History Main / BeefBandage

* In the ''Series/HoneyWest'' episode "The Abominable Snowman," Sam drapes a raw steak meant for [[CoolPet Bruce the ocelot]] over his black eye after he gets in a fistfight.

* ''Film/{{Kate}}. After her BrutalBrawl with Jojima, Kate opens his refrigerator for a beef bandage and in doing so realises that he has weapons concealed inside the fridge door.

* In ''Film/AStarIsBorn2018'', after Ally injures her hand punching an obnoxious bar patron, Jackson goes with her to the supermarket and buys frozen veggies and gauze for healing.

* The bag of frozen vegetables variant is used in ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}''. Annie's idiot roommate opens the bag of peas and pours them down her back, then blames Annie for not specifying to keep the bag closed.

* In ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', Amsterdam gets a nice bloody slab slapped on his eye wound after a dust up with Bill's right-hand man. Appropriate enough, given it happens in a butcher shop.
* In ''Film/LoveBeforeBreakfast'', Kay goes to a salon to fix up her black eye, she’s given a beef treatment.

* In ''Film/ReeferMadness: The Movie Musical'', Mae wears a steak over her eye after some domestic abuse. The steak is promptly eaten by stoners with the munchies.
%%* Cadbury in the ''Film/RichieRich'' movie.
%%* Happens to Smalls in ''Film/TheSandlot''.
* In ''Film/TheSandlot, when Smalls takes a baseball to the eye when playing catch with his stepfather, the next scene is the stepfather rushing the boy into the kitchen, sitting him down at the table and then rummaging into the fridge to get a frozen pork chop out to put on his eye.
* ''Film/SecondhandLions'' does this with a gang of thugs whom Hub beats up mere hours after getting out of the hospital for a heart attack. When he later comes by to collect the meat scraps, he invites them all to stay for dinner, serving steakes they've used.
* In 1999’s ''Film/SmartHouse'', PAT the computerized housekeeper is taught how to be motherly by a marathon of [[TheFifties 1950s]] comedies. When it recommends a steak for Ben Cooper’s bruised eye, Nick Cooper, the family patriarch observes, "Nobody’s used that since the '50s."
* In the Astaire/Rogers musical ''Film/TopHat'' Horace gets a black eye. Jerry recommends a raw steak, so Horace tells his servant to order one from the hotel kitchen. Too bad miscommunication results in a cooked steak with all the fixings being delivered instead. What a shock to get one of those on the eye!

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lincoln is given a raw steak by Ronnie Anne,[[LovingBully who gave him a black eye in the first place]].

* Occurs in an episode of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' to Peter.

* Done at one point in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''.

* Cadbury in the ''Film/RichieRich'' movie.
* Happens to Smalls in ''Film/TheSandlot''.

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* In the Franchise/{{Batman}}[=/=]Franchise/DocSavage CrossOver, Bruce is spending the morning sitting beside Wayne Manor's pool, discussing the Gotham Gazette's coverage of last night's Batmanning with Alfred.

JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith HyperactiveMetabolism (where actually ''eating'' the steak instantly cures wounds from various sources), though "Turkey Bandage" was proposed as a name for that.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' in the episode, "Night of the Living Grim," where Grim becomes a mortal human. He gets punched by a guy at the mall, and he is seen using this. he is then punched by Billy's dad because the steak was supposed to be his dinner.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Comet Kermillion," Doofenshmirtz invents "Steak Specs," glasses made from steaks, so he won't have to hold a steak up to his black eye.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lincoln is given a raw steak by the [[LovingBully girl who gave him a black eye]].

* In the Disney movie ''Film/SmartHouse'', the titular house is taught how to be motherly by a marathon of [[TheFifties 1950s]] comedies. When it recommends a steak for a bruised eye, the father of the family observes, "That hasn't been done since the '50s."

%%* Cadbury in the ''Film/RichieRich'' movie.
%%* Happens to Smalls in ''Film/TheSandlot''.

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* In ''ComicBook/RichieRich'', Cadbury had the pleasure of being Beef Bandaged.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGoldenSickle'', a merchant asks a butcher for a steak after getting badly beaten up. Given afterwards the merchant has to run from the title character, the butcher chases him wanting to get paid... and eventually gets punched, requiring a steak of his own once returning home.
* Was standard treatment for a black eye in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'', ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' and so on, in the good old days when children's comic characters regularly beat each other up to that extent.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons,'' Goob wanders into the room holding a steak over his eye after getting beat up by his teammates for missing the ball, and complaining about his lack of sleep.
-->"Mister Steak, you're my only friend."

* In ''Film/ReeferMadness: The Movie Musical'', Mae wears a steak over her eye after some domestic abuse. The steak is promptly eaten by stoners with the munchies.
%%* Cadbury in the ''Film/RichieRich'' movie.

* Done at one point in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''.
* In ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', Amsterdam gets a nice bloody slab slapped on his eye wound after a dust up with Bill's right-hand man. Appropriate enough, given it happens in a butcher shop.
* In ''Film/LoveBeforeBreakfast'', Kay goes to a salon to fix up her black eye, she’s given a beef treatment.
-->'''Kay''': Put the whole cow on if it'll help any.
* The bag of frozen vegetables variant is used in ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}''. Annie's idiot roommate opens the bag of peas and pours them down her back, then blames Annie for not specifying to keep the bag closed.

* ''Film/TheBeastOfHollowMountain'': After his fight with Enrique, Felipe hands Jimmy a raw steak which he puts on his black eye while talking to don Pedro.

* In ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'', when the jeweler complains that Jadis blacked his eye, a butcher's boy recommends a nice raw beefsteak to reduce the swelling.

* ''The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies'' mentions the steak in the "Black Eye" section of the book. The book says however that it was the coldness of the steak causing the healing of the wound or black eye. In fact, the book even goes on to say a vegetarian may have gotten the same result from iceberg lettuce.
* The botfly maggot version occurs in the Literature/YoungBond novel ''Literature/HurricaneGold''. Bond bandages a piece of bacon to Precious Stone's back to draw out the larva.
* In ''[[Literature/MercyThompson Smoke Bitten]]'', Mercy uses the bag of frozen vegetables variant (specifically frozen peas) after she gets her nose broken in an attack, saying that she finds it more comfortable against bruises than an ice pack.

* Kramer applies one to his face in an episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' ("The Apology").
** He borrows it from Jerry when he gets a black eye, then later asks for some A-1, because he is also cooking a steak of his own at the time.
* Occurs in an episode of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' to Peter.
* Done during the first season of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' with Trapper after the boxing match.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', Chuck can't afford a steak, so he brings Sarah an uncooked hamburger patty for her black eye.
* In ''Series/{{Roswell}}'' Max pretends to do this, but actually uses his alien HealingHands to cure the wound. The guy is incredulous at just how well it worked.

* In a Christmas episode of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', the Stevenses and their neighbors, the Kravitzes, each decide to temporarily adopt an orphan for the holidays. Said kids get into a fistfight over the existence of Santa Claus. Mrs. Kravitz suggests that they buy steak for the resulting shiner; [[AllJewsAreCheapskates Mr. Kravitz wonders why they can't just use cold cuts.]]
* In an episode of ''Series/GreenAcres'' that tells the story of some farmers in a book Oliver is reading, the character that Lisa plays puts one over Oliver's character's eye after getting into a fight at a barn dance. Actually it was pot roast, but same difference.
* In ''Series/{{Roundhouse}}'', the "new kid" uses one following a punch from TheBully, until his BumblingDad [[{{Squick}} asks to put it on the grill]].

* ''Series/SanfordAndSon'': Following a fight with the ex of a girl he's seeing, crazy old Grady Wilson puts a slice of bologna on Lamont's black eye because, as he says, steak is much too expensive.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' uses the vegetable variant. When Booth & Brennan are stuck in an old fashioned open elevator during a power outage, Booth hurts his back. Sweets brings a bag of frozen peas from a neighbor. "I'm not cooking dinner!"
* ''Series/NewTricks'': In "The Curate's Egg", Fiona holds a slab of beef wellington on Danny's eye after he is punched by her father.

* In an episode of ''Series/TheCourtshipOfEddiesFather'', Eddie puts a steak over his eye after getting punched at school.
* In the ''Series/HoneyWest'' episode "The Abominable Snowman," Sam drapes a raw steak meant for [[CoolPet Bruce the ocelot]] over his black eye after he gets in a fistfight.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. In "We Gotta Go Now", Billy Butcher slaps a packet of frozen peas on his face after being beaten up in a BadGuyBar. Ironically the packet of peas has CelebrityEndorsement from Homelander, the superhero that Butcher has an ongoing vendetta against.

* Done in ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}''.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''. T.J. gets a black eye, and he's doing this on the drive to school. When he gets there, his parents ask for the steak back, saying that they need it for tonight's dinner.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Comet Kermillion," Doofenshmirtz invents "Steak Specs," glasses made from steaks, so he won't have to hold a steak up to his black eye.

* ''Film/TheBeatOfHollowMountain'': After his fight with Enrique, Felipe hands Jimmy a raw steak which he puts on his black eye while talking to don Pedro.

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Not to be confused with HyperactiveMetabolism (where actually ''eating'' the steak instantly cures wounds from various sources), though "Turkey Bandage" was proposed as a name for that.

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* In ''FanFic/SurrogateOfZero'', Shinji uses one after Louise blows him up over a traumatic bit of roleplaying.

* In ''{{Roswell}}'' Max pretends to do this, but actually uses his alien HealingHands to cure the wound. The guy is incredulous at just how well it worked.

* In ''{{Series/Roundhouse}}'', the "new kid" uses one following a punch from TheBully, until his BumblingDad [[{{Squick}} asks to put it on the grill]].

---> '''Robbie:''' You know, when we get home I might cook that up for you, just for the halibut. Halibut!

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', Chuck can't afford a steak, so he brings Sarah a hamburger patty for her black eye.