Duplicate Trope: Food Slap

Food Slap and Tasty Revenge have pretty much the same description, but have separate articles. Is this the result of a previous decision? Am I missing something?

Dang, you're right. Obvious solution would be to merge them and set one as a redirect.

Merge. Food Slap is probably a little clearer, but Tasty Revenge sounds better.

I actually like Food Slap better.

Let's get consensus to merge, then do a quick crowner for which name to use.

edit: I think it's supposed to be a snowclone of Dope Slap

edited 17th Apr '12 8:44:00 AM by abk0100

I think — I may be remembering this wrong — that Food Slap used to describe the act of any character hitting another with food, without necessarily being done as an act of revenge (such as wanton violence, or playfulness, or being carried away too much). Should we change it to that, thus making a reason for there to be another article?

edited 17th Apr '12 9:04:37 AM by Farmelle

That's not what the articles seem to imply:

Food Slap: Somebody has said or done something that bothers someone else. In retaliation, that person will toss a drink at them or pour something over their head.

Tasty Revenge: Somebody has said or done something that bothers someone else. In retaliation, the offended person will toss a drink at the offender or pour something over the offender's head or lap. (It could also be food that is dropped on the offender's head, lap or other area of the body.)

Note that those are the whole definitions directly copypasted from the articles (minus the see-also stuff, which are both more or less identical to each other). Granted, part of the problem probably comes from the utter stubs of descriptions.

Yeah, but I meant 'used to' as in 'going further back than these descriptions'. (I checked the page history, and apparently it's always been like this, so it was just a mistake I made...)

Still, would making Food Slap a completely separate trope (anyone hitting anyone else with food for any reason) work? It could function as a supertrope for things like Food Fight, Edible Ammunition and so on.

I don't think there's any benefit in trying to create a distinction here.

And anyway, wouldn't this be a subtrope of a food-fight rather than the other way around? It's a very short food-fight, lasting only one attack.

I prefer Tasty Revenge myself — there's no actual slap in a Food Slap, and it doesn't always happen in scenarios where a slap would be a viable alternative, especially if you try to divorce the trope from the concept of 'as retaliation for an offense'.

edited 17th Apr '12 11:36:41 AM by Escher

I don't know, it just seemed obvious to me. We have "food as ammunition" and "large fights involving food", but we don't seem to have anything covering all weaponized food (or people being hit by food, or covered in food, or so on — for any reason, not necessarily involving malice).

Plus, by that reasoning, a food-fight could also be taken to be a subtrope, by being a very long series of food-attacks. After re-reading the description for Food Fight, that could apply to what I'm trying to get at, but it currently seems to be so narrowed-down to "high school kids throw food at lunch".

Or another name altogether. A Dish Best Served? Nah, puns do not warrant confusion. I go with abk, then — consensus to merge, then a crowner for which name would be better.

Clocking due to lack of activity.

Crowner hooked.

Calling the crowner in favor of the merge to Food Slap.

This looks done. Nice work. Locking.