History Main / TooHungryToBePolite

* ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'': The Greedy has these, constantly and very loudly stuffing himself with the candy that makes his body, spilling it everywhere as he does so. Notably, he constantly apologizes for this as he interrupts his own speech and generally breaks every rule of etiquette, but he's so damnably hungry he can't afford to have manners.

-->-- "What Keeps a Man Alive?", from ''Theatre/ThreepennyOpera''

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-->'''Klara''': Mhhff... frrgve me...
-->'''Molly''': Oh, we shoulda brought you here sooner!

* [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] regularly devours large amounts of food with a hilarious lack of thought towards etiquette. Her mentor, Oracle, is quite amused by this. It is implied that it is a result of her being homeless between the ages of eight and seventeen.

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* Inverted in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' - the young wizards and witches at the Beginning of the Year feast dig in with both hands. Hermione, in contrast, eats very neatly with a knife and fork, letting us know that she's very mature for her age.

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* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Goku, who was raised in isolation from other people, doesn't have any table manners whatsoever and devours everything he gets is hands on. [[BigEater And he eats a lot.]]
** Most Saiyan characters, including Vegeta and Gohan, eat with little regard to proper etiquette. No matter how many times their friends and allies bear witness to their ghastly table manners, they always stare on in dumbfound awe.

* In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', after Thor arrives on Earth and joins his new friends in a small-town diner for breakfast, he finishes drinking a cup of coffee, throws it down to the floor like a mug of ale at a Viking feast, and loudly exclaims "More!", to the embarrassment of his companions. In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', it's revealed that smashing mugs is a common practice in Asgard.

* In ''Billy Bathgate'' Dutch Schultz and his gang are out for dinner along with his socialite moll Drew. Drew makes a point of eating in a more diginified manner, most specifically cutting the meat with her knife in her right hand and fork in left and then laying the knife down while transferring the fork to her right hand, then slowly and deliberately chewing and swallowing the mouthful of meal before cutting another slice. Schultz gets the gist of her demonstration and encourages his fellow gangsters to follow suit.

* In the book version of ''Film/BillyBathgate'' Dutch Schultz and his gang are out for dinner along with his socialite moll Drew. Drew makes a point of eating in a more diginified manner, most specifically cutting the meat with her knife in her right hand and fork in left and then laying the knife down while transferring the fork to her right hand, then slowly and deliberately chewing and swallowing the mouthful of meal before cutting another slice. Schultz gets the gist of her demonstration and encourages his fellow gangsters to follow suit.

* Inverted in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheSorcerersStone'' - the young wizards and witches at the Beginning of the Year feast dig in with both hands. Hermione, in contrast, eats very neatly with a knife and fork, letting us know that she's very mature for her age.

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* In the ''ComicBook/VillainsUnited'' special, the ComicBook/SecretSix go out to eat at a restaurant, where Catman, who's spent several years living among a pride of lions, tears into an order of ribs in a bestial manner, disgusting his teammates.

* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', [[ComicBook/MetalMen Doc Magnus]] takes to wolfing down can after can of cold baked beans after he's taken to Oolong Island and denied his medication.

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** Toph usually eats with a complete disregard for etiquette, as a form of rebellion against her [[MyBelovedSmother stiflingly proper]] upper-class upbringing. When dealing with refined characters she genuinely respects, her manners become perfect.

** Played with in an episode where Iroh is imprisoned. When his guards are watching him eat, he makes a point of shoveling his food into his mouth with his hands like a madman, so that they think that he's losing his mind and thus don't suspect that he's planning to escape. When not being observed, on the other hand, he eats like a civilized human.

* In ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'', the street girl Sarah gives her buns to a starving beggar girl who tears ravenously into them, exclaiming only, "Oh ''my''! Oh ''my''!" [[JustifiedTrope She is starving]], as Sarah notes. [[spoiler:Fortunately, she winds up HappilyAdopted later.]]

* In ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'', the street girl Sarah gives her buns to tears ravenously into them, exclaiming only, "Oh ''my''! Oh ''my''!" [[JustifiedTrope She is starving]], as Sarah notes. [[spoiler:Fortunately, she winds up HappilyAdopted later.]]

* In the ''ComicBook/VillainsUnited'' special, the ComicBook/SecretSix go out to eat at a restaurant, where Catman, who's spent several years living among a pride of lions, tears into an order of ribs in a bestial manner, disgusting his teammates.

* Inverted in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheSorcerersStone'' - the young wizards and witches at the Beginning of the Year feast dig in with both hands. Hermione, in contrast, eats very neatly with a knife and fork, letting us know that she's very mature for her age.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein
** In ''Literature/SpaceCadet'', Cadet Tex Jarman picks up a piece of pie with his hands and starts eating it, and the older cadet superior orders him to use a fork instead. Jarman is from a rural background and wasn't taught proper table manners.
** In ''Literature/CitizenOfTheGalaxy'', after being bought by Baslim, the slave Thorby wolfs down his meal as if he's afraid that it will be taken from him. This shows the harsh treatment he's received growing up as a slave.

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* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', the lower-class Mankanshoko family treats dinner as a free-for-all. Humorously, when Mako and Ryuko briefly get the family promoted to higher status, their table manners improve dramatically.

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* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', [[ComicBook/MetalMen Doc Magnus]] takes to wolfing down can after can of cold baked beans after he's taken to Oolong Island and denied his medication.

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* In ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the Beast's eating habits initially disgust Belle, as he's become used to dining alone.

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* In ''Film/StarWarsThePhantomMenace'', Jar-Jar Binks annoys Qui-Gonn by using his long tongue to just grab food and wolf it down, whereas everyone else is using cutlery. The first time he awkwardly excuses himself. The second time, Qui-Gonn loses patience, grabs his tongue and simply tells him "don't do that again".

* In ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', Rocky tears into his dinner with his hands, prompting Columbia to remind him to use a fork. To be fair, he's only seven hours old and only has half a brain to work with.
-->"[[AudienceParticipation Use a fork, you fuckin' Marine!]]"

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* In the book version of ''Film/BillyBathgate'' Dutch Schultz and his gang are out for dinner along with his socialite moll Drew. Drew makes a point of eating in a more diginified manner, most specifically cutting the meat with her knife in her right hand and fork in left and then laying the knife down while transferring the fork to her right hand, then slowly and deliberately chewing and swallowing the mouthful of meal before cutting another slice. Schultz gets the gist of her demonstration and encourages his fellow gangsters to follow suit.

* A thirst version is [[InvokedTrope invoked]] via BatmanGambit in Literature/RedSeasUnderRedSkies. The ruler of a city state knows that Locke and Jean are con artists pretending to be nobles and wants to rope them into working for him. So, he has them seized and locked for several hours in a dark room kept extremely hot. Then, he has then released and appears to scold his guards for making a terrible mistake. He then "apologetically" offers them a delicious cordial which contains a slow acting but deadly poison, knowing they'd be too parched to give a thought before drinking it.

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* One episode of ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'' had Joe and his friends befriend a kid from a foster home. When they bring him home for lunch, he rapidly gobbles down his sandwich, which serves as their first hint that things might not be alright for him at home.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Ghost in the Machine", ComicBook/LexLuthor is held hostage inside his own office by Brainiac, who forces him to build him a new robot body. When Brainiac finally allows Lex to take a dinner break, Lex gorges himself on a handful of candy bars from a nearby snack machine.
* In ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', Kilowog's usual method of eating is to shove his face directly into his plate and snuffle the food into his mouth. Whether this is common dining etiquette for his species, or he's just a slob, is unknown.
* The episode "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing" from Disney Television's ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' has Harry wolfing down drumsticks in a restaurant to the horror of other patrons. Justified, because up until MadScientist Nimnul's device changed him into a human, Harry had been a grey wolf in a zoo. Harry is ecstatic about the quantity and variety of food humans can access.

[[caption-width-right:300:Spoon, darling. Use the damn spoon.\\
It's right there. Use it.]]

* The episode "A Wolf In Cheap Clothing" from Disney Television's ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' has Harry wolfing down drumsticks in a restaurant to the horror of other patrons. Justified, because up until MadScientist Nimnul's device changed him into a human, Harry had been a grey wolf in a zoo. Harry is ecstatic about the quantity and variety of food humans can access.

* Grateful to the ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' for saving Chinatown from MadScientist Thaddeus Dare, the folks lay out a splendid buffet for twelve. BigEater Slam Tasmanian gets one eyeful, and devours the entire setting in one pass. Fighting rock monsters works up an appetite, y'know?