History Main / CartoonMeat

** The item reappears in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', where they're called "Rock Roasts", and this time you have to heat them up before you can eat them.

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** Hotdogs are slightly longer and are usually colored pink or red.

** Fish skeletons--sometimes with the the head and tail fins attached to a spine that's been otherwise picked clean--are a popular meal for cats, raccoons, or anyone who has to dumpster-dive for food.
** Lobsters and shrimp are often drawn bright red, even before they're cooked.

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* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': The ham bat is a [[EdibleBludgeon weapon]] that looks like at drumstick chopped with pink in the middle. The weapon is held by the bone and swung around hitting things with the meat end of it.

** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda 1986 original]] featured the Monster Bait item, which took the form of stock manga meat. Its advertised purpose of distracting baddies isn't terribly useful (only the weaker ones seem to go for it), but you still have to buy the stuff as it's also a PlotCoupon in disguise that [[PleaseGiveMeYourInventoryItem you have to trade to progress through the game]].

** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda 1986 original]] featured the Monster Bait item, which took the form of stock "manga meat". Its advertised purpose of distracting baddies isn't terribly useful (only the weaker ones seem to go for it), but you still have to buy the stuff as it's also a PlotCoupon in disguise.

* One of Soma's original dishes in ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma'' is an appetizer made of pâté and bacon wrapped around a bone, designed to look like manga meat.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': ''Don't Starve'''s ham bat was ported to ''TF2'' under the name "The Ham Shank", with Genuine quality ones being [[PreorderBonus awarded to those who preordered the source material]]. It's very much the same design, only 3D modeled.

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Meat is animal flesh often eaten for protein (or convenience if there's nothing else hanging around), though most kinds of meat hold textures and traits that make it rather unnecessarily complicated and ambiguous, which is where the "Cartoon" part comes to the spotlight.

** Sausages are usually less than 6 inches in length, linked, and colored gray or brown.

Bones that stick-out from Cartoon Meat are most likely to look like [[StockFemurBone Stock Femur Bones]], unless the meat is fish or ribs, where they're more likely to be rib bones. Compare with CartoonCheese, which is this but with, well, cheese. In video games, this often goes hand-in-hand with HyperactiveMetabolism and InexplicablyPreservedDungeonMeat. For extremely detailed depictions of meat, see FoodPorn.

* ''VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures': In ''Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2'', the full health restore power-up takes the shape of a hunk of meat with a bone sticking out of both ends.

* ''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.
* 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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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda:''
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the Goron delicacy "Rock Sirloin" takes the manga meat shape, only made of rock instead of meat.
** The item reappears in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', where they're called "Rock Roasts", and this time you have to heat them up before you can eat them.

* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'': During the game's FantasticVoyagePlot, one of the areas the Mario brothers end up in is the Flab Zone, implied to be the rather heavyset Bowser's overlarge deposits of fat. The most common low-level enemies there are the tenderlings, which resemble cylindrical joints of meat with the head of a StockFemurBone sticking out at either end, in addition to eyes and feet.
* In ''[[VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2]]'', the full health restore power-up takes the shape of a hunk of meat with a bone sticking out of both ends.
* ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare: Smooth Moves]]'' features the microgame "BYOM", in which the player rotates the Wii Remote in order to roast a Manga Meat for cavemen.

* The independent game studio Boneloaf has a cylinder-of-meat-on-a-bone as their logo. Their sole game to date, ''VideoGame/GangBeasts'', features that logo several times inside the game--for example, painted in the center of a wrestling ring.
* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime:'' Mafia Town has a gigantic meat cylinder with two bones, rolling up and down the street as a stage hazard.
* Commonly seen in Creator/{{Capcom}}'s BeatEmUp games as [[HyperactiveMetabolism a powerup for the players]]:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' is the TropeCodifier. Beating diverse objects during the game reveals manga meats among other snacks that can raise your energy bar.

** Some HackAndSlash games based on HighFantasy like ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheRound'', both ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsChroniclesOfMystara'' games and ''VideoGame/RedEarth'' also have manga meats as powerups.
* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon:'' In the Sunny Villa level, there are many Rhynoc {{Giant Mook}}s that wield giant chicken drumsticks; they all look the same. Near the end of the level, there's a cutscene of one of said mooks chasing a giant chicken, and when you get to where they run off to, said giant Rhynoc is already wielding a drumstick.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has a [[https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Hunger.svg drumstick-like icon]] for the hunger symbol.

* ''Don't Starve'''s ham bat was ported to ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' under the name "The Ham Shank", with Genuine quality ones being [[PreorderBonus awarded to those who preordered the source material]]. It's very much the same design, only 3D modeled.
* In ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'', one of the health-restoring items is a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/shovelknight/images/b/b3/Turkey.png/revision/latest?cb=20150617155507 rather cartoonish turkey]].
* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has the [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Power_Steak Power Steak]] and [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Bone-In_Cut Bone-In Cut]] items, which are cartoonish depictions of a steak and a piece of meat on a bone, respectively, with the latter being drawn in the came's characteristic {{Retraux}} blocky style.

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* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': The "Health Plate" item ordered by Pidge in Season 6 Episode 3 takes the form of a lumpy brown tube with cartoony bones poking out of each end.

[[caption-width-right:320:Your favorite types of meat, according to the Windows 10 emoji collection. Clockwise from top left: a ribeye steak, a chicken drumstick, some bacon stripes, and a cylindrical mystery meat on a bone.]]

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the Goron delicacy "Rock Sirloin" takes the manga meat shape, only make of rock instead of meat.

[[caption-width-right:320:Your favorite types of meat, according to the Windows 10 emoji collection. Clockwise from top left: a ribeye steak, a chicken lollipop, some bacon stripes, and a cylindrical mystery meat on a bone.]]

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