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Basic Trope: An alien or foreigner new to a particular locale will pick out one food they like better then any other.

  • Straight: Green-Skinned Space Babe Lurlina is enjoys blackberries more then any other Earth foodstuff.
  • Exaggerated: The taste of a single blackberry causes Lurlina to have an earth-shattering orgasm.
  • Downplayed: Lurlina is often seen eating blackberries, but she never calls them out as her favorite food.
  • Justified:
    • Blackberries are like an addictive drug to Lurlina's species.
    • She finds them really, really tasty.
    • Blackberries actually come from Lurlina's planet, but were planted on Earth. They're the only Earth food she can eat.
  • Inverted: Blackberries are Lurlina's least favorite food, or are poisonous to her species.
  • Subverted: Lurlina eats a blackberry, but she spits it out, disgusted.
  • Double Subverted: Because that particular berry was rotten, she eats a fresh one and thoroughly enjoys it.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Lurlina doesn't have a favorite food. Alternatively, she never eats.
  • Enforced: Lurlina's favorite food is the new Starbucks Hazelnut Macchiatto! Try one today!
  • Lampshaded: "There's more foods to try on Earth than just blackberries, you know."
  • Invoked: Bob makes friends with an alien, X'arth, so his first order of business is to show X'arth the kitchen and offer him every snack food in the house so he can pick a favorite.
  • Exploited: Lurlina's human friends go so far as to not tell her where humans get blackberries, so they can bribe her with them.
  • Defied: Lurlina does really like blackberries... but she doesn't want to be seen as just an amusing, quirky alien, so she doesn't allow herself to eat them more often than anyone else does.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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