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* When WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead work at Burger World, something usually goes wrong. If it isn't that the boys have decided to deep fry some earthworms, it's that Beavis has used the spatula to scratch his jock itch. The two hooligans have come close to burning down the place more than once, and even managed to cause an epidemic from their tainted food at one point.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DaftPlanet'' episode "Snitchy and the Phobe", Ched and Harley get jobs at Hudson's dad's TV network. In it, they investigate the kitchens of restaurants across Maple City, exposing them as this.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': For similar reasons as found on The Simpsons, also created by Matt Groening.

* Every restaurant in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is caked in grime and filth and staffed by disgusting uncouth slobs. All part of the hilarious misanthropic atmosphere of ''Invader Zim''.
* Flip's Food and Fuel from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''; Flip is shown to sell expired products and soak his feet in the nacho cheese. The Loud family would gladly purchase food and fuel elsewhere, but seeing as it's the only known gas station in town, the family has no choice but to keep going there.

* Just about every restaurant in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is dead guilty of being this.

** Then there's Krusty Burger, which isn't above using mad cow beef or stapling together half-eaten burgers for resale. Heck, in Treehouse of Horror XX, they cause the freaking ZombieApocalypse from their burgers!

** According to Mayor Quimby, ALL fast food restaurants in Springfield were rated Awful to Mediocre.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The Chum Bucket, owned by the show's antagonist Plankton. The food there is so hazardous that people who eat it can die of food poisoning.
** Although the Chum Bucket is usually the primary example of this, the Krusty Krab is often if not ''equally'' as guilty of being one too. Especially in "Born-Again Krabs", when Krabs wanted to sell a rotten Krabby Patty to save a few cents, refused to let [=SpongeBob=] make another one until he had sold the rotten one and then got severe food poisoning when [[TooDumbToLive he ate it himself to prove it wasn't so bad]].
--->'''Squidward:''' [=SpongeBob=], can I get one with less... fog?
** Another episode had Mr. Krabs focusing the marketing on [=SpongeBob=] after a food critic praised him, culminating in him selling "Spongey Patties" which were krabby patties with a sponge pattern and color... from sitting out of the freezer.
** And another had Mr. Krabs force [=SpongeBob=] serve pure grease to the customers instead of meat and bun.
** Another had Mr. Krabs get Sandy to develop a new kind of krabby patty that ends up turning everybody into krabby patty zombies.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In "The Baseball Game," more than half of the Prairie City Schooners baseball team is laid low with food poisoning the day of the final game of the Single-A World Series, thanks to dining at a sketchy barbecue joint the night before. Given that one of the menu items is called "Ptomaine Tasties," they should have known better. When the team runs out of players, honorary Mascot Bolt is pressed into playing duty.

** ''Especially'' [[HonestJohnsDealership C.M.O.T Dibbler's]] infamous 'sausage inna bun'. The precise composition is a disgusting pork-product mystery, and it's often alleged consumption can have debilitating if not lethal effects for those unaccustomed to it.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In “The Baseball Game,” more than half of the Prairie City Schooners baseball team is laid low with food poisoning the day of the final game of the Single-A World Series, thanks to dining at a sketchy barbecue joint the night before. Given that one of the menu items is called “Ptomaine Tasties,” they should have known better. When the team runs out of players, honorary [[{{Mascot}} mascot]] Bolt is pressed into playing duty.

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* In one issue of ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'', a sushi restaurant that is actually a front for organized crime discourages legitimate customers by never changing the sushi. Unfortunately for Tony Chu, his investigation requires him to eat some.

* ''Richard's Poor Almanac'' has a recurring series of "Restaurant Closings", listing different colorful eateries and their equally colorful health code violations.

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* A medieval-era example: the Lazy Eel in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is an inn that offers the oldest whores and vilest wine in White Harbor, along with meat pies full of gristle and lard that are inedible on good days and poisonous on bad ones.

* Torgo's Pizza in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ultimately closed down due to sanitation problems.

* ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' has Barth's Burgers, serving the only burgers in town with, as the slovenly chef/proprietor is always proud to point out, "spit in the mixture." The skit usually ends with the kids joking about non-cow animals (or even [[ImAHumanitarian people]]) ending up in the burgers, which always prompts the response from Barth "I ''heard'' that!"

* ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' featured "Didldidi", a cheap "bargain" supermarket parodying Lidl and Aldi, where all the food on sale is unfit for human consumption or past its sell-by date (or both.)

* ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'': Josie's Bar has health violations all around, but since Nelson & Murdock are loyal patrons who've helped Josie out of legal troubles, [[HospitalityForHeroes they're allowed to have a huge tab there]] and overlook the moldy water pipes.
-->'''Matt Murdock:''' See that... that's why we, uh, keep our cocktails neat.\\
'''Foggy Nelson:''' Pretend you're abroad. On vacation someplace exotic, but no mojitos. Josie just throws mint in the beer.

* ''VideoGame/HectorBadgeOfCarnage'' has Chez [=LeBouffett=]. The place is swarming with flies and if you complain about the meat on your plate the waiter will grab your half eaten meal, dump it back into the buffet cart and then serve you a new plate from the ensuing pile. Hector does some horrifyingly disgusting things in the game but he refuses to eat the food at the restaurant.

* The [[MeaningfulName Dur-T Cafe]] in ''VideoGame/Mother3'' appears to be a former GreasySpoon that [[FesteringFungus rotted]] into one of these; luckily, it no longer actually sells food (or drinks), but its sheer filthiness ''alone'' would ''easily'' be able to kill someone in real life. Also, its women's restroom has quite-literally been used by '''[[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext wild cows]]''' (well, ''one'' wild cow, at least).

* ''Videogame/Afterlife1996'' has a few of these as options for Gluttony punishments. The better examples of this trope include "Pinhead Pizza" (where everything tastes good but is full of throat-ripping metal), "The Pandimensional House of Vermin" (which teaches you rats [[TastesLikeChicken do NOT taste like chicken]]) and especially the "Ecoli Shack" ("[[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis Two words]]: Cow Sushi").

* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': Stinky's Diner specializes in making the worst possible foods imaginable. Grandpa Stinky even takes great pride in the culinary dark arts to the point that his granddaughter who is also named Stinky was literally born from a cake called "The Cake of the Damned".
* The first ''VideoGame/TyTheTasmanianTiger'' game has you lasso Shazza's turkeys in the Outback Safari to prevent then from reaching Greasy Gus's Diner. According to Shazza, the last time they ate there, they were sick for a week.
* In ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'', the track Drive-thru Danger involves the warring Gasmoxian restaurants Toxic Burger and Nuclear Pizza. While not much is said about the latter's food, the bored-sounding intercom operator at the beginning of the race indicates that Toxic Burger lives up to its name:
-->Thank you for choosing Toxic Burger. How can we poison you today?\\
Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to disclose the nutritional value of any items on our menu. Thanks for understanding.\\
Toxic Burger's not responsible for any irritation, burning or permanent loss of esophageal muscles, blah blah blah...
* In the original ''VideoGame/FearEffect'', there's a stealth sequence which requires you to get through an ''impossibly'' disgusting kitchen, with the chefs breaking any and every health regulation they can think of. Get caught? You die instantly - turns out this is a ''Triad-owned'' kitchen, and every chef in the place has a gun and very little tolerance for trespassers.

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A large number of comedies feature restaurants and other food service venues that would give any self-respecting health inspector a heart attack. Food is sold months or even years after its expiration date, it's often prepared by an uncouth cook who manages to get a great deal of hair and bodily fluid into whatever he's cooking, murky MysteryMeat (which usually contains vermin or [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies something else]] nobody would ever want to take a bite of) is used, and certain delicacies may even [[ItCameFromTheFridge have a life of their own]]. In terms of beverages, expect BadToTheLastDrop coffee, [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Shoddy Knockoff]] soft drinks, and, if it serves alcohol, ATankardOfMooseUrine beer.

A large number of comedies feature restaurants and other food service venues that would give any self-respecting health inspector a heart attack. Food is sold months or even years after its expiration date, it's often prepared by an uncouth cook who manages to get a great deal of hair and bodily fluid into whatever he's cooking, murky MysteryMeat (which usually contains vermin or [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies something else]] nobody would ever want to put in their mouth) is used, and certain delicacies may even [[ItCameFromTheFridge have a life of their own]]. In terms of beverages, expect BadToTheLastDrop coffee, [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Shoddy Knockoff]] soft drinks, and, if it serves alcohol, ATankardOfMooseUrine beer.