History Main / TooHungryToBePolite

* In ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'' episode "[[Recap/WishboneS1E03TwistedTail Twisted Tail]]," Joe and his friends befriend a kid from a foster home. When they bring him home for lunch, he rapidly gobbles down his sandwich, which serves as their first hint that things might not be alright for him at home.

* One episode of ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'' had Joe and his friends befriend a kid from a foster home. When they bring him home for lunch, he rapidly gobbles down his sandwich, which serves as their first hint that things might not be alright for him at home.

* In ''Literature/SpaceCadet'', Cadet Tex Jarman picks up a piece of pie with his hands and starts eating it, and the older cadet superior orders him to use a fork instead. Jarman is from a rural background and wasn't taught proper table manners.

* In the first book of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', Effie mentions that the tributes before Katniss and Peeta ate "like a couple of savages". Knowing that the last year's tributes were starving kids from the Seam, Katniss makes a point of eating the rest of her meal with her fingers and wiping her hands on the tablecloth afterwards.

May overlap with RaisedByWolves and MyInstinctsAreShowing. May also overlap with BigEater, but this trope does not necessarily require that the character eat a lot. May be a trait of one with OneTrackMindedHunger. Compare JabbaTableManners, which is similar to this trope, but uses bad table manners to demonstrate that a (usually rich and villainous) character is overly gluttonous. This trope involves less moral judgment. Also compare TooDesperateToBePicky, and BrattyFoodDemand.

* ''Literature/ThePerilousGard'': Inverted with Kate, who's been abducted by the Fairy Folk to be a maidservant. When she's served her first meal in the Hill, she eats it slowly and with attention to her manners, despite how ravenous she is after having been kidnapped. The other maids, by contrast, toss away the spoons and tear the meat with their fingers, stuffing big chunks of it into their mouths.

* ''Literature/ThePerilousGard'': Inverted with Kate, who's abducted by the Fairy Folk to be a maidservant. When she's served her first meal in the Hill, she eats it slowly and with attention to her manners, despite how ravenous she is after having been kidnapped. The other maids, by contrast, toss away the spoons and tear the meat with their fingers, stuffing big chunks of it into their mouths.

* Cookie Monster from ''Series/SesameStreet'' is a classic example of this trope. Whenever he gets his hands on any kind of food, and not just cookies, his table manners reflect very poorly on him. One sketch even has him share a cookie with a starving little girl, and she eats it ''exactly like him''!

* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', when Elizabeth gets captured by Barbossa, he invites her to dinner in his private chambers. At first, she plays her role as the governor's daughter and refuses to touch the mountains of food on the table, but when Barbossa encourages her on account of her being half-starved after being held on his ship for quite some time, she forgets all table manners and messily devours what she can grab. Barbossa looks on longingly as she gorges herself and then offers here even more, although she had to pause for a bit when he offers her an apple and she assumes it was poisoned.[[note]]He's unable to sate himself on food and drink because of the Aztec gold curse, so he's practically getting his rocks off watching her do it.[[/note]]

* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', when Elizabeth gets captured by Barbossa, he invites her to dinner in his private chambers. At first, she plays her role as the governor's daughter and refuses to touch the mountains of food on the table, but when Barbossa encourages her on account of her being half-starved after being held on his ship for quite some time, she forgets all table manners and messily devours what she can grab. Barbossa looks on longingly as she gorges herself and then offers here even more.[[note]]He's unable to sate himself on food and drink because of the Aztec gold curse, so he's practically getting his rocks off watching her do it.[[/note]]

* Raphtalia in ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' at first, justified by the fact that she'd been MadeASlave and has been not only starving, but sickly until Naofumi bought her. She later improves her table manners, though.