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* In ''Film/LethalWeapon3'', Murtaugh gives Riggs a box of dog biscuits after getting frustrated with Riggs' failed attempts to quit smoking. Riggs takes a bit of one and finds that he likes it. As a RunningGag through the rest of the film, he occasionally chows on more dog biscuits.

** ''Berry in the Big City'': In "It's My Purr-ty", Lemon Meringue decides to sample one of the cupcakes Strawberry baked for Custard's birthday party. Lime Chiffon tries to dissuade her from this by pointing out it's covered in cat food, to which Lemon shrugs and eats the entire thing anyway, calling it "crunchy" much to Lime's disgust. Lemon then proceeds to eat another one right as the IrisOut happens, much to Lime's chagrin.

* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake Berry Bitty Adventures'': Apple Dumplin' samples some of Strawberry's new biscuits, only to learn they're intended for dogs. Strawberry assures her that they're human-quality and that Strawberry herself ate several during the prep to make sure they were good, so there's nothing wrong about eating or even enjoying them, but Sour Grapes sees and starts bullying Apple about being a dog.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': In the season 1 episode "TotalDramaITripleDogDareYou I Triple Dog Dare You!", one of the dares given by booted contestants is to eat straight up dog food. Owen not only does it, but declares it's 'meaty tasting', causing even CHRIS to puke from disgust.

Similar to YoureDrinkingBreastMilk and sub trope to IAteWhat. This is the unintentional version of DogFoodDiet.

May be related to FeedByExample

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' "Missing Identity", [=SpongeBob=] comments that he has been feeding his pet snail Gary for years and doesn't even know what it tastes like. He doesn't like it, but later has to keep on eating it when he retraces his steps to find his eponymous identity.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Braceface'' episode "A Dog's Life" Adam eats some dog treats that were free samples at the pet store. He gags when he realizes what he's been eating...then immediately goes back to eating them.

%%* Happened in ''{{Film/Superman}} III''.

* In an early episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}},'' Brock shows the gang the food he developed for Pokémon. The {{Cloudcuckoolander}} scientist who's joined them for the episode tries it (not accidentally, this is after Brock's shown it to the group) and says he likes it, but every other non-Pokemon character finds it disgusting.

** A much later episode has Frasier and his KACL coworkers participating in a weight loss contest. They become so hysterical for food, they fight each other over a bowl of bird seed.

* In ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' whenever One and Two are hiding an animal in the office Two is sometimes ''forced'' to eat the animal's food to fool [[BadBoss Sir Gregory]] into thinking it's just his breakfast or medicine.

In RealLife, pet food can be made with a lower grade of meat than is permitted for human consumption, which means that a wider range of meat and meat byproducts can be added.

AliceAndBob are at a party and Bob starts to get a little hungry. So when he sees some food on a tray he helps himself to it. Cue Alice coming over and telling Bob he just ate the pet's food. Bob is either disgusted and spits the stuff out or [[ShrugTake shrugs]] and keeps eating the food.

In settings on the WrongSideOfTheTracks, impoverished, homeless characters may be shown intentionally eating cans of pet food, as it's all they can afford or post-apocalyptic setting, characters may intentionally eat cans of pet food do not count as this trope, as the people know they are eating pet food.

In settings on the WrongSideOfTheTracks, impoverished, homeless characters may be shown intentionally eating cans of pet food, as it's all they can afford. In a post-apocalyptic setting, characters may intentionally eat cans of pet food to avoid starvation.

In settings OnTheWrongSideOfTheTracks, impoverished, homeless characters may be shown intentionally eating cans of pet food, as it's all they can afford. In a post-apocalyptic setting, characters may intentionally eat cans of pet food to avoid starvation.

-->-- ''BirdsOfAFeather'', "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS7E3Cheers Cheers]]"

-->'''Sharon''': Sandwich?
-->'''Tracey''': What's in 'em?
-->'''Sharon''': Tuna.
-->'''Tracey''': I didn't know we had any tuna.
-->'''Sharon''': There's a tin started in the fridge.
-->'''Tracey''': That's not tuna, that's luxury cat food!