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* In ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', the Ewoks initially think our heroes are food. Except Leia since she ran into Wicket, a single Ewok, first.
* ''[[Troll 2]]'': The goblins try to treat the Waits family to Nilbog food so that they can turn them into "half-man, half-plant" goblin food.
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* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [[Madagascar]], when the lemurs are discussing Julian's plan for Alex. When the fosa are mentioned, panic breaks out, and one of the lemurs holds a book with the title "To Serve Lemur," screaming that it's a cookbook.
* The iconic giant plant from ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'', is an {{spoiler|alien species that}} survives only by feeding off of fresh human blood, and {{spoiler|arrived on earth in the first place to conquer America and feed off of its inhabitants, supposedly due to an extreme lack of food on the species' native planet.}}
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* [[Inverted]] in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "The Problem with Popplers". The Planet Express crew discover a delicious life form on an uncharted planet, and market it as a snack food. Unfortunately for them, it turns out the popplers are actually larval Omicronians, who are none too pleased when they find out. Somewhat subverted when the Omicronians insist on eating humans (i.e., Leela) as compensation. Unfortunately for them, {{spoiler|she isn't a human, she's a mutant.}} But the difference isn't easy to notice in behavior.
** Parodied in the chapter about the slurm's factory
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'''Leela:''' Nah, there is already a soda with that.
'''Fry:''' Really? how's it taste?
'''Leela:''' It varies from person to person. }}
** "Human Horns" (noses) are valued as aphrodisiacs, most likely due to a misguided assumption it's the human [[Unusual Euphemism|wing-dang-doodle.]]
** Glagnar's Human Rinds are popular enough that they [[Post Modernism|sponsor the show.]]
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* Subverted in an episode of Sunbow's ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', of all things, where Scarlett mentions that animals actually find that humans taste rather bad (all while being chased by a mind-controlled T-Rex).
* The Uglions in the ''[[Sam and Max]]'' animated series open a restaurant "to serve man". The [[Twilight Zone]] episode gets another [[Shout-Out]] in the game "What's New Beelzbub?", when Max exclaims that Stinky's baby book is a cookbook.
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* [[Real Life]] aversion: While great white sharks do attack human surfers, such cases are generally thought to be mistaken identity, as they virtually always spit them out after a single exploratory bite. Seals and other marine mammals, the shark's staple diet, have much thicker subcutaneous fat than humans, so a quick taste is enough to convince a great white that our flesh is too lean to be worth consuming.
* Carl Sagan, in ''Pale Blue Dot'', has a footnote about this during a part of the book where he refutes various arguments against watching for other life.
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* An Australian cookbook has a typo listing "freshly ground black people" as ingredients for a recipe. "To Serve Man" jokes ensue http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8627335.stm
* Abundant fossil evidence indicates that early human ancestors were regularly food for any number of large carnivores, including big cats, hyenas, and eagles. One species, Dinofelis, a leopard sized sabretoothed cat, may have even been a hominid specialist. This continued up to at least the time of Homo erectus, the discoverer of fire and the first human species to legitimately be a competent major predator in its own right.
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