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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "The Vat of Acid Episode", plane crash survivors are seen roasting shoes over a fire while Morty gnaws on a shoe made of vegan leather.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': After a plane crash, the survivors are seen roasting shoes over a fire while Morty gnaws on a shoe made of vegan leather.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rick And Morty'': After Morty survives a plane crash, Morty and the other survivors are seen roasting shoes over a fire while Morty gnaws on a shoe made of vegan leather.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': After months stranded in the wilderness, the group is starving. "[[Recap/YellowjacketsS2E8ItChooses It Chooses]]" features a variation, when Van finds[[spoiler:Jackie]]'s leather belt and gives it to Mari, hoping to add it to the soup as a source of protein.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}: After months stranded in the wilderness, the group is starving. "[[Recap/YellowjacketsS2E8ItChooses It Chooses]]" features a variation, when Van finds[[spoiler:Jackie]]'s leather belt and gives it to Mari, hoping to add it to the soup as a source of protein.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}: After months stranded in the wilderness, the group is starving. "[[Recap/YellowjacketsS2E8ItChooses It Chooses]]" features a variation, when Van finds[[spoiler:Jackie]]'s
leather belt and gives it to Mari, hoping to add it to the soup as a source of protein.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', protagonist Edward Elric, when [[spoiler:trapped in Gluttony's stomach]], boils a leather shoe for Prince Ling Yao to eat: "When I become the Emperor of Xing, I will have you recorded in the history books as 'the man who fed a shoe to the Emperor.'"

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode, "Return of the Nanobots", Jimmy's Nanobots get into the kitchen of the school cafeteria, where their saucer proceeds to "analyze" the sloppy stew by taking a spoon and putting some in an unseen part of its underside. After arguing over whether to "correct" it by adding steak sauce (02) or spicy mustard (01), Nanobot 02 suggests that they just throw in an old shoe, which their saucer proceeds to do before leaving. The Lunch Lady then says that she already made shoe twice that week.

* During his first descent of the Amazon River, Franicisco de Orellana and his crew were starving and a combination of sickness and hostile natives prevented them from landing to forage for food, so they were reduced to boiling and eating their boots.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode, "Return of the Nanobots", Jimmy's Nanobots get into the kitchen of the school cafeteria, where their saucer proceeds to "analyze" the sloppy stew by taking a spoon and putting some in an unseen part of its underside. After arguing over whether to "correct" it by adding steak sauce (02) or spicy mustard (01), Nanobot 02 suggests that they just throw in an old shoe, which their saucer proceeds to do before leaving. The Lunch Lady then says that she already made shoe twice that week.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Citizen Max", a flashback shows then poor Montana Max and Buster Bunny talking about eating a shoe.

* Creator/WernerHerzog made a bet with fellow documentary maker Errol Morris: either the latter would fail to complete to complete his debut ''Film/GatesOfHeaven'', or the former would eat his shoe. Morris won the bet, resulting in the production of ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe]]''.

A subtrope of PovertyFood and PovertyForComedy. Not to be confused with a MarshmallowDream, in which a shoe may be eaten by accident (as shown in the Limerick above). Nor with ItTastesLikeFeet; though shoes presumably ''do'' taste like feet, that trope is about actual ''food'' that's claimed to taste like feet or other non-food objects.

* German film director Creator/WernerHerzog once made a wager with his friend, documentarian Creator/ErrolMorris, promising that he would eat his shoe if Morris ever completed his full-length film ''Film/GatesOfHeaven''. When Morris did, Herzog used the wager to raise publicity and dined on the footwear at a local restaurant after the premiere. Another filmmaker, Les Blank, recorded the event for the short film ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe]]''. If you're wondering, he boiled it with soup stock and garlic first. He didn't eat the sole, saying that "one does not eat the bones of the chicken".

* The usual sorts of leather that are used to make shoes are actually perfectly edible, if not exactly palatable -- the only problem is that to be water resistant and durable, the leather is generally tanned, which often makes it indigestible, if not outright toxic. Rawhide, however, which is tanned using animal grease, remains digestible even after treatment, so in the case of severe hunger [[ReducedToRatburgers rawhide items can be boiled and eaten]], or even nibbled as is. There are many well-documented cases of starving humans surviving on rawhide before getting help.