History Main / LethalEatery

* The Lazy Eel in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is an inn that offers the oldest whores and vilest wine in White Harbor, along with meat pies full of gristle and lard.

Generally, this trope can come in two [[JustForPun distinct flavors]]:

Compare GreasySpoon, a less extreme variant of this trope, and the SisterTrope FoulCafeteriaFood. Compare and contrast ReducedToRatburgers, being a similar situation PlayedForDrama when the ''only'' food people have is of abysmal quality.

This is almost always PlayedForLaughs.

Compare GreasySpoon, a less extreme variant of this trope, and the SisterTrope FoulCafeteriaFood.

* Stinky's Diner from the Telltale ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' games.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'' the family stops at a diner over Katie's objections that it has really bad Yelp reviews, cut to them all throwing up.

* During the [[TravelMontage road-trip montage]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'', Rick suggests stopping at a diner, which Katie swiftly discovers has ''really'' bad Yelp reviews. Rick assures her it will be fine... Cue GilliganCut to the whole family throwing up.

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A large number of comedies feature restaurants and other food service venues that would give any self-respecting health inspector a heart attack. Food is sold months or even years after its expiration date, it's often prepared by an uncouth cook who manages to get a great deal of hair and bodily fluid into whatever he's cooking, murky MysteryMeat (which usually contains vermin or [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies something else]] nobody would ever want to put in their mouth) is used, and certain delicacies may even [[ItCameFromTheFridge have a life of their own]]. In terms of beverages, expect BadToTheLastDrop coffee and, if it serves alcohol, ATankardOfMooseUrine beer.

A large number of comedies feature restaurants and other food service venues that would give any self-respecting health inspector a heart attack. Food is sold months or even years after its expiration date, it's often prepared by an uncouth cook who manages to get a great deal of hair and bodily fluid into whatever he's cooking, murky MysteryMeat (which usually contains vermin or [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies something else]] nobody would ever want to put in their mouth) is used, and certain delicacies may even [[ItCameFromTheFridge have a life of their own]].

** ''Especially'' C.M.O.T Dibbler's infamous 'sausage inna bun'. The precise composition is a disgusting pork-product mystery, and it's often alleged consumption can have debilitating if not lethal effects for those unaccustomed to it.

A large number of comedies feature restaurants and other food service venues that would give any self-respecting health inspector a heart attack. Food is sold months or even years after its expiration date, it's often prepared by an uncouth cook who manages to get a great deal of hair and bodily fluid into whatever he's cooking, murky MysteryMeat (which usually contains vermin or [[MainliningTheMonster something]] [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies else]] nobody would ever want to put in their mouth) is used, and certain delicacies may even [[ItCameFromTheFridge have a life of their own]].

Lots of comedies feature restaurants and other food service venues with breathtakingly bad public health risks. Food is sold months or even years after its expiration date. It's often prepared by an uncouth cook who manages to get a great deal of hair and bodily fluid into whatever he's cooking. This is almost always played for laughs.

A Lethal Eatery may employ a LethalChef or two, but in some cases the food tastes alright despite being coated in bacteria.

See also GreasySpoon.

* The Ghoul's Diner in ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'' would qualify if a large percentage of the customers weren't already various forms of undead. The living customers are nearly all various Unnaturals who do not have the same vulnerabilities to food-borne disease as humans would.
* The Lazy Eel in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is an inn that offers the oldest whores and vilest wine in White Harbor, along with meat pies full of gristle and lard.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': For similar reasons as found on The Simpsons, also created by Matt Groening.
** Panucci's Pizza follows this trope, among other things the owner scratches himself with a pepperoni roll, blows his nose with pizza dough, and uses his pizza paddle to spank his employees and kill rats.
** Elzar's is also crawling with roaches despite being a gourmet restaurant.
** There's also the Cygnoid pizza shop. The restaurant uses manure in its pizzas due to a gross ignorance of Earth cuisine.

* When WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead work at Burger World, something usually goes wrong. If it isn't that the boys have decided to deep fry some earthworms, it's that Beavis has used the spatula to scratch his jock itch. The two hooligans have come close to burning down the place more than once, and even managed to cause an epidemic from their tainted food at one point.
* Every restaurant in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is caked in grime and filth and staffed by disgusting uncouth slobs. All part of the hilarious misanthropic atmosphere of ''Invader Zim''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DaftPlanet'' episode "Snitchy and the Phobe", Ched and Harley get jobs at Hudson's dad's TV network. In it, they investigate the kitchens of restaurants across Maple City, exposing them as this.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Jake develops anasakaiasis after a business lunch at a sushi bar called Tokyo Toby's. After pulling a worm out of Jake's throat, his doctor complains about how that 'worm farm' should have been closed by the Health Dept by now.
* Flip’s Food and Fuel from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''; Flip is shown to sell expired products and soak his feet in the nacho cheese. The Loud family would gladly purchase food and fuel elsewhere, but seeing as it’s the only known gas station in town, the family has no choice but to keep going there.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 64, Mr. Cat starts a fast food restaurant where trash from the dumpster is served as food if they run out of ingredients, the toilets haven't been cleaned for so long that a giant sea monster lives inside them, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the counter is dusty]].
-->'''Pretty:''' ''(after eating there)'' I had a small intestine graft, a pancreas graft, and a colon ablation.\\

* The [[MeaningfulName Dur-T Cafe]] in ''VideoGame/Mother3'' appears to be a former Main/GreasySpoon that [[FesteringFungus rotted]] into one of these; luckily, it no longer actually sells food (or drinks), but its sheer filthiness ''alone'' would ''easily'' be able to kill someone in real life. Also, its women's restroom has quite-literally been used by '''[[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext wild cows]]''' (well, ''one'' wild cow, at least).

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