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*** Um, [[Captain Obvious|the air?]]
*** Fixing nitrogen from the air is ridiculously hard so it is not as obvious as you seem to think.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''{{'}}s Eiru and An, Sibling alien lover... [[Buffy-Speak|thingies]]. Really only brought forth in the two episodes where they're directly confronted with Earth food, and none of the cast members catch on to it (even when An flat out says that she doesn't eat food, though she catches herself).
* The metabolism of the Seven Lucky Gods (and their people) in the ''[[Ranma ½
* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', the [[Ancient Astronauts|Oni]] can eat most human foods and even produce equivalents of their native dishes by [[Fire-Breathing Diner|inhuman amounts of spice]], but some earth cuisine is beyond their capacity to handle. Umeboshi, which are basically pickled sour plums, get them totally plastered (humans, meanwhile, traditionally use them as a hangover and overindulgence remedy), though sake can cure them from being drunk, and they find the scent of garlic so strong and nauseatingly overpowering it has the same effect on them as tear gas.
* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', neither Kero nor Yue, being magical guardians, actually ''need'' to eat at all. Kero mooches food off of Sakura during the course of ''the entire anime and manga series'' solely for his own amusement.
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* ''[[Love at First Bite]]'' includes this line, which adds "...and I do not smoke shit."
* Played with in the ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' movies - after Michael is turned he tries to satisfy his craving for blood by eating a rare steak. He has no problem getting it down, but it doesn't quench his hunger ''at all.''
* ''[[Bram Stoker's
* In Henry Sellick's ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'', the Other Mother cooks fantastically delicious meals, but we never see a speck of it on ''her'' plate. We find out later that she eats...other things...
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* In ''[[The Prophecy of the Stones]]'' Elphorys munches his "sticky purple mass" while {{spoiler|Elyador}} eats his rather mundane bread and turkey.
* In ''[[Bloodsucking Fiends]]'', Jody takes a tentative sip of water as she tries to come to terms with being a vampire. She has to spit it back up immediately, as she literally can't swallow it.
* While the famous line doesn't appear in the book ''[[Dracula]]'', Jonathan Harker does notice that he never sees the Count drink or eat.
** [[Running Gag|...food.]]
* [[Anita Blake]] actually lampshaded this. When a waiter asks Jean-Claude what he's having, he responds with this line. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* Silas from ''[[The Graveyard Book]]'' does not eat... bananas.
* The vampires from ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''.
* In Shai Agnon's fantastical short story
* Played to the letter in the ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' series. should a fairy drink spirits, basically any form of alcohol, with humans they lose their a lot of their magic and are basically exiled.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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*** Minbari having an adverse reaction to alcohol is also mentioned by Marcus when he first meets Delenn and Lennier in a Down Below bar as a means of proving who he was.
*** Slightly [[Handwaved]] in that {{spoiler|Delenn is half human through [[Applied Phlebotinum]] at this point.}}
** The Pak'Ma'Ra fit this trope
** Humans who eat mixed alien and human food can get sick. It only came up once, though. Given the different biologies (some species breathe methane), I don't think that's too unusual.
** The Centauri cannot digest human fast food: At one point Vir casually mentions that hamburgers taste much better going down than [[Squick|going up]].
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'''Todd the Wraith''': ''"I thought it would make our discussions a bit more... comfortable. I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them."'' }}
** Terrifyingly subverted in one episode, in which the team starts {{spoiler|finding corpses with teeth marks on them. The wraiths of the ship had been given a retrovirus to make them more human. The common wraiths, only ever having eaten by draining life force with their palms, removed their almost permanently worn face covering masks and started experimenting with using their teeth.}}
** In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', Teal'c doesn't drink alcoholic beverages either. It's unclear if it's a Teal'c thing or a Jaffa thing.
* ''[[Torchwood]]'' has {{spoiler|Owen}} come back from the dead, but with absolutely no vital function; as a result, he can't digest food or drink. His attempt at drinking lager results in him standing on his head to force it out the hard way.
* When Peter Tork auditioned for ''[[The Monkees]]'', the producers offered him a cigarette; Tork's reply was, "I don't smoke...those." [[The Stoner|Guess what he did smoke.]]
* In ''[[Sapphire and Steel]]'', when offered a cocktail at a fancy dinner party in Assignment 5, Steel says he doesn't drink. Sapphire, however, has a glass of champagne.
* ''[[Lois and Clark]]'': Superman once tells Lois that he doesn't need to eat, but he likes to. Which is fairly evident since his pantry is stocked with almost nothing but junk food.
** Aha! Another photosynthetic! [[Plant Aliens|He's not green, though.]]
* ''[[Sanctuary]]''{{'}}s version of [[Nikola Tesla]], being a vampire, is implied to be able to survive perfectly well on a synthetic blood substitute that Magnus developed to avoid his need for blood. However his is also a first class wine snob and since he can't get drunk he usually makes serious inroads on Magnus's wine cellar whenever he visits for any length of time.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' averts this - Spike drinks bourbon. And beer.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Both ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' and ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' make it clear that the only thing vampires can digest properly is blood. ''Masquerade'' goes for a more instantaneous rejection; the vampire gags as the food turns to ash in his gullet, and must cough it back up violently (unless they've taken [[You Have Researched Breathing|the "Eat Food" merit]]). ''Requiem'' actually allows vampires to partake of mortal food and drink, taste it, and store it... but not for long, as by the end of the night, they'll have to vomit it up in a bloody mess.
* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', Eldrad Ulthran, famous Farseer of the Eldar craftworld of Ulthwe, appears to invoke this trope. When meeting with the primarch Fulgrim, he hosts a banquet and Fulgrim notes that Eldrad does not have any meat on his plate. When Fulgrim asks, "Does your kind not eat meat?", Eldrad replies simply "*I* do not eat meat."
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[Gaia Online]]'' minigame "Frontier Skies" has a possible event in which Louie Von Helson gets a craving for cheeseburgers and depletes your food supply. Otherwise, he doesn't show any signs of understanding human cuisine. [[Upper Class Twit|Or anything else about humans, really.]]
** Louie and his sisters competed in the Pie Hard pie-eating contest (the Twins lost early; Louie made it to the top six), and explained the situation with Gaian vampires and food: they ''can'' eat human-style fare, but it's just not as tasty to them. This [[Fridge Brilliance|also justifies]] an unused storyline that had Louie shilling a soy-based blood substitute.
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