History Main / DeliciousDistraction

* [[http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Chrononauts/Mysteries.html#1.1 Chrononauts]], the card game of time travel, includes an artifact from the 1939' Berlin World's Fair: a delicious slice of German Cake. You can use it during another player's turn to distract them and cancel whatever it is they were about to do.

* The ''[[AquaTeenHungerForce Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1]]'' episode "Lasagna" has [[JerkAss Master Shake]] distract Carl ([[ItMakesSenseInConxtext who is under house arrest after a hooker bit his tongue]]) with the eponymous pasta.

** In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', Glenda uses scrumptious pies to bribe her way past Lord Vetinari's security guards. Subverted in that Vetinari'd ordered the guards to accept any bribes regardless of their value or quality; played with in that he scolds his aide for having the pies disposed of, uneaten: he knew Glenda's mother was an exceptional chef, and neither she nor her daughter would dream of fouling a recipe with poison.

--->'''Homer''': I know! [Pulls ut string of sausages] These wieners will give me the quick energy I need to escape! [Homer eats them and suddenly speeds up, leaving the dogs in the dust]

* Ax from {{Animorphs}}. Oh, Ax from Animorphs.

* Ax from {{Animorphs}} . Oh, Ax from Animorphs.

* In the ''LuckyStarr'' series, David tries to distract some alien form of life by throwing them something they consider a delicacy. [[spoiler: The degree of success is one of the hints that they might not be that sentient after all...]]

* And, of course, anything that appeared in ''TheSimpsons'' eventually showed up in ''FamilyGuy''.

* [[TeamFortress2 Heavy Weapons Guy's]] [[EverythingsSatiatingWithSandwiches Sandvich]] proves to be one in-game. Loudly chomping down OM NOM NOM, he cannot react if someone attacks him while eating his Sandvich. Woe betide Heavy if there is an enemy Spy around or a Sniper gets a fix on him.

* In ChipAndDaleRescueRangers, cheese is a ridiculously effective distraction for Monty, even when the one with the cheese is only doing so unwittingly. In "Mind Your Cheese and Qs", Rat Capone has Gadget [[DeathTrap tied to a conveyor belt with a chopping thing somewhere along the way]], and distracts Monty from rescuing her by holding up Brie '86, his favorite cheese. He does end up rescuing her, but he really has a struggle.

* Cheese is a ridiculously effective distraction for [[ChipAndDaleRescueRangers Monty]], even when the one with the cheese is only doing so unwittingly. In "Mind Your Cheese and Qs", Rat Capone has Gadget [[DeathTrap tied to a conveyor belt with a chopping thing somewhere along the way]], and distracts Monty from rescuing her by holding up Brie '86, his favorite cheese. He does end up rescuing her, but he really has a struggle.

** Subverted in a Treehouse of Horror episode, when Homer is being chased by Ned Flanders' guard dogs. (ItMakesSenseInContext) He pulls out a giant sausage:
--->'''Homer''': Sausage! This will give me the quick energy I need to escape! [Homer eats the sausage and suddenly speeds up, leaving the dogs in the dust]

** In the original novel, they didn't have an excess special effects budget to be showing off, so they just set them on the banisters by the stairs, to exactly the same effect.
*** Also, one suspects that even Crabbe and Goyle would have noticed something fishy about muffins floating in mid-air in a hallway with no-one else around. A muffin on the banister, though, could have been set down by somenoe who forgot about it and wandered off.
*** Not necessarily. Remember, we're talking about ''Crabbe and Goyle'' here. They ain't exactly known for their Int and Wis scores.

* As with most things, ''TheSimpsons'' [[TheSimpsonsDidIt did it]].

--->'''Homer''': Sausage! This will give me the quick energy I need to escape! * Homer eats the sausage and suddenly speeds up, leaving the dogs in the dust*
* And, of course, if the Simpsons did it so has ''FamilyGuy''.

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* Just HOW can this page have existed before now without mentioning the numerous Hostess Snack Cake ads in comic books in the 70's and early 80's?

Hunger is a very powerful force. A starving man may degrade himself for a scrap of food; a [[TheHedonist hedonist]] will do so for a teaspoon of cous cous. [-Mmm... delicious-] ''[-cous cous.-]'' Even a man with a full stomach will have a hard time resisting a [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal marvelously mouthwatering meal or morsel]].

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