A subcategory of Food Tropes. Contrast Fruit and Vegetable Tropes.
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Sub-category:
- Anchovies Are Abhorrent: Anchovies are a gross food.
- Artificial Meat: In The Future, food will be synthesized to something that resembles meat.
- Asians Eat Pets: Now, is it true that Asian people eat dogs and cats?
- Beef Bandage: In case your black eye's at steak.
- Burger Fool: Workers at fast food joints have a bad time.
- Carnivore Confusion: Should a duck eat chicken or not?
- Cartoon Meat: Simplified depictions of meat.
- Cooking the Live Meal: A character is being cooked alive by the captor.
- Emergency Food Supply Animal: That animal's getting eaten later when the food supply runs out.
- Every Pizza Is Pepperoni: Pizza in animated works mostly just comes with pepperoni.
- Grilling Pyrotechnics: An attempt to light a grill that leads to an explosion.
- Haggis Is Horrible: Everyone but the Scots hates it.
- Impromptu Campfire Cookout: A character responds to any event with fire by cooking food over it.
- Inexplicably Preserved Dungeon Meat: How that got there, who cooked it, and how did that get preserved for millennia is anyone's guess.
- Instant Roast: Burning a live animal in big heat equals fully-cooked meal.
- Let's Meet the Meat: Edible animals want to be eaten.
- Meat-O-Vision: If a character is hungry enough, they will start to hallucinate and see other characters as food.
- Meat Versus Veggies: Reds against greens—who would win?
- Mystery Meat: Meat from undisclosed sources. Don't ask what's in it.
- A Pig Named "Porkchop": An animal is named after their body parts.
- Prefers Raw Meat: A character prefers their steak blue.
- Real Men Eat Meat: If you don't eat meat, you're not a real man.
- Reduced to Ratburgers: Hope you're not squeamish about eating vermin.
- Roadkill for Dinner: Eating an animal you just ran over with your car.
- Sausage String Silliness: Gags involving a string of sausages.
- Sickening Slaughterhouse: The place your meat comes from is pretty terrible.
- Squeamish About Slaughter: Character gets disturbed upon witnessing an animal being slaughtered.
- Stewed Alive: A character gets boiled in a pot, alive.
- Tastes Like Chicken: Exotic food is said to taste of chicken.
- Thanksgiving Turkey: Roast turkey, the piece-de-resistance of Thanksgiving feasts.
