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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"This is for scene 23? You think they have apples on an alien planet?"
''"Why not? [[Aliens Speaking English|They speak English.]]"
''"Look, get some kiwis, and spray-paint them red."
''"[pulls out script] Ok, so now it'll go "Nick walks into a garden of kiwi trees, says 'How like Eden this planet is,' and bites into a painted kiwi."''|'''''[[Stargate SG
The culinary equivalent of [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]. Alien cuisine has a suspicious tendency to look like Earth food ripped from its terrestrial context and subjected to food
This rises from production considerations, of course. It takes time and energy to think up genuinely alien foodstuffs, and money to fabricate
The more humanoid the aliens in question, the more plausible this trope becomes. Green-skinned people who are shaped just like humans might very well share a biome with red-skinned vegetables that are shaped just like asparagus.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' has beef bowls [[Recycled in Space|IN SPAAAAACEEE]].
== Film ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]''
* ''[[Morons From Outer Space]]'' mentioned a space beer that was green.
== Literature ==
* The ''[[Green Eggs and Ham]]'' from the book of the same name can easily be considered one of the most iconic examples of this trope.
== Live Action TV ==
* The ''[[
* [[
** [[Star Trek:
** [[Star Trek:
** Parodied in [[Mad Magazine]]'s spoof of ''[[Star Trek II:
* Shows up on occasion in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. Lampshaded in the parody episode "Wormhole X-Treme!": "You think they have ''apples'' on an alien planet?... Look, get some kiwis, and spray-paint them red."
* ''[[Babylon
** And in an explicit inversion/aversion of this trope there is one dish that ''every'' species has, which looks and tastes the same no matter which race prepares it, regardless of what the rest of their cuisine is like. The Narn call it "breen". Humans call it "Swedish meatballs".
* Showed up a lot in ''[[
== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Living Books]]'' adaptation of ''[[Green Eggs and Ham]]'' has a lot of oddly colored food in its [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dc4cqHpUl0 matching game]. Examples include pink fried chicken, striped hot dogs, and checkered waffles among others.
== Western Animation ==
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== Real Life ==
* Some genera of food plants have a relatively broad range of phenotype worldwide, but one particular form is dominant in a given region. And food preparation can vary in unexpected ways as well. So traveling to a different country, or just eating with people of a different ethnicity, may seem like this.
** Probably the most famous case of this is the carrot, which originally came in a variety of colors ranging from white to red to purple. Orange carrots only became widespread after Dutch farmers during and after the [[Eighty Years' War]] bred their carrots that way to proclaim their support for the House of Orange (and thus Dutch nationalism). For whatever reason, the color spread and stuck.
* And it is hardly unheard-of for chicken eggs to have moderately dark, greenish yolks, though commercially produced eggs in some countries tend to a brighter yellow. There are also breeds of chicken that consistently lay eggs with green shells. There are also blue, pink, gray, and probably others.
* Various traditional preservation methods and processing techniques leave food looking, smelling and sometimes even tasting distinctly inedible because food only had to ''last''. This is in contrast with modern food technology, which aims to modify taste and shelf life with as little cosmetic change as possible even if artificial means must be used. Corning beef will turn it an unappetizing gray color, but saltpetre can be added to the brine to preserve its reddish-pink color.
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[[Category:Food Tropes]]
[[Category:Palette
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