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{{trope}}
[[File:girlscouts.jpg|frame|[[Wanton Cruelty to
'''Girl Scout:''' [[Granola Girl|I only like all-natural foods and beverages, organically grown, with no preservatives.]] Are you ''sure'' they're real lemons?
'''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
▲{{quote|'''Girl Scout:''' Is this made from real lemons?<br />
▲'''Wednesday:''' Yes.<br />
▲'''Girl Scout:''' [[Granola Girl|I only like all-natural foods and beverages, organically grown, with no preservatives.]] Are you ''sure'' they're real lemons?<br />
▲'''Pugsley:''' Yes.<br />
▲'''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?<br />
▲'''Wednesday:''' [[Trope Namer|Are they made from real Girl Scouts]]?|''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]]''}}
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]].▼
▲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 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 & Manga ==
* 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.]]
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* Linkara's review of ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' #1 in ''[[
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'''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.▼
* There's a ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' cartoon where Calvin asks him mom if hamburgers are made out of people from Hamburg.▼
{{quote| '''Mom:''' Of course not! It's ground beef.<br />▼
'''Calvin:''' I'm eating a ''cow''?<br />▼
'''Mom:''' Right.<br />▼
[[Beat]]<br />▼
'''Calvin:''' [[Irony|I don't think I can finish this.]] }}▼
▲* superdickery.com presents: [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.
* ''[[Lio]]'' ripped off the trope-naming joke once, and has had other jokes based on the same general idea.▼
* 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 ==
* A mild example appears in ''[[A Bug's Life
* In ''[[Rugrats in Paris]]'', Coco LaBouche's boss tells her that the person he wants running his theme parks must have the mind of a child. Coco mutters (too quietly for him to hear - but Angelica hears it) that she thinks she has one in a jar somewhere...
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The trope first entered the mass media in the ''[[The Addams Family
* In ''[[Sky High]]'', the students' gym class involves a game called "Save the Citizen", which involves saving a mannequin that's being dropped into a shredder. Mr. Boy offers this reminiscence to Mr. Medulla: "Remember when we used to use real citizens?"
* Part of a [[Fridge Brilliance]] moment in ''[[Trick
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* Playfully mentioned in ''[[In the Loop]]'':
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'''Jamie MacDonald:''' Oh, you know me, Malc. Kid gloves... but made from real kids. }}
== Folklore ==
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** And in England, "Manchester Tart".
** And, you know, [[Trope Namer|Girl Scout Cookies]].
*** Canada makes also makes a related joke about "Brownies", which are a junior branch of Girl Guides (who also sell cookies). A more risqué version of this joke claims that a Cub Scout becomes a Boy Scout {{spoiler|when he eats his first Brownie.}}
** The
*** 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).
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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]
* [[Bill Hicks]] had a bit about eating at a Vietnamese restaurant:
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'''Waiter''': You want another one?
'''Bill''': ''[[[Beat]]]'' What the fuck did I just eat? }}
* Should you eat your pizza with your fingers?
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* Another old chestnut involves a judge questioning three people in a disturbance at the zoo. The first two said, "We were just throwing peanuts at the elephants." When the judge questioned the third person(who had a cast on his arm and was on crutches), he answered, "I'm Peanuts!"
* An old Yakov Smirnoff line:
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:* Smirnoff also uses the joke about the label on a can of food depicting the contents, claiming this to have been the convention in Soviet Russia. He sees a can of pet food with a picture of a dog on it... "oh no, not this stuff again."
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has the famous "Crunchy Frog" sketch.
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'''Praline:''' That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
'''Milton:''' What else?
'''Praline:''' Well, don't you even take the bones out?
'''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 ''[[
* The ''Dooper'' chain of concession stands in ''[[The Amanda Show]]'' serves snacks that are [[Exactly What It Says
* In the short-lived series ''Cafe Americain'', one of the regulars is the widow of a deposed third-world dictator, constantly scheming for money with which to raise an army and retake her country. One of her plots involves getting into the ice cream business. She tries a number of disgusting flavor combinations before hitting on one everyone likes: Mint Chocolate Chip. Offhandedly, she mentions that it's made from all natural ingredients: mint, chocolate, and Chip.
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* Joked about in an episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' when Jill was trying to cheer up Mark: "Would you like a piece of angel food cake? I made it myself... It was real hard to find fresh angels this time of year."
* A wardrobe variant in an episode of ''[[
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'''Artode:''' It's Pylean.
'''Lorne:''' Oh, made in Pylea, my home dimension.
'''Artode:''' Not made in, made from. I skinned it myself. ''(pause)'' Anybody you know? }}
== Literature ==
* [[Averted Trope]] in ''[[Harry Potter]]''. Harry is sufficiently [[
** However, the chocolate frogs, being the product of a magical world, do in fact ''act'' like real frogs (in [[The Movie|the movies]] only). The real thing (brought to you by [[Defictionalization]]) sadly does not try to escape while you eat it, but it does happen to be deliciously crunchy.
** Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, on the other hand, really are "every flavour". There's a reason people don't try to eat most things...
*** 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 ''[[
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'''Vimes:''' Is that the drink with the vodka? Because--
'''Margolotta:''' No. This, I'm afraid, is the other kind. }}
** Similar to a line from ''[[
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* Similarly, in ''[[Nightside]]'':
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** 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.
* ''[[The Alphabet of Manliness]]'' uses this and [[Insane Troll Logic]]: What makes beef jerky so awesome? It's made from little girls. Beef jerky is made from the highest quality ingredients, and girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. So "highest quality ingredients" can be seen as a subset of "everything nice," so beef jerky is made out of little girls. QED.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* There's a ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' cartoon where Calvin asks him mom if hamburgers are made out of people from Hamburg.
▲'''Calvin:''' [[Irony|I don't think I can finish this.]] }}
▲* ''[[Lio]]'' ripped off the trope-naming joke once, and has had other jokes based on the same general idea.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The ''[[Munchkin (
** The original ''Munchkin'' game (or one of its expansions, at least) had the item "Baby Oil", depicted as [[Dead Baby Comedy|a baby in a blender]].
== Theater ==
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
** Considering the ''entire song'' is pretty much a tribute to this, it would be more appropriate to link the [http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/s/sweeneytoddlyrics/alittlepriestlyrics.html lyrics.]
** If you look carefully, there's some cleverly hidden [[Self-Deprecation]] in there.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]''. Vrishika describes the nature of the "Baby Oil" she's selling:
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** Vrischka also sells a chocolate mephit, which is a real mephit magically transformed into pure chocolate.
* ''[[ADOM]]'' has hurthling (halfling/hobbit equivalent) cakes - cursed ones contain real hurthling and stun non-troll characters.
* Alluded to in [[Escape
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
** Elfland's defences in includes a giant cannon. It is loaded with [[Abnormal Ammo|actual giants]].
** And King Steve has slippers made from baby skin. Made fresh daily. That cry.
* Similarly, from the ''[[Walkyverse]]'', Monkey Master's guns shoot real monkeys. This is more effective than it sounds, unless he hasn't [[Forgot to Feed
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', in Aylee's [[I Am a Humanitarian|earlier days]], had these kind of jokes by the boatfull.
* ''[[
* Butch from ''[[Chopping Block]]'' [http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20101220.html doesn't like] recipes of gingerbread men that inexplicably omit the obviously most important ingredient.
** Also, [http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20141114.html what may sound like a "cute pickup line"] if it was metaphorical...
* Gigz from ''[[Dark Legacy Comics]]'' shows you how to make her [http://darklegacycomics.com/233.html Boiled Link Sausages], made from 100% real [[The Legend of Zelda
* ''[[Looking for Group]]'' had Richard wearing a [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/267/ kidney hat].
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' (of course) has [http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2007-10-08 Pure Infant Meal].
== Web Original ==
* The main character of ''[[The Hooker
* ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]'':
{{quote|1933. No part of the elven cloak is actually made out of elves.}}
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Futurama]]: Bender's Big Score'', "[[Manos:
* Inverted in an episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', where Elmyra thinks whale oil is made ''by'' whales rather than ''from'' whales.
* Referenced in ''[[
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* One episode of ''[[Mission Hill]]'' has the gang trying to cut back on expenses, which includes buying discount dog food. The can's label is in a foreign language, but has a picture of a dog. Judging from their pet dog's reaction, the meat isn't so much intended for dogs as made from them.
* In a "[[
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