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[[File:LevelAte montage 3 7466.gif|frame|Do not play these levels on an empty stomach.<ref>(clockwise from top-left: [[Parodius]], [[Cocoron]], [[Zool]], [[Prehistorik]] 2, [[Rayman]], [[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]])</ref>]]
{{quote|''"There's cream in dem thar hills!"''
▲{{quote|''"There's cream in dem thar hills!"''|'''The Doctor''', ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "Short Trips and Side Steps"}}
|'''Bill Oddie'''|''[[The Goodies]]''}}
▲{{quote|''"That's fool's cream, that is."''|'''Bill Oddie''', ''[[The Goodies]]''}}
For some reason, creators seem fond of designing settings that are literally made out of food. Indeed, stemming from the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Oral]] [[Oral Tradition|Tradition]], it is clearly [[Older Than Print]]—and possibly much older.
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* ''[[The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl]]''. The protagonists find themselves floating down a river of milk on a giant chocolate chip cookie.
* Mentioned in the Literature section, but expanded upon in the Tim Burton remake film. Willy Wonka in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' clarifies that everything in the candy room is edible, including himself.
* ''[[Wreck-It Ralph]]'' has ''Sugar Rush'', a candy-themed racing game
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In the ''[[Xanth]]'' novel ''Ogre, Ogre'', one [[Dream World]] that Smash must track the Night Stallion through is a Level Ate.
* A short story from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' short story collection ''Short Trips and Side Steps'' featured the Doctor and Romana celebrating K9's birthday on a world apparently made entirely from candy. How this came to be is never fully explained.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' examples:
** Mono Island in ''[[
** The Discworld also has large lard deposits under Überwald. And raw treacle deposits (caused by prehistoric sugar cane forests trapped in the geological strata) under Ankh-Morpork. However, most of Ankh-Morpork's treacle comes from toffee beds (in the Ramtops somewhere, IIRC).{{verify}}
** In ''[[
* In Lucian of Samosata's ''[[True History]]'', the sailors visit, among other outlandish places, an island with rivers of wine, and an island made entirely out of cheese.
* The children's book ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'' (and the movie it inspired) are about this. The actual landscape isn't made of food, but (as you might guess from the name) the weather most certainly is. "Restaurants" lack roofs, and are mostly just nice places to sit while waiting to be fed by the sky.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHFFol-8REI Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate]
* In ''[[The Nutcracker (theatre)|The Nutcracker]]'', there's the Land of Sweets, populated by various dancing delicacies and the Sugar Plum Fairy.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In one old ''[[Garfield]]'' comic, the protagonist falls asleep and dreams he's in "the Land of Large Breakfasts" where he eats a giant pancake. He wakes up, and says it was a great dream... Then he turns around and exclaims, [[Marshmallow Dream| "Where's my blanket?!"]]
== [[Oral Tradition]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Candy Land]]''. The title is [[Not Hyperbole]].
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
** The Madolche originally seemed to live in a place like [[Candy Land]], as their cards, like Madolche Chateau, suggest. However, it was later revealed that they are actually [[Living Toys]].
** The Nemurelia archetype features a young girl named [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dreaming_Nemurelia Dreaming Nemurelia]] who dreams of a candy world where she sleeps atop [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_Tower_of_Nemurelia The Sleeping Beauty Tower of Nemurelia] (a giant stack of pancakes), protected by her friends, [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Nemurelia%27s_Dream_Defender_-_Couette Couette] (a vanilla monster) and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Nemurelia%27s_Dream_Defender_-_Oreiller Oreiller] (a chocolate monster).
* [[Gary Gygax]] wrote a [[Self-Parody]] module of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' called ''Castle Greyhawk'' intended for playtesting (which sadly, was never published) that had many silly things including a level like this, with monsters like dough-ppelgangers and Poppinfarsh the Dough Golem.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Act 2 of ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' takes place in the Land of Sweets, where the Nutcracker Prince is king. Also called Sweetieland in the Matthew Bourne version.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] is "Level Ate", the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|eighth level]] of ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]] 2'', which is made primarily of meat, with cheese, french fries, eggs, and eating utensils also to be found. {{spoiler|There's also a secret level called "Totally Forked", which, as its name implies, is [[Spikes of Doom|much heavier on the forks.]]}} Oh, and did we mention the boss of the level is a fire-breathing steak named ''[[A Worldwide Punomenon|Flamin' Yawn]]''?
* The original ''[[Populous]]'' had a cake-themed world that was [[That One Level|insanely difficult]].
* ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' examples:
** ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' has several levels with [[Edible Theme Naming]], but Chocolate Island appears to be made of chocolate, including boiling hot chocolate pits where other worlds would have lava. By the same token, Choco Island and Choco Mountain from the ''[[Mario Kart]]'' games qualify.
** Sweet Sweet Galaxy and "Bouncing Down Cake Lane" in Toy Time Galaxy from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''.
** ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' reuses the trope with Sweet Mystery Galaxy, a level based around a spotlight that revealed hidden platforms. And the contents of the candy bars you're walking on.
** Peach's stage in ''[[Mario Party]]'', which takes place on a giant birthday cake.
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* The Candy Chateau in ''[[Rayman]]'', which is also (amusingly and unfittingly enough) ''the final level and the contrasting villain's hideout''. However, the level's boss arena is a radical departure from the stage itself (It is a generic castle room with no trace of this trope).
** ''[[Rayman Origins]]'' has Gourmand Land. Both locations [[Hailfire Peaks|mix]] in [[Lethal Lava Land|fire]] and [[Eternal Engine|kitchen]], and [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|ice]] and [[Palmtree Panic|resort]].
***These levels return in ''[[Rayman Legends]]'' and now include patches of ground made of cake which can be tunnelled through via Murfy's bottomless stomach.
* The secret "good" ending of ''[[
* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] of ''[[Psychonauts]]'' is the Meat Circus, A literal combination of Raz's own nightmares from his circus upbringing, and another character's nightmares from his father's butcher shop. As can probably be guessed, the level is very macabre.
* A few of the maps in the ''[[Worms]]'' series are food displays.
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* Victoria's Laboratory from ''[[LittleBigPlanet]] 2'' mixes this trope with [[Eternal Engine]].
* Obscure Famicom title ''[[Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa]]'' has no less than ''three'' stages like this - a candy/cake word, a vegetable world, and a milk/cheese world. The crossover game ''[[Wai Wai World 2]]'' has the same sort of food-themed level design in World 5, along with Upa himself.
* The Meat Circus from ''[[Psychonauts]]'' combines this with [[Circus of Fear]]. This unique mental world is the result the brainwaves of two characters - Razputin and Coach Oleander - becoming intertwined thus combining Razputin's memories of growing up in his family's circus, and Coach Oleander's traumatic memories of his father's butcher shop. As Oleander himself puts it, “My memories were bad enough. ''This'' is just ''gross''.”
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'''s Ted Bear short is about the title character exploring a land with with bacon trees, fruitfish (they're actually crustaceans), and Nestlé quicksand.
* ''[[Neopets]]'' [[The Not-Secret|certainly does not have a land made entirely of gelatin.]] That would just be silly.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDKrP3HtHLg Volume 9] of ''[[RWBY]]'' takes place in a literal [[Fairy Tale]] Land which includes [https://youtu.be/O3hj3b45y0Q?t=23 a section that appears to be made of candy and whipped cream] -- up to and including peppermint-striped mountains in the background.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Chowder]]'' pretty much ''is'' this trope.
* In one old ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon, Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy visit the moon, which is actually made of cheese, and populated by cute little cheese-men. Unfortunately, [[Large and In Charge| the Big Cheese]] who rules the place [[The Caligula| is a cruel tyrant.]] After a dose of spinach, Popeye manages to turn him into crumbs.
* 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 "Yogurtopia", a land of cookies, cake and frozen yogurt. The [[Anthropomorphic Food]] natives not only [[Let's Meet the Meat| offer themselves to her]], they assure her none of the sweets have bugs in them. (Often a problem with food in Amphibia.) Unfortunately, this dream turns into a nightmare quickly, because all the yogurt is [[Stock Yuck| black licorice-flavored]].
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* Gingerbread houses at Christmastime.
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