Basic Trope: Edible animals or talking food want to be eaten.
- Straight: Alice and Bob find a talking pig and some talking cakes that are saying "Eat me, eat me!"
- Exaggerated:
- Everything edible does this.
- Alice and Bob actually eat the food.
- Downplayed:
- The talking pig or Anthropomorphic Food say that they don't mind if Alice and Bob eat them.
- A talking tree is quite insistent that Alice and Bob at least try some of its fruit.
- Justified:
- The pig and the talking cakes are Death Seekers.
- The talking fruit wants to be eaten so they can spit out the seeds on the ground and make more trees.
- They're genetically engineered lifeforms that were designed to want to be eaten, as anything else is unethical.
- Inverted:
- Alice tells the food and the pig to "go get eaten".
- The food and the pig tell Alice and Bob to be eaten by them.
- Bob asks the pig and the food to eat him.
- The pig and the cakes tell Alice and Bob to eat chicken.
- The pig and the cakes tell Alice and Bob not to eat them.
- The food and the pig tell Alice and Bob to not be eaten by them.
- Subverted: It turns out that Alice and Bob were suffering from Meat-O-Vision, and the pig and cakes were actually their friends Charles, Danny, and Evangeline.
- Double Subverted: Charles is anthromorphic, and Danny and Evangeline are Anthropomorphic Foods.
- Parodied:
- Alice and Bob eat the food. They hear the words "Thank you" uttered from their bellies.
- A piece of fruit points out that eating it will spread its seed. It goes on to have a downright orgasmic reaction to being eaten.
- Zig Zagged: Some Talking Animals and Anthropomorphic Food want to be eaten, some don't.
- Averted:
- No animals or food talk to Alice and Bob.
- None of the talking food/animals want to be eaten.
- Enforced: By drawing the connection between meat and the living animal it comes from, the author is hoping to make people vegetarian.
- Lampshaded:
- "You WANT me to EAT you??!!"
- "Apparently this dimension is full of Anthropomorphic Food and talking pigs that want to be eaten. How could you want to be eaten??!"
- Seeing as they want to be eaten, Bob eats one as he is hungry, so he says "It worked out for both of us!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz poisons some cakes and brings them to life, with the aim of killing Bob, who has proven not to mind eating talking food.
- Defied: "Why the hell would I want to be eaten?!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "It gives me the creeps when characters like edible animals and food want you to eat them, like in ads and cartoons."
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