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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In one episode, after an egg falls into the Fraggle Pond, Wembley takes it on himself to sit on it, then take care of the "tree creature" (bird) that hatches from it. He offers the creature a radish, some mashed peas, and an artichoke soufflé, but it doesn't like any of them. Finally, he manages to get it fed when Mokey tells him that tree creatures eat seeds.

->''"I had no clue why I was always got SO hungry. No matter how much I filled my belly, my body still felt weak and empty until my parents hugged me, nuzzled me. I finally understood one night when I woke up to find a swarm of insects surrounding me. I screamed at the sight of the disgusting things. My parents swooped in and chased away the scurrying intruders. They asked me if I was okay and made sure I was alright and allowed me to sleep in their bed that night. I fed well that night. And I understood."''

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Rock-A-Bye Bivalve", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to figure out what to feed a baby scallop. They try cookies, pizza, and other types of food, but the scallop rejects them all. Then [=SpongeBob=] offers an apple, out of which appears a worm. ("I bring greetings from Apple World!") The scallop gets excited at the sight of the worm, so [=SpongeBob=] feeds him the worm. ("We will bury you!")

This can go many ways. The creature may refuse some foods but enjoy others, [[ExtremeOmnivore happily devour everything offered to it]], have a BizarreTasteInFood by human standards, take a liking to eating something normally inedible due to BizarreAlienBiology, or even turn out to be feeding on something insubstantial, like [[EmotionEater emotions]]. It can even be PlayedForHorror if the creature turns out to have more macabre tastes like [[ToServeMan human blood or flesh]], forcing the protagonist to resort to unethical methods to keep their new friend sated.

->''I had no clue why I was always got SO hungry. No matter how much I filled my belly, my body still felt weak and empty until my parents hugged me, nuzzled me. I finally understood one night when I woke up to find a swarm of insects surrounding me. I screamed at the sight of the disgusting things. My parents swooped in and chased away the scurrying intruders. They asked me if I was okay and made sure I was alright and allowed me to sleep in their bed that night. [[EmotionEater I fed well that night. And I understood.]]''

* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In one episode, after an egg falls into the Fraggle Pond, Wembley takes it on himself to sit on it, then take care of the "tree creature" (bird) that hatches from it. He offers the creature a radish, some mashed peas, and an artichoke soufflé, but it doesn't like any of them. Finally he manages to get it fed when Mokey tells him that tree creatures eat seeds.

* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'': The song "Grow for Me" has Seymour singing about how he offered Audrey II everything a plant could possibly want (sunlight, rainwater, fertilizer) but it doesn't seem to react to anything. Until Seymour [[HorrorHunger cuts his finger]].

-->-- '''Chrysalis''', ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries''

->''I had no clue why I was always got SO hungry. No matter how much I filled my belly, my body still felt weak and empty until my parents hugged me, nuzzled me. I finally understood one night when I woke up to find a swarm of insects surrounding me, I screamed at the sight of the disgusting things. My parents swooped in and chased away the scurrying intruders. They asked me if I was okay and made sure I was alright and allowed me to sleep in their bed that night. [[EmotionEater I fed well that night. And I understood.]]''

This can go many ways. The creature may refuse some foods but enjoy others, [[ExtremeOmnivore happily devour everything offered to it]], have a BizarreTasteInFood by human standards or take a liking to eating something normally inedible due to BizarreAlienBiology. It can even be PlayedForHorror if the creature turns out to have more macabre tastes like [[ToServeMan human blood or flesh]], forcing the protagonist to resort to unethical methods to keep their new friend sated.

* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': When Chrysalis was [[ShapeshifterModeLock shapeshifter mode-locked]] as a zebra filly, nothing she ate would fill her up, and she only felt sated when her parents expressed their affection to her. Much later in her life, she would discover that she was actually a changeling, [[EmotionEater and could only be nourished by love]].

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Hagrid creates a hybrid species by mating manticores and fire-crabs, which he names Blast-Ended Skrewts. During his Care of Magical Creatures class, he has the students try feeding them ant eggs, frog livers, and grass snakes to see what they like. Harry privately wonders if the exercise is pointless since the Skrewts don't seem to have mouths. Somehow, the Skrewts grow to massive sizes, despite not eating anything they're fed.

Related to AliensLoveHumanFood and TastesLikeFriendship. The "creature eats human flesh/blood/souls/whatever" variation is related to HorrorHunger, HumanResources, ToServeMan, VampiricDraining, and/or ImAHumanitarian.

Related to AliensLoveHumanFood and TastesLikeFriendship. The "creature eats human flesh/blood/whatever" variation is related to HorrorHunger, HumanResources, ToServeMan, VampiricDraining, and/or ImAHumanitarian.

Related to AliensLoveHumanFood and TastesLikeFriendship. The "creature-eats-human-meat" variation is related to HorrorHunger, HumanResources, ToServeMan, VampiricDraining, and/or ImAHumanitarian.

Indexes (delete later): AlienTropes, FoodTropes, FriendshipTropes, MakeMyIndexLive

This can go many ways. The creature may refuse some foods but enjoy others, [[ExtremeOmnivore happily devour everything offered to it]], have a BizarreTasteInFood by human standards, or take a liking to eating something normally inedible due to BizarreAlienBiology. It can even be PlayedForHorror if the creature turns out to have more macabre tastes like [[ToServeMan human blood or flesh]], forcing the protagonist to resort to unethical methods to keep their new friend sated.

* ''{{Film/Grace}}'': Madeline is trying to feed her newborn baby Grace, but finds out she can't digest formula. When the baby's nursing becomes painful, Madeline realizes Grace isn't feeding on her milk, but her blood. She tries feeding Grace with beef blood in a bottle, but Grace can't digest that either -- it has to be human blood.
* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'': The song "Grow for Me" has Seymour singing about how he offered Audrey II everything a plant could possibly want (sunlight, rain-water, fertilizer) but it doesn't seem to react to anything. Until Seymour [[HorrorHunger cuts his finger]].

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Hagrid creates a hybrid species by mating manticores and fire-crabs, which he names Blast-Ended Skrewts. During his Care of Magical Creatures class, he has the students try feeding them ant eggs, frog livers, and grass snakes to see what they like. Harry privately wonders if the exercise is pointless, since the Skrewts don't seem to have mouths. Somehow, the Skrewts grow to massive sizes, despite not eating anything they're fed.

* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'': In "In Which Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast", Tigger arrives in the forest and Pooh invites him to breakfast. Tigger can talk, but doesn't know what his favourite food is, so Pooh offers him honey, Piglet offers him acorns (or "haycorns" as he calls them), Eeyore offers him thistles, and Kanga offers him many different things. He [[PickyEater doesn't like any of them]] until he tries some extract of malt.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "The Eleventh Hour", a girl named Amelia meets a strange alien creature in her back garden. He's hungry, so she offers him an apple, then yoghurt, then bacon, then baked beans, then bread and butter -- all of which he tastes, then violently rejects -- before discovering that he likes fish fingers in custard.
* In a non-creature example, one episode of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' sees Parker laid up and bored with a torn ACL. With nothing else to do, she decides to observe the patrons at the bar that the crew is using as their cover, and notices that one patron keeps ordering the same dish every day but always returning it after a single bite. Eventually, she learns that he's a widower, and that the dish was something his wife used to cook for him, and he can't bear to eat it anymore because it reminds him of her. In the episode finale, she arranges for him to receive a whole bunch of new dishes so that he can find a new favorite.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "A Tale of Two Springfields", a badger takes up residence in the Simpsons' doghouse, and Lisa looks up what it eats on [=WhatBadgersEat.com=]. She tells Bart they subsist on a diet of stoats, voles and marmots, and have been also known to eat woodpeckers, prompting him to try and feed it Rod and Todd's pet woodpecker.

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