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* The title character of the children's picture book ''The Very Hungry Caterpillar'' stuffs himself by eating through various foods<ref>1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges, 1 piece of chocolate cake, 1 ice cream cone, 1 pickle, 1 slice of Swiss cheese, 1 piece of salami, 1 piece of cherry pie, 1 sausage, 1 cupcake, and 1 slice of watermelon</ref> for six days, giving himself a stomach ache. After eating a green leaf, he feels better, then pupates and emerges as a butterfly.
* In ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'', centaurs are an entire race of Big Eaters. They had two stomachs, one of a horse and one of a man, so they had to fill both of these stomachs, and ate heartily for both. Their breakfast might include porridge, pavendors, kidneys, bacon, an omeleyte, cold ham, toast, marmalade, coffee and beer. They then would graze for an hour before eating hot mash, some oats and a bag of sugar.
* In some versions of [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|"The Golden Goose"]], a King offers Simpleton - the protagonist - his daughter's hand in marriage if he can complete three [[Impossible Task]]s, the first two being finding someone who can eat a mountain of bread and find someone who can drink all the wine in the kingdom. Fortunately Simpleton has befriended a [[The Fair Folk|"little grey man"]] who finds such an amount to be a light snack. He easily helps with the third task too, building ship that can sail on both land and sea.
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