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* ''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Epic Movie]]'': In the ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''-spoofing stretch, Edward notices what he thinks is the chocolate river, and quickly gulps some "chocolate" up in enjoyment. After a beat, Willy points out, "That's actually the sewer line," causing Edward to gag in disgust. ([[FridgeLogic How could he mistake the taste of sewage with that of chocolate?]])

* An early episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' features a ninetails with powerful illusion abilities. Jessie, James, and Meowth, who are all starving, find rooms that are full of delicious food, such as a room filled with popcorn, but when the ninetails is returned to its pokeball all of the illusions vanish and they discover they were eating leaves the whole time.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1''. Fiona is eating a meal Shrek prepared, and asks what it is. He tells her it's a weed rat. She seems a little surprised at first, but then keeps on eating.

* In ''Film/WhatPriceHonesty'', one of the many, many, ''many'' torture scenes the corrupt prison forced on the HurtingHero protagonist involves starving him for a week in an isolation cell, and while he's desperate, one of the guards then hands him his first meal in days, a full bowl of rice... covered atop a dead rat.

* In ''Film/{{Apaches}}'', Sharon dies after she drinks some weed killer. PlayedForHorror rather than laughs.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Launch serves Krillin and Master Roshi fish. They say it is excellent, then she says it is puffer fish. They freak out and end up bedridden from the poison. Goku is spared because he lost the trial Master Roshi had put him and Krillin through in which only the winner would get to eat dinner. [[LaserGuidedKarma A trial Krillin won by cheating]].
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Majin Buu offers Hercule some candy that he transformed some people into. The horrified Hercule spits it out when Buu turns his back. Subverted, because Hercule knew the candy was made of people from the get-go, and only put them in his mouth in the first place to avoid angering Buu.

Occasionally subverted by having a character (an ExtremeOmnivore, perhaps) find out what they're consuming, then just shrug their shoulders and keep on chowing down.

* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': In [[https://youtu.be/2uJE48aKVNo Beef 'n Go]], as Ian happily devours his lifetime supply of Beef 'n Go watching the ad featuring the product, the interviewer ask the rancher what does he feed his cows with. The rancher responds: 100% wheat grass… and horse testicles. Cue Ian [[SpitTake spitting his Beef 'n Go out of mouth]].

* This may have been fully intentional on the developers' part, but ''VideoGame/OmikronTheNomadSoul'' features an edible item called a "koopy sandwich". When the [[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Super Best Friends]] played through the game, they thought this was funny. Until a little later on when they spotted a lounging reptile, hit the interact button on it, and got the description "A giant koopy." Then it was ''hilarious.''

* If you make a habit of taking food that isn't yours in a communal fridge, you'll end up getting hit with a case of this. Many stories involve sneaking [[PottyFailure laxatives]] in food, and at least [[http://fox13now.com/2016/07/22/woman-gets-revenge-with-ultimate-office-prank-breast-milk-coffee-creamer/ one woman]] replaced her coffee creamer with [[YoureDrinkingBreastmilk breastmilk]].

* ''VisualNovel/DreamDaddy'': When Craig invites the Dadsona over to Robert's dinner, the latter serves them osso buco. The Dadsona compliments its taste, but Robert tells him that he got it from the trash can, making him gag.

* Occurs halfway into ''[[https://comick.app/comic/cambyses-no-kuji/ojxGY The Draw of Cambyess]]'' (a one-shot manga from Creator/FujikoFujio), when the protagonist, Sark, unexpectedly gets flung several millenia into the future from Assyrian times from entering a dimensional portal. He meets a mysterious young woman who apparently lives alone in a scientific facility, and dines with her only to find out the food was made of HumanResources.

'''Young Woman''': [[WhamLine Uncle Henry. He WAS a kind man]].\\

* Not exactly ''eating'', but an urban legend exists about a school where teenage girls would put on their lipstick in the bathroom and then kiss the mirrors, leaving lipstick marks that were hard to clean up. The janitor got tired of it and asked the principal for help. The principal called the most popular girls in the school to a meeting, where he explained that the lipstick kisses on the mirrors were hard to clean. He had the janitor demonstrate by dipping a mop into the toilet and using it to clean the mirror. From that day on, there were never any lipstick kisses on the mirrors ever again.

-->Billy had a tummy ache, but he don't no more!
-->What he thought was H[[subscript:2]]0 [[labelnote:*]]water[[/labelnote]] was H[[subscript:2]]S0[[subscript:4]] [[labelnote:*]]sulphuric acid[[/labelnote]]!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' has Melman stumbling out of a washroom with a urinal cake in his mouth ("Free mints!"). Interestingly, the typical "reveal followed by squicked-out reaction" is absent, especially considering that Melman is a raving hypochondriac most of the time.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''. Fiona is eating a meal Shrek prepared, and asks what it is. He tells her it's a weed rat. She seems a little surprised at first, but then keeps on eating.

* In ''LightNovel/FateZero'', Zouken Matou feeds Kariya a Crest Worm to increase his magical powers. After he eats it, Zouken reveals that worm had previously violated Sakura and stolen her virginity. Kariya flips out and cries, while [[{{Sadist}} Zouken]] enjoys seeing him suffer.

* As a girl from Modern-Day Japan [[TrappedInAnotherWorld who got sucked into a Medieval Fantasy]], Yuna of ''LightNovel/KumaKumaKumaBear'' oftentimes ends up introducing foods and cooking techniques that are lightyears ahead of what the most talented and ''avant-garde'' chefs even consider ''possible'' due to the various technological restrictions and barriers to travel. Some examples include her introducing egg-based pudding (which quickly becomes a "Legendary Food" and the Royal Family's favorite dessert, especially with how difficult it is to make and store due to lack of refrigeration) and even makes an incredibly sought-after snack from a vegetable that's highly poisonous if improperly prepared: [[spoiler:potato chips]].

* Mahiro from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' ends up oddly smart about this trope. His love interest Nyarko (and their mutual friend Luhy) are apparently good cooks, but being from outer space they use ingredients straight from Creator/HPLovecraft's kitchen; once Mahiro realizes this, he refuses to touch anything either of them makes. Notably, Nyarko isn't a bad chef at all; the few times Mahiro actually eats her meals (usually when he insists she stick to Earthly ingredients), he calls them delicious.

* In season 2 of ''LightNovel/ReZero'', Subaru notices something funny about the tea Echidna serves to him. Echidna states in response that it is made from one of her bodily fluids, to which Subaru responds “What the hell did you just make me drink?!”.

* {{Played For| Laughs}} BlackComedy in ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'' Episode 5, courtesy of [[StudentCouncilPresident Anna]] [[{{Yandere}} Nishikinomiya]]'s cookies. [[spoiler: They were made with her "[[UnusualEuphemism Love Nectar]]" mixed into the dough.]] Tanukichi's immediate reaction upon finding out about this after having a bite is to [[{{Squick}} rush to the nearest drinking fountain to wash his mouth out.]]

* In one episode of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' when Gourry and Lina are eating fish that they caught, Lina eats every part of the fish, but then Gourry points out that if she eats the fish's stomach, she is also eating the worms they used to catch the fish, [[WaterfallPuke grossing her out]].

* In the ''LightNovel/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'' OVA, Maria tricks Basara into eating Mio's panties by rolling them into balls to look like dumplings and putting them in soup. When he finds out, he beats her up. The only consolation is that Maria used her magic to make the panties digestible.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'', we learn that Saber's terrified of octopus, which she believes is an EldritchAbomination like the ones the [[LightNovel/FateZero Fourth Caster]] summoned. When Shirou mentions that some riceballs she ate had octopus in them, this is her reaction.

** Another strip inverts it as well, where his mother tells him that the stuffed peppers she's making are actually "monkey heads."

** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1995/04/02 Jon, Garfield and Odie have this reaction upon learning what "unguah" is.]]
-->'''Garfield:''' CheckPlease.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie'', Red, Chuck, and Bomb go to the Mighty Eagle for help with the Piggies. Reaching his mountaintop lair, they find his famed "Lake of Wisdom." Over Red's protests, Chuck and Bomb play in it, even drinking some of the water. When Mighty Eagle shows up, the three hide, and bear witness to their hero...[[ToiletHumor relieving himself in the lake.]] The sight of it is enough to make Bomb cry while Chuck frantically tries to scrap his tongue off with a rock.

* ''Film/ThreeIdiots'': While Farhan and Rancho are eating the roti made by Raju's mother, Raju's paralyzed father suddenly starts making sounds asking to be scratched. Raju's mother uses the same rolling pin she was making roti with to scratch her husband's chest, and the audience is treated to a shot of chest hair still on the rolling pin as Raju's mother starts flattening another roti. Farhan and Rancho are gagging at the sight and when their friend's mother asks if they want more roti they are quick to turn it down.

** As pointed out by the incredulous [[BurgerFool Burgerpants]], the MTT-brand Glamburger is made out of ''sequins and glue''.

--->'''Coach Z:''' Ooh! Sweet mercy! This is awrful!\\

* [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bone-hurting-juice Bone Hurting Juice]], an anti-meme derived from the "Sweet Jesus Pooh, That's Not Honey" meme, involves people unknowingly drinking a juice that causes them to feel pain in their bones.

* [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sweet-jesus-pooh-thats-not-honey Sweet Jesus Pooh, That's Not Honey]] is an exploitable meme consisting of a comic where Pooh eats what he thinks is honey until Tigger informs him it is something else. The original comic had it that Pooh was eating Tigger's father's ashes, but most versions of the meme substitute other things that are either just as unpleasant to eat or something that can't really be consumed.

[[caption-width-right:337:"So, ''that's'' why it [[TastesLikeFeet tasted like feet]]."]]

[[caption-width-right:337:"So, ''that's'' why it tasted like feet."]]

* Myth/EgyptianMythology has the charming story of [[GodOfEvil Set]] having ADateWithRosiePalms [[RapeAsDrama with the sleeping Horus]] and Horus smearing Set's lettuces with semen when he found out about it.