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* Mercilessly warped in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' during the second tea party. Beato starts bragging about how [[spoiler:every dish Rosa is eating was made from her siblings]].
-->'''Beato:''' It's a sweet aperitif of noble rot German-made wine. A wine cocktail made of white wine mixed with a crimson golden drop. If I had to give it a name, I'd call it a Bloody [[spoiler:Krauss]]. Soaked with just a golden drop of [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian your brother's blood]]]] that was squeezed out of a compressor.

* In ''Anime/LastExile'', Mistress Delphine offers some wine to guests while going on about how much water was needed to properly grow the fruit, the implication being that many people in the drought-stricken outer world died so that she could produce the extravagant beverage. For her, part of the decadence of the wine comes from the suffering that its production entails.

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* ''Film/TheBigShort'' has Ben Rickert, a former trader whose cynicism over the state of the financial system has led him to paranoia and flirting with survivalism. He serves his guests salads grown in his own garden, which they don't have a problem with ''until'' he mentions that he's used urine (presumably, his own) to help revitalise the soil without petrochemicals. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Depending on your take on the central characters of the film]], he's either not a villain, just a guy who helped some old friends make money by betting against the global economy... or he's knowingly profiting from other people's impending misery.

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* Hammond, who is much less sympathetic in the book than the film of ''Literature/JurassicPark'', mentions that the ginger in the ice cream he shares with Henry Wu was grown on the island.

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%%* Parodied hilariously in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
%%--> '''Guest''' (to Kramer): You made this salad?\\
%%'''Kramer:''' Yes, I prepared it ''[[{{Squick}} as I bathed]]!''
* ''Series/IClaudius'': PlayedForHorror. Livia gets around her husband only eating directly from his fig orchard to avoid poisoning by putting poison on them while they're still on the trees.
--> [[spoiler: '''Livia:''' Don't touch the figs.]]

--> '''Eddie''': What's wrong with these beans?
--> '''Richie''': What d'you mean wrong? They're fresh. I grew those in the window box.
--> '''Eddie''': They've got black bits all over them.
--> '''Richie''': Well it's just a couple of greenfly, for heaven's sake! Well they're dead now, they've been under the grill for ages. Really, I watched them pop.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': The two-parter "Year of Hell" has a NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine scene where Tom Paris gets the opportunity to taste the typical food of alien civilizations that ''never existed''! The BigBad Annorax has [[RetGone wiped them out of time itself]], and keeps the [[LastOfHisKind last artifacts of their culture]] on his ship. Granted, this stuff was not grown by Annorax himself, but at least the access is quite exclusive.
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' plays it for laughs '''and''' creeps during a diplomatic meeting between Atlantis and their [[EnemyMine occasional out-of-necessity Wraith ally]] "Todd". As vampiric entities feeding on lifeforce, Wraith have no need for "normal" food on their ships; although they can enjoy eating it, they derive no nourishment from it. Also, the entire human population of the Pegasus galaxy is Wraith cattle, hence the trope.
--> '''Sheppard:''' Fruit bowl - nice touch.
--> '''Todd:''' ''(dismissively)'' Oh, we picked them up during our travels. I thought they would make our discussion a little more comfortable. ''I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them...!''
* On an episode of ''Series/SanfordAndSon,'' Grady serves a dinner with food served from the garden he's been growing. He doesn't realize that marijuna has been growing in the garden and he mixes it in with the salad and invites two cops to have dinner. HilarityEnsues.
* Discussed by Eddington regarding Sisko's homecooked meals for the officers in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' - Eddington is sure that Sisko managed the ingredients by himself, as they were of higher quality than replicated food. In an inversion, Eddington is the villain (well, AntiVillain) in this scenario, although he saw himself as the hero.
* Several non-villainous examples from the original ''Series/IronChef''. Several challengers owned and ran restaurants that specialised in using ingredients grown in a dedicated garden (either on site or nearby), sometimes supplemented with wild grown ingredients harvested from the local area for those in more remote locations.
* In the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode "The Top Hat Job," which features a CorruptCorporateExecutive who's allowing his company to sell frozen dinners contaminated with salmonella, Eliot comments that situations like that are why he grows all of his own food. Given that he follows this by claiming that he makes time to do so by only sleeping ninety minutes a day, he's probably joking... we think.

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* Played in a horribly straightway with the products of the [[EldritchLocation Garden of Nurgle]], Chaos God of Despair and Decay from TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} and TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} mythos. Roughly everything [[{{Plaguemaster}} Nurgle]] makes is a [[MysticalPlague horrifying, grotesque disease]], and likely to make you DeaderThanDead ([[TheCorruption unless you join in with him]]). Nurgle [[BlueAndOrangeMorality considers these to be gifts]], and will [[AffablyEvil jovially bestow them onto a populace, no matter how ungrateful they will be in the end]].

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* Parodied hilariously in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
--> '''Guest''' (to Kramer): You made this salad?
--> '''Kramer:''' Yes, I prepared it ''[[{{Squick}} as I bathed]]!''
* Horrifying variation in ''Series/IClaudius''. [[spoiler: Livia gets around her husband only eating directly from his fig orchard to avoid poisoning by putting poison on them while they're still on the trees.]]

--> '''Richie''': What d'you mean wrong? They're fresh. I grew those in the window-box.

Alice invites Bob to dinner, or lunch. Bob is impressed by the excellent cooking, and Alice smugly informs him everything was grown in her very exclusive garden. Interestingly, Alice is usually a villain, either because villains are the ones who tend to have [[SmallNameBigEgo big egos]] and be obsessed with living "off the grid" somewhere in Waco or because [[HitlerAteSugar Hitler Was A Vegetarian]].

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* Senshi from ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' grows vegetables in the backs of golems he's found wandering round the titular dungeon. Team Touden helps him harvest them and then Senshi cooks the vegetables in his usual FoodPorn.
* Played with in one chapter of ''Manga/{{Oishinbo}}'', where a famous artist provides a meal of vegetables and chicken he raised himself. While one set of guests enthusiastically praises it, Yamaoka dismisses the cooking as simple and provincial, but truly hospitable and displaying great effort and thoughtfulness from the host.

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* A non-villainous example in ''[[FanFic/ANewWorldANewWay A New World, A New Way - Swarm]]'', X offers the changeling Nell some Sitrus Berries that his Trevenant Asia's grew inside of her thanks to Harvest. Because of Harvest, Asia's is X's personal garden.

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* ''Film/TheBigShort'' has Ben Rickert, a former trader whose cynicism over the state of the financial system has lead him to paranoia and flirting with survivalism. He serves his guests salads grown in his own garden, which they don't have a problem with ''until'' he mentions that he's used urine (presumably, his own) to help revitalise the soil without petrochemicals. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Depending on your take on the central characters of the film]], he's either not a villain, just a guy who helped some old friends make money by betting against the global economy... or he's knowingly profiting from other people's impending misery.
* ''Film/Water1985''. The Governor of Cascara has his own private garden of [[TheStoner heavy duty herbs]].

* A variation in ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': Captain Nemo informs his prisoners that everything they are eating was taken from the ocean. One of them is less than thrilled to know he's eating [[{{Squick}} octopus embryo gelatin.]]
** Not that that's much better than [[YouDoNotWantToKnow what gelatin is normally made of]].[[note]]Boiled cow and pig skins and hooves, mostly. And now you know.[[/note]]
** This trope is also justified: Nemo bothers to mention the food because his guest, TheProfessor Aronnax, is starving, and [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy Nemo wants to convince him that it's possible to survive without any "Civilized world" product]].
** This might be an UnbuiltTrope, as the first known example, where the garden is ''the ocean''.

* Played in a horribly straight way with the products of the [[EldritchLocation Garden of Nurgle]], Chaos God of Despair and Decay from TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} and TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} mythos. Roughly everything [[{{Plaguemaster}} Nurgle]] makes is a [[MysticalPlague horrifying, grotesque disease]], and likely to make you DeaderThanDead ([[TheCorruption unless you join in with him]]). Nurgle [[BlueAndOrangeMorality considers these to be gifts]], and will [[AffablyEvil jovially bestow them onto a populace, no matter how ungrateful they will be in the end]].

* ''Series/{{Haven}}'': In season one's "Consumed," food is mysteriously rotting spontaneously all over town. The source seems to be a local restaurant, which the surrounding farms supply, and the owner's wife is briefly considered as a suspect, since she dislikes her husband's brother--the head chef. When Audrey visits her, it's revealed she grows most of the herbs and some of the produce for the restaurant, and that one of her herbs, used in the restaurant's signature dish, is also withered and rotten. Effectively removing her from the suspect pool.

* A non-villainous example in [[FanFic/ANewWorldANewWay A New World, A New Way - Swarm]], X offers the changling Nell some Sitrus Berries that his Trevenant Asia's grew inside of her thanks to Harvest. Because of Harvest, Asia's is X's personal garden.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Mr. Incredible eats with Mirage, Syndrome's SexySecretary, who points out how everything on the table was grown on the island, thanks to the rich volcanic soil.

* ''Series/{{Haven}}'': In season one's "Consumed," foot is mysteriously rotting spontaneously all over town. The source seems to be a local restaurant, which the surrounding farms supply, and the owner's wife is briefly considered as a suspect, since she dislikes her husband's brother--the head chef. When Audrey visits her, it's revealed she grows most of the herbs and some of the produce for the restaurant, and that one of her herbs, used in the restaurant's signature dish, is also withered and rotten. Effectively removing her from the suspect pool.

* ''Film/TheBigShort'' has Ben Rickert, a former trader whose cynicism over the state of the financial system has lead him to paranoia and flirting with survivalism. He serves his guests salads grown in his own garden, which they don't have a problem with ''until'' he mentions that he's used urine (presumably, his own) to help revitalise the soil without petrochemicals. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Depending on your take on the central characters of the film]], he's either not a villain, just a guy who helped some old friends make money by betting against the global economy... or he's knowingly profiting from other people's impeding misery.

* ''Film/TheBigShort'' has Ben Rickert, a former trader whose cynicism over the state of the financial system has lead him to paranoia and flirting with survivalism. He serves his guests salads grown in his own garden, which they don't have a problem with ''until'' he mentions that he's used urine (presumably, his own) to help revitalise the soil without petrochemicals. [[AlternativeCharacterIntepretation Depending on your take on the central characters of the film]], he's either not a villain, just a guy who helped some old friends make money by betting against the global economy... or he's knowingly profiting from other people's impeding misery.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the episode ''Hereafter'', {{Superman}} ends up in a desolate BadFuture and runs into the immortal ComicBook/VandalSavage, who’s undergone a HeelFaceTurn out of regret in the millennia since accidentally wiping out humanity. After a brief fight, Savage invites Superman to lunch at his place. The food is great because [[TheSlowPath he’s had 30,000 years to rediscover the principles of agriculture]].

* Discussed by Eddington regarding Sisko's homecooked meals for the officeers in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' - Eddington is sure that Sisko managed the ingredients by himself, as they were of higher quality than replicated food. In an inversion, Eddington is the villain (well, AntiVillain) in this scenario, although he saw himself as the hero.

[[AC: FanFiction]]
* A non-villainous example in [[FanFic/ANewWorldANewWay A New World, A New Way - Swarm]], X offers the changling Nell some Sitrus Berries that his Trevenant Asia's grew inside of her thanks to Harvest. Because of Harvest, Asia's is X's personal garden.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the episode ''Hereafter'', {{Superman}} ends up in a desolate BadFuture and runs into the immortal Vandal Savage, who’s undergone a HeelFaceTurn out of regret in the millennia since accidentally wiping out humanity. After a brief fight, Savage invites Superman to lunch at his place. The food is great because [[TheSlowPath he’s had 30,000 years to rediscover the principles of agriculture]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the episode ''Hereafter'', {{Superman}} ends up in a desolate BadFuture and runs into the immortal Vandal Savage, who’s undergone a HeelFaceTurn out of regret in the millennia since accidentally wiping out humanity. After a brief fight, Savage invites Superman to lunch
at his place. The food is great because [[TheSlowPath he’s had 30,000 years to rediscover the principles of agriculture]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the episode ''Hereafter'', {{Superman}} ends up in a desolate BadFuture and runs into the immortal Vandal Savage, who’s undergone a HeelFaceTurn in the millennia since accidentally wiping out humanity. After a brief fight, Savage invites Superman to lunch

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the episode ''Hereafter'', after {{Superman}} realizes the futility of fighting Vandal Savage, the latter invites the former to lunch. The food is great because [[TheSlowPath Vandal Savage has had 30,000 years to rediscover the principles of agriculture]].
** As it turns out, not only is it futile to fight Vandal Savage, but [[spoiler: he has effectively done a slow HeelFaceTurn in the many years since the end of civilization, and is one of the uncommon non-villainous examples of this trope to the point that he helps send Superman back in time and tells Superman to do whatever it takes to stop past him.]]

* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' has a heroic example, with protagonist John Rumford inviting the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Landwehr]] emissary Halsing to share his breakfast. The food, of course, comes from his own farm.

* Senshi from ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' grows vegetables in the backs of golems he's found wandering round the titular dungeon. Team Thorden helps him harvest them and then Senshi cooks the vegetables in his usual FoodPorn.