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* ''[[The Gold Rush]]'': Charlie Chaplin and Big Jim, the man he's rooming with at an isolated cabin, are so starved that they start eating one of Chaplin's shoes. It seems to taste to him very well by the way.
** Fun fact: The shoe was made out of licorice.
* German film director [[Werner Herzog (Creator)|Werner Herzog]] literally ate one of his shoes because he lost a bet. He swore that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film ''[[Gates Of Heaven]]''. When Morris did Herzorg took the opportunity to let film director Les Blank film his activity, which was named [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" (1980).
* In [[Jan Svankmajer]]'s short film "Shoes" two customers wait in vain until a waiter comes to take their order. They start eating everything in sight, including their shoes.
* ''[[Pet Alien]]'': Gumper eats everything, including shoes.
* Tom is shipwrecked in the [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]] cartoon "His Mouse Friday" and starts eating his shoes and shoelaces.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', protagonist Edward Elric, at one point, boils a leather shoe for Prince Ling Yao to eat: "When I become the Emperor of Xing, I will have you recorded in the history books as 'the man who fed a shoe to the Emperor.'"
 
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