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* In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Sky Pirates!'', when Benny wants a drink to fortify her against the cold, the Doctor offers her something called Bartle and Critchlowe's Patented And Very Efficacious Horse Oil Lineament, made from genuine horses. She declines.

* Shriek made an [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor evil parody of]] Wednesday's joke during the ''Maximum Carnage'' storyline in the SpiderMan comics, cuddling up to Carnage and then asking if he'd like some Girl Scout cookies, then saying, "Of course, we'll have to kill a few dozen Girl Scouts fist. I ''hate'' to bake without fresh ingredients!" (And for all we know, [[AxCrazy she may have done it if she found any.]])

* In ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'', Coco [=LaBouche=]'s boss tells her that the person he wants running his theme parks must have the heart of a child. Coco mutters (too quietly for him to hear -- but Angelica hears it) that she thinks she has one in a jar somewhere...

* ''Literature/TheAlphabetOfManliness'' uses this and InsaneTrollLogic: What makes beef jerky so awesome? It's made from little girls. Beef jerky is made from the highest quality ingredients, and girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. So "highest quality ingredients" can be seen as a subset of "everything nice," so beef jerky is made out of little girls. QED.
** If "highest quality ingredients" are a subset of "everything nice" then the ingredients for little girls would include beef jerky. For beef jerky to be made out of little girls "highest quality ingredients" would have to be a superset of "everything nice."

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/BeetleJuice Beetlejuice]]'' cartoon once had BJ bragging that his mohair jacket was made "from a thousand mos!"

* A man in a restaurant complains that his shrimp salad does not have any shrimp in it. The waiter points out that there are no Italians in the Italian salad either. [[FridgeLogic So the salad was invented by shrimp?]]

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 [[BlackComedy 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. Most famously referenced in ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''.

->'''Malcolm Tucker''': Right, I'm off to deal with the fate of the planet. Be gentle with them.\\
'''Jamie [=MacDonald=]''': Oh, you know me, Malc, kid gloves -- but made from real kids. [[note]]By the way, "kid gloves" are so called because they ''were'' originally made from the delicate skins of 'kids'--young goats.[[/note]]

'''Bill:''' ''({{beat}})'' What the fuck [[IAteWhat did I just eat]]?

''({{beat}})''\\

--->'''Riggs:''' Had some bad Chinese, really disagreed with me.

-->"On my first shopping trip, I saw powdered milk -- you just add water, and you get milk. Then I saw powdered orange juice -- you just add water, and you get orange juice. And then I saw baby powder, and I thought to my self, "What a country!"

-->'''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.\\

'''Artode:''' Not made in, made from. I skinned it myself. ''(pause)'' Anybody you know?

-->'''Margolotta:''' Do you fancy a Bull's Blood?\\

-->Biers was where the undead drank. And when Igor the barman was asked for a Bloody Mary, he didn't mix a metaphor.

-->When they make "rock cakes," no metaphor is intended.

-->''In the corner, a vampire was drinking a bloody Mary, and going by the look on her face Mary was really getting into it.

-->'''Vrishika:''' Interested? It's the real thing, of course. Thousands of mewling, mortal babies went into the making of the stuff.

** [[spoiler: And then later on you can fight [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udHfw4rx8SY Muffet]], who'll be seriously cross with you for not contributing with their cause. Which is to sell spider pastries to raise enough money to... Rescue the spiders back in the ruins.. Who are... [[CrossesTheLineTwice Yyyyeeeeaaah]]...]]

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 [[BlackComedy 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.

** Another item was a drinks vending machine that gave you anything you asked for, but had a strange sense of humor. A requested "cup of Joe" led to a cup of suspiciously non-coffee liquid and a co-worker named Joseph landing in the infirmary with bits missing.

* One of the many, many things SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker did after getting [[RealityWarper Mr. Mxyzptlk's]] [[ComicBook/EmperorJoker power]] was to make Chinese food from the entire population of China. "I guess someone should have yelled, 'Peking... duck!'" *burp*

See also HavingAHeart. For actual cannibalism, see ImAHumanitarian. The title of ToServeMan invokes it, but is not related. A subtrope of LiteralMetaphor and AmbiguousSyntax.

See also HavingAHeart. For actual cannibalism, see ImAHumanitarian. The title of ToServeMan invokes it, but is not related. A subtrope of LiteralMetaphor.

* Similarly, there are jokes about budget LPs of "Greatest Hits" compilations claiming that they're "Produced By the Original Artists" or something along those lines. "The Original Artists" refers to the name of the band producing soundalike covers of the songs.

* Similarly, from the ''WalkyVerse'', Monkey Master's guns shoot real monkeys. This is more effective than it sounds, unless he hasn't [[ForgotToFeedTheMonster reloaded]] in a while.

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* Inverted in a Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. A pumpkin is brought to life, and when Millhouse offers him some pumpkin bread, he assumes that it's bread made especially for a pumpkin. When Millhouse tells him that it's made out of pumpkins, he goes on a murderous rampage of revenge.

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' A kid on tour in an icecream factory keeps asking whether the factory uses real monkeys in their "Banana Monkey Chunk "flavor. The guide keeps telling him No but unfortunately Johnny let monkeys loose in the factory leading him to conclude that they really do use real monkeys.

*** And there's the joke about getting thrown out of the Boy Scouts for eating brownies.

* In ''Film/SkyHigh'', the students' gym class involves a game called "Save the Citizen", which involves saving a mannequin that's being dropped into a shredder. Mr. Boy offers this reminiscence to Mr. Medulla: "Remember when we used to use real citizens?"

* 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]].

* Girl Scout Cookies being unknown in the UK (except as an American TV trope), the usual joke is "shepherd's pie made from real shepherds".

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', there are certain places in the game where you can shop at a 'spider bake sale' that shows no shame in telling you that their products are "by spiders, for spiders, ''of spiders''". If you buy the items, the descriptions back this up -- the Spider Donut is made with Spider Cider in the batter, which ''sounds'' innocent, but then you check the Cider and see it's made with "whole spiders, not just the juice". And the spiders won't like it if you don't buy...

* superdickery.com presents: [[http://www.superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=805:make-this-squirrel-lamp Squirrel Lamp]] ads. Yes, sir, out of a real squirrel! Not from squirrel fur, just a stuffed one.