History Main / InexplicablyPreservedDungeonMeat

A SubTrope of BlatantItemPlacement. Compare InexplicableTreasureChests and IndestructibleEdible.

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Infernax}}''. The first dungeon has a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'' with a chicken hidden in a wall. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Eating it will cause Alcedor to become sick and vomit]], since the food is long rotten.

* ''Film/PressStart'': While scouring Count Vile's lair, Zack is injured and in need of healing, so Lin-ku offers him some chicken he finds in the dungeon. It's cold, slimy, and tastes nasty, but it does the trick.

Not only do video game heroes have little problem eating food they find lying around on the floor for much longer than the five-second rule allows, but even if that roast chicken had to have been sitting there for hundreds of years in someplace ''very'' unsanitary, it's still as fresh as if it just came out of the oven. In a similar vein to InexplicableTreasureChests, if the food item happens to be in a rather populated area, another question arises, in that why hasn't someone else taken it, eaten it, disposed of it, or otherwise removed it from its location before you got to it?

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series always has tons of pre-war food (even in the first game, the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Great War]] happened almost 100 years ago ) that's still perfectly edible, including the inexplicably popular Nuka-Cola. ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]]'' work to subvert this somewhat, as eating pre-war food will still boost the player's health, but also inflict them with minor doses of radiation (and explicitly irradiated food that deals even more radiation when eaten can be found.) Lampshaded during "The Big Dig" quest in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' when you run across one of the Port-A-Diners that has an inexplicably well-preserved piece of 200-year-old pie in it.

* ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'' has the player traversing a massive, sprawling, labyrinth, where loaves of bread, meat rations, pizzas, chokos, and various other foods are randomly strewn about the dungeon floors.

* In the opening of ''VideoGame/SirYouAreBeingHunted'', the Narrator explicitly tells the player finding food powerups to "Don't look at it TOO closely.." as the robot patrols have exterminated the human inhabitants some time ago. In a notable partial aversion of this trope, some of the food you find is in fact spoiled and not good to eat; why the rest is still fresh remains inexplicable, though.

* Booker DeWitt, the PlayerCharacter of VideoGame/BioShockInfinite, can replenish his health by eating and drinking various food items scattered across Columbia. This includes dining on stuff like hotdogs straight out of [[DumpsterDive a trashcan]] and sandwiches looted off of [[RobbingTheDead rotting corpses]].

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Infernax}}'', where Alcedor can find and eat some chicken in a wall ala ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome It causes him to get sick and vomit]].

* Your main method of self-healing in ''VideoGame/RogueLegacy'' are eating chicken drum sticks left lying around. The diaries someone left around the castle comment how insane it is to eat things lying around, but his hunger forces him to eat them anyway.

-->'''The Nerd''': I do have to say, that would be convenient; if all I had to do was just whip the wall when I was hungry. ''(starts whipping the wall behind him repeatedly)'' If this wall would break... If there's a fucking pork-chop in this wall, I would so eat it!

* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'', the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Castlevania'' made by Koji Igarashi, lampshades this trope at one point, with a journal entry where the author wishes that he could find such a meal. It's also played straight in a couple of places - in fact, near where said journal entry is found, a plate of fried eggs can be found by busting down a wall.

* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'': The first game in the series has Duke battle Doctor Proton's 'bots to thwart his EvilPlan. In his travels, Duke encounters cans of soda and turkey drumsticks lying around, worth one health bar each. Since all of Proton's mooks are robots, none of them need to eat this food. Surprisingly, Duke can fire his zap gun at the turkey drumsticks, which turns them into a roast turkey dinner worth two health bars. Duke's gun is a robot zapper and food cooker in one!

* ''VideoGame/PixelDungeon'': The presence of Pasties lying on the dungeon floor has no excuse.

[[caption-width-right:349:"[[WebVideo/GameGrumps Is it wall meat? IT'S WALL MEAT!]]"]]

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Infernax}}''. The first dungeon has a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/{{CastlevaniaI}}'' with a chicken hidden in a wall. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Eating it will cause Alcedor to become sick and vomit]], since the food is long rotten.

[[caption-width-right:349:"[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest What a horrible place to hide a chicken.]]"]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': The series takes place on Earth 250 million years in the future (as confirmed by ''3'') and has a suspicious lack of humans, but some of the treasures in ''2'' include various foodstuffs that still look perfectly fine, despite the conditions that they can be found in, from just lying around both above ground and underground, to being buried, even ''in the stomach of various creatures'' (and apparently ''taste'' perfectly fine, too, since the crew keep sneaking bites of them). ''3'' doesn't get that much of a pass, either. Some fruits can be found attached to vines and branches, but others can be found eaten by animals, partially buried within the earth, and sitting in caves for God knows how long. Sure, this can be excused partially because the crew wants the seeds and juice rather than the actual fruit itself, but you'd think the juice and seeds of an orange that's been submerged within a river would be at least a little spoiled...