Made From Real Girl Scouts: Difference between revisions

'''Pugsley:''' Yes.

'''Girl Scout:''' Well, I'll tell you what. I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies. Do we have a deal?

 

Sometimes it really ''is'' [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], only it really shouldn't be. This is when you find out that innocuously named product is in fact [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]], or the strange man who just [[Drink Order|ordered a Black Russian in a bar]] is a vampire with very specific tastes. See also [[Human Resources]]. Most commonly played for [[Squick|horror]] or a kind of [[Dead Baby Comedy|shock-comedy]]. The basic joke plays on the double meaning of words, making it a non-sexual [[Double Entendre]]. The term comes from a children's joke popular around the girl scouts/bake sale/fund-raising circuit.

 

See also [[Having a Heart]]. For actual cannibalism, see [[I'm a Humanitarian]]. The title of [[To Serve Man]] invokes it, but is not related. A subtrope of [[Literal Metaphor]].

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== Advertising ==

* An unintentional(?) example is invoked in the slogan "The eggs are from real chickens. The milk is from real cows. The sausage is from Jimmy Dean."

 

* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|Soul Gems, the transformation trinkets of the magical girls, are made with real souls. Particularly, the souls of the magical girls.}} [[Darker and Edgier|Yeah, it is that kind of series.]]

 

 

* Linkara's review of ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' #1 in ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]''. His comment on Nightwing's monologue, specifically.

{{quote|'''Nightwing:''' There's these Cuban meat sandwiches at a dump called Ibano's.

'''Linkara:''' Admittedly, it's hard to get the Cubans to go into the meat grinder, but.... }}

* One of the many, many things [[The Joker]] did after getting [[Reality Warper|Mr. Mxyzptlk]]'s power was to make Chinese food from the entire population of China. "I guess someone should have yelled, 'Peking . . . duck!'" *burp*

 

== Films -- Animation ==

* Part of a [[Fridge Brilliance]] moment in ''[[Trick 'r Treat|Trick R Treat]]''.

{{quote|"I ate some bad Mexican."}}

{{quote|'''Riggs''': Had some bad Chinese, really disagreed with me.}}

* Playfully mentioned in ''[[In the Loop]]'':

{{quote|'''Malcolm Tucker:''' ...be gentle with them.

'''Jamie MacDonald:''' Oh, you know me, Malc. Kid gloves... but made from real kids. }}

 

== Folklore ==

** And in England, "Manchester Tart".

** And, you know, [[Trope Namer|Girl Scout Cookies]].

*** Or "Zigeunerschnitzel"<ref>Gypsy Schnitzel</ref>

* There's a joke that goes: "If beef sausage is made out of beef, and pork sausage is made out of pork, what is Mennonite sausage made of?" (you can replace Mennonite with Ukrainian or any other group that has a type of sausage named after them).

* "Are hot dogs made of real dogs?"

* There is one where a Chinese person visits America and upon being offered a hot dog answers "Interesting.....that's the only part of the dog we don't eat".

* [[Bill Hicks]] had a bit about eating at a Vietnamese restaurant:

{{quote|'''Bill''': Hey, can I get a doggy bag?

* An old Yakov Smirnoff line:

{{quote|"On my first shopping trip, I saw powdered milk -- you just add water, and you get milk. Then I saw powdered orange juice -- you just add water, and you get orange juice. And then I saw baby powder, and I thought to my self, "What a country!"}}

 

== Live-Action TV ==

'''Milton:''' If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it? }}

** A better example from the same sketch is the Spring Surprise, which is a chocolate containing a coiled spring which gives the person eating it free facial piercings. It fits this example perfectly, since the ingredients are clearly printed on the box. If you don't read them, that's your own fault.

** Actually, [[It Makes Sense in Context]].

* A futuristic reality-TV fashion show in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' features a face-off section. No, it's not a section comparing how well two different people carry off the same outfit, it's when they move from clothes into plastic surgery.

*** The defictionalized Every Flavour Beans (made by candy mad scientists Jelly Belly) delivered on many fronts as well. Some flavors were surprisingly good (spinach, black pepper, grass, ''sardine''); some (dirt, vomit) were even worse than they sounded. That's right, fans, the vomit-flavored jelly beans were ''worse'' than expected.

* ''[[Discworld]]''

{{quote|'''Margolotta:''' Do you fancy a Bull's Blood?

'''Vimes:''' Is that the drink with the vodka? Because--

'''Margolotta:''' No. This, I'm afraid, is the other kind. }}

{{quote|Biers was where the undead drank. And when Igor the barman was asked for a Bloody Mary, he didn't mix a metaphor.}}

* Similarly, in ''[[Nightside]]'':

** Also in the ''[[Nightside]]'' specifically ''Hell to Pay'', John Taylor buys a particularly sleazy informant a glass of Angel's Urine (not a trade name) and an order of Pork Balls (serving size: 2).

* The ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' has the galactic standard military ration colloquially known as the [[Indestructible Edible|rat bar]]. These were widely rumored to be made with real rats, and, given the state of agriculture on most of the planets, they probably were.

 

 

== Web Original ==

* The main character of ''[[The Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]'', while indeed a [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]], has also undergone an experimental surgical technique involving replacing her heart with one made of gold.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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