Needs Help: Literal Junk Food

We need to develop this trope from a one liner to something a little more...concrete. After that, let's crosswick it.

edited 3rd Jul '12 9:28:35 AM by animeg3282

Not A Trope. This combines three completely unconnected things - Dumpster Diving, Extreme Omnivore and Wild Animals Eat Garbage.

edited 3rd Jul '12 9:43:30 AM by Routerie

What about examples like the one from Seinfeld?

That's "George picks up an eclair that was in a trash can and eats it." If we can find examples of similar plots, we'll have found a trope. (Ten Second Rule?) But there's no reason to stick it on a page with "Zoidberg dumpster dives because he's poor" and "Someone eats like a cockroach because of his genes."

I'm with Routerie on this one. I don't see a specific trope.

Yea, it's a bit of a mess.

So, the Seinfeld one is the same as this from Penny Arcade?

I don't know

Pretty much.

I disagree with Routerie. This is not People Sit On Chairs in any way.

No one said it was.

Well, you certainly potholed it.

Yes. Wild Animals Eat Garbage is PSOC.

This is that, along with some tropes. The tropes are unrelated, and the whole is not a trope.

Is there a trope for people eating "inedible" or non-food food? Is it this one, or another one?

Extreme Omnivore I think. (Which Routerie already mentioned.)

bumo?

I say cut it. All the interesting bits fall under Extreme Omnivore already.

The name isn't bad, but sounds like something different anyway — I thought it meant a character who actually consumes metal and other non-edibles, probably because they're actually a robot or something.

edited 7th Aug '12 7:28:59 AM by Escher

Clocking.

And yes, at the moment this sucks. It could be a trope, but now it's a useless mishmash.

As it currently stands, this should be cut.

It actually looks like most of the examples would fit Dumpster Diving. If we move the examples that belong on Extreme Omnivore to that trope, we might be left with something worthwhile.

eta: if we do limit it to Dumpster Diving, I might also suggest broadening it, as getting non-food out of dumpsters is often considered nearly as squicky.

edited 21st Oct '12 4:11:25 PM by Xtifr

true that

Time to make this move. I'll hook a crowner.

I vote for cut and launching the Dumpster Diving YKTTW, which I will adopt.

The crowner should probably mention the YKTTW. (I'd hesitate to vote cut if I didn't know about it.)

eta: (And we're only two posts from starting a new page in the discussion.)

edited 15th Dec '12 4:21:21 PM by Xtifr

I'm nonplussed. All the tropers here seem to think that picking food out of a garbage can makes one an Extreme Omnivore.