History Main / AndYourRewardIsEdible

[[caption-width-right:350:As symbols for saving their lives from demon attack. The hero is given free bento box.]]

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': The reward for clearing the cellar of the Typical Tavern is three glasses of Typical Tavern Swill, equivalent to a basic mixed drink (which can further be improved with the Disco Bandit skill Advanced Cocktailcrafting). Also, the final reward for finishing the side quest given from Inside Degrassi Knoll are a half-dozen Mushroom Fermenting Solutions, which can possibly be crafted into epic-level booze, some of the best in the game, depending on what mushrooms you ferment.

** In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'', Bowser is sent a cake for his part in stopping Fawful's plot.

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Foggy Nelson gripes to Matt Murdock that their latest client paid in fish. As they are poverty lawyers, Matt explains that the client can't afford it but does go fishing on the weekend.

* ''Film/Daredevil''. Foggy Nelson gripes to Matt Murdock that their latest client paid in fish. As they are poverty lawyers, Matt explains that the client can't afford it but does go fishing on the weekend.

* The "Half-Price Club" in ''LightNovel/BenTo'' is dedicated to getting half-price Bento at supermarkets. It's a fighting anime. The hero is knocked unconscious twice in his first two attempts to get cheap bento. The floors of supermarkets are left strewn with unconscious and bleeding shoppers.
* In ''Manga/SilverSpoon'', the standard reward for doing something good (like participating in the campus clean-up or winning the athletic competition with the nearby industrial school) is a Mongolian barbecue.
* [[ObsessedWithFood Elma's]] preferred reward for any favor or victory in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''. A fine example would be at the end of her battle with Tohru in chapter 64, where she says to Tohru "I win. Gimme food." This prompts a brief argument over who won and who should buy the other food, before Kobayashi says she'll just buy food for both of them.

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'': Venkmann very formally gives Egon candy as a reward, saying, "You've earned it."

* In ''Literature/ManiacMagee'', Maniac's reward for untying [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot Cobbles' Knot]][[note]]The rules specifically forbade CuttingTheKnot[[/note]] is one extra-large pizza every week for a year. Ironically, he's [[AbnormalAllergy allergic to pizza]].
* In ''Literature/DragonBones'' the heroes, having eaten nothing but stale bread and mouldy cheese for quite some time, appreciate their edible reward for saving a village ''very much''.
* There is a ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' book where Clifford is rewarded with some meat by a meat truck driver after helping him with his truck while looking for Emily Elizabeth.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. At the end of "The Masque of Mandragora", the only reward the Doctor will accept from the Duke of San Martino for saving the world is a salami sandwich. Sure enough he's shown brandishing an enormous salami sausage during his departure.
* Played straight in ''Series/{{Survivor}}.'' The winners of a challenge with food as the prize might get more to eat after the challenge then than the losers do in the entire period between tribal councils.

* Several role-playing games using counters for 'rubber points' (e.g. bennies, FATE-points et sim.) explicitly advise against using hard candies as markers because they tend to be eaten instead of used.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' tends to have these, with the reward being a healing item which is slightly better than the ones available at the time.
* Common in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' where some quests have non craftable food as reward, since food is SeriousBusiness because of the stats this is often falls in either TooAwesomeToUse or JokeItem.
* ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'': Many sidequests in the Wildlands have food as a reward in addition to the usual stat boosts. Unusually for the trope, Lightning doesn't get to eat any of it (at the player's direction, anyways); her chocobo, the Angel of Valhalla, is wounded and refuses food from anyone but her, and the sustenance is all that stands between him and recovery.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' also does this, with quest rewards frequently either [[ShopFodder a small coin]] which can be traded in for a bit of gil, or some comparably-leveled food. Sadly, as food only gives a tiny buff for the most part, most folks just pick the coin.

* In ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam And Max Hit The Road]]'', the Bigfoot shaman rewards Max with his prized medallion after he and Sam save the day; Max wastes little time in unwrapping his reward and wolfing it down.
-->"Mmm, chocolatey, foil-wrapped goodness!"
* Quoth [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan President Ronnie]] in ''VideoGame/BadDudes'': "Thanks for saving me, Dudes! Let's go for a burger. Ha ha ha!"
* In ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', Princess Peach rewards Mario for saving her and her castle by baking him a cake.
** In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'', Bowser is sent a cake for his part in stopping Fawful's plot.
* Similarly, but more useful in the long term, there's a couple of side-events in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' where you get ''recipes'' for helping people out. Cooking can be an important game mechanic for healing up between battles, so it's better than it sounds.

* ''[[VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery ADOM]]'': the reward you get from the Tiny Girl for rescuing her puppy from a scary cave? A piece of candy. [[spoiler:The actual reward is the cave itself - it's a good place to train your stats, and has a guaranteed vault at the bottom.]]
* In ''{{VideoGame/Okami}}'', various characters offer you food after you've helped them out. Some, however, request that you wait until it's night.
* In the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games, sometimes the villagers will give you fruit that is foreign to your town as a reward for doing them a favor.
* Pretty much the whole point of ''VideoGame/BarOasis''. Your goal is to try to fill the titular bar's shelves with alcohol. Though this can be inverted in ''Bar Oasis 2'''s "A Day in the Bar" mode. In that mode, if you do poorly, you lose those bottles of liquor.
* In ''Videogame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' the Million Dreams Award in Disney Town is a special type of ice cream, the particular variety of which is different depending on which of the playable characters receives it.
* In the ''Videogame/MonsterHunter'' series, the reward for completing certain quests is an upgrade to the Felyne kitchen (though not food itself). This includes adding additional menu items to the kitchen, upgrading the quality of an ingredient, adding a rotisserie spit that lets the player cook multiple steaks at once, etc.
* The reward lists in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'' levels often include the various consumable items you can use to restore your stats mid-level.

* A darker variation occurs as of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v5, in which BKA winners also get food along with a new weapon. BKA stands for Best Kill Award.

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Mikkel knows that Lalli won't understand him if he thanks him verbally for a job well done because of the LanguageBarrier between them, so he gives him a cookie alongside his thanks.

[[folder:WebVideo]]
* ''WebVideo/TheTRYChannel'': Of the random variety- one episode has Dermot and George trying Reese's; peanut butter is a bit of a BerserkButton, especially for Dermot. After George claims "There is ''no'' way you can get us to do this video," two Heineken's slide into view. Cue a resigned "Alright" from Dermot.
[[/folder]]

* Subverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', where Doug finds an envelope containing a huge wad of money. Everyone (including the police, who give him back the envelope after it goes unclaimed for a whole month) tells him to keep the money, but he eventually discovers it was lost by a slightly loopy elderly woman. He does the right thing and returns the money, [[DudeWheresMyReward and she rewards him for his good deed with a pack of chewing gum.]]

* WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw rewards his bloodhound companion Snuffles with a dog biscuit, which after eaten sends him into flights of ecstacy.
* Franchise/ScoobyDoo usually gets a [[FoodAsBribe pre-task reward of Scooby Snacks]]. Shaggy will get tempted by them as well, or some other concoction Daphne cooks up (and just happens to have handy).

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1d248237_e061_4a64_b6ac_7a393529812b.jpeg]]

[[/folder]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e982d702_68f1_4434_a3bc_b188598b414e.jpeg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:After killed the demon. As symbols for thanking for saving their lives. Given free Bento]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d768c9d8_9697_4676_86d4_2fc009ff618c.jpeg]]

[Killing the demon after saving their lives. Is reward a free bento box as symbols of their thanks.]

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. At the end of "The Masque of Mandragora", the only reward the Doctor will accept from the Duke of San Martino for saving the world is a salami sandwich. Sure enough he's shown brandishing an enormous salami during his departure.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' also does this, with quest rewards frequently either [[VendorTrash a small coin]] which can be traded in for a bit of gil, or some comparably-leveled food. Sadly, as food only gives a tiny buff for the most part, most folks just pick the coin.

** Throughout the series, food is pretty much VendorTrash, apart from the fact you can use some of it in [[ItemCrafting alchemy]] and some of it offers minor [[HealthFood health/fatigue]] restoration. Some quests give you it as a [[StealthPun flavor]] reward though, usually if you've helped someone dirt-poor (who has nothing more to offer) or who is just incredibly stingy.

* Invoked by Literature/CiaphasCain in ''Death Or Glory''; after spending the entire novel leading an epic trek to safety through Ork infested territory [[spoiler: he's pleased to realise that the regiment that's been sent to meet his group of ragtag survivors is Valhallan and promptly asks for [[SpotOfTea his long awaited cup of tanna]].]]

[[folder: Comic Books]]

[[folder: Comic Strips]]

[[folder: Fan Fiction]]

* WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw rewards his bloodhound companion Snuffles with a dog biscuit, which after eaten sends him into flights of ecstacy.

----

* In an old ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' newspaper strip, Donald wins a pie-eating contest. When the judge holds him up by the arm and declares him the winner, Donald looks bloated and uncomfortable, but smiling because he won ... until he discovers that First Prize is -- you guessed it -- [[UndesirablePrize a pie.]]

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' where Steele frames Balto by throwing sausage links that he stole himself from a butcher shop at Balto. The butcher blames Balto for stealing the sausages then promptly rewards Steele with the sausages that he stole himself. That Steele is a [[{{Jerkass}} complete jerk]].

** Throughout the series, food is pretty much VendorTrash, apart from the fact you can use some of it in [[ItemCrafting alchemy]] and some of it offers minor [[HealthFood health/fatigure]] restoration. Some quests give you it as a [[StealthPun flavor]] reward though, usually if you've helped someone dirt-poor (who has nothing more to offer) or who is just incredibly stingy.

[[/folder]]

----

-->I win. Gimme food. \\
'''Elma''', ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''

* [[ObsssedWithFood Elma's]] preferred reward for any favor or victory in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''. A fine example would be at the end of her battle with Tohru in chapter 64, where she says to Tohru "I win, gimme food!" This prompts a brief argument over who won and who should buy the other food, before Kobayashi says she'll just buy food for both of them.