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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|''"You are what you eat" said a wise old man,''~~<br />~~ ''Lord, if that's true I'm a garbage can.''\|'''Victor Buono''', "The Fat Man's Prayer"}} Line 11: Note that this differs from [[You Are Who You Eat]], in that the latter trope is about characters who can do this with their food as an inherent ability. This trope is for when the food itself has these special properties. A newly-transformed sentient pile of food will often discover that it [[I Taste Delicious\|tastes delicious ]]. See also: [[Cereal -Induced Superpowers]]. A [[Sister Trope]] of [[May Contain Evil]]. Can occur because of [[Tampering ~~With~~with Food and Drink]]. {{examples~~\|Examples~~}} == Anime and Manga == Line 23: == [[Live Action TV]] == * ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)\|~~Doctor Who]]'': In the serial "[[Character Name and ~~The~~the Noun Phrase\|Delta and the Bannermen]]" a character called Billy [[Too Dumb to Live\|intentionally]] eats some "[[Mutagenic Goo\|royal jelly]]" so he can [[Being Human Sucks\|turn into an alien]] to be with the [[Cute Alien Girl]] he has [[Love At First Sight\|fallen in love with]] and [[Adam and Eve Plot\|repopulate her race]] with her. And they lived [[Happily Ever After]]. In "Planet of the Ood", Ood Sigma slowly turns Halpen into an Ood by spiking his hair tonic. == [[Film]] == * In John Carpenter's film ''[[The Thing (~~Film~~film)\|The Thing]]'', even a single cell of the title monster can convert a living creature into a Thing. One of the scientists suggests that everyone prepare their own food and eat out of cans so a Thing can't contaminate a human's food with itself. == [[Stand Up Comedy]] == Line 34: == [[Video Games]] == * A character in ''[[~~Chrono Cross (Video Game)\|~~Chrono Cross]]'' ("[[Punny Name\|Funguy]]") eats a special mushroom that [[Baleful Polymorph\|transforms]] him into a half-human, half-mushroom person. == [[Western Animation]] == Line 41: * In the ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' pilot "The Chicken From Outer Space", eating alien eggs causes Eustace to [[Body Horror\|transform into a monstrous chicken man]]. * [[The Magic School Bus]] showed a [[Real Life]] example with carrots. Arnold ate nothing but carrot-based snacks for days and turned orange. * When Silkie, the [[Teen Titans (~~Animation~~animation)\|Teen Titans]]' [[Team Pet]] was introduced, he ate some of Starfire's alien zorkaberries, which promptly turned him into an unstoppable (though still cuddly) behemoth. == [[Real Life]] == * Some opposers of GMO food fear this is true whenever food includes "mutations" ([[You Fail Biology Forever\|or even "DNA"]]). Mutations however happen spontaneously in all living organisms, allowing for such things as natural evolution. ** There could be a infinitisimally small chance that not all the vectors used for transgenic modification were integrated into the nuclei of the GMO, but the stomach produces enzymes that break down DNA (which is why Jurassic Park is full of it). * Eating too many carrots, or anything else with beta-carotene, can cause your skin cells to absorb the pigment, causing you to turn carrot-coloured. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131209193947/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/too-much-sunny-delight-turns-girls-skin-yellow-1134703.html Drinkers of Sunny Delight have also suffered this] - [[Bonus Points]] for the story being reported just as an advert showed a snowman drinking the beverage [[Epic Fail\|and turning yellow as a result]]. {{reflist}} Line 53: [[Category:Shapeshifting]] [[Category:Mutagenic Food]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~