History Main / AnthropomorphicFood

* In ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' "D" tries her hand at making Valentine's Day chocolates. They move around and wail yet somehow still taste like chocolate. Even [[ExtremeOmnivore Shiraori]] won't eat them.

This Trope is very often found in a LevelAte setting. May be combined with PlantPerson where veggies are involved. Sometimes the anthropomorphic qualities are projected by someone who wishes the food were a person. This is seen in the trope CompanionFood. Can wear an EdibleThemeClothing if wrappers or peels are involved,

Different from ItCameFromTheFridge in that this isn't caused by poor housekeeping and isn't necessarily rotten food, though there is overlap. Different from LetsMeetTheMeat in that this is food that talks to you after it's been fully prepared, and whether or not it will be eaten may never be brought up. A walking steak would be an example, a cow wouldn't. ''Live animals that can be eaten are not this trope!'' A subtrope of AnimateInanimateObject. [[FunWithAlphabetSoup Alphabet soup]] is a popular victim.

* The ''Racist Carrot'' from the eponymous skit by Music/SalvatoreGanacci.

* The ''Racist Carrot'' from the eponymous skit by ''Music/SalvatoreGanacci''.

* In ''VideoGame/BurgerTime'', the enemies are the anthropomorphic Mr. Hot Dog, Mr. Pickle and Mr. Egg. There was also a little-known sequel called ''Diner'' which also had Mr. Hot Dog, along with Cheap Cherry, Bad Apple, and Mugsey the Mug 'o Root Beer.

* PlayedForHorror in an episode of Series/TalesFromTheDarkSide: a "revolutionary weight loss system" consists of a hearing aid and glasses that cause the woman who wears them to perceive (ordinary, inanimate) food as alive and desperate not to be eaten. And they don't come off...

* ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' is filled with antropomorphic food, from the enemies and bosses you fight to food that accompanies you.

* The antagonist of ''Animation/MoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure'' is the Gourd King. Besides his many gourd soldiers, the Gourd King also has minions who are a winter melon, a pumpkin, a cantaloupe, and a watermelon.

* The antagonist of the third ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' movie is the Gourd King. Besides his many gourd soldiers, the Gourd King also has minions who are a winter melon, a pumpkin, a cantaloupe, and a watermelon.

* ''WesternAnimation/FollowTheSun'' is a parody/{{Homage}} of "Let's Go to the Lobby" ads, complete with cute anthropomorphic food marching their way through the parking lot. [[spoiler: At least for the first 30 seconds, that is. After one of them messes up the march, the short slowly but surely [[SurpriseCreepy turns into pure horror]].]]

* The ''Series/BananasInPyjamas'' were this.

* ''Series/BerndDasBrot'' from German Children TV.
* The "Sam Spud: Par-boiled Potato Detective" skits from ''Series/BetweenTheLions''.
-->'''Girl''': (in front of TV) Mom! There's a talking potato on a stick with no mouth that's wearing a hat and using a typewriter!

* An episode of ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' of all shows has the people in the Land of Make-Believe eating fortune cookies and reading their fortunes. One of the cookies comes to life, represented by a man in a fortune cookie costume. The cookie speaks Spanish, but naturally the others have no trouble understanding him.
* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': the majority of the cast is food items with Mr. Potato Head arms sticking out of them, including a stack of baloney, a can of whipped cream, and even a slice of fruitcake!
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
** In the episode featuring Creator/GildaRadner, the guest star performs selections from [[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance The Carrots of Penzance]] accompanied by a seven-foot-tall talking carrot. Singing food also makes regular appearances on the show.
** The Swedish Chef tends to encounter this sort of thing all the time, and they're usually hostile. (The fact that his methods are... unorthodox at best is one likely reason.)
* The Refrigerator Food in ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse''. It was quite the party inside that refrigerator...the freezer, too.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** In a classic sketch, Cookie Monster has an AcidRefluxNightmare in which singing cookies taunt him.
** In one of the "Here Is Your Life" sketches, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW9B7fP-Qg8 Guy Smiley's guest was a loaf of bread.]]
** An animated insert has a newswoman interviewing Original Jay, whose pizzas talk, sing opera and do handstands.
** Another skit involved [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment a bizarre stop-motion orange]] creating a face using random objects on the kitchen counter, then singing "Habanera" from the George Bizet opera ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' until her face flies off.
** Also, the [[ExactlyWhatitSaysontheTin Singing Food]] characters.
* ''Series/{{Telefrancais}}'': One of the main characters is an anthropomorphic pineapple [[ADogNamedDog named Ananas]].

* All the enemies and bosses in ''VideoGame/PanicRestaurant'' except for an oven and the FinalBoss.

** "The Enchanted Upchucks", Retch, Hurl, and Spew, animate half-eaten food that [[HilarityEnsues "helped"]] Rocko when he was sick in the episode "Flu-in-you-enza". They appear out of the toilet after Rocko throws up.

* ''LightNovel/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'': One of the first creatures Maple fights in New World Online is a rabbit that's actually a [[https://tasty.co/recipe/bunny-shaped-apple-slices decorative apple slice]] come to life.

* "[[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/milkcookieswt.htm Milk and Cookies]]" (read: ComicBook/CloakAndDagger parody) from ''Marvel What-The'' are probably TOO human to count.

* ''ComicStrip/SouthernFriedFugitives'', which used to run in Magazine/{{Nickelodeon Magazine}}, was about four pieces of fried chicken on the run.

* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' has the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the Sumerian god Gozer taking the form of a giant marshmallow mascot, who manages to mix this trope with AttackOfThe50FootWhatever.
* ''Film/TheGingerdeadMan''. Basically ''Film/ChildsPlay'' if Chucky were a cookie.

** {{Deconstructed}} in ''The Delicious Last Course'': [[spoiler:All of the Wondertart ingredients you've collected throughout Inkwell Isle IV (except for the Pineapple Mint) are revealed to be sentient, and they are ''not'' happy when Chef Saltbaker begins to remorselessly butcher them during his boss fight, with their remains being used as projectiles]].

* VideoGame/KrakenAcademy has the creatively named "Broccoli Girl", who's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A walking, talking peice of broccoli.]] [[spoiler: Actually, she's a human who was cursed, and only turns back into a normal girl on the full moon. Ironically, she actually ''prefers'' her broccoli form because it's so cute.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' had "The Enchanted Upchucks", Retch, Hurl, and Spew, animate half-eaten food that [[HilarityEnsues "helped"]] Rocko when he was sick in the episode "Flu-in-you-enza". They appear out of the toilet after Rocko throws up.
** Who could forget the ShowWithinAShow ''JustForFun/WackyDelly'' about a salami, a baloney and a cheese (who is in his own words ''[[SmallNameBigEgo "better than the salami and the baloney combined"]]'')?

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Fear Itself", Control Freak turns candy (among other things) to life. Cyborg defeats it by eating it, which turns out to be a bad idea; it makes him sick.

* The ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' franchise, where every playable character is a sentient gingerbread cookie, with pets, monsters, and other NPCs being sentient foods and desserts of all kinds.

* ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'': "A Cop and His Donut" had [[TheyFightCrime a rookie cop teaming up with a talking donut to fight crime]].