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== [[Film]] ==
* At the end of ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'', when a diner patron who ate the Alien Surprise starts moaning in pain, another character who ordered the same thing quickly changes his order.
* In ''[[Rear Window]]'', Stella's musing over murder methods put Jeff off his breakfast.
{{quote| "Now just where do you suppose he cut her up?" <br />
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* ''[[Tour of the Merrimack]]'': In ''The Myriad'', Captain Farragut describes over dinner how gorgons melt into caustic brown slime when they die, then tells his chef to skip the French onion soup.
* ''[[Slayers]]'': In the light novel ''The Battle of Saillune'', Lina and Gourry are attacked by a number of lesser demons that possessed items of food, including a nasty tentacle monster that emerges from their squid stew. After the fight, they order more food, and Gourry requests they skip the squid stew -- though Lina disagrees, saying it'll take more than that to make her lose her appetite.
* ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'': In ''The Android'', Marco's parents try to serve him chicken for dinner after he was nearly killed by a bird while in spider morph. Marco opts out.
* In ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'', during the dinner at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur initially orders a steak, changes to a salad when he finds out what the steak comes from, and eventually settles for a glass of water.
* Happens to Jessie and Cooper in ''[[Spellbent|Shotgun Sorceress]]'' when they discover that, as a side-effect of some necromantic magic they performed, they can feel the death of each item of food they taste. They regretfully pass up the rib-eye steak in favor of a salad.
* ''[[The Canterbury Tales (Literature)|The Canterbury Tales]]'' has an example in the description of The Cook in the prologue. While the Cook is a [[Supreme Chef]], Chaucer unfortunately can't enjoy a dish of his because its appearance reminds him too much of a nasty running sore the Cook has on his leg.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Leverage (TV)|Leverage]]'': Parker's attempt at social skills in "The Juror #6 Job". When told to convince Eliot to eat an orange instead of an apple, she chooses this tactic.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S22 E4 The Two Doctors|The Two Doctors]]'', the events of the story make the Doctor and Peri turn vegetarian. This holds until [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s tenure.
* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', there was the episode "Twins at the Tipton" where Maddie and London double date with twins and Maddie goes out with the nerdy twin. He starts saying all of this gross trivia at the dinner table, including that it takes "3 hours for meat to move through your intestines so the bile can churn up the gastric acid." Maddie then replies that she'll have a salad.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Drow TalesDrowtales]]'': In chapter 14, when the group of protagonists sits down for dinner, the drow Kyo'nne tells the human Vaelia that the preserved meat they're eating is human meat. She was just joking -- but since they ''don't'' actually know what kind of meat it is, and since drow ''do'' eat human meat, Vaelia decides to play it safe and have bread instead.
* "[[Mameshiba]]": In all of the episodes on the website, when a certain bean appears on the screen and tells the person who is about to eat it some random fact, they immediately stop eating their food or say "I'm done now."
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'': In the episode where Homer becomes a food critic, some chefs plan to assassinate him with a lethal eclair. After other attempts to stop Homer from eating it fail, Lisa tells him that it's low-fat, causing him to throw it away in disgust.
 
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