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[[File:Piggie.jpg|frame|[[Nightmare Fuel|'''...Yikes.''']]]]
{{quote|''Does the sign include an illustration or mascot? Drawings of plates of food or ribs are okay, though not great. [[Carnivore Confusion|Pig mascots are good; smiling anthropomorphic pigs are even better]]. Is the pig surrounded by flames? If so, it should look happy about the situation. Best of all is an anthropomorphic pig eating ribs. Such a sign says, "Our food is so good that pigs will commit cannibalism to enjoy it."''
|'''Stephen Granade''', [http://granades.com/2007/07/23/choosing-a-barbeque-restaurant/ Choosing A Barbeque Restaurant]}}
There is a curious phenomenon in commercials in which edible animals or the post-prepared food and drink is given intelligence and the power of speech. And it ''wants'' [[Eat Me|humans to eat it]]. Or at least, others of its kind.
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{{examples}}
==Eat Me==
=== [[Advertising]] ===
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* The Nandos restaurant ad campaign "Big Chicken" features a [[Reality TV]] series in which eight chickens compete for the ultimate prize: To be cooked and eaten at Nandos. Yay?
* An 1899 print ad (yes, this is [[Older Than Radio]]) shows pigs, lambs, a cow, fish, chickens, and even onions and cabbages eagerly dashing forward (the vegetables on little root-legs) to be engulfed in the metal maw of the Universal Food Chopper.
* A recent{{when}} series of Cadbury commercials involves creme eggs finding, in a rather suicidal air, ways to smash themselves. One commercial involving a series of eggs and mousetraps, set off by one egg in particular, seems more like a mass cult suicide than a way to consume many creme eggs.
* The Teddy Grahams mascot is a teddy graham. Smiling sweetly, as if to say... "DISMEMBER ME AND MY RELATIVES, PLEASE!"
* Goldfish: the snack that smiles back!
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* The Ribenaberries, anthropomorphic blackcurrants who desperately wish to be juiced and concentrated.
* An animated [[Public Service Announcement]] from the late 70s featured a woman taking a pound of hamburger out of the freezer to thaw. Cue the meat block coming to life, to instruct the woman on the finer points of meat storage and preparation. A rare example in which the meat doesn't actually ''voice'' its desire to be eaten, though it certainly didn't seem to mind.
* Perfect Example: Famous Dave's BBQ restaurant's logo is of a pig in a chef's hat smacking its lips while it holds a rack of ribs over a fire. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130307084136/http://knsfinancial.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Famous_Dave_logo.jpg See?]
* The ads for M&Ms go back and forth with this. Sometimes they're afraid of being eaten, but in a Pretzel M&M commercial, the pretzel prefers to be eaten by a hot chick instead of a creepy guy. So does he see being eaten as inevitable?
* Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares lately have a penchant for licking and then eating each other, and then grinning, satisfied, afterward.
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* In a related variant, ads for a deer-hunting video game feature a [[Talking Animal]] buck, which enthusiastically plays at blowing away his fellows.
** Like we're [[First-Person Shooter|any different]]...
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
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* One episode of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' follows the journey of a lone grain of rice from rice paddy to rice bowl. The rice grain is overjoyed to finally fulfill its destiny as it is picked up by the chopsticks...only to be dropped and forgotten. By an unlucky chain of events, the rice grain is stuck outside and can only sob over its wasted existence. Until Giroro's cat spots it and eats it. The rice grain happily ascends into heaven as it is eaten.
* Done in [[Dai Mahou Touge]], but with vegetables http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQwgJVvd5s
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'', Reed's "Cookpal" monsters are [[Anthropomorphic Food]] whose effect (as interpreted by the Solid Vision system) consists of them [[Force Feeding]] themselves to opposing monsters until said opposing monsters explode. One can only imagine how they would make direct attacks [[Fridge Horror| (on second thought, maybe not...)]]
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid]]'', Tohru lopping off and cooking her own tail. Not an inconvenience for her, as it grows back within seconds, but Kobayashi still will not eat it and wishes she'd stop doing so.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Comix titan [[Robert Crumb|R. Crumb]] had a typically [[Uncanny Valley|intriguing]] cartoon about a man named Cheezis K. Reist who goes to a diner and orders himself up a "nice, big, delicious" talking burger that's just begging to be eaten, yessir! "Little burger, you may be sure I'm lookin' at you with nuthin' but love!" After he finishes eating the burger, the dancing utensils sing: '''"now it's your sacrifice! now it's your turn to die!"'''
=== [[Film]] ===
* Parodied in ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]'', where Pugsley is forced into a turkey costume for a camp musical of Thanksgiving and made to repeatedly shout "Eat Me!" {{spoiler|He went along with it because his sister Wednesday (the [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent... Little Girl?]]) had an ingenious plan.}}
=== [[Literature]] ===
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* In ''[[The Other Sinbad]]'' by Craig Shaw Gardner, a character is shipwrecked on an island with trees full of talking figs that beg to be eaten. Unfortunately the figs turn out to be addictive... and also to have an, um, intense laxative effect. The poor guy ends up as a giant ambulatory talking pile of feces. "Once I was a proud warrior... now I am little more than an odiferous mound!"
* In [[Robert Silverberg]]'s Majipoor cycle one of the titular planet's native (most of the population are immigrants from the other worlds) sentient species, the enormous and [[Psychic Powers|psychic]] Sea Dragons, are actively hunted by the most of the land-dwelling inhabitants,<ref>well, except ''another'' native species, who worship them as gods, but it's a long story</ref> mainly because for the most of the planet's history ''nobody knew'' that they are sentient. In the unexpected twist, the Dragons are ''[[Values Dissonance|perfectly okay]]'' with being hunted and eaten, as [[Blue and Orange Morality|they view this as a moral obligation]], and generally consider death differently from the all other races. Yes, they are ''[[Starfish Aliens|weird]]''.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]'''s [[Memetic Mutation|memetically infamous]] "Party in my Tummy!" musical number. The carrots are just so ''sad'' at the prospect of not being eaten and going to The Party. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071213041727/http://www.yogabbagabba.com/#/party-in-my-tummy Watch here.]
* Parodied in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' (Series 1, episode 13, January 1970) where a naked man named Hopkins in a large dish is pushed into the restaurant, describing himself as "the special" and asks patrons to choose him as their meal.
** '''HOPKINS:''' ''(slapping away an extended hand)'' "Don't play with your food!"
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=== [[Music]] ===
* The Superfast Jellyfish in the music video for the [[Gorillaz]] song of the same name don't talk, but they seem way too happy to be featuring in a music video for a song about the benefits of grinding said jellyfish up into breakfast foods. [[Squick|They continue bouncing around cheerfully even after they've been microwaved.]]
=== [[Mythology]] ===
* Some of the Norse deities had magical boars or goats as their faithful steeds and chariot-pullers, which apparently didn't mind being butchered and eaten nightly by their owners. Granted, they always came back to life again, but you'd think it'd put some strain on the pet/owner relationship...
▲=== [[Newspaper Comic]] ===
* Similarly, the [[Shmoo]] from ''[[Li'l Abner]]'' comics is a species which desires to be eaten, to the point that if a human looks at one hungrily, they drop dead from happiness at the thought. (Fried, they taste like chicken, roasted, they taste like steak, and raw, they taste like oysters.) Mercifully this aspect was omitted from the various ''Shmoo'' Saturday morning cartoons.
** The [[Deader Than Disco|legendary]] Shmoo is also one of the earliest examples of [[Memetic Mutation]], since it became a popular expression in the 1940s. [[wikipedia:Shmoo|See here]] for more info.
{{quote|"A shmoo is shaped like a plump bowling pin with legs.... It has a rich gamut of facial expressions, and expresses love (often) by exuding hearts over its head. Naturally gentle, they require minimal care, and are ideal playmates for young children. Shmoos are delicious to eat, and are eager to be eaten. If a human looks at one hungrily, it will happily immolate itself..."}}
* In a VERY early [[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]] strip that can be seen in the book "100 Years Of Comic Strips", Dagwood was on a hunger strike until Blondie's parents gave in and let him marry her, and at one point he was dreaming about many cookies, a chocolate cake and some ice cream sundaes marching by and singing "Here we come! The parade of the desserts! Won't somebody please eat us?".
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', the Alaran plane of Jund is inhabited by ravening beasts, and also with goblins, who take pride in their low position on the food chain. They consider it to be an honor to be eaten by a mighty creature, such as a dragon.
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' game has [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ghost_Beef | Ghost Beef], a Pendulum monster that is the "Ghost of Christmas Dinner". Given the [[Black Comedy]], it is appropriately a Dark monster.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Near the end-game of ''[[Mother 3]]'', as you ascend the [[It's All Upstairs From Here|Empire Pork Building]], one of the supposed '100th Floors' referred to as the [[People Jars|Good Person Spa]] is lined with tubes, each containing a living organism submerged in a green fluid and being brainwashed to serve King P{{spoiler|orky}}'s will. One of them contains a cow, who happily states that it would make wonderful steaks for said ruler to consume. ''Yeesh.''
* In ''[[Star Control]] 3'' you encounter the Harika/Yorn, a symbiotic pairing of two intelligent species. The Harika can eat nothing but Yorn, and the Yorn consider being eaten by the Harika the ultimate fulfillment, or at least a necessary sacrifice (as the Yorn breed too quickly).
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* ''[[Beaver and Steve]]'' has a turnip that really, ''really'' wants Steve to eat it, and is willing to go to great lengths to force him to do so. There's also a wedge of cheese who's overjoyed when it comes time to be eaten, because it's the equivalent of a warrior's death for him. Too bad Steve has a haunted filling, so the ghosts eat the ghost cheese before it can ascend to Heaven.
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' has the threat of the Lattroxx who [[Extreme Omnivore|will eat anyone alive and even plastic automata]]… but very energetic food causes death of indigestion if consumed in large quantities, and cake is irresistible to them. Tac-To-Trons decided to weaponize this as much as possible, first by throwing cakes at the Lattroxx (and Bleen) spaceships [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=031416 to lure them outside], and then via various [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=053016 confectionery drones] (some ''[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=070616 fully]'' cake, without any inedible parts) programmed to actively seek the enemy in boarding action and advertise their contents. Which gives Sploorfix [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=102616 strange ethical quandaries].
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* Done in [http://bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen] with the [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/schmeep.htm Schmeep] who is a combination of the Shmoo from above with a Peep and the Nerds candy. And it [[Healing Factor|regenerates]] so you can eat it over and over again.
** The [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/gorgoblepas.htm Gorgoblepas] also regenerates; the [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/snufagunk.htm Snufagunk] just suicides (there's a [[
** The [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/cockatross.htm Cockatross] [[Subverted Trope]] s this, though. Who would want to raise a vicious, two-headed chicken that enjoys nothing better than eating its own kind?
* [[SCP Foundation|SCP]]-261 once provided a snack food called Eetmees. They're small, crab-like creatures that jump up and down, screaming "Eat Me!"
{{quote|If subject delays or refuses to eat them, the "Eetmees" become more and more desperate, climbing on each other's shoulders and even leaping at the subject to force their way into the subject's mouth. When chewed, the creatures shriek in joy and delight, even going "weeee" as they are swallowed. Prof. Snider was quoted to describe the creatures as "tasty, but disturbing."}}
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
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* In the episode of [[Private Snafu]], The Chew hound While the meat didn't tell the consumer to eat him per say in this. In a decision made in patriotic fervor did have himself made into food to feed a soldier to help the allies win the [[World War II|war]]. Afterall logistics plays a roll in war.
* In ''The Simpsons'' episode "The Simpsons Bible Stories," a pig in the Garden of Eden introduces himself as a source of bacon. Adam and Eve proceed to tear strips off his back.
* In the ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'' episode "Night Drivers", Anne, who has been helping Hop Pop drive their carriage for 20 hours straight, finally falls asleep and dreams of [[Level Ate| "Yogurtopia"]], a land of cookies, cake and frozen yogurt where the [[Anthropomorphic Food]] natives happily offer themselves to her. Unfortunately, this dream turns into a nightmare quickly, because [[Stock Yuck| all the yogurt is black licorice-flavored.]]
==Drink Me==
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OUuSkAjwA Another Coca-Cola commercial] had ice cubes that were happy about being put into a glass of Coke (as opposed to other drinks that were in the kitchen).
=== Live-Action TV ===▼
* While [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] doesn't actually want vampires to drink her blood, she sometimes enjoys taunting them by pointing out how good her blood would taste. At one point, this trope was played completely straight when she violently forced Angel to drink her blood.▼
=== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ===
* [[Jim Breuer]] has a hilarious bit about avoiding getting sick when you drink, where he describes drinking as a party in your stomach, with your stomach as the bouncer, and anthropomorphized drinks, including tequila (played as a stereotyped Mexican) begging to be let in.
=== Western Animation ===
* Played for laughs in a scene in ''[[Disenchantment]]'', where [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]] Bean is in some sort of drinking contest where she has to swallow a live fairy in a glass of beer. The fairy makes no objection, telling her, "Go ahead hon, [[Double Entendre|I go down easy.]]" Two scenes later, Bean burps and the fairy flies out unharmed. Far from the oddest thing that happens in this cartoon, by the way.
▲=== Live-Action TV ===
▲* While [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] doesn't actually want vampires to drink her blood, she sometimes enjoys taunting them by pointing out how good her blood would taste. At one point, this trope was played completely straight when she violently forced Angel to drink her blood.
==[[I'm a Humanitarian|Humanitarians]]==
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* Mr. Potato Head selling Burger King French Fries.
* On labels for Uncle Charley's sausage a pig is cooking a sausage over a fire.
* Many recent{{when}} ads for Cinnamon Toast Crunch feature the little squares eating each other.
* During the 1980s, Foghorn Leghorn starred in commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
** Not that KFC doesn't have its own chicken mascots. [http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1436/1470002427_266c95cc9e.jpg?v=0 Chicky], himself a replacement for the previous mascot Superchook, even makes public appearances.
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* Boost Mobile makes fun of this trope by showing two hogs sitting in chairs, at an expensive restaurant where they are eating ham. One of the pigs says "I love a good ham dinner. It's how we celebrate the taste of a fallen friend. What, you think there's something wrong?"
* Ignoring the [[Accidental Innuendo]], the king in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiRcQVzN01A this Hostess ad]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428024840/http://www.funatiq.com/funny-ads/creative-seafood-sauce-advertisement/ This] ad for seafood sauce.
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** The Red Queen then ignores Alice's request ''not'' to be introduced to the pudding... but Alice cuts a slice off it anyway. The pudding gets rather indignant.
* In his book ''The Gallery of Regrettable Food'', James Lileks reproduces a print ad showing an anthropomorphized rooster cooking chicken.
** And on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509013831/http://www.lileks.com/institute/orphanage/orphans/cudahy2.html Lileks' site], we run into Cudahy Curly, described as the "Quisling Pig" for ''very good reason''.
* Gub-Gub the pig in ''[[Doctor Dolittle]]'' is quite happy to eat anything. Lampshaded in [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/aanw.htm this] ''[[Doctor Who]]'' crossover fanfic cartoon.
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* At the end of ''[[Dead Set]]'', Patrick {{spoiler|screams at the zombies to "eat up" and encourages them to eat him as his final goodbye.}}
* Another example from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'': starving lifeboat-dwellers. One figures on going out via [[Noble Sacrifice]]. Then the others start piping in with menu requests.
** The 'leg-rota' is said to be a feature of war in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
=== [[Music]] ===
* Speaking of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', in the video for Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8 the Mad Hatter and his guests end up eating what looks like Alice...] who is worriedly looking around ''as they cut pieces out and serve them on plates''.
** A similar scene was in Data's dream sequence in an episode of ''[[Star Trek:
** "It is a cellular peptide cake. With mint frosting."
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** In a similar gag, a young teenage cow walks through the den of his house, past company, in leather. The guests are shocked, but the parent cows dismiss it as a rebel phase.
** Another cartoon had one cow ''eating a steak'', mentioning that the taste was "interesting", while other cows stared in horror.
** A non
* A ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' strip had Pig declaring, "But BLTs taste so darn good!" The line was later used for the strip's first book collection.
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== Delicious and Nutritious, Tastes Just Like Chicken ==
The subversion of this trope—where some ''other'' animal or food is trying to get you to eat the food advertised, presumably so you don't eat ''it''—is becoming more common.
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* The fast-food restaurant "Chick-Fil-A" may have been the first to do this. The only meat they serve is chicken, but their mascot is a Holstein cow, most often seen with a crudely illiterate banner bearing the message "Eat mor chikin" (sic).
** That gag goes back to the days of Fleischer cartoons.
** Interestingly, even long after this campaign started, some of their restaurants offered a steak biscuit on the breakfast menu. As of the most recent{{when}} menu re-vamp, it is gone.
** Burger King riffed on this during a promotion with the film ''[[Chicken Run]]'', using the slogan, "Save the chickens, eat more beef." The folks at Chick-Fil-A were not amused, and filed suit to get the ads taken off the air.
* In a series of advertisements for Weston's Wagon Wheels (a kind of chocolate cookie), various types of food implored the viewer to eat a Wagon Wheel instead.
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== I Want to Live! ==
=== Advertising ===
* Kellogg's "Crazy Good" ad campaign for Pop-Tarts features both print and animated television ads involving people trying to catch and eat anthropomorphic toaster pastries. Said pastries don't seem too happy about it.
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** Even more disturbing as the first thing the pizza says upon popping into existence is, "Howdy-doo! I love you!" His glee soon turns to screaming horror as Terrence begins to eat him.
** Later, we learn that at least some of the background food-shaped friends were rescued from a fat camp. One such character suffered post-traumatic stress disorder. Think about it.
* Used as a gag in ''[[The Owl House]]''; when Luz pesters Eda while Eda is trying to cook, she tells her to go away, saying "these vegetables won't cook themselves". Then she uses magic to bring them to life, and [[Not Hyperbole| tells them to do just that]], but they instead flee. ("Why do I always think that will work?" she sighs.) Later, they get back at her by throwing all her cooking utensils off a cliff.
== Wait, What Was That Again? ==▼
▲==Wait, What Was That Again?==
=== Advertising ===
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9xph68PGQ yet another M&M's commercial], Red and Yellow came over to Steve Weber's house; during the visit, the human expressed his gratitude over their arrival, because he just ran out of little M&M's. Red makes a hasty escape, while the commercial ends with the camera closing on Yellow with a horrified look on his face.
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* One ad for Maple Leaf chicken involved a pair of actual chickens being shown a contract to become Maple Leaf Prime Chickens, and being told all the perks. Vegetable grain, open range, it all sounds quite reasonable. As they reached the bottom of the contract, their faces registered alarm, as if they had only just realized the fate of Maple Leaf Prime Chickens.
* An advert for mushy peas featuring Craig Charles reminding a normal pea of life back on the farm, with all its little pea friends in its little pea pod. The peas breaks down crying, turning itself mushy... hilarious!
* In the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPCb9svdhfw latest irn bru advertisement,]{{when}} a man is walking through the rain in the countryside, whilst cartoon animals cower when he comes near. Then he opens up a can of irn bru and the suns starts shining. He starts whistling, and walks along whilst the cartoon animals happily follow. He then leads them into a shop. Before shutting them in he pulls down the shutter to reveal it is in fact a butcher's whilst grinning very evilly. To make matters worse, you see some cartoon eyes blink in the dark to then cut to cartoon pieces of meat dancing cheerfully around the can at the end! *shudder*
** What about the fact that in that same commercial, a rabbit eats a carrot that had eyes and a big smile?
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=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* When [[Flying Man And Friends]] sets out to make "the happiest orange juice in the world," he uses smiling oranges...that soon stop smiling.
=== [[Web Original]] ===
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=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In one episode of the ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' animated series, BJ and Lydia discover a land of talking anthropomorphized food, which was in danger of being conquered by a head of lettuce in Roman garb (Caesar salad). At the end, Beetlejuice asks whether there's any fast food around, because he is hungry. After a horrified moment, he and Lydia are chased out by the natives, who declare them to be cannibals.
* This is the core conceit of the 2016 animated film ''[[Sausage Party]]'': sapient grocery items in a supermarket think that being purchased and taken home by customers is akin to going to heaven -- only [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VoNgLnjzVg to discover the nightmarish truth].
== Why Don't You Want Me? ==
=== Advertising ===
* Two chickens travel around the country to convince people they're either Foster Farms chickens or close enough; no one believes them because they're mangy and they eat junk food. The fate of the real Foster Farms chickens doesn't seem to concern them.
* Charlie the Tuna of Star-Kist seems to be suicidal and misguided at the same time—he tries to demonstrate his good taste (in art, theatre, music and so on) so that Star-Kist will take him, only to be told repeatedly that Star-Kist would rather have tuna that taste good. Sorry, Charlie; it looks like you won't be killed and eaten after all...
* The "Peperami - It's a bit of an animal" campaign took this trope to the extreme. In one ad, the half eaten sausage chases its eater down the street screaming "What's the matter? Too spicy for ya?!"
* Ribena's latest{{when}} ad campaign had blueberries trying to break into the Ribena factory to be made into it.
* Smith's Crisps has one TV advert featuring a ready peeled potato being told to its disappointment that it couldn't be made into crisps because ''this'' ad was for Smith's Jackets (made of jacket potatoes).
* One bubblegum commercial (Wrigley Extra?) has [[Violent Glaswegian|an angry stick of chewing gum with a Scottish accent]] upset that someone left him behind. He then fights his way to the person in question, demanding that he be chewed up and eventually spat out.
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* Spoofed bizarrely in ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'', where Jelly Jiggler, an anthropomorphic blob of jello-like substance, appears to have deep-seated psychological issues because nobody ever wanted to buy and eat him (in Japan, he's a blob of ''tokoroten'', a sort of jelly made from seaweed eaten as a snack in Japan, and is named [[Punny Name|Tokoro Tennosuke]]). He even [[Face Heel Turn|joined]] [[The Evil Empire]] at first because he hated the world so much for not wanting to eat him. [[Widget Series|Yeah, it's that kind of series]].
=== [[Newspaper Comic]] ===
* When [[Garfield]] goes on a diet, he tends to have hallucinations of food - like donuts and pizza - telling him to eat them. He rarely does, likely because he feels he'd encourage them.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
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* A [[Tom and Jerry]] cartoon has Jerry's little pal, a duckling, believing himself to be so ugly, he spends the cartoon entreating Tom to eat him. Only Jerry shows up each time to thwart both plans.
== Parodies and Other ==▼
▲==Parodies and Other==
=== Advertising ===
* Non-food variation: The instructions on Herbal Essences hair products are written in the first person. Knowing that makes the faux orgasms in the commercials take on a whole new meaning.
* An ad for Choco Roles Marinela (essentially, Hostess Ho Hos for the Latin American market) has a man in costume as the product, crashing his plane in the Amazon rainforest. He's found by a tribe of cannibals who won't believe he's not a giant, tribe-sized Choco Rol. Cut to shots of the real product. Cut back to the aftermath of the tribe scene, where the chief is licking his fingers clean.
* There's an ongoing{{when}} series of Glade commercials involving a housewife desperately trying to conceal her deep, dark secret: She uses Glade products! ([[Serious Business|Gasp!]]) As of December 25, the latest{{when}} is her trying to convince her friends that the smell of gingerbread is from the "fresh-baked" cookies she bought at the store and put on a plate just before they arrived. One of the gingerbread men leaps off the plate and starts to tell the friends that it's the nearby Glade candle, and the housewife ''grabs him off the plate and bites his head off'' to keep him from talking. Then she offers her friends a cookie. The looks on their faces are probably the same one you have now. Oh, and the gingerbread man could still be heard talking in a muffled voice in the housewife's mouth. Does that make it better or worse?
* A new Boost Mobile commercial has two pigs eating ham, insisting that they are savoring the taste of a "fallen comrade". They go on to insist that what's ''really'' screwed up is hidden fees in cell phone contracts. Right...
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4&feature=related This video], made by PETA, is perhaps the most brutal subversion of this trope in existence. Then again, [[Your Mileage May Vary]].
* [http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0827/ This article]{{Dead link}} from X-Entertainment points out this trope as related to Cookie Puss:
{{quote|"After introducing himself, C.P. would fly around ice cream makers' heads, not at all challenged with the sight of seeing himself poured out into a cake mold. Cookie Puss understands his role, and the downsides of it: he's gotta commentate on slaughtered versions of himself being caketified."}}
* While I'm uncertain if the ads for Post brand raisin bran ever used this trope, there is a skit parodying it and them, with the raisins attempting to flee the dreaded spoon. The last survivor begins to sing "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener."
* Inverted in a recent{{when}} candy bar commercial, in which some man-eating sharks gush about how very tasty a guy who'd just eaten a peanut-butter Snickers had been. Eat Snickers, folks, it'll let ''you'' become this trope!
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=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Parodied in a mock commercial on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' for [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923190932/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92gchicken.phtml Cluckin'][https://web.archive.org/web/20100303172341/http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/cluckin-chicken/229063
* Referenced in the tuna episode of ''[[Good Eats]]'':
{{quote|'''Alton''': Hey, Alvin, why is it you anthropomorphized food mascots always want somebody to eat you?
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=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Played with in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110511190031/http://robotandghost.com/nggallery/page-28/image/269/ this] Simulated Comic Product strip.
* General Gohblair's speech in the ''Holiday Wars'' storyline of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''...
{{quote|"Do you know the difference between Thanksgiving and all the other holidays, Mrs. Claus? Santa gblgblgives gifts, the Easter Bunny gblgblgives eggs. We GBLGBLGIVE OUR LIVES! Every ONE of these fine flock of poults is willing to lie down on a plate, have his gblgblguts ripped out, turned to gblgblgravy, mixed with bread and spices and stuffed back into him so a completely different species can say 'hey, I'm thankful for the fact that my gblgblguts aren't chopped up and mixed with bread on my insides.' And THAT'S why Bun-Bun will underestimate us! We're freaking NUTS!"}}
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=== [[Web Original]] ===
* Lampshaded in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110219074041/http://www.bookofratings.com/thanksgivingsymbols.html Thanksgiving Symbols] entry in The Book Of Ratings:
{{quote|"It's also interesting that so many of our images of Thanksgiving turkeys involve them ''not'' being killed, plucked, and eaten. The President pardons a turkey, cartoon turkeys on TV manage to avoid the axe, but when it comes to the actual dead turkey on our table, pass the gravy."}}
** The ''Bob and Tom Show'' (radio) did a whole Thanksgiving song where a turkey proudly, happily asked to be eaten (and at one point admitted "If I had a musket, I'd be eating you"). At the end, he's slaughtered, and as a horn plays "Taps", there's a bit of mock [[Dude, Not Funny]] reaction from the show regulars ("It's not a very happy ending...").
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On the other hand, way back in the day, many slaughterhouses employed a "Judas Goat." This goat lead the panicked sheep inside, secure in the knowledge that it would come out the other side. Which it did. The sheep, by contrast, came out as lamb chops.
I figured it was time that we had a BBQ sauce label that did not gloss over the treachery of the pigs in question. }}
* Kid-shaped "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100619234910/http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1805972 Lucky Charms]" on CollegeHumor!
* Played with in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxoi7h42jbg start of this] [[Almost Live]] "Guide to Living in Seattle." The waiter is letting the patrons know about the life history of the fish they are serving. Overlaps heavily with a send up of Seattle's [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|politically correct]] tendencies.
{{quote|'''Brad the Waiter:''' ''"As an entree tonight, we are serving Alan, a sensitive and artistic Coho salmon. Alan was gently caught with a soft net, in non-Indian fishing waters, nowhere near the Satsop nuclear power plant. After Alan was given two 500 milligram caplets of Prozac to reduce anxiety, he was gutted and cleaned. We're serving Alan tonight sauteed in a savory fennel butter wine sauce in accordance with his wishes...We will be showing a retrospective of Alan's paintings later this month."'' }}
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