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* ''[[VideoGame/ChoiceOfGames Choice of the Vampire]]'': If the vampire PlayerCharacter tries to eat human food to preserve the {{Masquerade}}, they either vomit it up immediately and messily or, if they're exceptionally tough, keep it down just long enough to vomit in private.

-->-- '''Madame Vastra''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]]

* In ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', neither Kero nor Yue, being magical guardians, actually ''need'' to eat at all. Kero mooches food off of Sakura during the course of ''the entire anime and manga series'' solely for his own amusement.
** Inverted, of course, with [[spoiler: Yukito, Yue]]'s SleepModeSize, who uses caloric energy to supplement any insufficient magic energy source.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' Piccolo and Namekians in general only consume water because they're photosynthetic. That's right, Piccolo is a [[PlantAliens plant]]. Although before that revelation, Piccolo has been shown eating other things, mainly fish. The general consensus is that they only ''need'' water and sunlight, but are capable of eating. It may have to do with Kami (and therefore Piccolo) being from before the disaster that wiped out all Namekians except Guru, whose children may have been altered - much as King Piccolo's demon sons did not look like regular Namekians. Another factor could be that Namek has three suns, while Earth only has one.
* Inverted in ''Anime/ErgoProxy'' where a mysterious man living all alone in a castle drinks ''nothing but wine'', to excess beyond belief; it makes him just as creepy as someone who doesn't eat or drink.

** He's in training! [[WildCardExcuse You know, for his Alchemy]].
* An odd example in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' comes from [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Seras]] tries to remain human by refusing to drink blood and trying to eat human food. The problem comes from the fact that, being dead, she can not only ''not'' process human food, but trying to eat it is outright ''painful;'' she can't even swallow it without immense effort.

* In the Creator/{{CLAMP}} series ''Manga/{{Wish}}'' Kohaku, being an angel, is nauseated by any food that's ever been alive, including plants (though she can eat honey); she gets her nutrition by bathing in sunlight.
* In ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' Alpha, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot, is absolutely fine with any plant-based food (which she does indeed eat, despite being a robot), and actually ''can'' drink wine, but is lactose intolerant. It is heavily implied that ''any'' animal protein gives her (and, probably, other robots) severe indigestion.

* Universal's ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'' of course, as the TropeNamer. [[BeamMeUpScotty The exact line]] is "I never drink-- wine." He breaks his word about wine in ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'', however.

** ''Film/{{Dracula 2000}}'' uses a variant when Lucy offers Dracula coffee: "I don't drink... coffee."

* Played with in the ''Film/Underworld2003'' movies - after Michael is turned he tries to satisfy his craving for blood by eating a rare steak. He has no problem getting it down, but it doesn't quench his hunger ''at all.''

* In ''Literature/{{Anathem}}'' by Creator/NealStephenson, there's a character who doesn't eat ordinary food; this is eventually revealed to be a sign that he's from [[spoiler:a universe where the laws of physics are different (ours, to be precise)]].

--->'''Sally''': Oh, ha ha. I'm perfectly fine with, ''sarcastic pause'', "[[VampireVords vine]]", thank you. What I ''shouldn't'' have drunk is [[GargleBlaster sticky drinks with funny names made up by someone with no sense of humour]].

** Also in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' is a group of [[InvertedTrope anti]]-EmoTeen vampires who invert the trope, and do drink[[{{Beat}} ...]] [[DeconstructedTrope ''vine'']], all the time. Really. Well, a glass of port every so often. Once. A couple of sips of shandy, and most of us threw up, but Donald wears a corkscrew around his neck, ''and'' he sometimes has a ''real cork'' on it! Fine, so it's not inverted! [[IHateYouVampireDad You Never Respect Me, Vampire Dad]]!

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In ''Literature/DeathMasks'' Harry has a somewhat friendly beer with a Red Court vampire before their [[CombatByChampion duel]]. Like most people, the vampire is pleasantly surprised by [[{{Beergasm}} Mac's beer]], and when Harry expresses surprise that he drinks anything besides blood, the vampire turns it around on him.
-->'''Ortega:''' All you need is the water, after all. Why drink beer?
-->'''Harry:''' You ever taste the water in [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} this town]]?

* A variant on ''Literature/JanitorsOfThePostapocalypse''. Having [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]] the {{Technically Living Zombie}}s that are all that's left of humanity, the alien Krakau have to figure out what to feed them. They are revolted by all human foods except raw fish. Ultimately the Krakau decide to not even bother with reviving human cuisine - besides, it's possible for a human who eats too much too fast to revert to being a mindless feral - and instead install ports into their cured humans' stomachs and give them nutritious gray sludge.
* In Shai Agnon's fantastical short story ''The Lady and the Peddler'', a Jewish peddler is seduced by a beautiful widow living alone in a mansion in the woods. She feeds him endlessly with delicious multi-course meals, but he never once sees her eat or drink. [[spoiler: It is eventually revealed that the widow is a cannibal and has killed and eaten all of her previous husbands. In fact, her body has grown so accustomed to eating human flesh it can no longer digest regular food.]]

* In ''Literature/TheProphecyOfTheStones'' Elphorys munches his "sticky purple mass" while [[spoiler: Elyador]] eats his rather mundane bread and turkey.

* ''Series/BabylonFive''
** The Minbari literally ''cannot'' drink wine. Even a small amount of alcohol [[CantHoldHisLiquor sends them into a homicidal rage.]] Other than that, food from most worlds is edible by most species. Minbari having an adverse reaction to alcohol is also mentioned by Marcus when he first meets Delenn and Lennier in a Down Below bar as a means of proving who he was. It is also brought up in a single line said by Lennier in response to a drink offered by Londo, who is not entirely trustworthy when it comes to drinks. In fact, in other scenes, during Sheridan and Delenn's dinner dates, you see them both drinking wine. Slightly HandWaved in that [[spoiler: Delenn is half human through AppliedPhlebotinum at this point.]]
** The Pak'Ma'Ra fit this trope PERFECTLY, as they projectile vomit anything synthetic, or fish. The doctor learned this the hard way. Note that projectile vomiting is even more obnoxious than usual in the case of the carrion-eating Pak'ma'ra.

** {{Inverted}} with some of the Centauri; Londo Mollari says he never drinks ''water'', preferring alcohol at all times. Evidently, Centauri physiology lets them get all the water they need from alcoholic drinks while being able to process them and sober up with impressive speed. Another quirk of the Centauri is that they can't eat processed fast foods. As Londo's aide Vir puts it: ''"It tastes so good going down; coming back up, it's not so good..."''

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks "The Evil of the Daleks"]]: The Doctor questions Arthur Terrall about the fact that he's never seen eating or drinking, at least around others. [[spoiler:It has something to do with the fact that he's mind-controlled. It's never made clear exactly what his lack of public eating signifies; it probably just shows how unsocial the mind-control is making him, and adds to his air of creepiness and wrongness.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]]: Madame Vastra, a [[LizardFolk Silurian]], meets Clara in her greenhouse, where she's drinking from a glass of red liquid, which she clarifies is ''not'' red wine. Since Vastra was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar introduced]] having just killed and [[ToServeMan eaten]] UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, and is mentioned in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]] to be "having the Camberwell Child Poisoner for dinner" with a warning to stay out of the larder, it's pretty obvious what she's actually imbibing.

* When Peter Tork auditioned for ''Series/TheMonkees'', the producers offered him a cigarette; Tork's reply was, "I don't smoke...those." [[TheStoner Guess what he did smoke.]]

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Eldrad Ulthran, famous Farseer of the Eldar craftworld of Ulthwe, appears to invoke this trope. When meeting with the primarch Fulgrim, he hosts a banquet and Fulgrim notes that Eldrad does not have any meat on his plate. When Fulgrim asks, "Does your kind not eat meat?", Eldrad replies simply "*I* do not eat meat."

* The same line spoken by Dracula is also used in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodrayne}} 2''.

* In ''WebOriginal/ShadowrunStorytime'', Geppetto is [[EmergencyTransformation turned into a banshee to save his life]]. As an undead, he can only consume human flesh, blood, and souls. To maintain the illusion of still being alive, he can still choke down normal food at meetings and similar events but has to resist his gag reflex.

* [[HumanoidAbomination Amren]] in ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses''. It's never specified exactly what she is, aside from a member of TheFairFolk(like most of the main cast), or [[NothingIsScarier why she seems to have such a thing for hearts.]]