History Main / YouWontLikeHowITaste

-->'''Baby Penguin''', ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''

->''"Please don't eat me! I'm nothing but skin and bones;\\
I won't make a good meal, and you won't like the way I taste!"''

* ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield in the Rough]]'' has Garfield plead to not be eaten when he encounters Billy Rabbit and thinks that a predator is approaching. One of the things he says in hopes that it will convince the assumed predator to spare him is that he is high in cholesterol.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', Alex tries it on a giant squid, adding "Once, a mosquito bit me and it was sick for, like, two weeks afterward!"

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/Amphibia'', Sprig gets [[CaughtInASnare trapped]] by the protagonist and tells her he tastes terrible as she approaches.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 DS'', Tuxie the baby penguin begs Yoshi not to eat her because she tastes terrible and will give him cavities. Yoshi promptly spits her back out.

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* ''Literature/TheSilverChair'': The main characters are eating a tender haunch of venison and overhear a conversation that the stag claimed to be too old and tough to eat. Jill feels bad for the stag but Eustace and Puddleglum, who have more experience in Narnia, are horrified and view it as akin to cannibalism.

* ''Literature/TheSilverChair'': The main characters are eating venison and overhear a conversation that the stag claimed to be too old and tough to eat. Jill feels bad for the stag but Eustace and Puddleglum, who have more experience in Narnia, are horrified and view it as akin to cannibalism.

* A sketch from the Marty Feldman episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has Kermit, as Sinbad the Sailor, telling Sweetums that frogs taste terrible "even with lots of ketchup." To back it up, he asks his crew, "Have I ever been accused of good taste?"

* Discussed in ''Manga/GoldenWind'' by Guido Mista. He brings up to his teammates how humans normally don't eat meat from carnivores because it taste bad. By that [[InsaneTrollLogic logic]], humans would taste terrible because they eat meat.
* In episode 9 of ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'', when Maria enters the club room, she bumps into Yozora, who's wearing a horse head mask. She freaks out when she sees it, then Yozora jokingly says she's going to eat the girl. Maria claims she won't taste good and has been eating vegetables, but Yozora says she doesn't mind, and says she's a vegetarian.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Ape is Enough", a giant ape becomes smitten with Johnny. Fearing that she is going to eat him (especially since she just ate Carl), Johnny pleads that he is high in cholesterol in hopes that this will deter the giant ape from eating him.

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* Subverted in ''{{Film/Garfield}}: The Movie''. When Garfield gets cornered by rats when searching for Odie, he says that he'd be too fatty for the rats to eat. But they say that fat's fine with them, and they almost get him before Garfield's mouse friend Louis comes to save him.
* ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney''. Dwarfs try to sway troll from eating them by claiming that they have such things as "Parasites as big as me arm!"

* In ''Film/WeBoughtAZoo'', the volatile and often-drunk [[ViolentGlaswegian Peter MacCready]] found himself confronted by a lion as he was trying to fix the lock on the animal's cage (from the inside). He reacted by bellowing at the beast: "You doon't want me! I am filled with Scotch and bitterness and impure thoughts!" The lion reacted to this by licking its lips...

* This is a common response in ''VideoGame/YsIIAncientYsVanishedTheFinalChapter'' when Adol [[BalefulPolymorph turns into a monster]]. (Ironic, since the monsters in question are harmless kangaroo-like creatures.)

* In episode 9 of ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'', when Maria enters the club room, she bumps into Yozora, who's wearing a horse head mask. She freaks out when she sees it, then Yozora jokingly says she's going to eat the girl. Maria claims she won't taste good and has been eating vegetables, but Yozora says she doesn't mind, and says she's a vegetarian.

* ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'': A variant in the backstory when Elias muses that he thinks he's probably eaten people before. Lindel jokingly replies "Well, I probably taste delicious, but please don't eat me!"

* In ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', a mutant tries to dissuade [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Durham Red]] from sucking his blood by saying that he's anemic and, therefore, unappetizing.

* Aesop had a story about a dog who was caught by a wolf and about to be eaten. The dog tells the wolf that while he was too skinny at the moment and wouldn't taste good, in a few days his master would hold a feast and give him all the scraps, and the wolf could then eat him while he was nice and fat. The wolf agreed. When he came back a few days later, he found the dog sitting on the roof of his master's house. The wolf said, "Come down, my friend, don't you remember our agreement?" The dog said, "My friend, if you ever catch me on the ground again, don't wait for any feast."

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', when the hyenas complain to Scar about the lack of food, Scar just tells them to eat Zazu. Zazu gets terrified and tells the hyenas that he'd be too gamey for them to chew.

* [[ThoseTwoGuys Rutt and Tuke]] try doing this in ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'' when they think Kenai (whom they meet for the first time) was going to eat them. But after a mild insult from one moose to the other, they end up insulting each other until the insult "BIG NOSE!" comes in.

* In ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', the centipede says this to the huge cloud man, adding that it's no good eating him: he is full of bones like a kipper.

* Inverted in the episode "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E09IWasATeenageWerewolf I Was a Teenage Werewolf]]" on ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'', where they have the soon-to-be-first-victim saying "I'm probably very tasty and well-marbled. Not something I've often thought about..."

* "Tastes Bad to Monsters" is actually a beneficial status in one tabletop game.
* TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse has the Merit "Bad Taste", which puts any werewolf or other monster who bites you at some disadvantage due to nausea. Unfortunately, it also means that dogs, wolves and other werewolves won't lick your face or hands, which is a problem socially.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 DS'', Tuxie the baby penguin begs Yoshi not to eat her because she tastes terrible and will give him cavities. Yoshi promptly spits her back out.

* ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'': In one of the potential confrontations against Gourmet Ogre, he threatens to eat the Hero Prinny, who responds that they taste terrible and are loaded with trans-fatty acids. Sadly, Gourmet Ogre proves to be an ExtremeOmnivore, causing a fight to ensue.

* In ''Webcomic/TheBirdFeeder'' [[http://thebirdfeeder.com/comic/98 #98]], "Thanksgiving," having heard that humans eat birds on Thanksgiving, Darryl wears a bag over himself that says "DO NOT EAT."
* In a ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'' parody of the classic Dungeons and Dragons module ''Queen of the Demonweb Pits'', once the heroes find themselves in the Abyss, Nodwick pulls out a translation guide and reads "Please don't eat me. I am only a henchman. I have low nutritional value. I taste like road tar."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', Alex tries it on a giant squid, adding "Once, a mosquito bit me and it was sick for, like, two weeks afterward!"
* Ami, to a Sasquatch in ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'': "I'm not part of your balanced diet! I'm not kosher!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'', Wendel says it to Taz. Taz tries to eat him anyway and discovers that [[SubvertedTrope Wendel was telling the truth]].
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''. T.J. is captured by the kindergarteners, and then Captain Sticky goes up to him and says, "[[YouNoTakeCandle You Food!]]". T.J.'s response (While trying to "communicate" with them by speaking like them), "Me? Food? No! Me taste bad! Yucky poo-poo!". It turned out they wanted to ''give'' him food.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon, Foghorn Leghorn tries to convince Henry Hawk not to eat him because he's nothing gristle.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010'' ("Homeward Pound"), Squirt pleads with a bear who caught him after falling down a waterfall by claiming he's "stringy" and "chock full of preservatives".

* Garrett attempts this on a ghost that wanted to eat him in ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''. He uses the above "Nothing but skin and bones line". Unfortunately for him, skin and bones are the creature's favorite part.

* In ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' there is Pizza Steve, an anthropomorphic pizza slice. In some episodes, other characters wants (or even try to) eat him, when himself don't want to be eaten.

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' "Mudder's Day", the hero's are caught by the titanic Al Muddy Sultan, who plans to cook them. Aladdin tries to stall for time by telling him his stew is "inferior", and mentions a rare spice fit for a king that grows on the surface. The sultan is intrigued, but suspicious (as he should be) and tells Aladdin to get it ''alone''. ("They didn't make me Sultan ''only'' because I was the ''biggest''," he claims) requiring a change of plan on Aladdin's part.
* ''WesternAnimation/GummiBears'': When captured by the spider-like Spinster, Grammi comments that she's preparing the stew wrong, noting her expertise as a chef. (Gruffi almost blows the plan my noting to himself what [[LethalChef how it actually is]]) and then gives her a few suggestions that she claims will help it. Like the ''Aladdin'' case, the Spinster is intrigued, but ''not'' stupid, and walls the place off with more webbing before leaving.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Wormy", Patrick sets himself up as live bait to trap a "monster" (actually Sandy's pet caterpillar, Wormy, metamorphosed into a butterfly). As the butterfly lands on his water helmet, he fearfully pleads "I don't really taste that good, Mr. Monster."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' episode "Garfield Gets Canned", Garfield and Odie are tasked with looking after a ferret named Mrs. Ferret, who ends up eating all the food in the house except for a can of cat food that Garfield spends most of the episode trying to open. At one point, Garfield and Odie consider cooking and eating Mrs. Ferret, who tries to discourage them from eating her by claiming she tastes like asparagus. When that doesn't work, she then claims to taste like tofu, which is also ineffective as a deterrent.

* In ''Literature/TheSilverChair'', a Talking Stag tries this and fails to avoid being eaten by [[spoiler:giants]]. The protagonists overhear them talking about the incident later, which results in an [[spoiler:AlienLunch moment of horror when they realize ''they are eating the Stag.'']]

* A sketch on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has Kermit, as Sindbad the Sailor, telling Sweetums that frogs taste terrible "even with lots of ketchup." To back it up, he asks his crew, "Have I ever been accused of good taste?"