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* There is one where a chinese visits America and upon being offered a hot dog answers "Interesting.....thats the only part of the dog we don't eat".

* From the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', a conversation between a teetotaller and a vampire:

*** The defictionalized Every Flavour Beans (made by candy mad scientists Jelly Belly) delivered on many fronts as well. Some flavors were surprisingly good (spinach, black pepper, grass, ''[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer sardine]]''); some (dirt, vomit) were even worse than they sounded.

*** The defictionalized Every Flavour Beans (made by candy mad scientists Jelly Belly) delivered on many fronts as well. Some flavors were surprisingly good (spinach, black pepper, grass, [[IAmNotMakingThisUp ''sardine'']]); some (dirt, vomit) were even worse than they sounded.

* A man in a restaurant complains that his shrimp salad does not have any shrimps in it. The waiter points out that there are no Italians in the Italian salad either.
* A German joke goes like this: A man comes into a backery and complains: "Your apple cakes don't contain any apples!" The baker then replies sharp: "Yes and? Dog biscuits don't contain dogs either."

** And, you know, [[TropeNamer Girl Scouts Cookies]].

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->'''Girl Scout''': Is this made from real lemons?
->'''Wednesday''': Yes.
->'''Girl Scout''': I only like all-natural foods and beverages, organically grown, with no preservatives. Are you sure they're real lemons?
->'''Pugsley''': Yes.
->'''Girl Scout''': Well, I'll tell you what. I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies. Do we have a deal?
->'''Wednesday''': Are they made from real Girl Scouts?
->--''[[TheAddamsFamily The Addams Family]]'', the [[TropeNamer Trope Namer]]

Sometimes it really ''is'' ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, only it really shouldn't be. This is when you find out that innocuously named product is in fact PoweredByAForsakenChild, or the strange man who just [[DrinkOrder ordered a Black Russian in a bar]] is a vampire with very specific tastes. See also HumanResources. Most commonly played for [[{{Squick}} horror]] or a kind of [[DeadBabyComedy shock-comedy]]. The basic joke plays on the double meaning of words, making it a non-sexual DoubleEntendre. The term comes from a children's joke popular around the girl scouts/bake sale/fund-raising circuit.

See also HavingAHeart, ImAHumanitarian. The title of ToServeMan invokes it, but is not related.

!!Examples:

[[folder: Comics ]]
* Linkara's review of ComicBook/TeenTitans #1 in AtopTheFourthWall. His comment on Nightwing's monologue, specifically.
-->'''Nightwing:''' There's these Cuban meat sandwiches at a dump called Ibano's.
-->'''Linkara:''' Admittedly, it's hard to get the Cubans to go into the meat grinder, but....
* There's a ''CalvinAndHobbes'' cartoon where Calvin asks him mom if hamburgers are made out of people from Hamburg.
-->'''Mom''': Of course not! It's ground beef.\\
'''Calvin''': I'm eating a ''cow''?\\
'''Mom''': Right.\\
'''Calvin''': [[{{Irony}} I don't think I can finish this.]]

[[folder: Film ]]

-->'''Girl Scout:''' Is this made from real lemons?
-->'''Wednesday:''' Yes.
-->'''Girl Scout:''' I only like all-natural foods and beverages, organically grown, with no preservatives. Are you sure they're real lemons?
-->'''Pugsley:''' Yes.
-->'''Girl Scout:''' Well, I'll tell you what. I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies. Do we have a deal?
-->'''Wednesday:''' Are they made from real Girl Scouts?

* A mild example appears in ''ABugsLife'', where a mosquito at an insect bar orders a "Bloody Mary, O-Positive." A moment later the waiter produces a big red drop of blood...

-->I ate some bad Mexican.
** The exact same joke occurs in ''VampireInBrooklyn''.
* Playfully mentioned in ''InTheLoop'':
-->'''Malcolm Tucker''':...be gentle with them.
-->'''Jamie [=MacDonald=]''': Oh, you know me, Malc. Kid gloves... but made from real kids.

[[folder: Live Action Tv ]]

-->'''Milton:''' We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
-->'''Praline:''' That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
-->'''Milton:''' What else?
-->'''Praline:''' Well, don't you even take the bones out?
-->'''Milton:''' If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?

* A futuristic reality-tv fashion show in ''DoctorWho'' features a face-off section. No, it's not a section comparing how well two different people carry off the same outfit, it's when they move from clothes into plastic surgery.
* The ''Dooper'' chain of concession stands in TheAmandaShow serves snacks that are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what they say on the tin]] - including Electric Zaps and Oatmeal [[FireBreathingDiner Del Fuego]].

--> '''Diner''': Wait a minute. Who's Chip?
* Joked about in an episode of Home Improvement when Jill was trying to cheer up Mark: "Would you like a piece of angel food cake? I made it myself... It was real hard to find fresh angels this time of year"

-->'''Lorne:''' Love the jacket, by the way.
-->'''Artode:''' It's Pylean.
-->'''Lorne:''' Oh, made in Pylea, my home dimension.
-->'''Artode:''' Not made in, made from. I skinned it myself. <Pause> Anybody you know?

[[folder: Literature ]]
* [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in ''HarryPotter''. Harry is sufficiently {{squick}}ed by the name ''Chocolate Frog'' that he hesitates to eat one until he's reassured that it's only chocolate in the ''shape'' of a frog, and not an actual chocolate-covered frog. This is a reference to the Python sketch, as is another Wizarding candy, Cockroach Clusters.

-->'''Margolotta''': Do you fancy a Bull's Blood?
-->'''Vimes''': Is that the drink with the vodka? Because-
-->'''Margolotta''': No. This, I'm afraid, is the other kind.
** Similar to a line from ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''

* Similarly, in {{Nightside}}:

[[folder: Newspaper Comics ]]
* ''{{Lio}}'' ripped off the trope-naming joke once, and has had other jokes based on the same general idea.

[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

** The original ''Munchkin'' game (or one of its expansions, at least) had the item "Baby Oil," depicted as [[DeadBabyComedy a baby in a blender]].

[[folder: Theater ]]

[[folder: Video Games ]]
* ''[[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]]'':
-->''"Interested? It's the real thing, of course. Thousands of mewling, mortal babies went into the making of the stuff."''
-->--'''Vrishika''', describing the nature of the "Baby Oil" she's selling.

[[folder: Webcomics ]]
* ''OrderOfTheStick'' has one of these in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0117.html #117]].
-->'''Xykon''': "Tell you what, we'll stop at the first village we see and get you a Kids Meal."\\
'''[[TheFaceless Monster In The Darkness]]''': "Ooooh! Will it have a toy surprise?"\\
'''Xykon''': "No, but it will have real kids."
* Elfland's defences in ''EightBitTheater'' includes a giant cannon. It is loaded with actual giants.

* Similarly, [[WalkyVerse Monkey Master's]] guns shoot real monkeys. This is more effective than it sounds, unless he hasn't [[ForgotToFeedTheMonster reloaded]] in a while.
* SluggyFreelance, in Aylee's [[IAmAHumanitarian earlier days]] had these kind of jokes by the boatfull.
* ''[=~The Adventures of Dr. McNinja~=]'' has a brief interlude to introduce the character of Bee-Man, who uses a "[[BeeBeeGun Bee Shooter]]" that is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Parodied, of course, with him forgetting [[ForgotToFeedTheMonster how long it had been since he loaded it]].

[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* There was a Treehouse of Horror ''{{Simpsons}}'' episode making fun of ''{{Peanuts}}''. After Milhouse brings the Great Pumpkin to life with his faith, he gives G.P. some pumpkin bread. After being told that it's made ''of'' pumpkins, the Great Pumpkin goes on a rampage.
** Later, the Great Pumpkin finds Nelson eating Pumpkin Seeds, and shouts "You eat the unborn?!"

* Referenced in SpongebobSquarepants. [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Plankton]] is looking for the final ingredient to his Goo-goo Gas (which ''should'' make anyone a baby). He then finds baby powder in the shopping market. [[HilarityEnsues Guess what.]]
-->Plankton: Excuse me, Miss? Is this made from real babies?
* In ''{{TheVentureBrothers}}'' episode "Eeeny Meeny Miney Magic," Dr. Venture uses the soul of an orphan to power his fantasy machine.
-->Dr. Orpheus: This machine is powered by the soul of a forsaken child!?
-->Dr. Venture: Well, I don't know. I mean, I didn't use the whole thing.
* One episode of MissionHill had the gang trying to cut back on expenses, which included buying discount dog food. The can's label was in a foreign language, but had a picture of a dog. Judging from their pet dog's reaction, the meat wasn't so much intended for dogs as made from them.

[[folder: Real Life ]]
* It is, of course traditional, to assert that the shepherd's pie in school/military canteens tastes of real shepherds.
** A similar joke is made about "Sailor beef" in Swedish canteens.
** And in England, "Manchester Tart".
** And, you know, [[TropeNamer Girl Scouts Cookies]].
* A false [[http://www.snopes.com/business/market/babyfood.asp urban legend]] tells of a company selling baby food in Africa that horrified the illiterate locals because they saw a picture of a baby on the front and assumed it to be the main ingredient.
* There's a joke that goes: "If beef sausage is made out of beef, and pork sausage is made out of pork, what is Mennonite sausage made of?" (you can replace Mennonite with Ukrainian or any other group that has a type of sausage named after them).
** The sausage example is generally used more as a sexual DoubleEntendre, with German and Italian being the most used
** And similarly: "You know where they make mineral oil and olive oil? If you're not quiet, I'll take you where they make ''baby'' oil!"
* Southern humorist Lewis Grizzard told of how, when his second wife divorced him, "She took my naugahyde couch. We had to kill over 150 little [[IncrediblyLamePun naugas to get that much hide]]."
** The company that created Naugahyde, in fact, had a whole mythos about the Naugas and their hides (removed from them only to grow back, much as sheep are shorn).
* A man in a restaurant complains that his shrimp salad does not have any shrimps in it. The waiter points out that there are no Italians in the Italian salad either.
* A German joke goes like this: A man comes into a backery and complains: "Your apple cakes don't contain any apples!" The baker then replies sharp: "Yes and? Dog biscuits don't contain dogs either."
** [[FridgeLogic So they're supposed to be cakes that only apples eat?]]
* I tried a vegan diet once. Turns out vegans are harder to catch than cows.
* Are hot dogs made of real dogs?
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See also HavingAHeart, ImAHumanitarian.

[[folder: Tv Tropes ]]
* ToServeMan is a trope which demonstrates this trope perfectly.
[[/folder]]

* ''[[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]]'' provided the page quote above; it's not even the weirdest thing in your local BazaarOfTheBizarre.

'''Calvin''': I don't think I can finish this.

-->'''Waiter''': Sir?
-->'''Lt. Frank Drebin''': Gimme the strongest thing you got.
-->[Waiter brings over a greased-up muscle man. Drebin flounders]
-->'''Lt. Frank Drebin''': Uh... on second thought, how about a black Russian?
-->'''Waiter''': Very well sir. [raises eyebrow, looks at camera, shakes head and walks off]
-->--''[[NakedGun Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)]]''

->''"Interested? It's the real thing, of course. Thousands of mewling, mortal babies went into the making of the stuff."''
->--'''Vrishika''', describing the nature of the "Baby Oil" she's selling, ''[[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]]''

* ''Lio'' ripped off the trope-naming joke once, and has had other jokes based on the same general idea.