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* An ongoing [[Running Gag]] in ''[[NyarkoNyaruko: SanCrawling with Love]]''. Nyarko keeps using alien ingredients on everything she cooks, be it shantak bird eggs, black goat of the woods (a.k.a. Shub-Niggurath) meat or her famous "BLT" sandwich {{spoiler|(Byakhee-Lloigor-Tsathoggua)}}. And then there's the hot dog from episode 4 - "dog" here meaning "Hound of Tindalos".

{{quote|Then it was revealed that humans froze liquids. No big news there. The concept that electrified the Gallimaufry was that Humans stuck a handle into the frozen liquid and ''ate'' it! ''Still frozen!''}}

** In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', Granny Weatherwax, complaining about foreign names for food, mentions the meal they had yesterday was nice "but they called it Cwuissses dee Grenolly, and who knows what ''that'' means?" Nanny Ogg gives the translation (frogs' legs) without thinking, then hastily adds that it's a joke name, like [[wikipedia:Toad-in-the-hole|toad-in-the-hole]].

** Discworld also had an inversion in ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]''. A group of dwarves find out that their 'rat pies' are made of chicken, and complain to the watch about unsafe food.

** Subverted in ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'' when Vimes is offered an ''eyeball'' to eat by desert tribesmen. He correctly guesses this is a trick that they play on all their guests and refuses to eat it.

*** When visiting [[Überwald]] Vimes is given some very strange sausages, and asks why they're all pink and where the grey and white and green bits are. He's informed that Uberwald would ''hang'' anyone who tried to sell an Ankh-Morpork sausage, and that there all sausages must be made of named meat. And that this doesn't include being named "Spot" or "Ginger".

** Rincewind consistently finds himself dealngdealing with this trope. In [[The Colour of Magic|the first [[Discworld]] book]], he gets to drink wine made from "sea grapes" - which are tiny jellyfish. His resultant throwing up bemuses his host. He also comments that the pressed-seaweed biscuits "certainly taste like seaweed would taste if anyone was masochistic enough to eat seaweed."

*** In [[The Last Continent|his trip to XXXX]] he eats various (poisonous) grubs, beer-soup (vegemite), a meat pie in pea soup, the same again but ''gourmet'', and jam sandwiches found in the desert after finding a talking kangaroo.

*** He also drinks funnelweb beer. That's not the name of the beer, it's the <s></s> only thing on a list of ingredients. The funnelweb spider is one of the most dangerous spiders in the world.

== Live -Action TV ==

* In one episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'', everyone loves the cookies Grim's aunt makes, which sold enough to win them the award for their scout troop. When accepting the award, Grim's aunt tells them the recipe has nightcrawlers, mashed crickets, and dung beetles in it. Everyone pauses for a couple seconds to look at the still squirming bugs in the treats...before they all just continue eating. One of them passes out to spring up a second later and say:

* Bird Person from ''[[Rick and Morty]]'' is one of a race of, well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin| alien bird-people.]] Their diet seems to favor their bird side; they even have worm-farms.