Several problems with it.: Green Eggs

1. The title is not really an example of this trope.

2. It does not convey that it's about trying to make food look alien.

3. It looks like a redirect to I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham.

Usage is negligible, so if anyone can think of something better, we can prolly just rename. *shrug*

Palette Swap Alien Food? Just throwing it out here.

Well it's a good suggestion.

I'm good with that.

Once we get a rename done, we should go to Image Pickin' for a better image. Demotivators aren't good images.

Oh, the text was so small, I didn't notice it. I pulled it.

Or maybe Alien Colored Food?

Also good.

Actually, I'd amend my suggestion to Palette-Swapped Alien Food for better grammar.

Yeah, the picture is bad in many ways. It's not even an example, it just illustrates the title.

edited 5th Feb '12 12:21:08 PM by DoktorvonEurotrash

Hmmm. Alien Bacon Is Blue? or something like that?

Or Alien Spaghetti Is Blue, from the dinner scene in Star Trek VI.

That works, too. I was just trying to get away from "alien eggs" which could lead to confusion between "the eggs that aliens eat" and "the eggs that aliens lay".

Blue Alien Spaghetti sounds pretty cool. Purple Alien Spaghetti sounds even better (and doesn't come from a Star Trek scene).

What't the problem with that? Please tell me you're not judging that on some anti-show bias.

It's not a problem, certainly none of the usual Trope Namer Syndrome issues, but it'd be nice to avoid naming it after a work if we can. Nice to leave out the "named after a scene in..." part of the description. Those always smell of fan cliquiness and seem to (though they don't actually) limit the page's scope.

I like Blue Alien Spaghetti. Sounds catchy. And A Good Name for a Rock Band.

edited 6th Feb '12 11:08:17 AM by troacctid

How does naming a trope after only one specific example of its concept solve underuse issues?

edited 6th Feb '12 11:37:54 AM by Stratadrake

See the OP, particularly the part about looking like a redirect to another trope. Therefore, this looked like a redundant wick.

Plus, we might need some good, old Entry Pimping to help make others aware of this.

edited 6th Feb '12 11:39:43 AM by DragonQuestZ

Also, I say that Alien Spaghetti Is Blue is better, since it helps make it clear that it's about coloring food.

Well, I must confess that just as a matter of principle, I don't like broad tropes being named after specific examples. It's almost like having a Bad Trope Namer.

I could concede that, if consensus agrees. It's not as good a name for a rock band, though.

edited 6th Feb '12 12:14:56 PM by troacctid

That assumed that specific examples can't give indicative names (aside from namers that admittedly aren't indicative at all). I find it's more about how the name turns out that matters more than the trope namer.

And ... do we even have a measure for the number of threads discussed due to their trope being much broader than its name, with people using it on the basis of the name? I know it's happened, but I can't recall specifics so it can't be often.

If nothing else, I've eaten a green chicken egg; beyond the other good reasons mentioned in this thread, I think that the name is actually not an example of the trope (I looked it up; typically, a green yolk in the egg is the result of a high iron or copper content in the responsible chicken's diet - they don't taste any different).

I think naming this trope after a particular plate of food seen in fiction runs into a problem this trope name has - it can be hard to remember which specific food item is naming the trope. I'd go with either Alien Technicolor Food or the aforementioned Palette-Swapped Alien Food.

Or Alien Food Is Dyed Normal Food.