van Duin has this spoken exchange during an instrumental break: |
| 386 | -->''"This chicken leg is completely scorched, would you look at that!"\ |
| 387 | "That's not a chicken leg, you're munching a piece of charcoal! By the way, there's a good sauce in this jar, have you tried it yet?"\ |
| 388 | "What jar? Yuck, that's not a sauce, that's a can of wood stain!"'' |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 392 | * In the music video for Music/TobyKeith's "Red Solo Cup", one man at the party in the video pees into the cup and gives it to another man, who then drinks it and punches the first man out. |
| 393 | * Also from Music/TheOffspring, one scene of the video for "Original Prankster" has a guy buttering another's bread with poop. The other guy [[{{Squick}} cluelessly eats it]]. |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 397 | * Myth/EgyptianMythology has the charming story of [[GodOfEvil Set]] having masturbating [[RapeAsDrama with the sleeping Horus]] and Horus smearing Set's lettuces with semen when he found out about it. |
| 398 | [[/folder]] |
| 399 | |
| 400 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 401 | * Invoked in ''Pinball/FunHouse1990'' when the player shoots a ball into [[LivingToy Rudy's]] mouth while he's sleeping. He promptly [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomits it out.]] |
| 402 | * This is also possible in the SpiritualSequel, ''Pinball/RedAndTedsRoadShow''. |
| 403 | -->'''Red:''' Bleah! How can you eat those things? |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Poetry]] |
| 407 | * Implied in Creator/ShelSilverstein's poem "The Crawfee": |
| 408 | --> ''Oh, that silly fish, the Crawfee\ |
| 409 | Has been swimming in your coffee\ |
| 410 | And you've gone and drunk it up\ |
| 411 | And he isn't in the cup\ |
| 412 | And he's nowhere to be found\ |
| 413 | Do you think that he has drowned?\ |
| 414 | [[/folder]] |
| 415 | |
| 416 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 417 | * In the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] in 2001, Commissioner Wrestling/WilliamRegal drank some tea which Wrestling/ChrisJericho had urinated in. He found the taste... interesting. |
| 418 | * In another infamous episode the Wrestling/BigBossman fed Wrestling/AlSnow his (Snow's) pet chihuahua Pepper as "Pepper Steak." |
| 419 | * At one point, [[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] crushed [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "the Snake"'s]] pet boa, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu_XaibwjaE then served it as "Quakeburgers" to the commentators.]] Wrestling/BobbyHeenan was the only one to realize what they were eating before it was too late. He still ''ate'' it, being a {{Heel}}. |
| 420 | * On July 4, 2016, Chris Jericho found a used bandage in his food, sending him into UnstoppableRage. |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 424 | * ''Series/FraggleRock'': In "The Doomsday Soup", Boober is making his famous radish gumbo. He puts a pot of laundry on to boil while the gumbo is simmering. While Boober's peeking into the garden to see if he can get a radish for the gumbo, Gobo and Wembley accidentally take a taste of the wash water instead of the soup. |
| 425 | -->'''Gobo:''' Ah, this must be it, Wembley!\ |
| 426 | '''Wembley:''' Mmm-hmm!\ |
| 427 | '''Gobo:''' Boober's famous radish gumbo!\ |
| 428 | '''Wembley:''' Oh boy, oh boy!\ |
| 429 | ''[They each take a taste, then make disgusted noises.]''\ |
| 430 | '''Wembley:''' ''[choking]'' If that's soup, I'm on a diet!\ |
| 431 | '''Gobo:''' Yeah!\ |
| 432 | '''Boober:''' ''[walking over]'' What are you doing to the laundry? |
| 433 | * In a sketch of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', a monster eats a machine that has a recording explaining it. Only when he has finished does he hear that its purpose is to [[OhCrap create the largest explosion on record]]. [[StuffBlowingUp Sure enough...]] |
| 434 | [[/folder]] |
| 435 | |
| 436 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 437 | * From an episode of ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' (paraphrased from memory): |
| 438 | -->'''Grytpype:''' What's that smell, Moriarty?\ |
| 439 | '''Moriarty:''' Here. Taste, taste.\ |
| 440 | '''Grytpype:''' Mmm, delicious. What is it?\ |
| 441 | '''Moriarty:''' Your laundry. |
| 442 | * In ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'', this happens in the episode "The Model School Teacher". The editor of ''Snap Magazine'' has eatten CordonBleughChef Mrs. Davis' waffles. He thinks they're good, until he learns what was in it. The joke is ommitted (along with the magazine editor's character) in the [[SoundToScreenAdaptation television remake]] "The Model Teacher". |
| 443 | [[/folder]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 446 | * An event in ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'' involves your [[PlayerCharacter investigator]] stumbling across a table of food and helping himself. Depending on how much you [[FailedASpotCheck fail the perception check]], you'll either go on your merry way, or have some of your stats restored. But if you pass it, your investigator will realize to his horror just what the stuff was and lose points on the SanityMeter. |
| 447 | * Also shows up as an anecdotal example in the Ancient Rome setting for ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem''. In the setting, vampires are capable of enthralling humans to serve them by giving them a taste of blood; with three tastes, the "blood bond" sticks for a damn long time. So this vampire whose family doesn't know he's dead keeps visiting them for dinner, and brings along these ''delicious'' blood sausages... |
| 448 | [[/folder]] |
| 449 | |
| 450 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 451 | %% |
| 452 | %% Note: Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" is an example of I'm A Humanitarian, not this trope. |
| 453 | %% |
| 454 | * From the original Broadway production of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', discussing TheRenfield: |
| 455 | -->'''Seward:''' An unusual case. Zoophagous.\ |
| 456 | '''Harker:''' What's that?\ |
| 457 | '''Seward:''' A life-eating maniac.\ |
| 458 | '''Harker:''' What?\ |
| 459 | '''Seward:''' Yes, he thinks that by absorbing lives he can prolong his own life.\ |
| 460 | '''Harker:''' Good Lord!\ |
| 461 | '''Seward:''' Catches flies and eats them. And by way of change, he feeds flies to spiders. Fattens them up. Then he eats the spiders. |
| 462 | :: A step left out of this, but in the original book, feeding spiders to sparrows, then eating ''those''. And Seward mentions he's repeatedly turned down Renfield's request for a pet cat. |
| 463 | [[/folder]] |
| 464 | |
| 465 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 466 | * ''VideoGame/BombChicken'': BFC's "irresistible" hot sauce is a shade of blue found nowhere in nature. Seriously, it looks like liquefied [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 Smurf]], and people apparently ''can't get enough of the stuff''. [[spoiler:The gross-out factor increases exponentially once you find out the sauce is actually a giant mutant chicken's ''blood''...]] |
| 467 | * In ''VideoGame/Borderlands3's'' ''Guns, Love, and Tentacles'' DLC, the Vault Hunters are treated to meat called Kife by the hunter Eista. Then they're tasked with hunting a Wendigo for more to progress on their journey. [[spoiler: After killing it, they eventually learn that Kife are the Wendigo's testicles.]] |
| 468 | -->'''Amara''': Wait, so [[spoiler: the ''balls'' are Kife...?]] O-okay, okay whatever. Just making sure... |
| 469 | * Early on in ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'' the party comes across Buddy the starving dog and can feed him whatever meat they have in their inventory. Surprisingly [[OurElvesAreDifferent he has higher standards than the setting's elves]] and if fed humanoid meat he'll spit it out in horror, angrily assert that he doesn't eat people, and turn hostile. |
| 470 | * In ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'', the first part of Vergil's plan to bring down Mundus is to destroy Mundus' means of slowly making humanity docile cattle. When Dante asks what it is, Vergil replies that Dante's holding it. It being the soft drink Virility that Dante is drinking. After a beat, Dante spits it out and tosses the can into the trash though Vergil tells him that Virility only affects humans. [[spoiler:Virility is spiked with the toxic bodily fluids of a huge disgusting demon.]] |
| 471 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': |
| 472 | ** One can only wonder where Oghren's home-brewed ale comes from, as hinted by him and Zevran in party banter. |
| 473 | ** In the ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]'' expansion pack, Oghren's response to drinking [[spoiler: a (potentially lethal) combination of darkspawn blood, lyrium, and archdemon blood?]] "Not bad". This is after complaining that the (rather large) cup the mixture was in was too small. And unlike everyone else who drinks it and doesn't die from it he doesn't even pass out or show any kind of discomfort. |
| 474 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' has a companion quest that involves gathering components for a potion... one of which is ''crystallized sewage.'' [[PlayerCharacter Hawke]] reacts with a heartfelt "EEEWWW." |
| 475 | * ''VisualNovel/DreamDaddy'': When Craig invites the Dadsona over to Robert's dinner, the latter serves them osso buco. The Dadsona compliments its taste, but Robert tells him that he got it from the trash can, making him almost gag. {{Subverted|Trope}} since Robert was just kidding. |
| 476 | * In ''VideoGame/EldenRing'', one [=NPC=] you can encounter is Lightseeker Hyetta, a blind seer who can sense lost grace that she believes can direct her to her destiny, but to do so she would have to consume "Shabiri Grapes" in order to see the light. Unbeknownst to her, said grapes are in fact human eyes. You can actually tell this to her when she asks you what they are, with [[VomitDiscretionShot predictable results]]. |
| 477 | * Eating a human corpse in ''VideoGame/{{Elona}}'' gives a message "Eek! It's human flesh!" and makes your character have [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone a fit of insanity]]. However there is a point in doing so repeatedly, as it may give you the cannibalism trait, which lets you eat human flesh without penalty. |
| 478 | * Takeshi from ''VisualNovel/Ever17'' tries to invoke this trope on Tsugumi in Kid's routes. During "picnic" he gives her special sandwich "just for her", and when she bites it he laughs and mentions every single one of over 30 spices that he put in there in order to make the sandwich inedible. Tsugumi then says she likes it and it tastes like pizza. |
| 479 | * ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has "Strange Meat", which turns out to be human flesh. Despite the squick factor, it has essentially the same effects as any other kind of meat: some health recovery, and your radiation points go up slightly. (The Cannibal perk allows you to eat the corpses of defeated humanoid enemies, but doing so lowers your Karma; eating Strange Meat has no Karmic effect.) |
| 480 | * In ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'', we learn that Saber's terrified of octopus, which she believes is an EldritchAbomination like the ones the [[Literature/FateZero Fourth Caster]] summoned. When Shirou mentions that some riceballs she ate had octopus in them, this is her reaction. |
| 481 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': During the feast after the Hunting festival in Lindblum [[spoiler:everyone, save for Garnet and Steiner suddenly collapse after taking a few bites]]. Garnet hasn't been eating at all, and Steiner, who has, and now noticed that [[spoiler:everyone had collapsed]], dramatically falls on his knees and gasps that the food was poisoned and he is dying for his princess... that until Garnet says [[spoiler:there shouldn't have been any in ''his'' plate]]. Upon hearing it, he utters that now that she mentioned it, he suddenly feels much better and stands up again. [[spoiler:The alleged "poison" is revealed to be sleeping pills]]. |
| 482 | ** Later in the same game there's a cooking scene and you have the option to put an "Oglop" (a kind of insect) into the recipe. Doing so will cause the I Ate What? reaction from the other characters when they eat it. |
| 483 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' |
| 484 | ** A very dark example in ''Shadowbringers'': [[spoiler:early in the main story, it is shown that the powers that be in Eulmore, a decadent society of idle nobles who while away the time while waiting for TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, keep the population of the city and the surrounding shantytowns appeased with "Meol", a mysterious foodstuff that look like bread rolls and that those who eat it find irresistible. Later on in the story, when you and your companions return, your allies who can detect the power of the primordial Light discover that Meol is actually made from ''sin eaters'', the selfsame {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and, in many cases, [[WasOnceAMan monsters of humanoid origin]] that you're fighting against. [[ImAHumanitarian The implications are highly unsettling]] even ''before'' you figure out that the ArcVillain who can control sin eaters can also control people who ate them.]] |
| 485 | ** A lighter example in the sidequest line starting with "A Costly Meal", which begins with a newly-sapient amaro unthinkingly eating a Nu Mou's "porxie" familiar. While porxies look (and apparently taste) like flying pigs, they're actually made of enchanted clay, a fact the amaro is appropriately nauseated to hear. |
| 486 | * Playing ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend''? Courting [[ObviouslyEvil Dr. Shuu]]? He sends you a lovely roast bird for Christmas... [[spoiler: after finding Yuuya going through his desk for the last time.]] Ho ho ho ho... |
| 487 | * ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' [[spoiler:has Daniella/The Maid cook a meal during an early stage of the game. Later, this meal is served, and after two spoonfuls and one hell of an awkward conversation, an obviously sickened Fiona excuses herself. Once the cutscene ends, [[InterfaceScrew all she can do is walk incredibly slowly, and clutch her stomach]]. If you examined the unattended cooking pot at an earlier point, there is a chance that Fiona will recoil in horror, realising that '''human hair and meat''' is what is being cooked inside.]] |
| 488 | * In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', one event at the Prosaic Plains has Sol coming across a pond with seemingly clean, potable water. Unless they have enough knowledge in Animals to analyze it first, they only realize ''after'' drinking it that balneals pee into the pond to mark their territory. |
| 489 | * Cure from ''Videogame/JadeCocoon 2'' tricks Kahu into eating Ginui powder at one point (Ginui being a race of newt-like monsters that live in the water forest). Kahu is disgusted when she tells him what he just ate. |
| 490 | * Combined with LethalChef in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', where an NPC in the tea house near the beginning serves food that reduces your health/spirit/focus reserves and rewards you if you eat enough. |
| 491 | * ''VideoGame/{{Jazzpunk}}'': The drop-in diner in Japan. The player will SpitTake EVERYTHING that the chef gives him once he learns what was used to make it. |
| 492 | * In ''Videogame/LittleBigAdventure 2'', Twinsen visits the planet Zeelich and is invited to join a family of miners for dinner. When he's informed that the tart he just ate had fireflies as a main ingredient, he faints. |
| 493 | * Naked Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' [[ExtremeOmnivore will eat almost anything he finds]] in the woods with glee. The one exception to this is if Para-Medic informs him that the vultures are known to eat human flesh after he's already sampled some of their meat. He's notably disturbed by the [[ImAHumanitarian prospect of being a cannibal]]. [[DevelopersForesight If you eat a vulture that fed on a dead soldier, when you reach the Sorrow's river, that soldier's ghost will have a vulture on its shoulder and moan, "YOU ATE ME!"]] |
| 494 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 495 | ** In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', you get rewarded for eating Nanako's science project, which is a pot of grass. The protagonist feels more guilty about eating it than disgusted, though. |
| 496 | ** Done in the ''Portable'' release of ''VideoGame/Persona3'' with TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow, when Theo refuses to tell the player what was in the takoyaki they just ate. |
| 497 | --->'''Theo:''' There are things your kind is better off not knowing. So I've been taught, which means... I mustn't... But using THAT for cooking... |
| 498 | ** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', during one of Haru Okumura's Confidant rank ups, she invites you to try out an expensive blend of coffee at a buffet. After you've taken a sip of it, Haru then reveals the coffee beans are fed to elephants, collected from their poop and processed into the coffee [[note]]TruthInTelevision - this process produces the Black Ivory coffee.[[/note]]. Your possible answers are: |
| 499 | --->Wait, you mean poop?!\ |
| 500 | I can taste the elephant.\ |
| 501 | Excuse me while I vomit. |
| 502 | * Kay from ''VideoGame/RegaliaOfMenAndMonarchs'' accidentally drinks the ashes of his deceased grandfather, thinking them to simply be really old tea. When his older sister Gwendolyn tells him the truth, they (along with his younger sister Elaine and his bodyguard Griffith) react with StunnedSilence for a few seconds before Grandpa Des' ghost appears before them. |
| 503 | * The Saints Flow energy drink in ''Videogame/SaintsRowTheThird'' and ''Videogame/SaintsRowIV'' is not only stated to taste terrible but is not-so-subtly implied to contain questionable ingredients. Especially in the ''Enter the Dominatrix'' DLC when the Saints have to fight a giant, anthropomorphic Saints Flow can named Paul by flying into it and dropping a bomb into his brain. |
| 504 | -->'''Zimos:''' Hold on. This thing has a brain? What exactly have I been drinking all of these years?\ |
| 505 | '''Pierce:''' I'm contractually prevented from divulging the secret ingredients in Saints Flow. |
| 506 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Sam And Max|FreelancePolice}}: Situation: Comedy'', you have to rig one of these in the ShowWithinAShow. Specifically, you need to get Mr. Featherly to eat a cow pie (which is fortunately a prop). |
| 507 | * The player in the ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'' game series can drink any number of noxious beverages, only a [[EverythingTryingToKillYou very few]] of which are [[TheManyDeathsOfYou nonlethal]]. |
| 508 | * In ''VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns'' Hong Kong, the player can accidentally eat some meta-human flesh in Gaichu's hide out. Or drink blood when sampling the "red wine" in a vampire's apartment. You can even get an achievement for doing both. Hilariously, if Duncan is the party either time, he berates the player for being so stupid as to eat random food on a mission. The narration comments that as long as you don't know what it is, Gaichu's people sashimi is actually pretty damn good, and you can talk him into giving you the recipe. |
| 509 | * Implied in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' with the stuff served at the Hunters' Associations. Whatever it is, it's filling and tastes good. The problem is that the croquettes are still kind of alive when served, and about the yulmucha, your navigational AI scans it and is only ''mostly'' sure it has no dangerous components. And let's not get started on the ''waffles''... Small reminder that, whatever it is, it's ALL they had to eat since past 20 years ago. No better, or even healthier, options available. It comes to the point that, depending on which ending are you going for, you can hear comments about their foodstuffs from [[spoiler: Merkabah, who even sees eating the food from the bars as a feat of courage, and Lucifer, who all but says that whoever lives by thriving on that diet should be part of his loyalists by default!]] [[spoiler: This doesn't change in the sequel. Dagda's pretty squicked at the Associations' food.]] |
| 510 | * A pretty dark example from ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012''. After [[spoiler: Winston Chu and his girlfriend get killed during their wedding, Mrs. Chu asks the main character to get her the hitman who murdered him (Johnny Ratface) to find out who was the mastermind. After getting the information that it was Dogeyes Lin, a childhood friend and member of the same gang as Winston, she asks to get him as well. When you bring Dogeyes in, she welcomes him with a bowl of soup she force-feeds him, before revealing that it contains the meat of Johnny Ratface. You leave just as she grabs her cleaver and says that she's going to add him to the soup next...]] |
| 511 | -->'''Mrs. Chu:''' Sammy! I left the bones in for you! Just the way you like it, right? |
| 512 | * Downplayed a bit: In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan'', Moose drinks the manatee ichor (kind of a bloodlike fluid or discharge) and, surprisingly, it doesn't sicken Moose at all ([[{{Squick}} though Guybrush and Morgan do seem kind of grossed out by it]]). He even tells Guybrush that the orange ichor (which has "a bubbly effervescence with a tangy palette") has been pure and unfiltered since he got hooked on it when he and the other crew members of De Cava landed in the [[WombLevel belly of the manatee]]. Moose adds that the other ichor, the yellow bile, is acidic and hazardous to the digestive system when drunk. Since De Cava only likes the orange ichor, Guybrush can trick him into drinking the yellow bile served on a mug for one of the key expressions in a Pirate Face-Off. |
| 513 | * In the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' video "Expiration Date", as Medic reveals that a loaf of bread that was recently sent through a teleporter has tumors, Heavy pauses eating his sandvich and looks down at it. In the next scene, he is seen inspecting it before deciding to eat it anyway. |
| 514 | * In story mode of ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'', Arizona (a young calf) tells an NPC reindeer where milk actually comes from. After she does, the deer goes into a state of shock. |
| 515 | * ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': |
| 516 | ** The Dog Salad recovers a random amount of HP each time it's eaten, but the player gets a disgusted reaction each time. |
| 517 | --->''Oh. There are bones...'' |
| 518 | --->''Oh. Fried tennis ball...'' |
| 519 | --->''Oh. Tastes yappy...'' |
| 520 | --->''It's literally garbage???'' |
| 521 | ** As pointed out by the incredulous [[BurgerFool Burgerpants]], the MTT-brand Glamburger is made out of ''sequins and glue''. "Edible sequins", as the item description clarifies if you buy one, but considering what other sorts of things are considered edible to monsters... |
| 522 | ** A lot of the food can provoke this reaction with the Info text. Spider Cider "made with whole spiders, not just the juice", Hot Dogs "made of something called a 'Water Sausage'"(cattail), Junk Food "that was probably once thrown away", Temmie Flakes which are "just torn up pieces of colored construction paper"...At least that same info text assures us that the glitter and sequins on the Glamburger really are edible. |
| 523 | * ''VideoGame/VacationStory'' has a bit of a delayed example. Apples found on the island later prove to be rotten. Anyone who ate them will collapse dead on the spot. |
| 524 | * ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'': This is Larry's expression when [[spoiler:the St. John family reveal they've been purposely killing survivors and eating their flesh while giving that flesh to the group. Made even worse if [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Lee decides to goad Larry into eating the flesh after getting sick and tired of Larry's hostility]].]] |
| 525 | [[/folder]] |
| 526 | |
| 527 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 528 | * ''Website/BrainPOP'': In the Fractions video, after eating a piece of Moby's cake: |
| 529 | -->'''Tim:''' Three-quarters of a cup of... motor oil?\ |
| 530 | '''Tim:''' I have to... go to the... bathroom.\ |
| 531 | ''[Tim runs to the bathroom, then we hear spitting sounds]'' |
| 532 | * Subverted in the ''WebAnimation/TheCyanideAndHappinessShow'' short "Birthday Boy". The father of the birthday boy gives him a pony as a present, but naturally the boy shows disdain. The father proceeds to reveal that the boy and his friends ate a poisoned cake and the antidote was ''inside of the pony''. Naturally for C&H, the real birthday present (a gaming system) was inside of the pony and the boy and his friends are left traumatized. Whether or not the cake was actually poisoned is left unknown, but it can be implied to be a lie. |
| 533 | * ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': In "Sanji vs. Rock Lee", Wiz discusses the former's Raid Suit while Boomstick is drinking a beer; the suit is contained in a can, which Wiz explains he can pull out and activate for a "MagicalGirl transformation sequence". When Wiz attempts to open it, beer promptly spills out of the can. Boomstick then questions what he's drinking if Wiz has his beer, and then vomits a sock at Wiz's face immediately afterwards. |
| 534 | -->'''Boomstick''': I'm gonna either need to go to the bathroom... or the hospital. |
| 535 | * Used in the third part of ''WebAnimation/DeclineOfVideoGaming'' to a ridiculous extent. |
| 536 | -->'''JT:''' Hey, this local dish is pretty good!\ |
| 537 | '''Dim:''' Um... that's the potpourri. It makes the room smell nice.\ |
| 538 | '''JT:''' Eh? Ah, it doesn't matter, these giant oriental crackers are much nicer anyway.\ |
| 539 | '''Dan:''' Yeah, you see, that's the towel from the bathroom.\ |
| 540 | '''Dim:''' You didn't eat anything else, did you?\ |
| 541 | ''[soap bubbles start to foam around JT's mouth]'' |
| 542 | * ''WebAnimation/DorisAndMaryAnneAreBreakingOutOfPrison'': In Episode 7, some inmates give Doris bootleg hooch which she takes a sip of and then spits out when it turns out to really be urine. |
| 543 | * ''WebAnimation/HalfLifeZeroViscosity:'' The first episode consists of repeated examples, as a Shock Trooper provides his collection of fluids for "Human Guy" Gus to drink for some manner of program, and the dehydrated Gus is willing to try ''everything'' just to get some actual moisture in him. Unfortunately for him, the collection includes [[spoiler:City 23's dystopically tampered tapwater, sea water, stuff from a stagnant pool by the roadside, ''canal sewage'' and '''cyanide''' (though circumstances fortunately interrupt that one)]]. |
| 544 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' subverts this in that many characters have been known to consciously [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Eating_Non-Food_Items eat inedible items]], whether due to ravenous eating habits or just plain ignorance. |
| 545 | ** At least once, however, in one Strong Bad Email, there is an instance of a character eating something unintentionally, as when Strong Bad and The Cheat (wearing a towel) give Coach Z what looks like a bowl of ice cream (with toasted coconut), which he eats: |
| 546 | --->'''Coach Z:''' Ooh! Sweet mercy! ''(keeps eating)'' This is awrful! ''(still keeps eating)''\ |
| 547 | '''Strong Bad:''' Aw, it's okay, Coach. You're the proud new eater of a healthy bowl of sour cream and The Cheat fur.\ |
| 548 | '''The Cheat:''' ''[takes off his towel, revealing the lower half of his body being shaved clean]'' Ta-da!\ |
| 549 | '''Coach Z:''' ''[coughs up fur]'' Oh! I think I'm gonna [[NauseaFuel puke my pants]]!\ |
| 550 | '''Strong Bad:''' Ugh! Please don't elaborate on that.\ |
| 551 | '''Coach Z:''' Naw, it's easy. I do it all the time. |
| 552 | ** In the same email, Homestar has eaten some of Strong Bad's "ice cream" and tries to offer some to Marzipan: |
| 553 | --->'''Marzipan:''' Homestar, didn't anyone tell you? That's, like, cottage cheese and The Cheat hair!\ |
| 554 | '''Homestar:''' [[BigWhat WHAT?!]] (does a SpitTake) [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Strong Bad told me it was]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint sour cream]]'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint and The Cheat hair!]] |
| 555 | * ''WebAnimation/ObjectTerror'': "I drank WHAT!?" (suddenly [[VomitIndiscretionShot barf-beams on Carpet]]) Dang, that was my new carpet! What was she ''thinking!?''[[note]]For context, Stapler drinks a bottle of a yellow liquid which she assumed was apple juice, but turned out to be Computer's urine.[[/note]] |
| 556 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Otakebi}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDpaXzPb1KY Tomoe]] often gets scolded by her husband for not being able to cook him the "Shiitake rice" that he loves and he claims his mother is good at making it. He eventually cheats on her and asks for a divorce just because she can't cook his favorite rice. Tomoe becomes suspicious of the rice and asks her husband to come to his house to try out the rice cooked by his mother. It's revealed that the rice [[spoiler: wasn't "Shiitake rice" at all as his mother had no idea about it, and the rice was instead infested with bugs, causing him and his mother to be disgusted, his lover also turns out to be a untidy person, her house was infested with bugs, which explains she was able to make him the rice.]] |
| 557 | * ''WebAnimation/PuffinForest'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xs1WLIer1I&t=80s "D&D Story: PEE IN MY BUCKET! The Adventurer's League Game"]], Ben's Party tries rescuing the crew of an airship that crashed in the trees. This crew was exhausted, hungry, and dehydrated. To alleviate the last problem the party peed in a bucket, cast a purification spell on it, and gave it to the crew to drink. |
| 558 | * The ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' fan video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rdFpXasUGc Sniper Soda]]" is all about this. Sniper really has to pee, and since all of his jars are full, he pees in a soda can, and then Scout finds it and unknowingly drinks from it. |
| 559 | -->'''Scout:''' Yo, keep yo' hands off the soda, man!\ |
| 560 | ''[he drinks from the soda can, and then [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomits]]]''\ |
| 561 | '''Soldier:''' Yeah, they should probably teach you how to use a toilet, like normal people.\ |
| 562 | ''[Sniper makes a silly face]''\ |
| 563 | '''On-screen text:''' THAT WAS SO FREAKIN' PREDICTABLE\ |
| 564 | ''[cut to Scout vomiting into one of Sniper's hats]'' |
| 565 | * [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] in the ''WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob'' song "The Amazing Horse". It's never explicitly said, and it's never drank, but after the woman declares the horse's "winky" as dirty, the horse rider has this to say. |
| 566 | -->''Do you think so?''\ |
| 567 | ''Well, I better not show you where the lemonade is made!''\ |
| 568 | ''Sweet lemonade! Mmm, sweet lemonade!''\ |
| 569 | ''Sweet lemonade! Yeah, sweet lemonade!'' |
| 570 | * In the first episode of ''WebAnimation/ZombiesVsNinjas'', the ninjas are seen eating pizza made of cardboard. [[spoiler: And you thought the pizza was real?]] |
| 571 | -->'''Spencer:''' I'd rather be the back end of a [[Film/TheHumanCentipede human centipede]] than eat one more slice of this cardboard pizza.\ |
| 572 | '''Andre:''' This tastes worst than [[ImAHumanitarian little brother Andre ate back in homeland.]]\ |
| 573 | '''Rogie:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Yeah, Tanzy, why don't you through some ketchup on this *censored*?]] |
| 574 | [[/folder]] |
| 575 | |
| 576 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 577 | * ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'': Axel discovering that [[SuckECheeses Chuck E. Cheese]] doesn't sell tequila. |
| 578 | --> "Ugh-oh. I think I've been drinking bleach for the past hour. Fuck." |
| 579 | * DoubleSubverted in an ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' strip, Roy prepares a Coffee for both him and Marth, but before drinking Marth suspects he did something to it, so he switches cups and Roy just leaves annoyed. Then, as he is drinking from the other coffee, Link enters asking for Roy, as he had peed in his coffee. |
| 580 | * Happens to VideoGame/{{Kirby}} occasionally in ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'', obviously given his eating habits. One instance [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=211 here.]] |
| 581 | * ''Webcomic/Collar6'': At one point, Michelle is putting Stella and Claire through a series of sex games, one of which involves being dressed in cow costumes and milked. She gathers the rest of the girls in the kitchen for coffee. [[YoureDrinkingBreastMilk Guess what's served as cream?]] |
| 582 | ** A later strip has Linda gotten up at 5 after going to bed after midnight to make everyone breakfast. The result is green pancakes and purple bacon. It's ''delicious,'' but "It's best if you don't know all the ingredients." |
| 583 | * Atari from ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}}'' has this reaction when she finds out she ate [[http://consolers.webcomic.ws/comics/pl/563653 snake ice cream]]. |
| 584 | * Vaelia of ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' was jokingly told that the meat she was eating was human meat. This was a very real possibility, as the drow from which the meat came from have no problems eating human flesh. Through the likelihood of it actually being human meat is debated, Vaelia decides to just stick with a loaf of bread instead... |
| 585 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}}'': In "[[https://eddsworld.co.uk/comic/11/ Cider]]", Edd drinks what he thinks is apple cider, only for Tord to tell him that there's blood and guts inside the liquid he drank. Edd immediately chokes on his drink. |
| 586 | * In ''WebComic/ExterminatusNow'', Lothar's new cybernetics are powered by his own metabolism so he needs a lot of calories. [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2013-01-06/comic/drink-the-cool-ade/strange-brew/ He immediately dunks his head in a vat of Lime Cool-Ade]]. Then Eastwood points out the ''corpse'' floating in the tank. Lothar pauses for a beat, then ''keeps drinking'' saying it's still not the most disgusting thing he's ever drunk. It gets even more gruesome in the [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2013-01-16/comic/drink-the-cool-ade/my-chemical-romance/ next strip]] when Virus discovers that the Lime Cool-Ade drink mix is [[HumanResources made of the missing townsfolk]]. Lothar smacks his lips for a beat, and remarks that they didn't use enough sweetener while his teammates look on with a mixture of disgust and horror. |
| 587 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Henchgirl}}'' Mary has Fred come to her apartment to hide him from The Butterfly Gang (which she is a part of) from hunting him. As she introduces her roommate, Sue and Tina, Tina serves some carrot cake while everyone is talking about the situation. When the conversation goes into superpowers, Tina reveals she has a power of her own: [[https://imgur.com/AsOB8w4 The power to make carrots come out of her wrists]]. Naturally Mary, Fred and Sue lose their appetite (and in Mary's case, her lunch) when they see this. |
| 588 | * Apparently, it was not an egg the guest ate in [[http://www.loadingartist.com/2011/02/03/roast-chicken/ this strip]] from ''Webcomic/LoadingArtist''. |
| 589 | * Averted in ''Webcomic/MarryMeBobbyCrosby'', where the characters ask what they're drinking BEFORE they consume it. It turns out to be blood. They drink it anyway because they'd allegedly done it before, one for a 'vampire marathon' and the other just for grins. [[spoiler:And the friend who horsed them into this turned out to be drinking Kool-Aid.]] |
| 590 | * [[https://external-preview.redd.it/OkPERdVEns4WM7BqlfwzEVBOh7QqIS3PMHccdBH7Aqc.png?auto=webp&s=f3ca1bf52f4217c4ed24b59d1adf9fa3d83662e7 This]] infamous official ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' comic shows [[SitcomArchNemesis the Noise]] delivering what appears to be a bottle of milk to Peppino. Peppino gratefully drinks it, only to immediately recoil in disgust and whimper "this isn't milk" afterward. Outside of WordOfGod stating that it wasn't any other kind of bodily fluid, whatever the mystery liquid that the Noise tricked Peppino into drinking was is not elaborated on further than that. |
| 591 | * ''Webcomic/PvP'''s Skull once bit into what he ''thought'' was [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2010/10/07/hard-to-stomach a brownie]]. |
| 592 | * ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' had a comic with the line of dialogue "You put what in my cereal?" The cereal in question was "Everything But Urine-Os". |
| 593 | * ''Webcomic/{{Skadi}}'': One of the "Lil' Skadi" strips shows a prank Skadi's sisters played on her where they tricked her into licking frozen urine by telling her it was lemon treats. |
| 594 | * ''Webcomic/VGCats'' has this: |
| 595 | -->'''Leo:''' ...So I've been secretly peeing in her coffee ever since.\ |
| 596 | '''Aeris:''' So I've been switching our coffee ever since. |
| 597 | ** And then he drinks some coffee. Eeew... |
| 598 | * Doc from ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'' was cooking, the kitchen caught fire, automatic extinguishers doused it with BBQ sauce ([[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1441.html "...if the food was going to be on fire, might as well take advantage of it!"]]). While cleaning the aftermath, Doc found a turkey leg and started eating: "[[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1443.html It's juicy, it's tasty... ...it's a scrub brush.]]" After realizing the error, he casts AsideGlance and continues crunching anyway.[[note]] Interestingly, the original strip ended with the third panel. A couple weeks later the author went back and added 2 more. Just to stress how barbecue sauce goes with anything.[[/note]] |
| 599 | [[/folder]] |
| 600 | |
| 601 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 602 | * [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sweet-jesus-pooh-thats-not-honey Sweet Jesus Pooh, That's Not Honey]] is an exploitable meme consisting of a comic where Pooh eats what he thinks is honey until Tigger informs him it is something else. The original comic had it that Pooh was eating Tigger's father's ashes, but most versions of the meme substitute other things that are either just as unpleasant to eat or something that can't really be consumed. |
| 603 | * This led to [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bone-hurting-juice a variation]] where the contents are described as "bone hurting juice", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. "Bone hurting juice" became the name for an entire subsequent trend of turning memes into anti-jokes of a similar caliber. |
| 604 | -->'''ouch oof ow my bones''' |
| 605 | * ''Literature/NESGodzillaCreepypasta'': In chapter 6 of Replay, the story’s sequel, Carl finds himself playing a level where healing items don’t randomly drop, and instead restoring health requires Godzilla and Rodan to purchase packaged meat. Later on, a stage takes place in a factory, where a worker is seen dying from overexertion and being carried away, before reappearing in the final part of said stage, a slaughterhouse where the factory has dead workers butchered and their meat packaged. Carl quickly realises the implications, and is quite horrified at this, particularly since the only way to keep his monsters’ health up is to buy more of this packaged meat, despite now being very much aware of what it actually is. |
| 606 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': |
| 607 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-198 SCP-198]], a cup that fuses to a person's hand and fills up with their bodily fluids such as blood, urine, sweat, feces and [[[FridgeHorror DATA]] [[{{Squick}} EXPUNGED]]]. Unfortunately, it rapidly malnourishes the person, and the only way to gain any nourishment is to consume the contents of the cup. |
| 608 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-294 SCP-294]] is a coffee machine that can dispense a cup of practically any liquid. Just don't make the mistake of asking it for a "cup of Joe" when someone named Joe is in the room. |
| 609 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4495 SCP-4495]] is the disemboweled corpse of a porcine EldritchAbomination that almost constantly produces monsters made from its intestines. As they're functionally identical to pork (actually ''better'', disturbingly enough) and have a HealingFactor, the only way for the Foundation to prevent them from [[ApocalypseHow overrunning the globe and ending all life on Earth]] was to trick their staff into eating them. They would even [[{{squick}} salvage the half-eaten portions]] and reprocess them to make sure they stayed dead. |
| 610 | [[/folder]] |
| 611 | |
| 612 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 613 | * Inverted in ''Literature/HelpNotWanted'', where the four main goblins are so desperate for money that they willingly drink from buckets of animal excrement. Fortunately, it turns out to be melted chocolate. This is later played straight in chapter 6, where the goblins end up eating [[spoiler:human flesh Ogrell secretly fed to them]]. |
| 614 | * Dave Reardon of ''WebVideo/HowToCookThat'' fame. Whenever Anne debunks a so-called baking hack, Dave will be the unfortunate taste tester. He's eaten charcoal flavoured ice cream, skittles made out of waffles and chocolate brownies with ramen noodles in them. |
| 615 | * This often happens in ''WebVideo/{{React}}'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL73YndQawY3MC79qrr7Oj7Cq_I2iQvJao People vs. Food]] videos, as they usually don't tell the people eating the food what it is until after they have tasted it. They have fed people things like brains, rocky mountain oysters (bull testicles), rattlesnake, shirako (fish semen), century eggs, tripe (cow stomach), and more weird foods. In one episode they fed them raw meat and then told them it was human meat, but this time they were just kidding, it was actually a mixture of other raw meats designed to taste like raw human, which is still disturbing. |
| 616 | * ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': |
| 617 | ** In ''[[https://youtu.be/2uJE48aKVNo Beef 'n Go]]'', as Ian happily devours his lifetime supply of Beef 'n Go watching the ad featuring the product, the interviewer ask the rancher what does he feed his cows with. The rancher responds: 100% wheat grass… and horse testicles. Cue Ian [[SpitTake spitting his Beef 'n Go out of his mouth]]. |
| 618 | ** Years later, they released ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqx4ag5n5vI&ab_channel=Smosh Veg 'n Go]]''. As the vegan, after being assured that it's [[BlatantLies 100% suitable for vegans]], drinks it, she gets told that the packaging is made of 100% pure beef. Cue her [[SpitTake spitting out her Veg 'n Go]]. |
| 619 | * ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan's'' video titled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-H1brJjRFg Bowser Juice Infomercial]]" reveals that the Bowser Juice is made [[{{Squick}} from Bowser's pee]]. |
| 620 | * This may have been fully intentional on the developers' part, but ''VideoGame/OmikronTheNomadSoul'' features an edible item called a "koopy sandwich". When the [[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Super Best Friends]] played through the game, they thought this was funny. Until a little later on when they spotted a lounging reptile, hit the interact button on it, and got the description "A giant koopy." Then it was ''hilarious.'' |
| 621 | * ''WebVideo/WhyWouldYouEatThat'' is I Ate What: The Series. It's a show about explaining why people eat these gross foreign foods, and then press-ganging the studio who makes these videos into eating them without knowing exactly what they are. And then telling them. |
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| 624 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 625 | * A weatherman in Connecticut [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0cLndpykL0 ate cat vomit on live TV]] from his shoe, thinking it was Grape Nuts. |
| 626 | * ''Creator/GordonRamsay'': |
| 627 | ** He once freaked out ''Creator/JeremyClarkson'' with this trope after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrqcmnUWBWc teaching him how to properly clean a lobster]], due to Jeremy never bothering to clean the digestive tract - that is, he had been eating lobster excrement his entire life. |
| 628 | ** He had this experience [[https://youtu.be/yox3-U7r_i8 sampling some mac and cheese made by one Masterchef audition]], due to finding out that it had been [[YoureDrinkingBreastmilk made with breastmilk]]. Complete with a SpitTake. |
| 629 | * If you make a habit of taking food that isn't yours in a communal fridge, you'll end up getting hit with a case of this. Many stories involve sneaking [[PottyFailure laxatives]] in food, and at least [[http://fox13now.com/2016/07/22/woman-gets-revenge-with-ultimate-office-prank-breast-milk-coffee-creamer/ one woman]] replaced her coffee creamer with [[YoureDrinkingBreastmilk breastmilk]]. [[DontTryThisAtHome It's highly illegal in the US and many other countries to sabotage food this way]], even if it's with a product that's meant for human consumption (such as [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce ghost pepper hot sauce]]), so don't do it. |
| 630 | * Italian SerialKiller Leonarda Cianciulli, aka "The Soap-Maker of Correggio", would dispose of her victims' bones and blood by using them as ingredients for homemade tea cakes and soaps, the former of which she would serve to unwitting guests. |
| 631 | * There have been multiple cases of real-life {{Yandere}}s [[https://www.stayathomemum.com.au/wtf/the-women-who-sneak-period-blood-into-their-partners-food/ secretly feeding their male partners their period blood]] out of a superstition that this will bind the men to them forever. At least one victim was severely disgusted and broke up with his girlfriend upon learning that she had been doing this to him. |
| 632 | * On ''Series/TheUltimateFighter'', most early seasons featured an escalating prank war between the fighters. It culminated when one fighter whose California rolls kept getting stolen from the fridge got revenge by masturbating onto one of the rolls, which was promptly eaten by the food thief. From that point forwards, food theft (and contamination) became much rarer than before. |
| 633 | * This trope is why you ''never'' eat in the laborotory, at work or school. |
| 634 | -->Billy had a tummy ache, but Billy don't no more! |
| 635 | -->'Cause what he thought was H[[subscript:2]]0 [[labelnote:*]]water[[/labelnote]] was H[[subscript:2]]S0[[subscript:4]] [[labelnote:*]]sulphuric acid[[/labelnote]]! |
| 636 | * Not exactly ''eating'', but an urban legend exists about a high school where teenage girls would put on their lipstick in the bathroom and then kiss the mirrors, leaving lipstick marks that were hard to clean up. The janitor got tired of it and asked the principal for help. The principal called the most popular girls in the school to a meeting, where he explained that the lipstick kisses on the mirrors were hard to clean. He had the janitor demonstrate by dipping a mop into the toilet and using it to clean the mirror. From that day on, there were never any lipstick kisses on the mirrors ever again. |
| 637 | * In 2023, an energy drink called Release appeared out of nowhere with a "bitter lemon" flavor and shot to the top of Creator/{{Amazon}}'s sales charts. It turned out to have been made from [[https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-let-its-drivers-urine-be-sold-as-an-energy-drink/ human urine]] collected from bottles discarded by Amazon's delivery drivers. Its creator, Oobah Butler, made it as a publicity stunt for his Creator/Channel4 documentary ''The Great Amazon Heist'', an exposé of [[NoOSHACompliance Amazon's dangerous working conditions]] and lack of proper checks and safeguards on what they were selling in their marketplace and who they were selling it to, and admitted that he was scared when he saw people actually trying to order it. |
| 638 | -->'''Butler:''' Releasing the drink was surprisingly easy. I thought that the food and drinks licensing would stop me from listing it, so [[LoopholeAbuse I started it out in this Refillable Pump Dispenser category]]. Then the algorithm moved it into drinks. |
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