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▲[[File:Billyyummy_9669.jpg|link=The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy|right|Taking "Eat me!" a bit too literally.]]
{{quote|''"GAZ!! Taste me!! I'm delicious!!"''|'''Dib''', [[Invader Zim|after being turned into bologna.]]}}
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This trope also covers situations where they remark "I taste delicious!" when they just get [[Covered in Gunge]] rather than being fully transformed.
Not to be confused with [[You Taste Delicious]], which is when someone ''else'' tastes the character, or with [[You Won't Like How I Taste]], which is about discouraging someone else from finding out how the speaker tastes, or with [[Eat Me]], which care how the character tastes.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* There's a whole blog related to this: [http://suicidefood.blogspot.com/ Suicide Food]
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* in ''[[Lanfeust]]'', Hebus have the opportunity to taste himself after being partially eaten and regenerated:
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'''C'ian''': What the mermaids were eating when we found you.... pieces of you and Lanfeust!
'''Hebus''': Great! (eat it).... Lanfeust is a little bit bland, but I am Tasty! }}
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* An
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* In the ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfic ''[[
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"[[Brain Bleach|I'll try not to keep that in mind]]…" Sasuke nervously stated with an eyebrow twitching. }}
== [[Film]] ==
* In what may be the most fitting ending ever to a cannibal movie, ''[[The Anthropophagus Beast]]'' ends with the villain, an insane cannibal, being disemboweled with a pickax... and attempting to devour his own intestines. He doesn't get very far before he dies.▼
* ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'' features Pizza the Hutt's robot sidekick tasting him and saying he's delicious. Later, we learn that they got trapped in their limo, and Pizza the Hutt ate himself to death.▼
* The Gingerbread Man in ''[[The Brothers Grimm (film)|The Brothers Grimm]]'' bites off his own thumb and comments, "I taste good!" before running away.
* After Charlie, his grandfather and Willy Wonka leave the factory in the Wonkavator near the end of ''[[Charlie and
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* ''[[The Great Race]]'':
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'''Prince:''' Umm... brandy! Throw more brandy, throw brandy! More brandy! Brandy!
-Gets hit by another pie, tastes it-
'''Prince:''' Umm... rum! I never mix my pies! }}
* The infamous Ray Liotta brain scene in ''[[Hannibal]].''
▲* ''[[
▲* In what may be the most fitting ending ever to a cannibal movie, ''[[The Anthropophagus Beast]]'' ends with the villain, an insane cannibal, being disemboweled with a pickax... and attempting to devour his own intestines. He doesn't get very far before he dies.
== [[Literature]] ==
* There's a [[Shel Silverstein]] poem about a kid who eats the universe, then himself... "'till nothin', but nothin', was nothin' left but teeth."
* A weird aversion in one of the ''[[Wayside School]]'' stories, where Mrs. Jewls brings the class ice cream flavored like themselves, a different student every time until the whole class has been gone through. Each of the students remarks on how the ''others'' taste delicious (and some go so far as to try licking their classmates to get a further taste), but each student who gets his or her own ice cream can't taste anything.
* An example from ''[[Haunted
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* Another example is the [[Stephen King]] story "Survivor Type," where a surgeon who crash-landed on an island keeps himself alive by {{spoiler|amputating and eating parts of his own body}}.
* An example from [[Philip K. Dick]]'s short story 'Beyond Lies The Wub', where the titular creature {{spoiler|takes over the Captain's body, allowing it to eat its own delicious flesh - which was presumably inhabited by the Captain at the time it was
* The cow at the ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Restaurant At The End Of The Universe]]'' [[Invoked Trope|deliberately]] is like this. At some point (possibly after the breeding of or contact with sapient bovines) it was reckoned that all this slaughtering animals that had no idea what was coming and wasn't too happy about it when it did was animal cruelty, and something should be done about it. So, naturally, the logical conclusion was to breed an animal whose greatest desire was to be slaughtered and eaten, and was intelligent enough to say
== [[Live
* Said in an episode of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' by the alive-again [[Victim of the Week]], a fried chicken chef who got fried in his own batter.
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* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a fake commercial for a fried chicken restaurant. The ad featured a cartoon chicken that explained the process of killing a chicken, removing its feathers and innards, and then quartering, cutting and cooking. A the end the chicken proclaims, "Try the me!"
* In a recent episode of ''[[Dollhouse]]'', a Japanese man in the Attic is seen seated at a table eating sushi. It isn't until Echo tries to make him leave that you see what he meant when he said, "I must stay here and try to enjoy myself."
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Xander has to keep Spike at his place; ties him up to keep him from feeding. Spike claims he definitely wouldn't.
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'''Spike''': All right, yeah, fine. You're a nummy treat.
'''Xander''': And don't you forget it. }}
** In another episode, Spike thoroughly squicks out Buffy when he tastes the blood from his nosebleed.
* In ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* The [[
* The [[Vocaloid]] song "Conchita, Epicurian Daughter of Evil", ends with the titular character devouring herself as that is the only dish left that she hasn't tried.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The trope name is almost a direct quote from [[In Nomine
* Likewise played for horror in D&D. One lower planes monster likes to feed by paralysing its victims and eating their innards. This would be horrible enough by itself but the monster is naturally telepatic, causing everyone around, including the victim, to taste what it tastes.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* One ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' short has some of the characters as [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104043005/http://www.homestarrunner.com/dweenshorts.html Christmas ornaments].
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'''King of Town''': [[Extreme Omnivore|I sure hope not!]] }}
** In another short, Strong Bad knocks over the cardboard box Homestar is using as a donut stand, spilling the fryer oil on him:
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In an early ''[[Questionable Content]]'' [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=20 strip], the chibi robot, Pintsize, ate cake mix. When Marten wondered what would happen if they put him in the oven, he exclaimed that he bet he'd "taste delicious."
* Happens early on in [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws94/ this] ''[[Girls
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130623060918/http://partiallyclips.com/2010/06/15/zebras/ This] ''Partially Clips''.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In that episode of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' where Zim turns Dib into bologna, Dib does this. He even tries to get Gaz to taste him. She runs. (Although she does later take a bite out of him...)
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* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer has his head turned into a donut, and he takes a bite from it because he's so delicious.
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'''Homer:''' Aww, but I'm so sweet and tasty! }}
* In an episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** The other chocolate sailors also have this habit of eating themselves. They even showed a chocolate sailor with only it's head left.
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* Princess Lu in [[Cartoon Network]]'s ''[[Mike Lu and Og|Mike, Lu & Og]]'' once got her comeuppance for having a sweet tooth by getting covered in sticky candy which [[Taken for Granite|set hard]]. There wasn't much she could do after that except lick the candy from her face, which she didn't mind too much.
* There's a ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' short involving a Gummy bear in a Bear trap.
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* A variation occurs in the ''[[
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* In one episode of ''[[Max and Ruby]],'' Ruby attempts to use her little brother as a guinea pig for her all natural "fruity beauty treatment." I.E., she covers his face in guacamole, cucumbers, and mashed fruit of various kinds. While she and her friend attempt to make him a strawberry manicure, he eats his facial mask, eye cucumbers, and the ''rest'' of her guacamole.
* In an episode of ''[[Regular Show]]'', a cult of man-eating hot-dogs are convinced to [[I Am a Humanitarian|cannibalize one another]] when sprayed down with mustard. At least one of them is shown eating himself out of existance. [[MST3K Mantra|Probably best to not think about the physical mechanics of that.]]
* On ''[[Jimmy Two
** Likewise, in ''What's up with Heloise?'' Beezy is turned into a pizza by Heloise and ends up eating most of his own arm.
* [[Cute Ghost Girl| Pinky]] tells Pac-Man this word-for-for in ''[[Pac-Man| Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures]]'', her way of convincing him to track down the evil ghosts.
== Other Media ==
* The front cover of Bizenghast 5 has Dinah made of cake, and having cut a chunk of her stomach out to eat, also licking her fingers.
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