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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E3CabbagezillaNameGame Cabbagezilla]]" shows that vegetables in Alaska grow to absolutely enormous sizes, much to Trini's delight.
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Compare LevelAte which is likely constructed out of Giant Food, and also compare MountainOfFood, in which the food is normal-sized but the amount is what's giant. Someone might also imagine giant food via a DeliciousDaydream.

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Compare LevelAte which is likely constructed out of Giant Food, and also compare MountainOfFood, in which the food is normal-sized but the amount is what's giant. Someone might also imagine giant food via a DeliciousDaydream.
DeliciousDaydream. If a shop selling food looks like this, whether it's really made of food or not, it's ShapedLikeWhatItSells.
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* Ideal growing conditions and abundant sunlight can allow fruits or vegetables to attain staggering sizes.

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* Ideal growing conditions and abundant sunlight can allow fruits or vegetables to attain staggering sizes. This is particularly true near the equator, where sunlight is more intense, or (ironically) at the arctic circle where the growing season, though brief, has 24-hour daylight.
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* Ideal growing conditions and abundant sunlight can allow fruits or vegetables to attain staggering sizes.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Abominable'', Everest the yeti overdoes it when he hums some blueberry bushes into bearing fruit for himself and the children. The berries swell to the size of basketballs, form a huge mound, and collapse in a berry landslide.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/Abominable'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Abominable}}'', Everest the yeti overdoes it when he hums some blueberry bushes into bearing fruit for himself and the children. The berries swell to the size of basketballs, form a huge mound, and collapse in a berry landslide.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Abominable'', Everest the yeti overdoes it when he hums some blueberry bushes into bearing fruit for himself and the children. The berries swell to the size of basketballs, form a huge mound, and collapse in a berry landslide.
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* ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''

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* ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', where most of the adventure is set ''inside'' the titular peach.
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* Deconstructed in ''Manga/WitchWatch'' when Nico uses a spell to shrink herself and Morihito. She finds some now-proportionally enormous donuts and think she can live out eating fantasies. Instead, she discovers this ruins their texture, making the donut taste like coarse bread and the frosting by itself disgustingly sweet.
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* The Dragon Slayer Contest in ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfAmazingPleasantGoat'' involves attempting to lift a giant pear known as "Glee-Gulu", which is old goat language for "very heavy". The fruit is only borne by its tree once every thousand years.

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* One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse once dropped a giant sandwich on ''Series/TheYoungOnes''' house, where it was pressed into service as a sofa.


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* ''Series/TheElectricCompany2009'' had an animated series that was an AffectionateParody of ''Series/TwentyFour''. Special Agent Jack Bowser, a bipedal blue dog inspired by Jack Bauer, was always seen trapped in a factory of some sort. Often it would be a factory that made a certain kind of food, where he would be stuck in a big cake or a giant bottle of soda.


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* One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse once dropped a giant sandwich on ''Series/TheYoungOnes''' house, where it was pressed into service as a sofa.
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-->--Roy as an animated mouse, ''Film/StayTuned''

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** In ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'', as you beat the levels in [[LevelAte "Treat Land"]], the giant cake in the center gains more layers, going from a giant strawberry cake to an even larger cake with fudge, ice cream, and dark chocolate. The cutscene that plays after beating this world involves Kirby and Prince Fluff encountering a mountain-sized cake that they both devour in a cake-eating duel, causing the cake to collapse on top of them. Kirby, being the [[BigEater ravenous, pink puffball]] he is, easily wins the duel and, surprisingly, [[HowIsThatEvenPossible actually gets a bellyache from it.]]

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** In ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'', as you beat the levels in [[LevelAte "Treat Land"]], Treat Land]], the giant cake in the center gains more layers, going from a giant strawberry cake to an even larger cake with fudge, ice cream, and dark chocolate. The cutscene that plays after beating this world involves Kirby and Prince Fluff encountering a mountain-sized cake that they both devour in a [[MegaMealChallenge cake-eating duel, duel]], causing the cake to collapse on top of them. Kirby, being the [[BigEater ravenous, pink puffball]] he is, easily wins the duel and, surprisingly, and [[HowIsThatEvenPossible actually gets a bellyache from it.]]it]] according to the narrator.

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* There's lots of them in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamBuffet'', due to food and sweets being decorated in the race track or battle royale stage.

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* *''Kirby''
** In ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'', as you beat the levels in [[LevelAte "Treat Land"]], the giant cake in the center gains more layers, going from a giant strawberry cake to an even larger cake with fudge, ice cream, and dark chocolate. The cutscene that plays after beating this world involves Kirby and Prince Fluff encountering a mountain-sized cake that they both devour in a cake-eating duel, causing the cake to collapse on top of them. Kirby, being the [[BigEater ravenous, pink puffball]] he is, easily wins the duel and, surprisingly, [[HowIsThatEvenPossible actually gets a bellyache from it.]]
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There's lots of them in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamBuffet'', due to food and sweets being decorated in the race track or battle royale stage.
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A staple of kids' media. A fantasy of either becoming small or being in a land of giants, and coming across a table full of food. Appeals to the greedy kid in us all.

The archetype would be "Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk".

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A staple of kids' media. A media which depicts a fantasy of either becoming small or being in a land of giants, and coming across a table full of food. Appeals delicious food, all of which is (or seems) huge. This appeals to the greedy kid in us all.

The archetype would be "Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk".
"Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk", in which a boy sneaks into a giant's house.
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* In ''The Killer Dame'', a ParodyFic of the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "The Killing Game", the Hirogen are driven off Voyager by a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant mutant]] [[AlienLunch leola root]]. When Neelix decides to start carving it up for food, the crew wonder if they should invite the Hirogen back again.

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* In ''The Killer Dame'', a ParodyFic of the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "The Killing Game", the Hirogen are driven off Voyager by a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant mutant]] [[AlienLunch mutant leola root]]. When Neelix decides to start carving it up for food, the crew wonder if they should invite the Hirogen back again.
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** The episode Recap/EdEddNEddyS4E14TheGoodOlEd has one of the forgotten scams involving the Eds creating a giant pancake...which ends up failing because the neighborhood kids ended up using the grease as a skating rink ''right'' as the batter fell onto them, which lead to them beating Eddy up for it.

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** The episode Recap/EdEddNEddyS4E14TheGoodOlEd [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS4E14TheGoodOlEd The Good Old Ed]] has one of the forgotten scams involving the Eds creating a giant pancake...which ends up failing because the neighborhood kids ended up using the grease as a skating rink ''right'' as the batter fell onto them, which lead to them beating Eddy up for it.
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** The episode Recap/EdEddNEddyS4E14TheGoodOlEd has one of the forgotten scams involving the Eds creating a giant pancake...which ends up failing because the neighborhood kids ended up using the grease as a skating rink ''right'' as the batter fell onto them, which lead to them beating Eddy up for it.
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* [[http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF145-Nunez.jpg "Nuñez. We really need to find a way out of this dessert."]]

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* There's lots of them in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamBuffet'', due to food and sweets being decorated in the race track or battle royale stage.
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* There's lots of them in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamBuffet'', due to food and sweets being decorated in the race track.
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* An AT&T ad shows tiny cheerleaders; one is catapulted and splashes into a cup of coffee.

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* An [[https://youtu.be/zRMi84NrcVQ This AT&T ad ad]] shows tiny cheerleaders; one is catapulted and splashes into a cup of coffee.
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* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Sports are Fun'' episode 5 takes place in a ski course filled with giant food such as huge popsicles and lollipops.

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* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass: Sports are Fun'' episode 5 takes place in a ski course filled with giant food such as huge popsicles and lollipops.
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->''"These donuts are as big as'' Buicks!''"''
-->--Roy as an animated mouse, ''Film/StayTuned''


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* ''Film/StayTuned'': Roy makes this page's quote upon finding a dish of giant donuts on a kitchen table while in the cartoon segment, wherein he and Helen are cartoon mice. He's forced to spit out his cheek-fulls of them when the robot cat shows up.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', as well as the book it was based on. (See "Literature")

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* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', as well as the book it was based on. (See "Literature")The difference here is that the food is generated by a machine that Flint builds rather than just being a natural occurence, and the trope comes in when the machine starts to overload--Not to mention the enlarged food comes down on other places in the world.

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* People had giant fruits (and a chocolate bar) dropped on them in commercials for Bonkers! candy.
* One commercial for Grrravy dog food had some fire dogs fill a giant bowl of it with water from the hose, then dive in and eat it all within seconds. ...Then the burning building gives out, revealing a giant bag of it.



* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', as well as the book it was based on.

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** Then at the end, a bigger-than-normal turkey is served.


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* The food turning ''gigantic'' is what ends up leading to the exodus from Chewandswallow, an island where food items rain from the sky, according to the story in ''Literature/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs''.
** The sequel, ''Pickles to Pittsburgh'', follows efforts to package all the gargantuan food and send it to places that have any kind of it in shortage.
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* The ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' episode "[[Recap/NoonboryAndTheSuper7S1E15ProblemPeach Problem Peach]]" features a giant peach which the borys must transport to the town peach festival.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Using his Bortronian grow lamp, Jet grows a huge pumpkin in "That's One Gigantic Pumpkin, Jet Propulsion!"
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* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Nee'Lix is quite enthusiastic about the tomatoes in Voyager's Air Garden, Agritech Keshari having used cobalt irradiation to make them grow to twice their normal size.

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