History Main / CannibalLarder

** A prequel side story focuses on [[VillainousGlutton Rize]]. Early on, her land lady approaches her to discuss a complaint about a smell coming from her apartment, which Rize claims is from trash she allowed to accumulate. Later on, we see that its actually because she's got a bath tub filled with blood and body parts.

* It must be played for visceral, gross-out horror. A spic-and-span futuristic Soylent Green factory where bodies disappear into a machine at one end and squares of finished product come out the other wouldn't qualify;
* The body parts are being stored for purposes of consumption, or are the accumulated residue of previous butchering for food. A room full of transplant organs wouldn't qualify. Neither would a carcass that's just left lying around at a kill site; and

* According to Spannish records, the Aztec had butcher shops to process people (sacrificial victims) much like sheep or cows. There is naturally some controversy about this; while cannibalism might had been a thing in ancient mesoamerican peoples, isotope studies show that most Aztec would rather eat deer or turkey over other humans, and there is no evidence of specialised butcher shops for that matter.

* The body parts must either be from people (humans, or something else sapient), ''or'' from the part-collector's own species, or both.

* In the ''Series/{{Blood Drive}} second episode, the infamous Pixie Hollow diner is discovered to be a haven for cannibals by Arthur, where the guests are made into dinner. Apparently the food is quite delicious.

* The body parts must either be from people (humans, or something that serves the same role as humans in the story), ''or'' from the part-collector's own species, or both.

If it's [[ToServeMan aliens or monsters]] eating people, expect this trope to overlap with AllWebbedUp or PeopleJars. See also TortureCellar for similar FridgeLogic. Contrast with GeinDecoration, where the killer gets... creative with his victim's remains.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' of all things has a comedic non-human variant when Sebastian the crab (who comes from an aquatic society of {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s in which NoCartoonFish does ''not'' apply) stumbles upon an AxCrazy chef [[CruellaToAnimals hacking up seafood while gleefully singing]] a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJxBEQRLd0 gruesome little ditty]] about it. Sebastian reacts exactly how you'd react to seeing a room full of butchered human corpses.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' has a comedic non-human variant when Sebastian the crab (who comes from an aquatic society of {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s in which NoCartoonFish does ''not'' apply) stumbles upon an AxCrazy chef hacking up seafood while gleefully singing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJxBEQRLd0 gruesome little ditty]] about it. Sebastian reacts exactly how you'd react to seeing a room full of butchered human corpses.

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* OlderThanDirt in Myth/EgyptianMythology, where the Ogdoad (the primordial gods) sometimes acted as Apep's agents and run a slaughterhouse for the souls of the dead in the afterlife.
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If it's [[ToServeMan aliens or monsters]] eating people, expect this trope to overlap with AllWebbedUp or PeopleJars. See also TortureCellar for similar FridgeLogic.

* It must be played for visceral, gross-you-out horror. A spic-and-span futuristic Soylent Green factory where bodies disappear into a machine at one end and squares of finished product come out the other wouldn't qualify;

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' has a comedic non-human variant when Sebastian the crab (who comes from an aquatic society of {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s in which NoCartoonFish does ''not'' apply) stumbles upon an AxCrazy chef hacking up seafood while gleefully singing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJxBEQRLd0 gruesome little ditty]] about it. Sebastian reacts exactly how a human would react to seeing a room full of butchered corpses.

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* A ''very'' BlackComedy ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' article listed "Everyday Annoyances of Serial Killers". One of them was "Your doctor has advised you to cut back on cholesterol -- and you still have twelve farmhands stacked in your freezer."

* The very last episode of ''Series/LostTapes'' has such a scene, set deep underneath New York in one of the city's many uncharted subterranean tunnels, featuring numerous missing persons wrapped up in plastic after having been asphyxiated. Much like the ''Parasyte'' example above, it's a bit unusual since while it has all the hallmarks of a Cannibal Larder, the culprits technically aren't cannibals since they [[TheReptilians aren't actually human]].

* In the first ''OddThomas'' novel, Thomas finds a very tidy such larder in the killer's refrigerator. It's unclear if they are truly intended for eating, or are just trophies.

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* In the ''MyLittlePony'' fanfic "FanFic/{{Cupcakes}}", Pinkie Pie adorns her room with painted skulls, disembodied pony heads and streamers made from dried- up intestines, among other things.

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* The TropeCodifier would be the original ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''.
** Ubiquitous in CannibalClan movies.

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* A ''very'' BlackComedy ''{{Magazine/MAD}}'' article listed "Everyday Annoyances of Serial Killers". One of them was "Your doctor has advised you to cut back on cholesterol - and you still have twelve farmhands stacked in your freezer."

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' has a comedic non-human variant when Sebastian the crab (who comes from an aquatic society of {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s in which NoCartoonFish does ''not'' apply) stumbles upon an AxCrazy chef hacking up seafood while gleefully singing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJxBEQRLd0 gruesome little ditty]] about it. He reacts exactly how a human would react to seeing a room full of butchered corpses.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' has a comedic non-human variant when Sebastian the crab (who comes from an aquatic society of [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merfolk]] and {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s in which NoCartoonFish does ''not'' apply) stumbles upon an AxCrazy chef hacking up seafood while gleefully singing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJxBEQRLd0 gruesome little ditty]] about it. He reacts exactly how a human would react to seeing a room full of butchered corpses.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' has a comedic non-human variant when Sebastian the crab (who comes from an aquatic society of {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s in which NoCartoonFish does ''not'' apply) stumbles upon an AxCrazy chef hacking up seafood while gleefully singing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJxBEQRLd0 gruesome little ditty]] about it. He reacts exactly how a human would react to seeing a room full of butchered corpses.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' has a comedic non-human variant when Sebastian the crab (who comes from an aquatic society of {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s in which NoCartoonFish does ''not'' apply) stumbles upon an AxCrazy chef hacking up seafood while gleefully singing a gruesome ditty about it. He reacts exactly how a human would react to seeing a room full of butchered corpses.

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* In ''Literature/RedDragon'' it's implied that Hannibal Lecter had one in his basement, as the first officer who entered his basement ended up traumatized and took early retirement.

* When police broke into the farmhouse of serial killer Ed Gein, who would serve as inspiration for ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'' and other horror stories, they found a terrifying array of human remains. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein#Crimes See for yourself]] over at TheOtherWiki.

* Associated with ogres in most settings. Taken to its logical extreme with ''{{Warhammer}}'''s ogre "butchers" who are both the tribal cooks and shamans, and often carry a stock of body parts (of various edibility) with them as snacks and spell components. One butcher special character drags along an enormous cauldron, which radiates an increasingly powerful buff as it is filled with enemy bodies.