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Basic Trope: An anthropomorphic animal eats a non-anthropomorphic member of the same species.

  • Straight: Ronald Rooster and his family are sitting at a table eating chicken for dinner.
  • Exaggerated: Chicken is Ronald Rooster's Trademark Favorite Food.
  • Downplayed: Ronald Rooster and his family eat turkey on Thanksgiving. While it's not the same species, it's still a little eyebrow-raising.
  • Justified: Ronald Rooster's family is a family of cannibals.
  • Inverted: Lillie routinely eats salad as her Trademark Favorite Food despite being a flower.
  • Subverted: Ronald is a buzzard that dresses as a rooster.
  • Double Subverted: Is any 'rooster' here not a buzzard?
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: ???
  • Enforced: Ronald is the mascot of Kansas Fried Chicken, he represents both the foodstuff and the target demographic.
  • Lampshaded: "Something just feels wrong to me about this dinner, but I can't quite put my feather on it..."
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "Why is Ronald Rooster eating chicken? He is a chicken! What are the animators smoking?!"

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