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* In ''Comics/TheWalkingDead'', after [[spoiler: the Hunters]] capture and attempt to eat him, and succeeding in eating his legs, [[spoiler: Dale]] tells them that his meat has been tainted by the walkers.

* In ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'', witch Granny Weatherwax turns the tables on a family of vampires by deliberately offering them her blood. It's not so much a case of Granny becoming a vampire, as of the unwary vampires drinking the blood of the most powerful witch on the Disc and absorbing something of her essence. This can only end badly. For a clan of vampires who now manifest a ferocious craving for hot sweet tea and who cannot think clearly - as Granny is suffering from a trans-dimensional crisis where she's tapping into her alternate selves in other worlds.

* As a reference to ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'', [[spoiler: Patrick]] does this in ''Series/DeadSet''. After being torn in half, he yells "Choke on em!", then reaches down, grabs his own intestine, and yells "Eat up! It's full of shit!" at the zombies. This is a reference to

** In a direct reference to this, [[spoiler: Patrick]] does this in ''Series/DeadSet''. After being torn in half, he yells the famous "Choke on em!" line, then reaches down, grabs his own intestine, and yells "eat up, it's full of shit!" at the zombies.

* ''Film/DogSoldiers'': Comes up as a defiant BadassBoast. Currently the page quote.

* TruthInTelevision for a good number of species. Unfortunately, not for humans. While humans are quite bony, they are actually among the highest ranks on the bone to meat ratio compared to animals. According to certain sources, the top of the list is the horseshoe crab. "But crabs don't have bones!", you exclaim! That's the trick! Crabs are all meat!
** One major evolutionary strategy is to make yourself poisonous, so you kill anything that tries to eat you. You're still dead, but your family won't be hunted by them, and if you're brightly colored to show off how poisonous you are, things won't eat you out of fear of dying. Poisonous tree frogs, for example, work on this principle.
*** And then you have the non-poisonous animals that mimic the appearance of poisonous ones to trick predators into not eating them. For instance, viceroy butterflies are themselves not poisonous, but look enough like monarch butterflies (which are poisonous, thanks to gorging themselves on milkweed and similar plants during their larval stage) to deter potential predators.
*** ...Or so we used to think. However, it turns out that the ''monarchs'' are mimicking the ''viceroys''. You see, while viceroy butterflies don't grow up on a diet of poison, they do grow up on willow trees. Ever bitten into an aspirin tablet? That's pretty much how viceroys taste.
*** A harmless species mimicking an unpalatable species is Batesian mimicry: it was long thought that viceroys mimicked monarchs for protection... But, as was mentioned above, viceroys are just as unpalatable as monarchs, an so, the two are actually an example of Müllerian mimicry, where two or more different, unrelated unpalatable species that live in the same geographic region(s) mimic each other, to save time and trouble for everyone, so that when a predator learns a particular pattern means trouble, the predator doesn't need to learn it again if it were to attack the other species.
*** Of course, tasting bad and actually being toxic to eat aren't mutually exclusive, so some encounters between poisonous animals and their predators probably end with neither one of them dying, just the prey grabbed and then spat out in disgust.

* Spices exist because the plants they come from produce concentrated chemicals which, in their natural state, make any herbivore that takes a bite wish it didn't. Human chefs use relatively tiny and/or diluted amounts of these same substances purposefully to flavor foods, subverting this trope.

*** Not so much a Zombie version as it is planetary version, but who can forget [[HeroicSacrifice The Vizier's]] final lines from ''ShadowRaiders'':

* Shorty in {{Fallout 3}} is shouting things like this when Super Mutants have him tied up in a basement kitchen. Fortunately, the player can save him from this fate. Also in ''Mothership Zeta'' is an abductee recording, who's convinced that the aliens are going to eat him and screaming that he hopes they choke (unless they're the kind of aliens who just want to put him in some weird alien zoo. That might be okay.)

* ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'': In the short ''Jungle Jitters'', a TravelingSalesman encounters a band of African cannibals, who try to [[StewedAlive cook him alive]] before their Queen decides she wants to marry him. Repulsed by her appearance, the salesman jumps back into the boiling pot, saying "I hope they all get indigestion."

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Wormy", [=SpongeBob=] sets Patrick up to be bait for the "monster" (actually the titular caterpillar now a butterfly). As it nears him, Patrick fearfully says, "I don't really taste that good, Mr. Monster."

** [[spoiler: The second Greed takes the words of the first Greed to heart. After Father consumes him, he uses his Ultimate Shield in a reversal mannter to turn Father's body into 'weakest form of charcoal, allowing Edward to strike the finishing blow]]

** One major evolutionary strategy is to make yourself poisonous, so you kill anything that tries to eat you. You're still dead, but your family won't be hunted by them, and if you're brightly colored to show off how poisonous you are things won't eat you out of fear of dying. Poisonous tree frogs, for example, work on this principle.

*** ...Or so we used to think. However, it turns out that the ''monarchs'' are mimicking the ''viceroys''. You see, while viceroy butterflies don't grow up on a diet of poison, they do grow up on willow trees. Ever bitten into an asprin tablet? That's pretty much how viceroys taste.

* This literally happens when a predator eats prey whose behavior has been altered by a parasite, like when birds [[{{Eyescream}} rip off the eyestalks]] of "zombie snails," thinking that the eyestalks are tasty insect larvae, only to get infected with the trematode flatworm, ''Leucochloridium variae''.

* Used by Assault Marines fighting Tyranids in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar 2'': "You will find me a sour meal, alien!"

*** ...Or so we used to think. However, it turns out that the ''monarchs'' are mimicing the ''viceroys''. You see, while viceroy butterflies don't grow up on a diet of poison, they do grow up on willow trees. Ever bitten into an asprin tablet? That's pretty much how viceroys taste.

* The most famous moment in ''Film/DayOfTheDead'' comes when, after the zombies pull the GeneralRipper in half and begin eating his innards, he yells, "''Choke on 'em!''"

* In a''YuYuHakusho'' flashback taking place centuries before the present story, the demon Raizen happened upon a lone human woman whom he intended to devour. She revealed herself to be a "shaman cannibal", one who ate the flesh of those who died from disease, allowing her body to produce the antibodies to fight them. She offered to let him devour her, as her flesh was so ripe with disease even a demon would die. Impressed, he decides not to eat her and instead they had sex; she would give birth to a child [[spoiler:who would become one of Yusuke's ancestors]].

* In ''Space Quest 2'', if Roger Wilco gets eaten by the gigantic root monster on Labion, the game first taunts the player and then offers as consolation the fact that Wilco gave the thing horrible indigestion during the night and made it unpopular among its buddies.

Not to be confused with TooSpicyForYogSothoth (where the enemy actually '''does''' regret eating them) -- although that's a common way of playing this trope for laughs. Also don't confuse this with YouWontLikeHowITaste. While they sound similar there's a big difference. In this trope, the invoker has pretty come to terms with the idea of getting [[EatingTheEnemy eaten by their foe]] They're spitefully hoping that their hungry hunter doesn't enjoy their meal. You Won't Like How I Taste on the other is actually an attempt to convince their attacker ''not'' to eat them at all.

Not to be confused with TooSpicyForYogSothoth (where the enemy actually '''does''' regret eating them) -- although that's a common way of playing this trope for laughs. Also don't confuse this with YouWontLikeHowITaste. While they sound similar there's a big difference. In this trope, the invoker has pretty come to terms with the idea of getting [[EatingTheEnemy eaten by their foe]], they're spitefully hoping that their hungry hunter doesn't enjoy their meal. You Won't Like How I Taste on the other is actually an attempt to convince their attacker ''not'' to eat them at all.

Not to be confused with TooSpicyForYogSothoth (where the enemy actually '''does''' regret eating them) -- although that's a common way of playing this trope for laughs. Also don't confuse this with YouWontLikeHowITaste. While the sound similar there's a big difference, in this trope, the invoker has pretty come to terms with the idea of getting [[EatingTheEnemy eaten by their foe]], they're spitefully hoping that their hungry hunter doesn't enjoy their meal. You Won't Like How I Taste on the other is actually an attempt to convince their attacker ''not'' to eat them at all.

Not to be confused with TooSpicyForYogSothoth -- although that's a common way of playing this trope for laughs.

Not to be confused with TooSpicyForYogSothoth--although that's a common way of playing this trope for laughs.

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* In the comic ''HsuAndChan'' when the title characters are cornered by man-eating bears, Hsu stuffs himself with Zingers saying "These always make me sick as a dog. This'll teach 'em to eat me!"

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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' has an...inversion? Except no one is threatening to eat anyone? Maybe it makes sense in Thanagarian as something other than a one-liner setup for Flash.
-->'''Kraagor''':You think I'd tell you anything? I''d sooner choke on your bones.
-->'''Flash''': Okay by me. *makes a fist* Start with these.
** It's actually a subtle case of ShownTheirWork, as some birds of prey (like eagles) eat bones for calcium.

* [[TheSimpsons Grandpa Simpson]] in one of the Halloween episodes: "I'm gonna give your liver such a punchin'!"

* Said to a ''PlanetEater'' in ShadowRaiders. "Taste this world... ''[[HeroicSacrifice and choke on it!]]''

* At one Point on ''CoconutFredsFruitSaladIsland'', a monster eats Butchy. Afterwards, he says, "Good luck trying to eat me! Crabapples cause indigestion!" He is then vomited back up.