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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. In the episode "Chocolate Boy," Arnold tries to help Chocolate Boy overcome his [[TrademarkFavoriteFood already-established addiction to chocolate]] by introducing him to other foods such as carrots, celery, peppers, and radishes; the radishes somehow reminds Chocolate Boy of his favorite treat and soon begins binge snacking on them instead of chocolate - something Arnold decides he needs to be broken of in the end.

-->--''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS3E23TheUnnatural The Unnatural]]"

** Naddy and Rin are non-food examples. Naddy became obsessed with American culture after watching a single American movie and Rin became a NightmareFetishist after only seeing a few seconds of a ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' film.

* ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'': Sosuke feeds Ponyo the ham from his sandwich, with Ponyo grabbing the entire slice of ham from his sandwich instead of eating the crumb he offers. From then on out, it becomes her favorite food to the point where Sosuke tells his mom Lisa "All she thinks about is ham, mom!"

* ''Series/FraggleRock'':
** Gobo finds the legendary Grapes of Generosity, which make whoever eats them with others extremely generous. What he doesn't know is that whoever eats them alone becomes extremely selfish, and eventually weightless. He intends at first to share the grapes with his friends. After one taste, though, he keeps devouring the grapes and trying to hide them from the others. It isn't long before he finds himself floating in mid-air.
** Traveling Matt, in his youth, [[AccidentalDiscovery accidentally discovers the Gorgs' garden and radishes.]] When the other Fraggles try one, it immediately becomes their TrademarkFavoriteFood.

** Gobo finds the legendary Grapes of Generosity, which make whoever eats them with others extremely generous. What he doesn't know is that whoever eats them alone becomes extremely selfish, and eventually weightless. At first, he intends at first to share the grapes with his friends. After one taste, though, he keeps devouring the grapes and trying to hide them from the others. It isn't long before he finds himself floating in mid-air.

* ''Series/FraggleRock'': Traveling Matt, in his youth, [[AccidentalDiscovery accidentally discovers the Gorgs' garden and radishes.]] When the other Fraggles try one, it immediately becomes their TrademarkFavoriteFood.

* ''[[Film/RoboCop1987 RoboCop (1987)]]'': When [=RoboCop=] first revealed to the rest of the police department, it's explained by the engineers that [=RoboCop=] eats a "rudimentary paste that sustains his organic systems." The OCP exec Donald Johnson tries some and immediately tells Morton it "tastes like baby food," and can't resist helping himself to more.

* ''Gregory the Terrible Eater'': Gregory the goat [[DefiedTrope defies]] ExtremeOmnigoat by refusing to eat trash and only wanting to eat human food. His parents give him human food mixed with objects, and [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam then he loves it]]. This backfires, as he becomes a BigEater and he won't stop eating his parents' belongings. His parents get him out of the habit by [[RadishCure having him eat many objects from a junkyard until he ends up with indigestion from it]].

->''(After Tina tries espresso for the first time)''\\
'''Teddy''': Gross, right?\\
'''Tina''': Yeah, it's an acquired taste... that I just acquired.
-->--''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', Season 3 "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS3E23TheUnnatural The Unnatural]]"

* In Creator/JunjiIto's manga one-shot ''Smashed'', all of the main characters taste a type of "honey" from a tree in South America, and become immediately addicted to it. Which is bad news for them, because the tree the "honey" comes from is able to detect when people are eating it, and can teleport its branches around the world to squash them flat.

* Exaggerated in ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou''. Kurumi will start craving a food whenever she sees or hears anything that bears the slightest resemblance to it or its name.

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'': Soma of the Soma Familia and his wine. It's so insanely addictive to the point that one sip can render a person addicted for life and [[MoralEventHorizon would be willing to do anything]] for a another drop. He considers them all complete failures and has long since abandoned his Familia as followers would join just to try the wine and become slaves to it. Liliruka, however, manages to resist its intoxicating power in order to help Bell.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Kurumi will start craving a food whenever she sees or hears anything that bears the slightest resemblance to it or its name.