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Extreme Omnivore

Matter-Eater Lad, the Patron Saint of this trope.

"If it looks good, eat it. And it all looks good to me."

— Andrew, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern

The Extreme Omnivore will eat anything out of hunger or curiosity, so long as it looks like food. And sometimes when it clearly doesn't. They don't fear the Lethal Chef, and you will never hear them ask "I Ate What?".

In more realistic cases, he spits the bad stuff back out. In less realistic cases, he digests it with few ill consequences.

A milder form of The Extreme Omnivore is a character who is willing to eat things that may be perfectly nutritious, but are considered unhygienic (e.g., it fell on the floor, or another character has been eating it), or taboo (e.g., insects, horseflesh). He may be indifferent to, or ignorant of, the social norms that keep most people from eating these things, or he may be from another culture or species where such things are accepted.

Also likely to be a cannibal when the opportunity presents itself.

Please note that instances of someone being forced to eat something disgusting or inappropriate isn't Extreme Omnivorosity. Likewise for unintentional ingestion. A true Extreme Omnivore has a long-term pattern of eating everything knowingly, willingly, and usually cheerfully.

Compare Paste Eater. Also compare Bizarre Taste In Food. Horde of Alien Locusts can take this trope into an entire species. Extreme Omni Goat is a subtrope where this trope applies to goats.

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Fan Fiction

In the Jackie Chan Adventures fic Queen Of All Oni, after Jade becomes a Shadowkan girl once more, her appetite and metabolism go way up, and in one chapter, she eats a rib, BONE AND ALL!
In the Jackie Chan Adventures and Teen Titans crossover fic A Shadow Of The Titans (by the same author), this is also true, and focused more on, with Jade lampshading it multiple times, and Jinx making a Running Gag out of asking Jade if she's part goat or something (to be clear, she once bit the tongs off her spoon, and only noticed when she tried to pick up another bite!).
In the fanfic Twila The Girl Who Waz In Luv With A Vampyre, the protagonists eat Bella's bed after they kill her "so there would be no evidenze (lol geddit like evinezenze.)"
In several Ed Edd N Eddy fanfics, Doc Boy from Garfield would often show up or be mentioned. In these fics, he's been known to eat ANYTHING, including people.
Calvin And Hobbes The Series has Dream Future!Calvin and Hobbes forced to eat tires while deserted. Later in the same episode (after the dream ends), Calvin remarks that gum ointment is somewhat tasty and contemplates eating a tire.

Newspaper Comics

Garfield fits this. He'll eat anything that's edible, including things like chocolate that would kill a real cat. Although even he has his limits - he hates raisins. And Jon's cooking at times.

Toys

The Spikit from BIONICLE. It has been known to tear parts off people's cars and eat them.
- Also, the Kinloka Rat. It can and will eat anything and everything.

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alternative title(s): Iron Stomach

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