Basic Trope: A character enjoys food combinations that are unusual.
- Straight: Alice's Trademark Favorite Food is a sandwich with meatloaf, peanut butter, honey mustard, ice cream, and pickles on it.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice likes to eat things that aren't even food.
- Alice will only eat unusual combinations of food.
- Downplayed:
- Alice likes cheeseburgers with barbecue sauce, grilled onions, and grilled pineapple on them. While grilled pineapple is a fairly unusual topping for cheeseburgers, some restaurants do serve these.
- Alice thinks that meatloaf-peanut butter-honey mustard-ice cream-pickle sandwiches are pretty enjoyable, but they're not her favorite.
- Justified:
- Alice likes to try new things.
- The combination of food actually tastes quite good, despite what some may think.
- Alice is pregnant and is having Wacky Cravings, or remembers having this combination of food and enjoying it during her pregnancy.
- Alice is a Big Eater anyway.
- Alice isn't human, and eats things that seem weird to humans, but are normal to her species.
- It's considered normal food in her culture.
- It's an acquired taste from having had to survive on a non-existent budget for so long.
- Inverted: Alice refuses to eat any combination of food whatsoever.
- Subverted:
- Alice is mentioned to like unusual sandwiches, but when someone makes her one with the ingredients she likes, she doesn't want to eat it.
- It's believed that this is why Alice enjoys weird food, but it's only because she was pregnant and was having Wacky Cravings.
- Double Subverted:
- She only didn't want to eat it because the ingredients were wrong.
- Alternatively, she just wasn't hungry at that moment.
- When Alice is no longer pregnant, she's later seen eating a pizza that contains kiwi, beef jerky, watermelon, anchovies, and shredded cheese.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody eats unusual food.
- Enforced: Can be a gross-out gag.
- Lampshaded: "Alice, how can you eat all those things together? Are your taste buds dead?"
- Invoked: Alice decides to make a sandwich out of whatever she has in her kitchen.
- Exploited: Alice is famous, and restaurants start serving "Alice-Style" sandwiches.note
- Defied: Alice decides not to order weird food.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Wow, this character likes weird food."
- Played for Laughs: Alice starts to make a sandwich as the ingredients she uses become more and more absurd.
That's what you're getting? You sure have a Bizarre Taste in Food.
