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** Hence the Bacon Bits commercials. "IT'S ''BACON''!!"
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* [[TexAvery Screwy Squirrel]] was sometimes shown cracking walnuts by placing them on his head and smashing them with a hammer.
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* Butch the bulldog from {{Tom and Jerry}} loves bones so much that he's almost always shown sleeping with a bone resting under his paw.

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* Butch Spike the bulldog from {{Tom and Jerry}} loves bones so much that he's almost always shown sleeping with a bone resting under his paw.



* {{Mickey Mouse}} averts this. In every cartoon, he's rarely seen eating any cheese at all. This is due to Disney's rule that Mickey is to never, ever be shown with cheese. [[WordOfGod "Cheese makes Mickey seem like a mouse. He's really not a mouse, you know, he's really more a human."]]

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* {{Mickey Mouse}} averts this. In every cartoon, he's rarely seen eating any cheese at all. This is due to Disney's rule that Mickey is to never, ever be shown with cheese. [[WordOfGod "Cheese makes Mickey seem like a mouse. ]] [[FurryDenial He's really not a mouse, you know, he's really more a human."]]

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** Avi did his research - Errol from ''Tales of Dimwood Forest'' can't get enough salt.
** Brian Floca of the Poppy mouse series also did her research by having Poppy's {{Grumpy Bear}} {{Snarky}} porcupine friend, Erith, have an addiction to salt (especially salt lick, which Poppy and her mouse family got him for his birthday in the novel, "Erith's Birthday").

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** Avi did his research - Errol from ''Tales of Dimwood Forest'' can't get enough salt.
** Brian Floca of the Poppy mouse series also did her research by
having Poppy's {{Grumpy Bear}} {{Snarky}} GrumpyBear DeadpanSnarker porcupine friend, Erith, Ereth, have an addiction to salt (especially salt lick, which Poppy and her mouse family got him for his birthday in the novel, "Erith's "Ereth's Birthday").
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* {{Mickey Mouse}} averts this. In every cartoon, he's rarely seen eating any cheese at all. Then again, Mickey is pretty much only ''physically'' a mouse. And a human-sized one at that.


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* {{Mickey Mouse}} averts this. In every cartoon, he's rarely seen eating any cheese at all. Then again, This is due to Disney's rule that Mickey is pretty much only ''physically'' to never, ever be shown with cheese. [[WordOfGod "Cheese makes Mickey seem like a mouse. And He's really not a human-sized one at that.

mouse, you know, he's really more a human."]]
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[[AC:Dogs]]-- Bones. Which is partly true.

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[[AC:Dogs]]-- Bones. Which is partly true. Most commonly stock femur bones.
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* In one {{Disney}} cartoon "Working For Peanuts", Chip and Dale start a fight with Donald and his circus elephant over peanuts

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* In one {{Disney}} cartoon "Working For Peanuts", Chip and Dale start a fight with Donald DonaldDuck and his circus elephant over peanutspeanuts.



* In one {{Disney}} cartoon, a flying squirrel (which, unlike {{Real Life}} flying squirrels, actually flies) harasses Donald and his Peanut stand because Donald wouldn't give him any peanuts.

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* In one {{Disney}} cartoon, a flying squirrel (which, unlike {{Real Life}} flying squirrels, actually flies) harasses Donald DonaldDuck and his Peanut stand because Donald wouldn't give him any peanuts.a specific peanut. They proceed to engage into an EscalatingWar, all because of ''that specific peanut''.
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** Real life squirrels regularly gnaw holes on coconuts to eat the coconut flesh.
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[[AC: Owls]] -- Mice and other small rodents
* Though rodents are part of their main diet, they're only a ''part''. Owls will eat just about any small animal it can catch.
* Mrs. Brisby in ''TheSecretOfNIMH'' is afraid to go see the Great Owl because "Owls ''eat'' mice!"
* A [[OwlBeDamned scary one-eyed owl]] chases the furlings down in ''OnceUponAForest'', who are a hedgehog, a mole and a woodmouse respectively.
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* {{Mickey Mouse}} averts this. In every cartoon, he's rarely seen eating any cheese at all.


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* {{Mickey Mouse}} averts this. In every cartoon, he's rarely seen eating any cheese at all.

all. Then again, Mickey is pretty much only ''physically'' a mouse. And a human-sized one at that.

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[[AC:Goats]] - Tin cans or other junk and metal. This is mostly a ForgottenTrope, due to less and less people having regular contact with goats.
* In case you were wondering, this started from people misinterpreting goats trying to eat the labels (and glue) off cans. Now you know, AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle.
* ExtremeOmniGoat - the trope isn't quite forgotten.

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[[AC:Goats]] - [[ExtremeOmniGoat Tin cans or other junk and metal. This is mostly a ForgottenTrope, due to less and less people having regular contact with goats.
metal.]]
* In case you were wondering, this started from people misinterpreting goats trying to eat the labels (and glue) off cans. Now you know, AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle.
* ExtremeOmniGoat - the trope isn't quite forgotten.
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* One ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoon [[BlamEpisode randomly]] featured a FunnyAnimal goat who eats steel, and eventually eats an entire navy ship.
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[[AC:Cats]] - Fish, Mice/Rats, and/or Birds. Though they were originally bred to hunt mice. Of course, with fictional cats, actually ''catching'' mice or birds is very rare. They can have better luck with fish though, at least sometimes.Milk is also a popular treat for fictional cats, despite the fact that many cats can end up being lactose intolerant in real life. [[hottip:*: As with humans, though, feline lactose intolerance doesn't mean that it can't still be a highly desired foodstuff. One just does not want to be a bystander when it hits the other end.]]

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[[AC:Cats]] - Fish, Mice/Rats, and/or Birds. Though they were originally bred to hunt mice. Of course, with fictional cats, actually ''catching'' mice or birds is very rare. They can have better luck with fish though, at least sometimes. Milk is also a popular treat for fictional cats, despite the fact that many cats can end up being lactose intolerant in real life. [[hottip:*: As with humans, though, feline lactose intolerance doesn't mean that it can't still be a highly desired foodstuff. One just does not want to be a bystander when it hits the other end.]]

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[[AC:Cats]] - Fish, Mice/Rats, and/or Birds. Though they were originally bred to hunt mice.

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[[AC:Cats]] - Fish, Mice/Rats, and/or Birds. Though they were originally bred to hunt mice. Of course, with fictional cats, actually ''catching'' mice or birds is very rare. They can have better luck with fish though, at least sometimes.Milk is also a popular treat for fictional cats, despite the fact that many cats can end up being lactose intolerant in real life. [[hottip:*: As with humans, though, feline lactose intolerance doesn't mean that it can't still be a highly desired foodstuff. One just does not want to be a bystander when it hits the other end.]]



* Milk is also a popular treat for fictional cats, despite the fact that many cats can end up being lactose intolerant in real life.
** As with humans, though, feline lactose intolerance doesn't mean that it can't still be a highly desired foodstuff. One just does not want to be a bystander when it hits the other end.



* Of course with fictional cats, actually ''catching'' mice or birds is very rare. They can have better luck with fish though, at least sometimes.
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** This came into play in ''BrotherBear''.

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[[AC:Mice/Rats]] -- [[BlessedAreTheCheesemakers Cheese]]. (Even though in real life [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5319210.stm they don't like it]]. Ironically the mouse's mortal enemy, the cat, adores it.)

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[[AC:Mice/Rats]] -- [[BlessedAreTheCheesemakers Cheese]]. (Even though in real life [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5319210.stm they don't like it]]. Ironically the mouse's mortal enemy, the cat, adores it.)) Peanut butter would be a better choice, which rats and mice DO love.


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** Brian Floca of the Poppy mouse series also did her research by having Poppy's {{Grumpy Bear}} {{Snarky}} porcupine friend, Erith, have an addiction to salt (especially salt lick, which Poppy and her mouse family got him for his birthday in the novel, "Erith's Birthday").
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* Sort of averted in {{Surf's Up}}. Cody the rockhopper penguin (and presumably the other penguins) ate fish, but enjoyed the squid on a stick served on the island where the surfing competitions took place because it {{Tastes Like Chicken}}.

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* Sort of averted in {{Surf's {{Surfs Up}}. Cody the rockhopper penguin (and presumably the other penguins) ate fish, but enjoyed the squid on a stick served on the island where the surfing competitions took place because it {{Tastes Like Chicken}}.
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* The entire plot of {{Dancing Feet}} resolved around Mumble trying to find a way to get the fish back for the starving penguins by communicating with the "aliens" who were stealing it (actually humans).

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* The entire plot of {{Dancing {{Happy Feet}} resolved around Mumble trying to find a way to get the fish back for the starving penguins by communicating with the "aliens" who were stealing it (actually humans).



* Sort of averted in {{Surfs Up}}. Cody the rockhopper penguin (and presumably the other penguins) ate fish, but enjoyed the squid on a stick served on the island where the surfing competitions took place because it {{Tastes Like Chicken}}.

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* Sort of averted in {{Surfs {{Surf's Up}}. Cody the rockhopper penguin (and presumably the other penguins) ate fish, but enjoyed the squid on a stick served on the island where the surfing competitions took place because it {{Tastes Like Chicken}}.

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* Every Scrat scene in the {{Ice Age}} always had the prehistoric squirrel trying to catch or find a safe spot for his acorn at the risk of his safety.


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[[AC:Beavers]] -- wood
* This is sort of true, as beavers will eat the leaves, small twigs, and inner bark but not the entire log itself other than wearing it down.
* In "The Angry Beavers", the titular beavers not only ate wood (for example, they use wood shavings in their cereal), but chewed on it to keep their teeth from growing too long, which is true for beavers in {{real life}}. In one episode, Norbert's refusal to chew on wood because his long teeth made him popular with the other animals caused his teeth to grow out of control and trap him (along with his brother Dagget, who also stopped chewing out of jealousy) in a cage made of their elongated front teeth.

[[AC: Mongooses]] -- snakes
* Mongooses are willing to eat anything they can catch, snakes being one of them.

[[AC: Otters]] -- clams
* This is actually true as shellfish are a predominant part of their diet.
** In {{Happy Tree Friends}} Russel loved to eat clams.

[[AC: Penguins]] -- fish
* {{Truth in television}} as fish is in fact their main food (although different penguin species eat different types of fish) along with krill and squid.
* The penguins in {{The Penguins of Madagascar}} had several episodes involving their love of fish (for example making a growth ray so they can have more fish to eat, stealing a truck filled with fish when their diet of fresh fish was replaced with disgusting fish-cake shaped imitations, and defeating a giant monstrous fish in a nearby park lake then turning it into sushi).
* The entire plot of {{Dancing Feet}} resolved around Mumble trying to find a way to get the fish back for the starving penguins by communicating with the "aliens" who were stealing it (actually humans).
* The cartoon baby penguin, Chilly Willy, once tried to eat a stuffed sword fish when invited into the home belonging to a friendly dog and his owner.
* Sort of averted in {{Surfs Up}}. Cody the rockhopper penguin (and presumably the other penguins) ate fish, but enjoyed the squid on a stick served on the island where the surfing competitions took place because it {{Tastes Like Chicken}}.
* The Penguin from {{Batman Returns}} at one point greedily eats a raw fish, although he was a mutant who was raised by penguins when he was abandoned as a baby.
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* {{Catdog}} Along with bones for Dog, fish was Cat's main motif throughout the series (in fact, half his house is made of a giant fish fused to a giant bone). Cat loved fish so much he once worked in the fire department simply because they had fish chilly at the time.

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* {{Catdog}} {{Catdog}}: Along with bones for Dog, fish was Cat's main motif throughout the series (in fact, half his house is made of a giant fish fused to a giant bone). Cat loved fish so much he once worked in the fire department simply because they had fish chilly at the time.



* Lampshaded in the {{Simpsons}} cartoon, "Bart Gets an Elephant" where Bart,{{Exactly What It Says On The Tin}}, gets a pet elephant and names it Stampy. To solve the food problem, Homer follows this trope by giving Stampy a whole bag of peanuts to eat which later causes it to become sick and weak afterwards. Lisa: "He can't just eat peanuts, Dad, he needs plants to live." Learning from his mistake, Homer has Stampy strip all the leaves from a nearby park.

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* Lampshaded in the {{Simpsons}} cartoon, "Bart Gets an Elephant" where Bart,{{Exactly Bart, {{Exactly What It Says On The Tin}}, Tin}} , gets a pet elephant and names it Stampy. To solve the food problem, Homer follows this trope by giving Stampy a whole bag of peanuts to eat which later causes it to become sick and weak afterwards. Lisa: "He can't just eat peanuts, Dad, he needs plants to live." Learning from his mistake, Homer has Stampy strip all the leaves from a nearby park.
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* The elephant from {{Penguins from Madagascar}} went crazy from hunger after the zoo lost power and tried to eat lemur Julian because he looked like a peanut.

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* The elephant from {{Penguins from {{The Penguins of Madagascar}} went crazy from hunger after the zoo lost power and tried to eat lemur Julian because he looked like a peanut.

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\n* Today the "bears eating honey" is slowly being replaced with "Bears eating salmon", which is also {{Truth in Television}} as fish are a main component of a bear's diet.




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* {{Catdog}} Along with bones for Dog, fish was Cat's main motif throughout the series (in fact, half his house is made of a giant fish fused to a giant bone). Cat loved fish so much he once worked in the fire department simply because they had fish chilly at the time.



** Which was used in {{Pixar}}'s {{Up}}, where one of Muntz's cleaning dogs was shown cautiously nibbling on his fossil displays when he wasn't looking.




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* One episode of {{Courage The Cowardly Dog}} had a magical giant bone so irresistible to dogs they licked it until they died of starvation. Courage managed to escape this fate through sheer {{heroic willpower}}.
* A {{Disney}} episode had Pluto try to steal a large bone from a sleeping lion in the zoo because his bone was too small.
* In {{Catdog}}, bones are Dog's main {{motif}} (in fact, half of his house is made of a giant bone fused to a giant fish, which is Cat's motif). He even once stole the bones of a {{Tyrannosaurus Rex}} from a nearby museum and when arrested, was eating the bones of dead prisoners, whose cannibalistic behavior horrified cat (although in the end it was {{All Just A Dream}} by Cat.
* Butch the bulldog from {{Tom and Jerry}} loves bones so much that he's almost always shown sleeping with a bone resting under his paw.
* The much villified sequel to {{The Mask}}, {{Son Of The Mask}} had the {{Uncanny Valley}} cartoon baby trick the mask-wearing dog with an exploding bone, Looney Tunes style.




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* In one {{Disney}} cartoon "Working For Peanuts", Chip and Dale start a fight with Donald and his circus elephant over peanuts
* Lampshaded in the {{Simpsons}} cartoon, "Bart Gets an Elephant" where Bart,{{Exactly What It Says On The Tin}}, gets a pet elephant and names it Stampy. To solve the food problem, Homer follows this trope by giving Stampy a whole bag of peanuts to eat which later causes it to become sick and weak afterwards. Lisa: "He can't just eat peanuts, Dad, he needs plants to live." Learning from his mistake, Homer has Stampy strip all the leaves from a nearby park.
* The elephant from {{Penguins from Madagascar}} went crazy from hunger after the zoo lost power and tried to eat lemur Julian because he looked like a peanut.



*** Notably averted in {{Ratatouille}} where Remy and his family are shown eating a wide variety of food. However, in one scene his human partner, Linguini, gives him a piece of cheese from the food storage closet, which he eats with joy (although he could have been starving, so anything seemed good to him).




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* {{Mickey Mouse}} averts this. In every cartoon, he's rarely seen eating any cheese at all.





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* {{Spongebob Squarepants}} Sandy Cheeks has a big thing for nuts. Most of her inventions are nut-based, such as the machine that could read the thoughts of nuts.
* The squirrels in {{Jimmy Neutron}} once stole Sheen's Ultralord action figure and worshipped it because it cracked open their nuts.
* In one {{Looney Tunes}} cartoon, "Much Ado About Nutting", a squirrel looking for nuts finds a coconut and tries unsuccessfully to break it open.
* In one {{Disney}} cartoon, a flying squirrel (which, unlike {{Real Life}} flying squirrels, actually flies) harasses Donald and his Peanut stand because Donald wouldn't give him any peanuts.
* Averted in {{Real Life}} with this youtube video of a squirrel eating a BIRD! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC03dc5Pgms
* Slappy the Squirrel from {{Animaniacs}} loved to eat walnuts, and often risked her safety (not that she had anything to worry about) picking walnuts from nearby yards defended by dogs.
* Subverted with Hammy from {{Over the Hedge}}, who found himself enjoying human food like donuts, chips, and coffee more than the food he and his mixed animal family used to eat before their home became invaded by suburban home development.


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** Was a big plot device in an episode of the {{Animated Adaptation}} of {{Ace Ventura}}, where eucalyptus cough drops were used to pacify a group of angry Koalas.
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* Used in variation in {{Wallace and Gromit}}: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The rabbits loved to eat carrots (in fact, in the movie Gromit fed the ones they caught only chopped carrots), but also enjoyed eating any other vegetables and fruit they could find (which was unfortunate for those who were growing them for the vegetable competition) necessitating the need for Wallace and Gromits' temporary rabbit catching services.

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* In {{Mouse Hunt}}, the titular mouse loved cheese so much it devoured an entire cheese wheel that the two {{Butt-Monkey}} {{Comic Reliefs}} were using to catch it. In the end it became a string cheese food taster.




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* Also parodied in {{Brandy and Mr. Whiskers}} where Brandy tried to use a banana to bribe villain gecko Gaspar's giant monkey {{mooks}}, who took offense to the stereotype (though they later expressed enthusiasm in finding bananas for themselves after they left).
* Inverted with {{Curious George}}, who not only ate bananas, but anything else he could get his hands on (like a puzzle piece).

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* For many pet owners, tuna fish is like cocaine to their cats.
* Cats also enjoy playing and eating insects
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* Elephants also have a love for chocolate more than peanuts and also a hankering for sugarcane, even robbing sugar cane trucks in Thailand.
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* Reisen and Tewi, a pair of Moon Rabbits from the {{Touhou}} series are sometimes depicted eating carrots in fan works.

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* Reisen and Tewi, a pair of Moon Rabbits youkai rabbits from the {{Touhou}} series are sometimes depicted eating carrots in fan works.
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[[AC:[[TestosteronePoisoning Male Humans]]]] -- [[RealMenEatMeat Meat.]]

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[[AC:[[TestosteronePoisoning Male Humans]]]] -- [[RealMenEatMeat Meat.]]
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* Cheese is still [[TomAndJerry Jerry's]] favorite food, but he'll eat [[BigEater almost any food that's available to him]] no matter what it is.

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* Cheese For Jerry of TomAndJerry fame, cheese is still [[TomAndJerry Jerry's]] his favorite food, but he'll eat [[BigEater almost any food that's available to him]] no matter what it is.
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* If [[CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes]] counts, he loves tuna fish.

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* If [[CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes]] counts, he CalvinAndHobbes: Hobbes loves tuna fish.
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[[AC:[[TestosteronePoisoning Male Humans]]]] -- [[RealMenEatMeat Meat.]]

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