History Main / TheSecretOfLongPorkPies

* In ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'', much like in [[VideoGame/TheLastOfUs the game]], David is the leader of a religious cult that has taken to cannibalism. In a small divergence from the source material, he says to Ellie that only a select few in his flock know that they are substituting animal meat with "venison". It is implied, however, that some among David's following are aware, or at least suspicious, of what they are actually eating, but say nothing to avoid rousing David's ire.

* In ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'', much like in [[VideoGame/TheLastOfUs]], David is the leader of a religious cult that has taken to cannibalism. In a small divergence from the source material, he says to Ellie that only a select few in his flock know that they are substituting animal meat with "venison". It is implied, however, that some among David's following are aware, or at least suspicious, of what they are actually eating, but say nothing to avoid rousing David's ire.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Doublemeat Palace" Buffy suspects that the local fast food outlet's HighTurnoverRate is due to it using its employees as the SecretIngredient in their burgers. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out a demon is eating the workers because they taste good, and the secret ingredient is that the burgers don't have any meat in them, only a soy product with beef flavouing.]]

* The ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Lucky" had a Satanic unsub who ran a little BBQ restaurant, and even "kindly" provided the people searching for a missing girl with chili...
-->'''Priest''': God is in all of us, son...\\
'''Unsub''': [[WhamLine So is Tracy Lambert...]]

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Tikka to Ride" when the crew winds up in an alternate Earth (where JFK's survival leads to an AfterTheEnd situation in American cities), they run across a random corpse, which a guilt-chip-free Kryten later cooks for Lister and Cat.

* In Mexico City in 1971, María Trinidad Ramírez Poblano was arrested and confessed to killing her abusive husband and using some of the meat in tamales (a steamed cornbread often stuffed with chicken or, of course, pork). She then sold those same tamales to unsuspecting customers. She was convicted and given a 40 year sentence.

* The Hong Kong film ''Film/TheUntoldStory'' is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory in which an employee in a Macau restaurant kills the proprietor and his family, and cooks them as pork buns.

* In''TabletopGame/TheApocalypseStone'': Moloch, an arch-devil trapped in the world by the Stone's displacement, visits torments on the [=PCs=]. The first one is while they are stopped at an apparently warm and cozy inn featuring delicious "pork" buns. Only the next morning do the players find out that two of Moloch's underlings slaughtered the staff and served them as dinner. The DM is supposed to give the players a chance to realize something's not right with the food, but a sidebar suggests letting them go ahead and chow down with no warning if the DM ''really'' wants to up the horror-factor.

* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': One of the sample cults is a CannibalClan hidden behind the front of a celebrity chef's gourmet restaurant. The pate is apparently to die for... and made at a farm on the city's outskirts, where ''children'' are force-fed like geese to produce a rich and fatty liver.

* In ''TabletopGame/TheApocalypseStone'', Moloch, an arch-devil trapped in the world by the Stone's displacement, visits torments on the [=PCs=]. The first one is while they are stopped at an apparently warm and cozy inn featuring delicious "pork" buns. Only the next morning do the players find out that two of Moloch's underlings slaughtered the staff and served them as dinner. The DM is supposed to give the players a chance to realize something's not right with the food, but a sidebar suggests letting them go ahead and chow down with no warning if the DM ''really'' wants to up the horror-factor.
* In ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', many of the tcho-tcho (a race of cannibal pygmies from southeast Asia from some of Creator/AugustDerleth's Cthulhu mythos stories) have immigrated to the United States, where some run restaurants that serve "bak bon dzhow"--human nerve-cell paste--which induces dreams of cannibalism in people who eat it. They do this for no apparent reason other than to be evil.

* One of the sample cults from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' is a CannibalClan hidden behind the front of a celebrity chef's gourmet restaurant. The pate is apparently to die for... and made at a farm on the city's outskirts, where ''children'' are force-fed like geese to produce a rich and fatty liver.

* In the TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} ''Germany'' sourcebook, one bit of shadowtalk appended to the description of Berlin refers to a restaurant that reputedly plays this trope straight. Another shadowtalker immediately posts to deny the place even exists, however.
** And of course, this being ''Shadowrun'', there are parts of the world that do away with the "secret" part and openly serve metahuman meat to ghouls... with varying degrees of freshness.

* ''TabletopGame/TopSecret'' adventure "Operation: Sprechenhaltestelle''. Anyone who dies in "Sanctuary" (a local hospital) is ground up and sold to the public.

* In the second episode in Season One of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', Lee's group are invited to come to a farmhouse which the occupants seem to have plenty of food on hand. However, suspiciously they don't have any cattle seen on their land. Lee and Kenny decide to investigate the farm and find a slaughterhouse in the back fresh with blood. However, again, no cattle or pigs. Eventually, further investigation reveals the farmers have turned to cannibalism and the meal they served to the group have been human flesh (which at the current was the legs of one of their group) all along.

* Fritz Haarman, a German SerialKiller who raped and murdered at least 21 teenage boys, was accused of disposing of some of his victims by selling their flesh on the black market as pork.

* If a normal woman tells you, "I'm gonna get you so baked tonight," you know you're in for a night of stoned, sexy fun. [[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet Mrs. Lovett]] is not a normal woman.

** Worse? This was based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bar-#Allegations_of_cannibalism Nathaniel Bar-Jonah,]] who very likely had served his victims to friends and neighbors.

** Also present in the setting's myths. The Rat Cook, a cook of the Night's Watch, served a king a pie made of bacon and, unbeknownst to him, the king's son in response to having been wronged by the king. The gods punished the cook for slaying a guest beneath his roof and transformed [[BalefulPolymorph him into a giant rat]] that was unable to eat anything besides his own young.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' has a variant in the Rita & Runt parody of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', where Rita's owner's meat pies are not selling, so he starts secretly using the cats he shelters for the pies. Since the protagonist is a cat, it has the same effect.

* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' has this as a common feature of accounts involving The Flesh, which represents the fact that all is meat. Some such accounts include a takeaway corrupted by a Flesh cultist where the patrons are ''pretty'' sure they weren't eating anybody (despite what the tabloids said), and an account of a cursed meatgrinder that causes the person enchanted by it to make dinner for his crew by driving his arm into it and preparing the meat (the arm kept regenerating, which means they got through quite a few meals before the captain figured things were weird).

* In ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'''s skit "Tell us, Hatabo!" , Hatabo serves the Sextuplets ''his staff'' in the form of various meats. At least, [[TheUnreveal we're sure of it...]]

** Worse? This was based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bar-
#Allegations_of_cannibalism Nathaniel Bar-Jonah]], who very likely had served his victims to friends and neighbors.

* In the season six finale of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', [[spoiler:Arya finally recreates one of the most famous scenes from the books, except instead of three minor Freys being fed to a banquet of traitors against the north, it's Walder Frey being fed his two oldest sons. Arya reveals this to Walder right before she kills him for murdering her brother and mother, telling him that the last thing he'll ever see is [[BestServedCold a Stark smiling down at him]].]]

* In ''Podcast/DarkDice'' dwarven bard Rowena has a very vivid dream where she must eat a pot of a rancid meat stew in order to reach a key hidden at the bottom of the pot. Partway through, she comes across a pair of eyes, and later the head of [[spoiler: Lady Cavernsfall, the party's cleric, who Rowena had murdered while under the influence of a cursed sword.]]
* In the podcast drama ''[[https://www.gimletmedia.com/dolores-roach The Horror of Dolores Roach]]'', Dolores strangles her landlord while giving him a massage, and her friend Luis, who runs a struggling empanada shop, disposes of the evidence by mixing it into the meat. The "special" proves quite popular.

* One of the sample cults from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' is a CannibalCult hidden behind the front of a celebrity chef's gourmet restaurant. The pate is apparently to die for... and made at a farm on the city's outskirts, where ''children'' are force-fed like geese to produce a rich and fatty liver.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', inns in the [[TheCityNarrows Flea Bottom]] area of Kings Landing are known for serving a distinctive stew known as "brown", that is rumored to sometimes contain people as part of its whole use-anything, MysteryMeat nature. On a related note: even while King's Landing is under siege and supplies of just about everything fresh start running dangerously low, the production of bread in the poorer parts does come to a grinding halt; yet, the bowls o' brown somehow ''don't'' stop coming (even if they do also become rather more expensive and served in smaller portions). In short... it ''could'' be bits of iffy chicken, goose, beef, lamb, goat, pork, unsold mixed seafood, injured horse, feral pigeon, ancient dried fish, forgotten jerky, dock rat, stray cat, unlucky rabbit and/or random dog you're getting served. Or, just maybe, You Really, Really Shouldn't Ask. For instance, when Tyrion has his hired sword Bronn kill an attempted blackmailer in the area, Bronn comments that the man will end up as stew. Tyrion is later squicked out when he meets a mercenary for whom brown is a TrademarkFavoriteFood. In the prequel novella "The Mystery Knight", Dunk remembers an incident in his childhood in Flea Bottom wherein he and some other kids played with a severed head taken from the site of executions. After a while, the head became very decomposed, so they disposed of it by throwing it in a cooking pot.

** In ''A Dance with Dragons'', Wyman Manderly, an incredibly fat lord, is called to Winterfell to attend a wedding, bringing along a large amount of food with him. It is strongly hinted that he had three Freys, who disappeared while travelling with him, cooked into pies [[spoiler: as revenge for the Red Wedding, where one of his sons and his King were murdered while guests of the Freys.]] [[ExtremeOmnivore He eats a large amount]] of pie at the wedding feast all while he has his bard sing the tale of the aforementioned Rat Cook.
* In ''Literature/SpaceMarineBattles'', it should be little surprise to the reader that villainous, efficient Iron Warriors have linked their slave morgue to the food production plant, but when slaves themselves find out, they're quite appalled.