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*** Bitches, moans, and in general makes a whiny nuisance of himself over how hungry he is when the squirrels decide that since it was his bright idea to give three loaves to the owl, he can be one of the three poor schmucks who goes hungry until they can make more.
*** And finally, gorges himself on unripe apples, forcing the squirrels to give him a dose of their own brand of "fizzik" before they can move on.
* Examples from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
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** In the book, though, it is Gimli who inadvertently eats a day's worth of ''lembas'', having mistaken it for the much less appealing ''cram'' (human-made waybread with excellent keeping qualities and the flavour and texture of cheap cardboard) and reacting with delight on finding that it's tastier than the best honey-cakes he knows of.▼
** It's stated in ''[[The Hobbit]]'' that many of the dwarves have the same preference for meals as hobbits (many and often). Bombur was overweight all his life, and by the time of ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', he's so obese that he needs six young dwarves simply to move him. Gandalf was a Big Eater too, on occasion. In one scene in ''The Hobbit'' (where Bilbo and the dwarves are guests in Beorn's hall) he eats four whole loaves, each covered with butter, honey, and clotted cream, in one sitting. Justified, seeing as he had been out all day scouting the area on foot.
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* From the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series of novels, we have Croyd "The Sleeper" Crenson, who can sleep for as little as a night or as much as several weeks/months. Upon waking, he is always a [[Big Eater]], to the point that there's a jingle about it, and people recognize him by his eating habits.
* ''[[Tales of MU]]'' has the burrow gnomes with eating habits inspired by the above-mentioned Hobbits, as well as Mariel the sylph who eats as much as four people in order to keep her hyper metabolism up.
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* Joel Duffle in Damon Runyan's short story ''A Piece of Pie'', a competitive eater who consumes a huge amount of food during the story, but "does not look as if he can eat his way out of a tea shoppe".
* The title character of the children's picture book ''The Very Hungry Caterpillar'' stuffs himself by eating through various foods<ref>1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges, 1 piece of chocolate cake, 1 ice cream cone, 1 pickle, 1 slice of Swiss cheese, 1 piece of salami, 1 piece of cherry pie, 1 sausage, 1 cupcake, and 1 slice of watermelon</ref> for six days, giving himself a stomach ache. After eating a green leaf, he feels better, then pupates and emerges as a butterfly.
* In ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'', centaurs are an entire race of Big Eaters. They had two stomachs, one of a horse and one of a man, so they had to fill both of these stomachs, and ate heartily for both. Their breakfast might include porridge, pavendors, kidneys, bacon, an omeleyte, cold ham, toast, marmalade, coffee and beer. They then would graze for an hour before eating hot mash, some oats and a bag of sugar.
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