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** Hans von Luck, a fairly young German officer during World War II (he started as a first lieutenant and ended as a colonel) who became well known after the war as a memoirist, wrote about an incident on the Eastern front where the reconnaissance unit that he led overran a Russian headquarters unexpectedly and captured a table full of uneaten breakfast that the Russian commander and his staff had to abandon in a hurry. Luck met the Russian officer whose breakfast he ate years later, when, as a POW in USSR, he chanced to meet this man, who was a colonel of the reserves during the war and, by this time, had become the local communist party leader in the region where the camp was located. The Russian thought the situation was ActuallyPrettyFunny and did what he could to make Luck's stay in the POW camp comfortable, considering the circumstances.

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** Hans von Luck, a fairly young German officer during World War II (he started as a first lieutenant and ended as a colonel) who became well known after the war as a memoirist, wrote about an incident on the Eastern front where the reconnaissance unit that he led overran a Russian headquarters command post unexpectedly and captured a table full of uneaten breakfast that the Russian commander and his staff had to abandon in a hurry. Luck met the Russian officer whose breakfast he ate years later, when, as a POW in USSR, he chanced to meet this man, who was a colonel of the reserves during the war and, by this time, had become the local communist party leader in the region where the camp was located. The Russian thought the situation was ActuallyPrettyFunny and did what he could to make Luck's stay in the POW camp comfortable, considering the circumstances.
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* At the same time, highly mobile and fluid campaigns featured one or both sides surprising the other at mealtime and capturing their food, or, more generally, capturing the other side's food supply. Some campaigns, in fact, depended critically on captured food supplies (e.g. Germans in North Africa, especially during their drive into Egypt, and the Japanese during the Malaya campaign).
** Hans von Luck, a fairly young German officer during World War II (he started as a first lieutenant and ended as a colonel) who became well known after the war as a memoirist, wrote about an incident on the Eastern front where the reconnaissance unit that he led overran a Russian headquarters unexpectedly and captured a table full of uneaten breakfast that the Russian commander and his staff had to abandon in a hurry. Luck met the Russian officer whose breakfast he ate years later, when, as a POW in USSR, he chanced to meet this man, who was a colonel of the reserves during the war and, by this time, had become the local communist party leader in the region where the camp was located. The Russian thought the situation was ActuallyPrettyFunny and did what he could to make Luck's stay in the POW camp comfortable, considering the circumstances.
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* In one ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} story, Wolverine is at a diner having ordered a pie when [[ArchEnemy Sabretooth]] walks in and helps himself to it in front of Wolverine just to be a dick and annoy him.

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* In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', Koro-sensei tends to overreact when the food he brings back from overseas winds up lost or stolen. In his introductory chapter, Karma baits Koro-sensei into a trap by stealing the gelato he bought from Italy and eating it in front of him during a quiz.

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* In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', Koro-sensei tends to overreact when the food he brings back from overseas winds up lost or stolen. In This fact is exploited by Karma; in his introductory chapter, Karma baits Koro-sensei into a trap by stealing the gelato he bought from Italy and eating it in front of him during a quiz.


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* Done in ''Anime/SpyXFamilyCodeWhite'' as an EstablishingCharacterMoment. The BigBad of the movie, Colonel Snidel, is introduced in a scene where he and his troops barge into the restaurant the Forgers are eating at, and demands that the restaurant's last meremere dessert that Loid ordered be given to him.
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* WebAnimation/DeathBattle: [[Manga/JujutsuKaisen Gojo]] vs. [[Manga/ChainsawMan Makima]] begins with Gojo getting Makima's attention at a movie theater by eating her popcorn, [[DisruptingTheTheater among other things]].
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* In war, there's been many a time where an army's attack has been halted because their soldiers were hungry and the retreating army left food behind.




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* ''Manga/TheLaughingSalesman'': Moguro Fukuzou loves doing this to his clients, though in one episode he almost chokes on someone's lunch because of its awful taste.
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* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', after Draco Malfoy's attempt to befriend Harry gets rebuffed (due to him insulting Ron), he takes notice of all the snacks Harry and Ron still have and he and his cronies decide to help themselves some. However, Goyle gets bitten in the finger by Ron's rat and they all run away immediately.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', this is the strategy that Master Shifu eventually hits on as the best way to motivate BigEater Po. He gives Po a bowl of dumplings and deftly snatches them away from him before he can eat them. Cue a TrainingMontage of the two [[ForkFencing Chopstick Fencing]] over dumplings.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'', this is the strategy that Master Shifu eventually hits on as the best way to motivate BigEater Po. He gives Po a bowl of dumplings and deftly snatches them away from him before he can eat them. Cue a TrainingMontage of the two [[ForkFencing Chopstick Fencing]] over dumplings.
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* Music/KillerMike cast himself as the bully in "Ready Set Go"
-->''You better find another nigga to link with\\
'Cause the nigga you link with is a lie fool\\
I used to bully that monkey nigga in high school\\
Sit at the lunch table, steal and eat his damn food''
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* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''; in the episode "Samurai vs. Samurai", obnoxious braggart Da Samurai gets Jack to agree to a duel when he steals Jack's tea, swishes it around in his mouth, then spits it back in Jack's cup.
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* [[BigBad Odin]] pulls this off in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' with him drinking the mead that [[BloodKnight Thor]] brought for Kratos: drinking both Kratos' mug and then his sons as a power move in order to assert dominance and show just how much of a ControlFreak Odin is.

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* [[BigBad Odin]] pulls this off in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' with him drinking the mead that [[BloodKnight Thor]] brought for Kratos: Kratos as a sign of [[SacredHospitality hospitality]]: drinking both Kratos' mug and then his sons as a power move in order to assert dominance and show just how much of a ControlFreak Odin is.
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* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', [[spoiler:Ganondorf]] helps himself to Hyrule Castle’s tea when he revives Princess Zelda.

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* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016'', [[spoiler:Ganondorf]] helps himself to Hyrule Castle’s tea when he revives Princess Zelda.
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* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', [[spoiler:Ganondorf]] helps himself to Hyrule Castle’s tea when he revives Princess Zelda.
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* In the first episode for ''LightNovel/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman'', when Satsuki claims she's not hungry, Urushibara starts eating her fries. When Satsuki protests, Urushibara says the fries would otherwise go to waste. Moroha agrees, and starts eating them as well.

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* In the first episode for ''LightNovel/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman'', ''Literature/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman'', when Satsuki claims she's not hungry, Urushibara starts eating her fries. When Satsuki protests, Urushibara says the fries would otherwise go to waste. Moroha agrees, and starts eating them as well.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and the Great Crossing'' has the protagonists doing this to the pirates, whose captain had an elaborate birthday feast laid out but is robbed of all but a single sausage.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} [[Recap/AsterixAndTheGreatCrossing and the Great Crossing'' Crossing]]'' has the protagonists doing this to the pirates, whose captain had an elaborate birthday feast laid out but is robbed of all but a single sausage.
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Compare FilchingFoodForFun (when it's done in secret for fun and excitement or out of petty revenge), RobbingTheDead (when a character takes food from someone they have killed[[note]]While Enemy Eats Your Lunch is about establishing dominance, Robbing the Dead shows the character's cavalier or pragmatic attitude to death.[[/note]]) and VillainousFaceHold, another way of asserting dominance by invading personal space.

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Compare FilchingFoodForFun (when it's done in secret for fun and excitement or out of petty revenge), RobbingTheDead (when a character takes food from someone they have killed[[note]]While Enemy Eats Your Lunch is about establishing dominance, Robbing the Dead shows the character's cavalier or pragmatic attitude to death.[[/note]]) killed) and VillainousFaceHold, another way of asserting dominance by invading personal space.

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