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'''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?
'''Wednesday:''' [[Trope Namer|Are they made from real Girl Scouts]]?
|''[[The Addams Family]]''}}
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.
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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 a commercial for Wonka's Loompas (the same company that makes Nerds, Laffy Taffy, and Bottlecaps, named after the candy maker in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]''), Wonka gives credit to the Oompa Loompas for inventing these fruit snacks, and ends by saying, "There's a little Oompa in every Loompa." This almost becomes literal in the commercial, as one of them is caught in the machine that makes them and turned into one. He turns out okay, however.
== Anime and Manga ==
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{{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.... }}
* superdickery.com presents: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502203833/http://www.superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=805:make-this-squirrel-lamp Squirrel Lamp] ads. Yes, sir, out of a real squirrel! Not from squirrel fur, just a stuffed one.
* 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*
* Shriek made [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor|an evil parody of Wednesday's joke]] during the ''[[Maximum Carnage]]'' storyline in the [[Spider-Man]] comics, cuddling up to Carnage and then asking if he'd like some Girl Scout cookies, then saying, "Of course, we'll have to kill a few dozen Girl Scouts fist. I hate to bake without fresh ingredients!" And for all we know, [[Axe Crazy|she may have done it if she found any]].
== Films -- Animation ==
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* 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 ==
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* "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".
* Starbucks used to sell [https://web.archive.org/web/20131111020829/http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/monster-cookies-recipe/index.html monster cookies]—a type of oatmeal cookie with chocolate chips, M&Ms (or Smarties), raisins, and occasionally other things.
* [[Bill Hicks]] had a bit about eating at a Vietnamese restaurant:
{{quote|'''Bill''': Hey, can I get a doggy bag?
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* 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 ==
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'''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.
* There's a background joke in the ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' pilot: As Book approaches the ship, you can see a food stand's sign behind him advertising "Good Dogs!" No, they were not selling hot dogs.
** 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.
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*** 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]]''
** From the novel ''[[
{{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. }}
** Similar to a line from ''[[
{{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]]'':
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