History Main / CartoonMeat

* '''Manga meat''', or '''ano niku''' (Japanese for "that meat"): Generic meat from an unspecified source (possibly the shank), portrayed as a roughly cylindrical slab still attached to the bone, with said bone sticking out both ends to serve as a convenient handle while eating. The meat itself is very chewy, sometimes even stretchy. In spite of the name, this version does pop up in western works, too -- sometimes with just one bone, so it looks more like a giant drumstick.

** Hotdogs are slightly longer and are usually colored pink or red. When served as part of a Japanese schoolkid's lunch, hotdogs are often cut into a fun octopus shape.

* ''Franchise/OnePiece:'' Luffy's favorite food is "meat" and is usually depicted as a cylinder of red meat with a bone sticking out both ends.

* ''Literature/{{Gate}}'': Some bonus pages in the manga version has a few JDSF soldiers get excited over seeing manga meat being sold in town, eager to find out "that meat" is in reality. They get disappointed when it turns out to be rather mundane: instead of being from a unique animal or a unique cut, it's just a long strip of meat topped with seasonings and wrapped around a bone to use as a handle for cooking and eating.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': The Goron delicacy "Rock Sirloin" takes the manga meat shape, only made of rock instead of meat.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' have both a Goron steak and a minigame on Tokay island that involves manga meat.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'':
*** The rock-based manga meat reappears, here called "Rock Roasts". This time you have to heat them up before you can eat them.

** ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare: Smooth Moves]]'' features the microgame "BYOM", in which the player rotates the Wii Remote in order to roast a joint of Manga Meat for cavemen.

* '''Manga meat''', or '''ano niku''' (Japanese for "that meat"): Generic meat from an unspecified source, portrayed as a roughly cylindrical slab still attached to the bone, with said bone sticking out both ends to serve as a convenient handle while eating. The meat itself is very chewy, sometimes even stretchy. In spite of the name, this version does pop up in western works, too -- sometimes with just one bone, so it looks more like a giant drumstick.

* Manga meat shows up in the ''LightNovel/GJBu'' anime, with the characters even referring to it as such.

* Most of the meat in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' is of the manga meat variety. Given the appetites of the main characters, a lot of it is consumed at any inn or restaurant they stop in.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', Alex starts to see the lemurs as the rib-eye steak variety. MeatOVision ensues.
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