Pooping Food

You do not want to taste the rainbow in this case.

It probably goes without saying that the end product of most digestive systems is not exactly considered edible. ^note Unless you are a bacterium, a dung beetle or a similar organism.

Sometimes, however, one can come across a creature or whole species that defies this common knowledge and instead, they poop perfectly edible and perfectly looking food. Whether it's because of Bizarre Alien Biology or just plain magic, you can expect this trope to usually be Played for Laughs and for the sake of Rule of Funny.

A subtrope of Toilet Humor. Compare with Solid Gold Poop for less edible but still valuable waste products.

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Examples:

Advertisements

• Squatty Potty is an advertisement for a stool that you are supposed to rest your legs on while sitting on a toilet, to improve the, er, process. The ad presents this via the example of a unicorn that poops rainbow ice cream.
• There is a product called Unicorn Farts which is just cotton candy.
• There's a (fictional) microbrew beer called Bear Whiz. Bogus ads for the brand depict a grizzly pissing into a lake.

Anime & Manga

• Doctor Slump:
  • Bubibinman, a fly-like alien, picks a nearby piece of dog crap up and eats it! Needless to say, the other characters (except Arale) are disgusted.
  • The early part of a chapter involves Arale giving ice cream to Senbei after Senbei complains of the summer heat. Senbei enjoys it... until Arale reveals the procedures she utilizes for the homemade ice cream Senbei is having — namely, having Gatchan, who is a Nigh-Invulnerable Extreme Omnivore, consume the ice cream ingredients, stay inside a freezer until Gatchan is cool enough, before pooping on an ice cream cone. Senbei reacts with perfectly understandable disgust from such information.

Comic Books

• X-Men comics sometimes feature a minor mutant going by the codename "Soft Serve." Created as a Joke Character, her body is connected to the ice cream dimension, with the actual portal apparently being her... posterior. Supposedly, if anyone is brave enough to try it, it's the most delicious ice cream you could ever have.

Fan Works

• 'Jotaro's Ravioli' features Jotaro Kujo shitting out Chef Boyardee's ravioli and serving them to Kakyoin. Yes, the man went there.

Films — Animated

• Young E.B. from Hop discharges jelly beans on the hood of Fred O'Hare's car, as a proof that he's the heir apparent to the Easter Bunny.
• In Trolls, Cooper poops cupcakes upon being approached by one of the monstrous Bergens. When Princess Poppy notices the cupcakes, she tries to offer them to said Bergen.
  • In Trolls World Tour, Cooper takes it even further, pooping a cake, layer by layer, and the flames for the candles separately when confronted with dangerous animals.

Literature

• Philip K. Dick's Counter Clock World is set in a world where time is reversed but human consciousness still moves forward. Instead of eating, everyone ingests "sogum" (aka feces) anally with a pipe—and after they've undigested it, they "plop" the food out of their mouths, onto a plate.
• In the Star Wars New Jedi Order series, prisoners captured by the Yuuzhan Vong are fed from "dispensers" which are, as with most Vong technology, organic. The Vong find it amusing. The prisoners try not to think about it, since the alternative is starvation.

Mythology & Religion

• Japanese Mythology: Uke Mochi, a food goddess, prepared a feast for Tsukuyomi by pulling delicious foods from her mouth, nose and/or anus, depending on the telling. Unfortunately, Tsukuyomi found this so disgusting that he killed her on the spot.
• The Bible: In both 2nd Kings and Isaiah, the Rabshakeh speaking for King Sennacherib of Assyria warns Jerusalem that the siege will be so bad that they will be forced to eat their own dung and drink their own urine.

Tabletop Games

• In Fading Suns an alien creature called the "Scrup monkey" produces feces that are edible to humans. House Decados often bakes it into "fudge" as one of their least harmful practical jokes.

Video Games

• In at least some of the Achievement Unlocked and This Is the Only Level games, you can press a button to make the elephant you're controlling poop a pastry. And you can then eat it, too.
• In Don't Starve, the creature called Glommer excretes an edible goop (which also burns as strong as a hefty stack of floorboards) at regular intervals. Characters describe it as tasting like floor and smelling foul (and it drives them insane to eat it), but it restores 40 health when consumed.
• In Wattam, the oak tree from the Spring area can eat the other characters and turn them into food.
• In Scum, the game tracks your colon volume. When it gets high enough, your character needs to poop. Among other things, this can result in a can of beef stew or even an entire pineapple, which you can then immedately eat.
• In Super Snail from QCPlay Limited, there's a pig living on your home base and it produces "Mysterious Gloop" which is a brown, swirled "product of digestive activity". Nasty..and unfortunately for Super Snail, the gloop is full of Demon God cells which are necessary for evolving into new forms. So mysterious gloop is a daily part of Super Snail's diet.

Western Animation

• In the South Park episode "Cancelled", the boys meet an alien who tries to take on A Form You Are Comfortable With, eventually settling on Cartman's suggestion of a taco that poops ice-cream.
• Futurama:
  • In "Fry and the Slurm Factory", the Planet Express crew discover that the highly popular soft drink Slurm is actually the secretions of a slug queen. When they act in revulsion at the reveal, the Queen points out that "milk comes from a cow's behind, honey comes from a bee's behind, and you don't want to know where toothpaste comes from."
  • Discussed in "The Sting". ^note  Honey and jelly aren't poop, but he's wondering why humans don't poop food.
    Fry: Bees make honey and jelly? How come nothing humans make taste good?
  • In "T, the Terrestrial", Fry eats what he thinks is colored candy, but it turns out to be Omnicronian poop. ("Feces Pieces?") They apparently don't' taste so bad, as Fry keeps trying to eat them even after the reveal.
• In Adventure Time, Finn and Jake wake up in a cage in the Nightosphere with a pile of bananas. They are at first confounded when demons find the bananas repulsive, until they see one of the demons poop out a banana out its ear.

Comedy

• The comedy troupe The Frantics has a skit about a man who excretes a piece of blueberry pie.

Toys

• There are novelty candy dispensers that are plastic toy animals into which one places jellybeans or other small confections. When activated by a person, a piece of candy is delivered from the posterior end of the toy animal, making it look like the creature is pooping out the candy.
• There are liquor dispensers that are statues of angelic looking little boys. The liquor comes out of the boy’s male appendage, giving the illusion that the statue is whizzing out the booze.

Real Life

• In real life, this happens when food can't be digested. There's even civet coffee, where people use Asian palm civets to digest the coffee shells instead of hiring people or using machinery to do it. It's surprisingly expensive.
• Technically, our and other animals' waste is edible... to other organisms. Like bacteria and dung beetles.
  • Even fairly large animals can subsist on fecal matter, provided it's rich enough in undigested material. Barbels, African river fish that feed on hippos' dung as well as cleaning the huge herbivores' skin, can grow to a meter long, mainly on the half-digested grass fragments that disperse into the water when the hippos defecate.
• Yeast:
  • The alcohol in most alcoholic beverages is the waste product of yeast (for the most part brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae^note Literally "sugar-fungus of beer") feeding on sugars during the fermentation process. The process for making sake and other "rice wines" also uses an additional fungus (Aspergillus oryzae, which releases enzymes that break down the starch into simple sugars the Saccharomyces can further ferment into alcohol^note All alcohol produced from starchy rather than sweet source material more or less requires this additional step of turning starch into simple sugars; it's just that instead of having a fungus do that job, Western alcohols like beer, whiskey, and vodka use malted—that is, sprouted—grain to supply enzymes that break down starch into its simpler component sugars. Not all of the starch has to come from the malted grain, but some malt needs to go in to supply the enzyme.) and pulque (a traditional fermented Mexican drink, made from agave sap) uses a bacterium, but it's the same general idea.
  • The same process causes yeast-leavened breads to rise. Again, Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the microbe responsible. Yes, it is the exact same process: fermentation takes glucose and other simple sugars and transforms it into ethanol and carbon dioxide. In alcohol production, you're looking for the ethanol, while the CO₂ is simply allowed to escape (unless you're making sparkling wine or certain types of beer; even there, you often run two separate fermentations, one to produce the alcohol, and a second refermentation with added sugar to create the bubbles), while in baking you want the gas while letting the alcohol boil off in the oven. So, to be crude as possible: in alcohol production, you want yeast poop, and in baking, you want the yeast farts.
    • Breweries and bakeries often used to set up shop next to each other. Why? Because brewers could give/sell the bakers the yeast-laden scum from the production of ale to the bakers. The bakers in turn would use it to leaven their bread: the scum, called "barm", was easier to handle and produced what many believed was a better-tasting product than the earlier method (making sourdough with a starter that had to be constantly maintained). Incidentally, this is how we get the barm cake.
  • Yeast is also the source of famous Australian food Vegemite, and before that, famous British food Marmite. Both are made of leftover yeast from beer production.
• Other fermented foods, such as cheese, yogurt, buttermilk, salami, soy sauce, some preparations of tofu, sauerkraut, and certain other pickles and condiments are derived from similar processes involving different bacteria. All of these along with yeast-related foods are multi-millon dollar industries.
• Plants, of course, thrive on the fertilizing nutrients available in animal feces. Many species' seeds can only germinate after being deposited in the waste of animals that ingest them, and one type of southeast Asian pitcher plant, rather than trapping insects, has evolved into a literal toilet: a dished platform for tree shrews to perch atop as they fill their digestive tracts with the plant's nectar at one end and defecate out nutrients from the other.
• Rabbits, hares and other lagomorphs have two types of droppings: a hard type that is equivalent to normal feces; and a soft type, known as cecotrope, that is consumed by the rabbit to digest their food better. They do so because grass is very hard to digest, and their guts are very short due to their small size, so this way they can double the time the food is in their guts.
• Many young herbivores, such as koalas, pandas, elephants, and hippos, consume their parents' feces to obtain the necessary gut bacteria they need to digest plant material.
  • Inversely, many parent animals will ingest their newborns' waste, partly as a byproduct of needing to stimulate the young to "go" in the first place, and partly to keep the babies and nest clean.
• Many social insects such as ants and termites engage in protodeal trophallaxis, whereby edible matter is excreted from one individual's anus into the mouth of a second individual.
  • Some ants also raise aphids as "farm animals", feeding on a sugary liquid called honeydew they produce as a digestive byproduct. And yes, the ants do literally eat the honeydew as the aphids poop it out!
• Some freshwater snails sought out by aquarium enthusiasts are favored as much for their diet of fish poop as for their interesting appearances or algae-scraping behaviors.

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