History Main / PutOffTheirFood

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}: In "Fountain of Youth," when Henry describes what tuberculosis can do to healthy lung tissue, Jo complains that she had ''just'' ordered Chinese, with the implication that she doesn't think she'll want to eat now.

* In ''Series/Zoey101'', the gang goes to eat at a fancy restaurant and Quinn tells them some interesting facts about lobsters, like how they practice cannibalism and their unusual diet. A few people push away their lobsters. Later she tries to educate them about asparagus but they cut her off before the punchline (it makes your urine smellier).

** Mom tells Calvin that the icky stuff on his plate is monkey brains in order to get him to eat it. But now Dad can't eat it because it {{Squick}}s him out. There's a few other strips with the same theme, such as Mom telling him there's maggots in the soup instead of rice, or they're having spiders for lunch. Invariably, Dad will be too disgusted to eat while Calvin enthusiastically devours his food.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':

* ''Literature/{{Blubber}}'': Plus-sized Linda has been dieting and wants one of her classmate’s chocolates. Wendy tells Linda it’s a chocolate-covered ant and force-feeds it to her, causing her to barf all over the place. It then comes to light that Wendy was lying/joking — it wasn’t an ant at all. Wendy just said it was an ant so Linda wouldn’t want it. The confection in question was, in reality, a regular, non-insect-based chocolate truffle candy.

* ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'': In the light novel ''The Battle of Saillune'', Lina and Gourry are attacked by a number of lesser demons that possessed items of food, including a nasty tentacle monster that emerges from their squid stew. After the fight, they order more food, and Gourry requests they skip the squid stew -- though Lina disagrees, saying it'll take more than that to make her lose her appetite.

* ''Literature/{{Blubber}}'': Plus-sized Linda has been dieting and wants one of her classmate’s chocolates. Wendy tells Linda it’s a chocolate-covered ant and force-feeds it to her, causing her to barf. It then comes to light that Wendy was lying/joking — it wasn’t an ant at all. Wendy just said that so Linda wouldn’t want it. The confection in question was, in reality, a regular, non-insect-based chocolate truffle candy.

* ''Literature/{{Blubber}}'': Plus-sized Linda is on a diet and wants one of her classmate’s chocolates. Wendy tells Linda it’s a chocolate-covered ant and force-feeds it to her, causing her to barf. It then comes to light that Wendy was joking — it wasn’t an ant at all, but a regular, non-insect-based chocolate truffle candy.

* During ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'', Semi "chooses" to become a fish, Miranda "chooses" to become a bird. They're locked in a small suite and delivered meals while they wait for [[InvoluntaryTransformation the changes]] to start, and Semi starts refusing seafood, but Miranda still eats chicken. [[spoiler: Appropriately, Semi becomes a manta ray-like creature that eats only plankton, and Miranda becomes an ambiguous hooked-beak bird which is repeatedly compared to a GiantFlyer.]]

* In ''[[Literature/AdrianMole The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole]]'', after Adrian's father announces at breakfast that he is getting a vasectomy, Adrian passes up his sausages.

* In the ''[[Literature/AdrianMole The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole]]'', after Adrian's father announces at breakfast that he is getting a vasectomy, Adrian passes up his sausages.

** The episode where Bart skips school and witnesses the true events behind Mayor Quimby's nephew being accused of assault, he watches a detective show called "[=McGarnagle=]" where the title character is wrongfully accused, but the only witness is scared to come forward. Eventually, he agrees to testify, only to be brutally murdered. The detectives reaction?
--> '''[=McGarnagle=]''': Hey, I'm trying to eat lunch here!
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The episode "Together Breakfast" centers around Steven trying to get the gems to enjoy the titular meal, but everyone else is too busy. His antics to get their attention wind up with him entering the Temple for the first time, and the chaotic magic Garnet is trying to destroy winds up possessing the breakfast, which grows to gigantic size and attacks them. At the end of the episode, after they've learned the importance of togetherness, Steven and the gems recreate the breakfast. Then they look it for a few seconds and decide it's probably not the best idea.

** In the episode where Homer becomes a food critic, some chefs plan to assassinate him with a lethal eclair. After other attempts to stop Homer from eating it fail, Lisa tells him that it's low-fat, causing him to throw it away in disgust.

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* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
** Mom tells Calvin that the icky stuff on his plate is monkey brains in order to get him to eat it. But now Dad can't eat it because it {{Squick}}s him out. There's a few other strips with the same theme, such as Mom telling him there's maggots in the soup instead of rice, or they're having spiders for lunch. Invariably, Dad will be too disgusted to eat while Calvin enthusiastically devours his food.
** In another strip, it's played with. Calvin doesn't want to eat dinner, but Dad tells him it's a good idea, since it's a plate of toxic waste that will turn him into a mutant. Calvin eagerly gobbles it down.
** Once Mom brought home some jelly doughnuts, but Calvin didn't want one because they resembled giant bugs: "You bite into them and all their purple guts spill out the other end." Mom then pushes away the bag:
---> "...And my friends keep asking me how I stay thin."
* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'':
** Jason ties the ends of his spaghetti noodles together so he can eat them all in one long, unending slurp. Andy adds spaghetti to the list of things she can no longer make for dinner.
** Paige just dissected a frog in Bio class and she thought it was really cool. She tells her family about the intestines and they stare in horror at the spaghetti they're eating. [[BigEater Except Roger, who keeps on eating.]]
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', Hector has been nauseated by blueberry muffins ever since he learned that [[ParentalSexualitySquick he was conceived]] while a batch of blueberry muffins burned in the oven.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The episode "Together Breakfast" centers around Steven trying to get the gems to enjoy the titular meal, but everyone else is too busy. His antics to get their attention wind up with him entering the Temple for the first time, and the chaotic magic Garnet is trying to destroy winds up possessing the breakfast, which grows to gigantic size and attacks them. At the end of the episode, after they've learned the importance of togetherness, Steven and the gems recreate the breakfast. Then they look it a few seconds and decide it's probably not the best idea.
--> '''Garnet''': It ''did'' try to kill us.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In ''The Android'', Marco's parents try to serve him chicken for dinner after he was nearly killed by a bird while in spider morph. Marco opts out.

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