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Differs from [[Foreign Queasine]], [[Reduced to Ratburgers]], and [[Alien Lunch]] in that the stuff eaten wasn't supposed to be eaten by ''anyone'', even in desperation. Bob drinking Rigelian bloodwine ("a delicacy on my planet!") is [[Alien Lunch|not this trope]], but Bob drinking Rigelian rocket fuel ''is''.
One of [[The Oldest Tricks in The Book]]. A very popular trope is [[Eating Shoes]].
Compare [[Eat That]], [[Secret Ingredient]]. Contrast with [[Gargle Blaster]], [[Masochist's Meal]], and [[Fire-Breathing Diner]]. Also see [[Lethal Chef]] and [[Evil Chef]], two people who may be involved with this trope. [[Cool, Clear Water]] might be subverted for the drink-based version of this trope.
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== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[American Born Chinese]]'', the caricature Chin-Kee urinates into someone's can of Coca-Cola as part of a prank. When the character later discovers this, he [[Vomit Discretion Shot|throws up]].
** There is a [http://www.chinesejokes.net/jokes.php?action=read&joke=1339 (horribly racist) joke] along those same lines.
** Chin-Kee is supposed to be a horribly ugly caricature of every negative Asian stereotype ever. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
* In ''[[Blue Monday]]'', one of the events in an escalating prank war involved the boys sneaking pubic hair into the girls food. When the girls find out, two of them shriek and fling their burgers away in disgust, but the third one doesn't mind the taste.
** I think the implication was that only the first two got pubes, not the third one. Could be wrong, though.
* And, of course, there's ''[[Chew]]'', whose protagonist psychically knows the entire past of everything he eats (except beets). He ends up using his powers to [[Pun|take a bite out of crime]] as all he has to do is eat a piece of, say, a murder victim to know exactly what happened to him. Expect plenty of [[Squick]].
** He first discovers his powers when checking out a lead on [[It Makes Sense in Context|a place illegally serving chicken soup]]. It turns out to be [[I'm a Humanitarian|something else entirely]].
* [[Rat-Man]] author Leo Ortolani once made a spoof of the new [[Star Wars]] trilogy. The character Dark Mouse, a parody of Darth Maul, was asked by his master (an expy of Emperor Palpatine) about what evil deeds he did that day, and he answered: "Did you think it was beer in that glass I gave you before?". Some time later, the master replied: "Did you think the cake you ate before was a chocolate one?".
* In a story from the [[Archie|Little Archie]] comic, one of Little Dilton's inventions receives an alien cooking show. Little Jughead makes up a batch of cookies, following a recipe from the show. People love them until they find out what is in them. Among the ingredients are {{spoiler|wood chips}}.
* In an issue of ''[[Secret Six]]'', Cheshire and Dr. Psycho dined with [[Vandal Savage]] after failing him. During the meal, Cheshire suspiciously asks what the food was. The answer: {{spoiler|Solomon Grundy}}. Cheshire throws up, while Psycho asks for more, and Vandal Savage delivers the immortal line:
{{quote|Shut up and eat your {{spoiler|Grundy}}.}}
* ''[[Hellblazer]]'' had a story where [[Satan|the First of the Fallen]] showed up to collect the soul of Constantine's friend Brendan, a consummate drinker and magician. One of his last tricks was performing a working that would turn a spring under his house into pure stout, and John claims to want to "upstage" Brendan by sharing a drink with the prince of darkness. It's only once the stout goes down that John reveals the spring was blessed by a saint, making the base of the stout holy water. The First's reaction: "Interesting -- what?" [[Holy Burns Evil|And then John cuts off the spell, turning the stout back into holy water.]]
* In ''[[Persepolis]]'', for a while, the author has to wait tables in Austria. When one of the guests molests her, the cook sneakily avenges her by spitting on his schnitzel.
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* In [[Jan Svankmajer]]'s short film "Shoes" the characters eat several unusual things: knives, flowers, clothes, tables, napkins, chairs, body parts,...
* A [[Running Gag]] of [[The Three Stooges]] involved various characters, usually the supporting cast, to drink what they assume to be coffee but what is really brown paint.
* In ''[[National Lampoon's Vacation]]'', during a rest stop, the family is eating lunch in a park. However they realize the food smells rather funky and is soggy. Its then that Ellen realizes that Aunt Edna's dog has wet on the basket. Clark, who was busy ogling a girl he had seen on the highway and had taken a bite of a sandwich, promptly spits it out. Edna on the other hand, shrugs and continues eating her sandwich.
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** In "The One With the Racecar Bed", Rachel admits to adding body fluids to the drinks she serves to people who don't tip her sufficiently.
* Occurs at times on the nature show ''[[Man vs. Wild]]''. One notable example was when Bear drank water squeezed out of a pile of elephant dung.
* On the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1
** Averted in the "Doublemeat Palace" episode, where everything was pointing to the fast-food hamburgers being made of {{spoiler|people}}, but turned out to be merely beef, chicken, and vegetable matter.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crFVwx_lae8 This hilarious moment] from the [[Game Show]] ''[[To Tell the Truth]]'' fits the letter of the law, if not the spirit. (Mentioning the more proper Trope would spoil it for you, the viewer.)
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* In an episode of ''[[The Closer]]'', Charlie makes "special brownies" ({{spoiler|laced with marijuana a friend of hers gave her}}) which Brenda proceeds to eat. She gets {{spoiler|'''very''' stoned}}. Fritz is not amused, [[Berserk Button|to say the least]], when he finds out.
* Similar to the ''Honeymooners'' example, an episode of ''[[Three's Company]]'' had Mr. Roper eat some dog food he mistook for a stew Jack had whipped up. He reported it was much better than his wife's cooking and asked Jack to give her the recipe.
* In ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'', Ziggy starts eating the pink goop Gem and Gemma cook up before being told it's plastic explosives.
* In ''[[Yes, Dear]]'', Jimmy starts eats a bite of homemade play-dough. After finding out what it is, he asks if it could hurt him, and when told it couldn't, continues eating. Another time he tastes 'yogurt' that is actually Apricot Face Scrub. This time, he doesn't bother to ask if it's safe before he continues eating.
* An episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' has Dorothy eating some snacks Rose left behind while the latter was taking care of a live chicken. Then the following dialogue happens:
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* ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'': In "The Night of the Stag", Barnaby drinks half a pint of cider from a barrel that has a dead body floating in it. It causes him to throw up even before the body is discovered.
* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' - George served scrambled eggs secretly laced with lobster to Jerry's girlfriend, revealing it after she ate...many people would love this combination (she did until she knew what it was), but she followed a kosher diet. This was his revenge for her telling his girlfriend about his "shrinkage".
* ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' recently featured this trope twice in the same episode. A flashback to the 1950s involved vampire {{spoiler|Cutler}}, who had been recently turned by {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster|Hal]]}}, and was still reluctant to kill, being ordered to kill his human wife. He refuses. Later we see the two vampires meet up again in a pub with a few other vampires, and his sire assures him that it's fine if he doesn't kill, as the group needs him instead for his {{spoiler|[[Amoral Attorney|position as a lawyer]]}} and pours him a glass of blood. He starts to drink it, while all the other vampires begin to laugh. Confused, he allows his sire to lead him down to a cellar, and [[Despair Event Horizon|is horrified to see his dead wife lying on a table, with a tube from her neck leading into a jar of blood.]] In modern times, [[Magnificent Bastard|the same vampire]] is [["Well Done, Son" Guy|trying to persuade]] [[The Atoner|his sire]] to take part in his evil plans for world domination, and persuades him to have his first blood in over {{spoiler|fifty five}} years, by offering him a glass. The sire is then [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|dragged downstairs to the basement]], and it is revealed to be the blood of the now dead {{spoiler|Scottish girl who was only in Wales on holiday with her family, whom Hal had been sort of dating}}. The sire is similarly horrified, and the two reveals of the source of the blood are juxtaposed.
* In ''[[Little Britain]]'', there was a series of sketches where a bigoted old lady would sample some food and initially love it, but when she found out a minority made it, she then would proceed to vomit everywhere.
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{{quote|'''Roger:''' Please tell me it's poisonous.}}
* One ''[[The Far Side]]'' cartoon had a crowd of scientists gathered around a cup with one of them saying, "What's this? Lemonade? Where's my sample of amoebic dysentery?" while another scientist on the other side of the panel is drinking from a glass with [[Oh Crap|a surprised expression on his face]].
** Even funnier when you remember that the most prominent symptom of dysentery is chronic diarrhea.
* Suggested in [http://www.andreagaddini.it/quino-intenditore.jpg this strip] by Argentinian cartoonist ''[[Quino]]'':
{{quote|'''Chef:''' "This sir?"
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* In the [[WWE|WWF]] in 2001, Commissioner [[William Regal]] drank some tea which [[Chris Jericho]] had urinated in. He found the taste...interesting.
** He drank "Barnum tea"! [[Don't Explain the Joke|(See if you can figure that one out.)]]
*** [[Comically Missing the Point|You mean he was a sucker to drink the tea?]]
* In another infamous episode The Bossman fed Al Snow his (Snow's) pet chihuahua Pepper as "Pepper Steak." ([[Your Mileage May Vary]] as to how to properly [[Dude, Not Funny|react]] [[Actually Pretty Funny|to]] [[Dead Baby Comedy|this]].)
* At one point, Earthquake crushed [[Jake Roberts|Jake "the Snake"]]'s pet boa, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu_XaibwjaE then served it as "Quakeburgers" to the commentators.] [[Bobby Heenan]] was the only one to realize what they were eating before it was too late. He still ''ate'' it, mind you, being a [[Heel]].
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* From the original Broadway production of ''[[Dracula]]'', discussing [[Renfield]]:
{{quote|'''Seward:''' An unusual case. Zoophagous.
'''Harker:''' What's that?
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* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' has the episode ''Operation: P.I.N.K.E.Y.E.'', where Numbuh 2 was eating Nurse Claiborne's crumbles as he was investigating the mystery epidemic of pinkeye going around the school. Once it got out that it was Claiborne herself who was the one infecting the students with pinkeye, it also became apparent that she was using eye crust for her crumbles, making Numbuh 2 gag at the very fact that he was eating them. However, at the very end, he went back to eating them. However, Numbuh 2 may have second thoughts after finding out that the filling of the crumbles was {{spoiler|mucus.}}
** Her second apperence had her go into the cereal business {{spoiler|by making the sweet bits from Rainbow Monkey dolls. Including one of Numbuh 3's most prized doll.}} Needless to say Kuki was not amused.
* There are several episodes of ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' in which Shaggy and Scooby enjoy delicious soup cooking over a stove or on a fire, only to be informed that what they just enjoyed was somebody's washwater for their laundry. Cue urping up bubbles.
* One episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' had Ron and Rufus finding a bag of chips that belonged to the current client and began eagerly eating them... at least, until the client tells them the chips were made from crickets.
* The episode "Onwards and Upwards" of ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]] Adult Party Cartoon'' dealt with Ren and Stimpy living in a spittoon and savoring many of the...er, foods it had to offer.
* A few ''[[Freaky Stories]]'' involve this, like:
** A gourmet escaped from prison, starved for food with a bad cold finds a building without power and eats the contents of its fridge in the dark, wakes up to find it was laboratory and the fridge was full of human organs.
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'''Stewie''': Cool Hwhip.
'''Brian''': You're eating hair! }}
** Subverted when Tom Tucker asks Neil Goldman if he added something to his coffee. Neil says he put Sweet 'N Low in and Tom tells him to put urine in it like he asked.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF84k1be-Uk When Peter tells the family that some of the jars in the refrigerator are horse sperm, Stewie stops eating his cereal for a minute before continuing.]
* In the ''[[Battle of the Planets|G-Force]]'' sketch on ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', the team tells [[Big Eater|Tiny]] they think he needs to diet. Tiny says he just wants to eat his pizza but takes their advice after they point out he's eating the cardboard circle the pizza is microwaved on.
* In ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'', Peter Puppy experiences this trope when he learns the ingredients to haggis.
{{quote|"Heart...lungs...and ''liver?''"}}
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