History Main / TooHungryToBePolite

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* In ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the Beast's eating habits initially disgust Belle, as he's become used to dining alone. Also, having tusks and a muzzle make eating politely a bit more of a challenge.

* A DeletedScene from ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' shows the dwarfs, who've been relatively isolated, sitting down to dinner and loudly slurping their soup in ingenious ways. Snow White teaches them how to use their spoons properly to eat like "gentlemen". They learn quickly... but then keep slurping from their spoons.

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

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

* Ever since becoming a zombie in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13024953/3/The-Undead-Schoolgirl-Dead-Pulse The Undead Schoolgirl: Dead Pulse]]'', Izuku doesn't so much eat as she attacks her food like... well, [[ShapedLikeItself like a ravenous zombie]]. Bakugo figured out through experimentation that she only gets like that around food that's good for brain growth, muscle growth, or blood production; anything else, she eats normally. While funny when she steals Bakugo's Greek yogurt in the time it takes him to blink, others are a bit unsettled when she rips a leg off a pig roast and tears off chunks of meat with her teeth. After finishing the leg, she devours the rest of the pig, several apples and parfaits, and most of a chicken before her hunger is satisfied and she snaps out of it.

* Ever since becoming a zombie in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13024953/3/The-Undead-Schoolgirl-Dead-Pulse The Undead Schoolgirl: Dead Pulse]]'', Izuku doesn't so much eat as she attacks her food like... well, [[ShapedLikeItself like a ravenous zombie]]. Bakugo figured out through experimentation that she only gets like that around food that's good for brain growth, muscle growth, or food production; anything else, she eats normally. While funny when she steals Bakugo's Greek yogurt in the time it takes him to blink, others are a bit unsettled when she rips a leg off a pig roast and tears off chunks of meat with her teeth. After finishing the leg, she devours the rest of the pig, several apples and parfaits, and most of a chicken before her hunger is satisfied and she snaps out of it.

* Ever since becoming a zombie in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13024953/3/The-Undead-Schoolgirl-Dead-Pulse The Undead Schoolgirl: Dead Pulse]]'', Izuku doesn't so much eat as she attacks her food like... well, [[ShapedLikeItself like a ravenous zombie]]. Bakugo figured out through experimentation that she only gets like that around food that's good for brain growth, muscle growth, or food production; anything else, she eats normally. While funny when she steals Bakugo's Greek yogurt in the time it takes him to blink, others are a bit unsettled when she rips a leg off a pig roast and tears off chunks of meat with her teeth.

Sometimes PlayedForLaughs if the work in question is poking fun at the character for their table manners. May be a case of ValuesDissonance, as dining etiquette varies from culture to culture.

May overlap with RaisedByWolves and MyInstinctsAreShowing. May also overlap with BigEater, but this trope does not necessarily require that the character eat a lot. May be a trait of one with OneTrackMindedHunger. Compare JabbaTableManners, which is similar to this trope, but uses bad table manners to demonstrate that a (usually rich and villainous) character is overly gluttonous. This trope involves less moral judgment. Also compare BuzzsawJaw, TooDesperateToBePicky, and BrattyFoodDemand.

May overlap with RaisedByWolves and MyInstinctsAreShowing. May also overlap with BigEater, but this trope does not necessarily require that the character eat a lot. May be a trait of one with OneTrackMindedHunger. Compare JabbaTableManners, which is similar to this trope, but uses bad table manners to demonstrate that a (usually rich and villainous) character is overly gluttonous. This trope involves less moral judgment. Also compare TooDesperateToBePicky and BrattyFoodDemand.

May overlap with RaisedByWolves and MyInstinctsAreShowing. May also overlap with BigEater, but this trope does not necessarily require that the character eat a lot. May be a trait of one with OneTrackMindedHunger. Compare JabbaTableManners, which is similar to this trope, but uses bad table manners to demonstrate that a (usually rich and villainous) character is overly gluttonous. This trope involves less moral judgment. Also compare TooDesperateToBePicky.

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

May overlap with RaisedByWolves and MyInstinctsAreShowing. May also overlap with BigEater, but this trope does not necessarily require that the character eat a lot. Compare JabbaTableManners, which is similar to this trope, but uses bad table manners to demonstrate that a (usually rich and villainous) character is overly gluttonous. This trope involves less moral judgment. Also compare to TooDesperateToBePicky.

May overlap with RaisedByWolves and MyInstinctsAreShowing. May also overlap with BigEater, but this trope does not necessarily require that the character eat a lot. Compare JabbaTableManners, which is similar to this trope, but uses bad table manners to demonstrate that a (usually rich and villainous) character is overly gluttonous. This trope involves less moral judgment.

* [[spoiler: Izutsumi]] of ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' has abysmal table manners, getting food all over her face and stabbing at it with both chopsticks held in one hand. [[spoiler: It's been hinted she's probably not had an easy life before joining up with Team Thorden, only happened by being turned into a beastkin.]]

* In the first episode of ''Series/StrangerThings'', Eleven escapes from a lab. After finding her way into a restaurant, she steals some fries and stuffs them into her mouth. When the owner takes pity on her and offers her some food on the house, she continues to gobble it down.

* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'' features Shrek's confusion with proper dining when having dinner with Donkey, Fiona and her parents, such as drinking water meant for washing hands and belching at the table. While this is a sign of his grungy upbringing, it escalates into a sign of anger when both he and King Harold start ripping apart the food [[PunctuatedPounding in tune to their insults at one another]].

* In ''Film/{{Splash}}'', Allen takes Madison to a seafood restaurant and orders a lobster. Madison, being a mermaid, picks the whole thing up and bites into the carapace with a loud crunch, thereafter pulling it apart and eating it with her fingers. Allen excuses her unorthodox approach by saying she's really hungry.

* In the first book of ''Literature/The Hunger Games'', Effie mentions that the tributes before Katniss and Peeta ate "like a couple of savages". Katniss, knowing that the last tributes were kids from the Seam who'd never had enough to eat, makes a point of eating the rest of her meal with her fingers and wiping her hands of the tablecloth afterwards.