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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "Beat Your Greens", the Girls refuse to eat their vegetables, until Townsville is attacked by aliens that resemble them. They and the other kids eventually discover that the only way to defeat them is to eat them, and after that they love vegetables.

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': In "[[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS2E2Frenchfry Frenchfry]]", Lilo and Stitch are both disgusted by the healthy foods that Nani is trying to get them on at the episode's start: whilst them hating the oatmeal was just kids being kids, it's hard to fault them for wanting nothing to do with those unappetizing vegetable-studded gello ready-made meals that Nani stocks up on. This leads Lilo and Stitch to activate Experiment 062 so he can make much-tastier junk food for them, unaware of just how dangerous 062/Frenchfry really is.

In fiction and also real life, children tend to have a disgust for vegetables and dread the moment they're served for dinner or lunch. It could be that they're {{Picky Eater}}s or their taste buds just are more sensitive to bitter tastes, which are found in many vegetables. Or their parents (usually the mom in fiction) has [[LethalChef poor culinary skills]] and [[MessOnAPlate cooks them to an unappetizing mush]]. Whatever the cause, they will devise a mischievous plot behind their parents' back to get rid of them, [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin which usually never ends well]]. This can often be used as an exploitative device for [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood parents or babysitters]] to torture disobedient kids, though in most cases they just want to ensure a healthy diet in children to assist in their growth. Oftentimes, the kids will resort to [[LoopholeAbuse hiding the vegetables, feeding them to a pet, putting them on a sibling's plate, or using a junk food condiment to diminish the squeamish flavor]]. In many cases, a dislike of vegetables as a teenager or adult is used to indicate lingering immaturity in a character.

* ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryFrontier'': When you ship fruits Rosetta likes she'll applaud you when she comes to pick them up, but if it's Danny's turn to collect shipments and you've got just about any vegetable in your bin he'll whine, expressing a desire to not even ''touch'' them.
* ''VideoGame/PoPoLoCrois'': Gami Gami Devil kidnaps Jilva and tries to make her eat vegetables that she doesn't like because they're healthy. And these vegetables are Green Peppers and Carrots.

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': In a DLC mission, we find out that 13-year-old Tiny Tina has subsisted on crumpets alone for years. The original Vault Hunters hold her down and force-feed her a salad. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that she finds it tasty; her problems with it are of [[GrowingUpSucks a different nature]].
-->'''Tiny Tina:''' I can't believe you made me eat salad.\\
'''Lilith:''' It wasn't THAT bad, was it?\\
'''Tiny Tina:''' No, it wasn't. It was tasty. That's the PROBLEM.\\
'''Lilith:''' Wait, you liked the salad? Why is that a problem?\\
'''Tiny Tina:''' You know who likes the taste of salads? ADULTS. I don't wanna be an adult!

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
** In the short "Real Kids Don't Eat Broccoli", the titular mistake is [[ConvictionByContradiction all that Buster Bunny needs to see]] to know that he's dealing with robot replicas of the rest of the cast planning to TakeOverTheWorld.

** In ''Meet Molly'', Molly [=McIntire=] is disgusted by the sight of the orange-colored blob of mashed turnips that the family's housekeeper Mrs. Gilford had made for dinner and refuses to eat it. Mrs. Gilford tries to shame Molly for being wasteful and unpatriotic, as this is taking place during World War II and the turnips came from their very own Victory garden, which the family grew over the summer as part of their effort to not buy tin cans to the metal could be used by the military. The trope is zigzagged a bit, as Molly's three siblings don't seem to have a problem with eating the turnips.

** In "Operation: S.P.R.O.U.T.", a FantasticVoyagePlot episode, Numbuh Four accidentally eats a Brussels sprout. The KND enact an entire ploy to get into Numbuh Four's body to destroy the Brussels sprout before it begins to make him enjoy cleaning his room, among other things. Later on, he accidentally starts it all over with some liver.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':

* ''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'': In the book ''Meet Molly'', Molly [=McIntire=] is disgusted by the sight of the orange-colored blob of mashed turnips that the family's housekeeper Mrs. Gilford had made for dinner and refuses to eat it. Mrs. Gilford tries to shame Molly for being wasteful and unpatriotic, as this is taking place during World War II and the turnips came from their very own Victory garden, which the family grew over the summer as part of their effort to not buy tin cans to the metal could be used by the military. The trope is zigzagged a bit, as Molly's three siblings don't seem to have a problem with eating the turnips.

** At Winterfell's harvest feast, ten-year-old Bran Stark is told by his servants that he must send dishes to his fellow lords as a gesture of friendship. He sends most of them tasty dishes like goose and lobster, but when Maester Luwin reminds him to send something to his foster brothers Big Walder and Little Walder (who he hates), he sends them boiled beets and buttered turnips.

->''"Ian, why don't you say grace?"\\

->''"Ian, why don't you say grace"\\
Dear God: thanks, and if you loved me, vegetables would be extinct\\

like an Exodus of biblical proportions redefined''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Recess'' episode "Weekend At Muriel's" dinner at Miss Finster's when Spinelli is being babysat by her for the weekend is brussels sprouts (along with liver and horse meat) much to Spinelli's dismay.