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[[File:GiantFood_3486.jpg|link=Honey I Shrunk the Kids ~~(Film)~~|frame|This must be what heaven is like.]]

[[File:GiantFood_3486.jpg|link=Honey, I Shrunk the Kids|frame|This must be what heaven is like.]]

A staple of kids' media. A fantasy of either becoming small or being in a land of giants, and coming across a table full of food. Appeals to the greedy kid in us all.

The archetype would be [[Jack and ~~The~~ Beanstalk]].

The archetype would be [[Jack and the Beanstalk]].

Not to be confused with [[wikipedia:Giant-Carlisle|the US mid-Atlantic regional supermarket chain]] or [[wikipedia:Giant-Landover|the other US mid-Atlantic regional supermarket chain]] [[hottip:*:[[Mind Screw|Just to confuse things more, both of 'em are owned by the same company, a Dutch grocery specialist called Ahold.]]

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== Fairy Tales ==

* Briefly shown in ''[[Give Me Liberty]]'' in a television commercial for Behemoth supermarkets.

* ''[[Jack and ~~The~~ Beanstalk]]'', of course. Possibly the Ur-example.

* ''[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]'', of course. Possibly the Ur-example.

== Film ==

* ''[[Cloudy ~~With~~ a Chance of Meatballs]]''

* ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]''

* The protagonist of ''[[Ella Enchanted]]'' encounters this when she travels to the land of giants.

* ''[[James and ~~The~~ Giant Peach]]''

* ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]''

* ''[[Charlie and ~~The~~ Chocolate Factory]]'' has a lake of chocolate, and a giant chocolate bar.

* ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' has a lake of chocolate, and a giant chocolate bar.

* ''[[Sleeper (~~Film~~)|Sleeper]]''. Woody Allen's fugitive character comes across a futuristic farm where giant vegetables are grown. He ends up stealing a giant banana and stalk of celery for dinner.

* ''[[Sleeper (film)|Sleeper]]''. Woody Allen's fugitive character comes across a futuristic farm where giant vegetables are grown. He ends up stealing a giant banana and stalk of celery for dinner.

* The Oatmeal Cream Pie scene from ''[[Honey ~~I Shrunk the Kids (Film)|Honey~~ I Shrunk the Kids]]'' comes to mind.

* The Oatmeal Cream Pie scene from ''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]'' comes to mind.

* Seen in ''[[Half Baked]]'' when the protagonists (as kids, in a [[Flash Back]]) try weed for the first time and wander around their local grocer.

* In a throwaway gag in ''[[~~Real Genius (Film)|~~Real Genius]]'', another student offers Mitch a cherry the size of a baseball. "I grow them myself."

* In a throwaway gag in ''[[Real Genius]]'', another student offers Mitch a cherry the size of a baseball. "I grow them myself."

* In ''[[Film/Antz|Antz]]'', Z and Bala think they've found Insectopia when they see a bunch of this (it's actually a human picnic).

== Literature ==

* ''[[James and ~~The~~ Giant Peach]]''

* ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]''

* In the ''[[Mr. Men]]'' book "Mr. Greedy", the eponymous character finds a giant's breakfast, where all the food is as big as he is.

* In ''The Indian in the Cupboard'' the title character, transported through time and shrunk to the size of a plastic toy, is initially skeptical that the normal-sized food is even real.

* Deconstructed in ''[[~~Gullivers~~ Travels]]'', where Gulliver finds that Brobdingnagian insects leave [[Squick|slimy trails, feces and spawn]] on his giant food that make eating difficult.

* Deconstructed in ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', where Gulliver finds that Brobdingnagian insects leave [[Squick|slimy trails, feces and spawn]] on his giant food that make eating difficult.

== Live Action TV ==

* In ''[[~~Community (TV)|~~Community]]'' episode [[Community ~~(TV)~~/Recap/S1 E25 Pascals Triangle Revisited|Pascal's Triangle Revisited]] Troy finds a giant cookie that turns out to be a metaphor for his and Abed's relationship.

* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1 E25 Pascals Triangle Revisited|Pascal's Triangle Revisited]] Troy finds a giant cookie that turns out to be a metaphor for his and Abed's relationship.

{{quote| '''Jeff:''' What’s wrong with you?<br />

'''Troy:''' I’m sick. I don’t know why. [takes another bite of cookie]<br />

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== Western Animation ==

* The [[Mickey Mouse]] version of ''[[Jack and ~~The~~ Beanstalk]]''

* The [[Mickey Mouse]] version of ''[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]''

* On ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer tried to grow giant (and possibly super-intelligent) vegetables with plutonium rods from the power plant.

* In at least three ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts ("Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk", "Beanstalk Bunny" and "Lumber Jack Rabbit"), Bugs Bunny finds himself in a giant's carrot patch.

* Appears occasionally on ''[[Chowder]]''. One example is a loaf of bread big enough to be used as a circus tent.

* It's also done on ''[[Dastardly and Muttley In Their Flying Machines]]'', in the ''Magnificent Muttley'' short "What's New, Old Bean?", in which Muttley imagines himself as Jack and Dick Dastardly as the giant.

* It's also done on ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]'', in the ''Magnificent Muttley'' short "What's New, Old Bean?", in which Muttley imagines himself as Jack and Dick Dastardly as the giant.

* The [[Trademark Favorite Food]] for [[Ed, Edd n Eddy]] are jawbreakers the size of bowling balls.

* The [[Trademark Favorite Food]] for [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]] are jawbreakers the size of bowling balls.

* On ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'', when they visited Japan, they landed on a giant bowl of ramen.

* In the ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode "Brain Acres", Brain grows giant vegetables as part of his plot to take over the world.

* When Mr Turner decides to become a farmer on ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'', his inability to keep crops alive (he will kill them by just a single touch, so powerful it even generates a gravestone for the victim afterwards - and it's not only living objects, it goes for inanimate objects too) Timmy wishes for super seeds. Of course the super seeds grows giant crops, which are also indestructible.

* An episode of ''[[~~Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|~~Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' involved a contest to win a cheeseburger roughly the size of a small house-- by remaining in physical contact with it longer than any of the other contestants.

* An episode of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' involved a contest to win a cheeseburger roughly the size of a small house-- by remaining in physical contact with it longer than any of the other contestants.