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* In [[Bruce Coville]]'s ''[[Aliens Ate My Homework]]'' series, Rod is briefly disgusted when told that the aliens he's working with raise worms for food. One of the [[Can't Argue with Elves|aliens haughtily replies]] that his species doesn't believe in eating creatures as intelligent as the ones ''humans'' raise for food.
** In his ''My Teacher is an Alien'' series, the kids are served something called "Pleskits", which are purple, crusty, and extremely delicious. The aliens explain that Pleskits are a type of fungus, which isn't so bad. Then they reveal what it is they ''grow on''. The reader isn't told, but the kids no longer want to eat them.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', Granny Weatherwax, complaining about foreign names for food, mentions the meal they had yesterday was nice "but they called it Cwuissses dee Grenolly, and who knows what ''that'' means?" Nanny Ogg gives the translation (frogs' legs) without thinking, then hastily adds that it's a joke name, like [[wikipedia:Toad-in-the-hole|toad-in-the-hole]].
** Discworld also had an inversion in ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]''. A group of dwarves find out that their 'rat pies' are made of chicken, and complain to the watch about unsafe food.
** Subverted in ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'' when Vimes is offered an ''eyeball'' to eat by desert tribesmen. He correctly guesses this is a trick that they play on all their guests and refuses to eat it.
*** Then they give him "lamb and rice, just like mother," which Vimes ''still'' thinks looks a shade questionable, although he eats it anyway.
*** When visiting [[Überwald]] Vimes is given some very strange sausages, and asks why they're all pink and where the grey and white and green bits are. He's informed that Uberwald would ''hang'' anyone who tried to sell an Ankh-Morpork sausage, and that there all sausages must be made of named meat. And that this doesn't include being named "Spot" or "Ginger".
*** He then asks what an AM sausage would be called, "A loaf, your grace, or possibly a log". He also references "little bits of green you can only hope are herb", or something to that nature.
** Rincewind consistently finds himself dealngdealing with this trope. In [[The Colour of Magic|the first [[Discworld]] book]], he gets to drink wine made from "sea grapes" - which are tiny jellyfish. His resultant throwing up bemuses his host. He also comments that the pressed-seaweed biscuits "certainly taste like seaweed would taste if anyone was masochistic enough to eat seaweed."
*** In [[The Last Continent|his trip to XXXX]] he eats various (poisonous) grubs, beer-soup (vegemite), a meat pie in pea soup, the same again but ''gourmet'', and jam sandwiches found in the desert after finding a talking kangaroo.
**** Eats? He '''invents''' beer soup.
*** He also drinks funnelweb beer. That's not the name of the beer, it's the <s></s> only thing on a list of ingredients. The funnelweb spider is one of the most dangerous spiders in the world.
*** Also, he's eaten exploded whale meat chunks.
**** To clarify, meat chunks of a whale that was left on the shore to '''explode by itself.'''
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== Live -Action TV ==
* In the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Tikka to Ride", Kryten is told to find food after having his morality chip removed, and finds the body of a man who had been trampled to death. He reasons "If humans eat chicken, then they obviously eat their own species, otherwise they'd just be picking on the chickens!" and thinks it'd be a pity to waste the body when it'd barbecue so nicely...
* ''[[Sanford and Son|Sanford & Son]]'', where Fred misunderstands that Sangria is only ''named'' after blood.
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