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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[Naruto]]''. When Sasuke goes out to look for Naruto one morning in the Land of Waves arc, Sakura calls after him, saying that he hasn't touched his breakfast, but then looks and sees that he's already eaten without her noticing it.
* The characters in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'' tend to take their meals at the Chao Bao Zi or [[Bland-Name Product|Starbooks]]. We rarely see them actually eat there (in vol. 3, the group has just ordered a round of coffees they left at the table).
* Played with in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', where the characters ''do'' comment on Tenma's tendency to leave his food <s>unfinished</s> untouched.
* A running gag in ''[[Lupin III]]'': [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist|Zenigata]] is eating at a cafe when he notices Lupin and the gang, he leaves his food behind to chase after them.
* During the Mythyrian Numbers Arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal]]'', Yuma, Shark, and Kaito find a temple on top of a mountain where the Number they seek should be; while there, Yuma is quickly drawn to a pot of delicious-smelling soup cooking, only for an angry old man — [[Cool Old Guy|
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* There's a comic where [[Wolverine]] and [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]] meet in a little diner to exchange information, and Wolverine mentions that the place has great pie. The waitress shows up, and since Cap isn't bothering with the secret identity
** Wolverine ends up doing this once. After spending weeks in the Canadian wilderness while being pursued by the vampire Bloodscream and the cyborg Cylla, he manages to reach a small town and immediately heads for the diner and orders a pile of burgers. He eats several before finding out that his motorcycle, which he had left at some gas station, has been delivered there. Then he runs out of the diner, throwing down enough money to cover the bill as he does so.
* Mercury from ''[[X-Men]]'' regularly visits a local cafe and orders coffee even though she doesn't (and can't) drink it since her mutation transformed her into a piece of sapient living metal. She explains to X-23 that she likes the warmth of the coffee and more importantly, [[I Just Want to Be Normal|doing something normal like going out for coffee helps her feel normal]].
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* Inverted with ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' as the castle performs a humongous production number about serving Belle dinner; unless she was stuffing her face every time the camera cut away, she only gets to taste a couple dishes with her finger and eat the cherry off the top of a pie.
** Maybe the makers were too busy with the production number to even bother showing her eating.
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* In [[Pinocchio]] while at Pleasure Island Pinocchio and Lampwick are seen eating an ice cream cone and a pie and a whole turkey respectively, once they discover the tent for "The Rough House" (where boys go to fight) they toss the food away after only a few bites each, probably thinking they would get more later since everything was free.
* Remy of ''[[Ratatouille]]'' cooked at least three different dishes in the first half hour of the movie yet always got interrupted trying to eat them. Indeed, it's only well after then that he gets to eat anything at all, when Linguini notices he looks dazed and gives him a piece of cheese.
* In ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]'', this occurs when Martin Blank and Grocer meet at a diner. After being a complete jackass to the waitress about wanting a plain eggwhite omelette, he drops the plate on the floor when it arrives to distract Grocer (they both have guns on each other under the table) and leaves.
* Played straight in ''[[Formula 51|The 51st State]]'', when Felix gives the traditional dish of fish and chips to Elmo who looks upon it with disgust, promptly throwing it out the car.
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** Were they seen actually putting food in their mouths? It would make sense for vampires to at least pretend to chew, if they're spending lunchtime in public.
* In ''[[I, Robot (film)|I, Robot]]'', Del Spooner accepts a cup of coffee, which he even prepares by liberally spooning sugar into. At the end of his visit, he thanks his host for the coffee, and leaves without having taken a sip.
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* Used comically in ''[[Our Man Flint]]'', who goes to Marseilles and a series of restaurants, ordering bouillabaise to find a specific mix of ingredients he found as a clue - he repeatedly takes one spoon's worth, sometimes just smelling it, and asks for the check.
* Accidentally averted by Rosemary Clooney in ''[[White Christmas]]'':
* Jim's inability to eat any of his Thanksgiving dinner (including what are obviously stone-cold mashed potatoes) becomes a plot point that launches the climax and resolution of ''[[Holiday Inn]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Deliberately played straight with [[Anne Rice]]'s ''[[The Vampire Chronicles|The Vampire Lestat]]''. The title character states that he does this deliberately with tea and coffee because he likes the way the warm beverage feels. Naturally, being a vampire, he can't actually drink it anyway, so it's always wasted.
* Same thing happens in [[Christopher Moore]]'s ''[[Bloodsucking Fiends]]''. Jody, a newly-turned vampire, has realized her body [[I Do Not Drink... Wine|will automatically reject food and drink]]. So when she has dinner with Tommy, she only orders a coffee and just spends the meal "contemplating" it.
* In ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]'', Charlie pays for a meal without eating it after seeing how the restaurant treats a slow busboy.
* This happens all the time in ''[[American Psycho]]''. A lot of the action takes place in high-class restaurants, where course after course is brought and usually left untouched. This is used to emphasize the extremely materialistic and wasteful natures of the characters.
* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', Bella learns that the Cullens buy lunch every day to put up appearances of being human, and then toss said lunches. She even watches Alice dump her entire lunch uneaten. Why the vampires bother is a mystery, since anyone watching them even
* Near the end of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[The Graveyard Book]]'', we see
* In ''[[Honor Harrington|Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington]]'' there's a scene where several of Honor's senior officers look on in wonder as she builds a rather impressive
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Skins]]'' have a scene where the resident anorexic teenager shows how she manages to go through a family-meal without taking a single bite. It was as impressive as it was scary.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aw6e8ntm38 this scene starts at 2:03 of this collection of clips about her]
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* In one episode of the Spanish police soap ''[[Los Hombres De Paco]]'', after Curtis interrupts lunch between Pepa and Silvia by deciding to sit down with them subsequently ordering salad, takes one fork stabful of it, eats it then dabs his mouth with the paper towel and leaves after saying his piece to the two women. Bonus points for having the nerve to recommend it and presumably leaving them with the bill!
* Every time there's a spread of [[Food Porn|delectable dishes]] in [[Historical Fiction]] television shows and movies that of Ancient China, it's ''got'' to be the same set of props rotated around. The characters always just pick at the dishes and ''never eat a damn thing''.
** Given what Ancient Chinese cuisine counted as
* Usually averted in ''[[Law and Order]]'': When the regular characters are interrupted while eating, either they'll blow off the interuptee and go back to their meal or the next scene will show them at their workstations, eating said food from take-out cartons.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', Janeway's replicator flubs, and she can't have [[Must Have Caffeine|her daily coffee]]. Neelix offers her a "better-than-coffee substitute" (which has the viscosity of honey), but a communicator call pulls her away before she can have a sip. Subverted as she is relieved that she was called away.
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* ''[[Power Rangers]]''
** Happens fairly often, particularly in the Zordon-era: one or more members of the team is about to have lunch, usually in the Juice Bar, when the call to action comes in, and they have to leave, leaving the food unfinished.
** Parodied in one episode of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''
** Emphasized in one episode of Power Rangers Turbo where Bulk and Skull (who are currently monkeys, due to [[Baleful Polymorph|
** And again in ''[[Power Rangers Megaforce]]'' where Jake orders a smoothie for Gia (and pays for it) and is about to give it to her before he gets called away for duty.
** The Trope is ''not'' played for laughs in one episode of ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]''. Mike befriends a young woman and invites her to a restaurant, but has to leave quickly to help his allies deal with the [[Monster of the Week]] before he can eat his hamburger - lucky thing too, because she's actually [[Dark Action Girl|
** A running gag on [[Power Rangers RPM]] is that Flynn will prepare a smoothie, but never get to finish/drink without being called into duty.
* Appears a number of times in ''Get Smart'', usually when Max is eating lunch with a KAOS/double agent, or the target of an assassination. Often subverted in the latter case.
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* Both subverted and played straight in Bones, as the characters often seem to eat the food they order, whether coffee or hot dogs, (in fact, [[John Francis Dailey]] sometimes has trouble with eating berries and getting them in his teeth, but occasionally seem to run in and out of the Royal Diner at random without eating what they order, ordering anything, or waiting for their order to arrive, often ending with a completely different person sitting at the table than the ones who originally sat down to order.
* Happens often in the earlier episodes of ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'', "[[Big Eater]]" Jake nearly always leaves most of his food, once even leaving an entire hamburger.
* A rather cruel example happens in one of the original shorts from ''[[The Electric Company]]''; a woman walks into a diner and asks what the special is. The rather flustered manager suggests the And Sandwich, which is ham AND cheese, AND tomato, AND bacon, AND lettuce, AND bologna, AND cream cheese, AND celery, AND chopped meat, AND soy sauce, AND coleslaw, AND meatloaf, AND pot roast, AND olives, AND tuna fish, AND turkey, AND shrimp, AND corned beef, AND peanut butter, AND liverwurst. [[Overly Long Gag|
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Similar to the above Anne Rice example, this is common for vampires in both ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' and ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]''. Vampiric digestive systems can only process blood, so they can't eat at formal events. Part of the [[Masquerade]] is learning the slight-of-hand needed to keep people from noticing you never
** At least in ''Vampire: The Masquerade'', some vampires have the ability to keep human food down for a couple hours, though they would eventually have to vomit it back up. Some Nosferatu with this ability even managed to weaponize it by projectile vomiting on their enemies.
** One story has the vampire narrator mentioning an alcoholic beverage called a [[w:Rusty Nail (cocktail)|Rusty Nail]] that the mayor's ghoul servant favors. Later on the ghoul becomes a vampire himself. The narrator still pours him a Rusty Nail when he arrives, as a sentimental gesture, so he can hold it and still feel human.
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* In the British comedy sketch ''[[Dinner for One]]'', the butler James serves her mistress Miss Sophie a plate of Mulligatawny soup, chicken, North Sea haddock, and finally some fruit, all of which comes with an appropriate wine. All this goes so fast on stage, however, that Miss Sophie barely gets to eat anything, and James carries most of it away again (and sends some of it flying when he trips over the tiger hat). Also, Miss Sophie doesn't drink nearly as much as James, but then again, drinking half as much as James may already be hazardous, for a 90-year-old lady no less.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* When you first meet Zaalbar in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', he's waiting for his food to get in. Mission orders him to come stand up for her when she gets bullied by a couple of Black Vulkars. Zaalbar complains about how his food just showed up, but does it anyway. Then, after a brief conversation with the main character, Mission tells Zaalbar they're leaving. When Zaalbar complains that he ''still'' hasn't gotten to eat his food yet, Mission just brushes him off and says they'll get something to eat at the Hidden Bek base.
* In ''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]'', you quite often end up interrupting nazis (especially officers) while they've got piping hot meals on their tables. This is to your advantage, for both in-character and [[Hyperactive Metabolism|gameplay reasons]].
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* Everyone knows how much the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] just ''love'' pizza. But in when they appear in the ''[[Injustice 2]]'' DLC, one of Raphael's victory poses has him taking one slice from a fresh pizza, muttering, "Mmmm, pepperoni!" and then [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|throwing the rest of it at the player.]] Yep, Raphael is cool, but ''rude''.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Megatokyo]]'', this is done [http://megatokyo.com/strip/435 repeatedly] with [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Miho Tohya]]'s food, which fueled [[Epileptic Trees|speculation]] about what exactly she ''is''. It was practically a [[The Reveal|reveal]] when she was first shown to actually take a bite of something, [[Webcomics Long Runners|six years into the comic's run]].
** It's equally strange that
* ''[[Dead Winter]]'': Monday and Liz [http://deadwinter.cc/page/32 meet] while Liz is still a waitress, but Monday spots some of his adversaries outside and disappears without eating...or paying. Liz eventually gets [http://deadwinter.cc/page/300 payback.]
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* In the Thanksgiving episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', it is both played straight out loud and [[Averted Trope|averted]] in a home-based example. Mr. Burns is seated in front of a spread for easily a dozen people or more, yet only has a few slices of turkey since he's saving room for Smithers' pumpkin pie.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Roswell That Ends Well", Fry and his suppose-to-be-Grandfather order a coffee and meal respectively from Fry's will-be-Grandma, but after panicking over the potential hazards inherent in the diner Fry and co. run out before ever receiving their order. Notable for showing the will-be-Grandma's upset reaction to this.
** However, this trope has nothing at all to do with...
{{quote|'''Hermes:''' [[Running Gag|MY MANWICH!!]]}}
* Happens occasionally in the later seasons of ''[[Daria]]'' at the local pizza place, what with
** On one occasion Daria is left sitting there alone and depressed. She takes her drink and pours it on top of her pizza, having clearly lost her appetite.
* Subverted in a ''[[Kids in The Hall]]'' sketch: two policemen are eating in a diner when they recognize three other customers as wanted criminals, who realize that they've been spotted. They immediately start racing to finish their meals before beginning the chase.
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* Rather cruel example in the "Titans East" episode of ''[[Teen Titans]]''. Cyborg rewards his new team by making spaghetti with his ''delicious'' looking sauce made with beef, pork, and chicken. Unfortunately, Brother Blood chooses this exact moment to activate the latent [[Manchurian Agent]] programming he planted in them, forcing Cyborg to ''throw'' it aside in his attempt to restrain them.
* Two harsh examples of wasting food occur in the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "The Brave and the Bold". At the beginning of the episode, Flash is flirting with two girls, with enough food for ten people (given how high his metabolism is, he always eats like that). However, duty calls, and he has to leave it unfinished to stop a runaway truck. Later, he orders about twenty hamburgers from a vendor, but again is called to heroics when Solovar steals a car, leaving them uneaten.
* Happens many times in all versions of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''; the heroes may love pizza, but that doesn't stop them from using it [[Improvised Weapon|
** A rather unpleasant example of this was in the "Weird Pizza" episode. The Shredder uses a tracking device on a pizza to find the Turtles, unaware that the Rat King has swiped it. After he and the heroes encounter each other in the Rat King's lair, Leonardo hits Shredder with the pizza - nonethless, after Shredder is driven away and the heroes leave, Rat King still has no problem eating it.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Incidentally, can easily be [[Truth in Television]] for business lunches and interviews held during a lunch. You never want to get caught with your mouth full of food when asked a question, you can't eat hurriedly (not proper), and you can't hold up everyone else while you finish the current course. Very painful for people who were brought up that throwing away food was one of the [[Seven Deadly Sins]].
** Unless you're lucky enough to get one of those bosses or clients that says "Alright, now let's ''eat'', huh?" once the important stuff is finished.
** Whatever happened to the "three martini lunch" meeting?
*** Accountability. Nowadays, you'll have to make to the executive level for those.
**** Maybe in the 1950s. [[Society Marches On|Today it's generally frowned
* This happens all the time. [[Late for School|It's called breakfast and a clock.]]
* [[w:Promotion of anorexia|Pro-Ana]], which is short for "promotion of anorexia". Considering that anorexia can be fatal for the people who do it, this is both a waste of a sandwich and a waste of a life.
* Happens on a fairly regular basis for people in jobs that require you to be 'on duty' your entire shift, such as police, security guards, firefighters, etc.
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