Even before we get deep into the story, or sometimes afterwards, an early clue about a character can be presented by how they like their food or drink. Sometimes, the food choice is symbolic, representing something about their personality, affiliation, or true nature. Other times, it's simply a character tic that makes the person more memorable.

Sub-tropes:

• Abstract Eater: A character that's alien or otherwise non-human in nature consumes concepts or abstract things instead of actual food.
• Acid Reflux Nightmare: Characters who eat before going to sleep have nightmares or weird dreams.
• Addled Addict: An alcoholic whose addiction has ruined their life.
• Adopt the Food: Someone can't bring themselves to slaughter something they've been raising for food, and decides to adopt it instead.
• Age-Stereotypical Food: Certain foods are associated with certain ages. Adults liking kiddy foods means they're childish, and a precocious kid will like adult foods.
• Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality: A character is only Ambiguously Bi when drunk.
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: A character drinking alcohol immediately has a lapse of intelligence and does stupid things.
• The Alcoholic: A character who drinks to excess or can't stop.
  • Alcoholic Parent: Even if they're a parent.
• Aliens Love Human Food: Aliens are addicted to human food.
  • Mars Wants Chocolate: So much so that they invade Planet Earth for it.
• And a Diet Coke: Lots of high-calorie food and one low calorie item is ordered by a character for comedic effect.
• And Your Reward is Edible: A character is rewarded with something edible.
• Appetite Equals Health: An ill character lacks an appetite.
• Apple for Teacher: Teachers are given apples by their students.
• Artificial Cannibalism: When characters eat fake meat based on their species' flesh because they can't stomach the real thing.
• Ascended to Carnivorism: A herbivore that eats meat.
• Asians Eat Pets: Asian people use pet animals (such as cats and dogs) for food instead of companions.
• Asians Love Tea: Asian people are avid tea drinkers.
• Ate It All: A gluttonous or selfish character eats lots of food that was supposed for be shared between multiple people.
• Ate the Plate: A ravenous and/or Extreme Omnivore character eats not just food but the plate it's on.
• Autocannibalism: Someone cannibalistic eats a part of themselves instead of other people.
• Autopsy Snack Time: A character can eat in the presence of a corpse, because they have a strong stomach, a disregard to their job, or a cynical nature.
• Beergasm: A character displays extreme joy and pleasure when drinking an alcoholic beverage.
• Beer Goggles: When a character's perception changes when drunk and they flirt with people they wouldn't have when sober.
• Big Eater: A character (heroic or otherwise) who eats in large quantities.
• Binge Montage: A trippy montage of a character getting drunk.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: A character who likes foods in strange combinations.
• Black-Hole Belly: A character with the ability to eat anything with no consequences for their body.
• Bloodsucking Bats: Species of bats that suck blood.
• Brain Food: When brains are removed and eaten.
  • Eat Brain for Memories: When a character eats a brain to absorb the memories and knowledge stored in it.
• Brain Freeze: Characters risk or tend to get brain freeze when eating/drinking cold things, especially when they consume it too fast.
• Bratty Food Demand: A rude and bratty character demands their food.
• Bread of Survival: Characters that are starving or living in poverty see bread as a symbol of hope.
• Breakfast for Dinner: A character, who's quirky or has unusual life circumstances, eats food usually eaten at certain meals during different times such as breakfast foods for dinner.
• Brits Love Tea: British people are obsessed with tea.
• Buffet Buffoonery: Characters at buffets taking advantage of the "All you can eat" rule to eat as much as they can especially if they're already Big Eaters.
• But Liquor Is Quicker: An intoxicated character easily agrees to go to bed with someone and make love to them.
• Caffeine Failure: An exhausted character tries to stay awake by drinking a caffeinated drink but is unable to, because they're that bone tired.
• Calming Tea: When stressed characters drink tea to calm their nerves.
• Cannibal Clan: An entire family of cannibals.
• Cannibal Larder: A cannibal's personal stash of human remains.
• Cannibal Tribe: A stereotypical tribe of cannibals.
• Cannibalism Superpower: Characters eating other beings and gaining their powers.
• Cannot Have Caffeine: A character who can't consume caffeined substances because they can't handle it.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: A character displays low alcohol tolerance.
• Carnivore Confusion: When worlds with anthropomorphic animals have them eat meat products with no issues raised in-universe.
• Carnivorous Healing Factor: A character heals by eating meat.
• Cast from Calories: Supernatural powers being powered by calories.
• Child Eater: Particularly evil people and creatures that go after minors to eat.
• City People Eat Sushi: Eating sushi means you're a sophisticated yuppie.
• Clean Food, Poisoned Fork: A character is poisoned by something with the poison that came into contact with their food.
• Clothes-Eating Wager: A piece of clothing is eaten by a character who's frustrated or has lost a bet.
• Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: A character gives up a food or drink, but is constantly reminded of it and tempted to have it again.
• Comfort Food: An upset character eats to ease their sadness.
  • Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Especially if the food in question is ice cream.
• Comical Coffee Cup: A character drinks their coffee out of a cup engraved with unique or comedic text.
• Companion Food: When a character, often a Cloudcuckoolander, adopts a piece of non-sentient food as a "companion".
• Condolence Casserole: Someone grieving or going through hardship is given food by those around them, so they don't have to cook.
• Consuming Passion: When eating people is sexualized or has sexual undertones.
• Covert Comrade Carnivorism: When a character, often a carnivorous creature, is tempted to eat one of their allies.
• Crazy Consumption: Insane characters eat in a messy, erratic, or weird way.
• Cut a Slice, Take the Rest: A character takes a portion of food seemingly for themselves but, being greedy, has everything else except the portion.
• Death by Gluttony: A character eats so much, or is forced to, that their stomach ruptures and they die.
• Delicious Distraction: A character is distracted by food.
• Denied Food as Punishment: A character is punished with not having a food or any food period.
• Descent into Addiction: A character gradually becomes addicted to a substance such as alcohol over the course of a storyline.
• Dining in the Buff: A character eats while naked because they're bathing, drunk, eccentric, crazy, or a nudist.
• Diet Episode: A character goes on a diet for an episode.
• Discreet Dining Disposal: A character carefully and secretly gets rid of food that they're served and don't want to eat, while making it look like the food's being eaten.
• Discreet Drink Disposal: A character carefully and secretly gets rid of a liquid that they're given and don't want to drink, while making it look like the liquid's being drunk.
• Distressed Drink Jitters: The hands of a distressed character shake while they're drinking or in the process of getting themselves a drink.
• Does Not Like Spam: A character has a strong dislike or outright loathes certain food.
• Dog Food Diet: A character is forced to eat dog food out of desperation.
• Don't Eat and Swim: Characters who've recently eaten avoid swimming so they don't get cramps while in the water and drown.
• Donut Mess with a Cop: A cop whose Trademark Favorite Food is donuts.
• Dreaded Kids' Table: A older child who wants to sit with the grown-ups instead of the other children during meals.
• Drink-Based Characterization: What drink a character prefers says something about them as a person.
• Drinking on Duty: Characters who don't take their jobs seriously or are unprofessional drink while working.
• Dropped Ice Cream of Sadness: A character becomes sad if they drop their ice cream, especially if they're a child and/or they haven't even licked it yet.
• Drowning My Sorrows: A character deals with their depression by drinking alcoholic drinks.
• Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows: Characters in a Love Triangle smooth things over and settle their differences over drinks.
• Drug-Crazed Savagery: An aggressive character under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
• Drunk Driver: A character careless enough to get drunk while driving becames a menace and a danger.
• Drunken Master: The more this character drinks, the more competent they become.
• Drunken Montage: A montage of an intoxicated character's drunken antics.
• The Drunken Sailor: Sailors love drinking.
• Dry Crusader: When The Teetotaler tries to stop everyone else from drinking.
• Eat Dirt, Cheap: A character eats rocks, highlighting their non-humanity and Bizarre Alien Biology.
• Eat Me: A character relies on their opponent eating them so they can attack them from the inside.
• Eat the Evidence: A character eats evidence against them as a way to get rid of it.
• Eaten Alive: A monster/cannibal/animal eats its victims while they're still alive.
• Eating Pet Food: A character who's dumb or not paying attention eats pet food and, upon finding up, either reacts with disgust or likes the taste.
• Eating Lunch Alone: Loners, introverts and new kids eat lunch alone at school while sociable people eat with others.
• Eating Machine: A machine with the ability to consume food.
• Eating Optional: When a character doesn't need to eat, but still does so.
• Eating Shoes: A character, for whatever reason, eats their shoes or another character's shoes.
• Eating Solves Everything: A character deals with their problems by eating and waiting for things to sort themselves out.
• Eating the Enemy: A character deals with their enemies by eating them.
• Eats Babies: A character so evil that they eat literal babies.
• Edible Theme Naming: Characters named after foods and drinks.
• Emergency Food Supply Animal: Characters keep a domesticated animal to slaughter when they need food.
• Emotion Eater: A character can consume the emotions of others like food.
• Empty Fridge, Empty Life: An empty fridge (implying the person eats out a lot or eats poorly) indicates that the character is weird and socially inept, and is single, an artist, or other type of weirdo.
• Enemy Eats Your Lunch: A character shows that they don't like someone by stealing and eating their food.
• Erotic Eating: A character eats in a sexually-arousing way, usually directed at another character.
• Even the Rats Won't Touch It: Vermin drawing the line at eating truly disgusting things.
• Evil Egg Eater: Animals that eat eggs laid by other animals are portrayed as the scum of the earth.
• Evil Tastes Good: Villains describe evilness through food/drink metaphors.
• Evil Vegetarian: An evil character's vegetarianism complements or contrasts with their villainy.
• Exotic Entree: An evil character eats food that's immoral just to prepare.
• Extreme Omni-Goat: Goats are often portrayed as having an appetite for pretty much anything they can chew on.
• Extreme Omnivore: A character who will eat anything, usually indicating their weirdness or lack of humanity.
• Faked Food Contaminant: A nasty or underhanded character deliberately puts something disgusting in their food, so they can get a refund or ruin the reputation of the ones who prepared the food.
• Familial Cannibalism Surprise: A character unknowingly eats the flesh of their relatives which they initially think is just normal meat, and typically react with horror upon finding out the truth.
• Fantastic Diet Requirement: Characters that are fantastical creatures eat strange things other than normal human food.
• Far-Out Foreigner's Favorite Food: A character who's a foreigner or an alien loves a food more than any other kind of food.
• Fast-Food Nation: Americans only eat fast food, highlighting their boorishness.
• Fattening the Victim: Someone fattens up a creature they intend to kill and eat by feeding them a lot, so they'll provide much more meat then they would've at their original weight.
• Fed to Pigs: Pigs being fed corpses to dispose of them.
• Fed to the Beast: The villain tries to kill the heroes by feeding them to animals/monsters.
• Feed by Example: A character has to eat or drink something in front of another character (which could be an animal, a juvenile, someone who's reluctant to eat, or someone unfamiliar with that particular type of food) to get them to eat it.
• Fiending for a Fix: Addicts becoming unstable or desperate when they suffering from their cravings or withdrawals.
• Fight for the Last Bite: Characters squabble over the very last morsel of food.
• Filching Food for Fun: A naughty, petty, or bored character steals food from other characters.
• Flesh-Eating Zombie: Zombies eat the flesh from the people and things they kill.
• Food and Animal Attraction: Animals swarm areas and people with food.
• Food as Bribe: Food is used to bribe a character.
• Food Chain of Evil: Monsters that prey on other monsters.
• Food Coma: A character who's full from eating lots of food goes to sleep.
• Food Eats You: In a bizarre and disturbing role reversal, Anthropomorphic Food eats humans.
• Food God: A god/goddesses of food.
• Food Interrogation: A character interrogating another offers food.
• Food Shove Gag: A character has food shoved in their mouth by someone else to stop them talking or to humiliate them.
• Food Songs Are Funny: When songs about food are considered funny.
• The Foodie: This person loves food, sometimes in a weird way.
• Force Feeding: A character refusing to eat is forced to do so either out of necessity or torture.
• Forced Starvation: A character is purposefully denied all food as a form of torture.
• Foreign Queasine: Characters who are the only ones who don't find dishes from their home countries disgusting.
• Forgets to Eat: A character who doesn't think about food, often an Absent-Minded Professor or workaholic.
• Foul First Drink: A character is disgusted when drinking for the first time.
• French Cuisine Is Haughty: People who eat or prepare French food are snobs.
• Frozen Dinner of Loneliness: Eating a frozen dinner as a signal of loneliness.
• Functional Addict: An alcoholic that can still function well in everyday life.
• Future Food Is Artificial: Characters from the distant future dine on mock food.
• Genius Sweet Tooth: Geniuses love sweets.
• Girls Love Chocolate: All women love chocolate, especially if they're a Girly Girl.
• A Glass of Chianti: Wicked Cultured villains drink red wine, often while lounging evilly.
• Gluttonous German: Germans are Obsessed with Food.
• Gluttonous Pig: Pigs are portrayed as gluttonous creatures.
• Gluttony Montage: A montage where a person eats a ton of food.
• God-Eating: When even gods aren't safe from being devoured, such as by other gods.
• God of Alcohol: A god/goddesses of alcohol.
• Going Cold Turkey: A character swears off alcohol and is able to do so after a painful withdrawal period.
• Gourmet Pet Food: Pets are treated to elaborate and luxurious pet food.
• Grapes of Luxury: A character is hand-fed treats to show off their wealth and power.
• Greens Precede Sweets: A child character (or an immature character) has to eat their vegetables before they can have pudding.
• Gruel and Unusual Punishment: A character is punished by being made to eat bland foods.
• Hair of the Dog: Someone suffering from a hangover drinks more alcohol in an attempt to get rid of it.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: A happy, drunken woman who's the life and soul of the party.
• Hates Common Food: An upper-class person refuses to eat "commoner" food.
• Hates Wasting Food: A character whose Berserk Button is food being wasted.
• Haute Cuisine Is Weird: Rich people eat very strange things.
• Healthy Eating Fanatic: A character obsessed with healthy eating habits.
• Herbivores Are Friendly: Plant-eating animals are portrayed as gentle, laid-back creatures.
• Hideous Hangover Cure: Someone suffering from a hangover drinks something gross to cure it.
• High-Class Cannibal: Rich people eat human flesh.
• Hold the Unsolicited Ingredient: A character specifically requests a certain kind of food not be added to their order, even if the foods are not normally served together.
• Horror Hunger: A human character develops a insatiable appetite for other human beings which is Played for Horror.
• Hot Drink Cure: Hot drinks are the beverage of choice for sick characters.
• Hunger Causes Lethargy: A hungry character becomes lethargic as a result of their hunger.
• Hungry Menace: Evil monsters that are motivated by getting food to sustain themselves.
• I Ate WHAT?!: A character eats or drinks something gross or inedible, realises too late what it was, and reacting with disgust or horror.
• I Do Not Drink...Wine: A seemingly normal character has unusual food tastes, hinting that they are actually an alien or supernatural being.
• I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: A character insists that they hate a certain food until they try it and find that they love it.
• I Got a Rock: While trick or treating, a kid gets something healthy or inedible instead of candy which they either sadly accept, or vandalise the houses of the people who denied them candy as revenge.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: To calm down from a stressful moment or steady their nerves to prepare them for future events, a character drinks alcohol.
• I Taste Delicious: A character, who's made of or covered in something edible, tastes themselves and likes how they taste.
• If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: A character believes that healthy food is supposed to taste terrible.
• I'll Take Two Beers Too: A character orders two drinks or items for themselves and another character, only for the other character to order two as well.
• I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!: Someone at a bar, who's already heavily intoxicated (or Drunk on Milk), demands more, despite their current state and the bartender's concern.
• I'm a Humanitarian: A cannibal.
• I'm Not Hungry: A captive refuses their captor's offer of food.
• Improbable Food Budget: Characters that somehow have enough money to afford multiple purchases of food.
• Inappropriate Hunger: A character gets hungry at the most inappropriate of times.
• The Incomparable Bliss of Low Cuisine: Cheap, widely available food like burgers and cookies is treated as the greatest culinary experience you could ask for, often to the astonishment of the rich and powerful.
• Ingesting Knowledge: A character literally consumes knowledge.
• Instant Taste Addiction: Trying a new food and instantly developing an addiction to it.
• Intoxication Ensues: A character goes crazy because of something they consumed.
• In Vino Veritas: Alcohol acts like a truth serum that reveals a character's true colours.
• Ironic Allergy: A character is allergic to a type of food which proves to be ironic.
• Is It Something You Eat?: An ignorant, hungry, naïve or confused character thinking a new word they heard is something edible.
• Jabba Table Manners: To show that a character is evil, antagonistic, or uncouth, they'll have bad table manners.
• Jokers Love Junk Food: Comic-relief characters adore junk food.
• Just Here for the Free Snacks: A character only cares about the snacks at events and gatherings.
• Kidnapper's KFC: Kidnappers, while on the run from the law, buy fast food for their hostages.
• Kids Hate Vegetables: Kids have a childish disgust for vegetables.
• Kids Raiding the Wine Cabinet: When kids try some of their parents' supply of alcohol for themselves.
• The Ketchup Test: A character tastes some blood or something that looks like blood to check if it actually is.
• Klatchian Coffee: Characters drinking coffee and becoming super fast as a result.
• Lactose over Liquor: The Teetotaler orders milk at a bar.
• Lady Drunk: A depressed, bitter alcoholic woman.
• Laxative Prank: A character's bowels are affected by laxatives they're tricked into eating.
• Lethally Bad Diet: A character has a diet that's so unhealthy, it kills or nearly kills them.
• Libation for the Dead: The spirits of the dead are given offerings of food and drink as a sign of respect.
• Life Drinker: A character drains life force from other creatures to stay alive.
• Liquid Courage: A character wanting to do something they feel nervous about and/or normally wouldn't do while sober drinks to loosen their nerves.
• Literal Maneater: A Ms. Fanservice who eats the men she lures in and seduces.
• Loser Buys Lunch: The winner of a game, challenge, or wager makes the loser treat them to a meal.
• Lost Food Grievance: A character whose Berserk Button is their food being stolen or ruined.
• Lost My Appetite: The Stock Phrase uttered when a character is Put Off Their Food.
• Luxurious Liquor: A character drinks expensive alcohol to signal their wealth.
• Madness-Induced Omnivore: A crazy or hallucinating character eats non-food items.
• Magic Eater: A creature consumes magic and/or magical characters.
• Mantis Mating Meal: Female mantises always try to eat the males after mating with them.
• Marshmallow Dream: A sleeping character that's dreaming of eating ends up waking up, and finds out that they've been eating something in the real world such as a pillow.
• Man-Eating Plant: A plant with a taste for meat.
• Masochist's Meal: Food that is either ridiculously spicy, foul-smelling, dangerous, or just gross. Only a person who is very tough would dare to eat it.
• Mascots Love Sugar: Critters have a massive Sweet Tooth.
• Meat-O-Vision: A hungry character hallucinates everything as food.
• Meat Versus Veggies: Meat-eaters and vegetarians/vegans clash over their dietary preferences.
• Metal Muncher: A creature that eats metal is usually a very alien and dangerous creature.
• Micro Dieting: Characters who are on a diet, lack an appetite, or are fans of Haute cuisine have small food portions.
• Midnight Snack: A character wakes up in the middle of the night and gets some food to eat.
• Monsters as Cuisine: When a story's setting has humans eat fictional monsters.
• Monstrous Cannibalism: Creatures who cannibalise each other are portrayed as savage monsters.
• Motivation on a Stick: Characters dangle something an animal (or a particularly unfortunate sucker) wants in front of them to motivate them. Food is commonly used for this, but other items can be substituted.
• A Mouse Named "Mozzarella": Animals named after foods they are stereotypically known to eat.
• Must Have Caffeine: A character who can't live without caffeine.
• Nailed to the Wagon: An alcoholic is forced to stop drinking by those around them.
• Never Gets Drunk: When a character displays a limitless tolerance for alcohol.
• Never Gets Fat: This character never gains weight, no matter how much food they eat.
• No More for Me: A character witnesses something weird and stops ingesting whatever substance they're having, blaming it for what they're seeing.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: A villain invites a captured hero to have dinner with them.
• No Party Like a Donner Party: People in situations where they're trapped or lost resort to eating each other to stay alive.
• Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious: Soldiers and prisoners eat tasteless but filling food.
• No Zombie Cannibals: For some reason, zombies never kill and eat other zombies.
• Obsessed with Food: A character who is always thinking about food.
• Ode to Food: When characters sing about their love for a certain type of food.
• Off the Wagon: An alcoholic trying to wean themselves off their vice relapses.
• One Drink Will Kill the Baby: Pregnant women avoid drinking alcohol for the sake of their unborn babies.
• One-Track-Minded Hunger: A character for whom food comes above all else.
• Only One Who Likes Spam: A character is the only one who likes something deemed disgusting by other characters.
• Overcomplicated Menu Order: A character orders something really complicated at a restaurant or cafe, showing that they're pretentious or fussy.
• Pass the Popcorn: A character responds to events unfolding in front of them by watching with snacks, like they're at the movie theatres.
• Paste Eater: A character eats paste because they are childish or a Cloudcuckoolander.
• Peking Duck Christmas: Characters eating at a Chinese restaurant for Christmas Dinner or ordering Chinese takeout when other options aren't available, or if they practice a religion that doesn't celebrate Christmas (Judaism, Islam, etc.).
• Phlebotinum Muncher: Something non-human dines on Applied Phlebotinum.
• Picky Eater: An immature person or The Finicky One will only eat a few things.
• Picky People Eater: Cannibals with strong preferences on which body parts they like best.
• A Pig Named "Porkchop": Animals named after meat product they come from.
• Pink Elephants: A heavily-intoxicated character hallucinates.
• Pizza Topping Conflict: Characters clash over what toppings their pizza should have.
• Plain Palate: A character who prefers bland foods.
• Planet Eater: A character who can eat literal planets.
• Plot Allergy: Characters with plot-relevant allergies.
• Post-Stress Overeating: When a character deals with their stress by gorging themselves.
• Post-Treatment Lollipop: When kids are rewarded with candy (lollipops being the most common type of candy given out) after having an appointment somewhere, like at the doctor's.
• Poverty Food: A character's diet shows they're poor.
• Power-Up Food: A character gets superpowers by eating a certain food.
• Predation Is Natural: Animal characters who are predators aren't vilified for needing to eat meat.
• Predator-Prey Friendship: Interspecies friendships between predator and prey animals.
• Predator–Prey Prejudice: When animals are judged for being predators or prey.
• Predator–Prey Romance: Interspecies romances between predator and prey animals.
• Predator Turned Protector: A predator ends up wanting to protect its prey rather than eat it.
• Predators Are Mean: Predators portrayed as villains.
• Prefers Raw Meat: A character likes their food raw because they're wild, a Beast Man, or a badass.
• Prisoner's Last Meal: A character who's on Death Row eats one last meal before being executed.
• Put Off Their Food: A character is so grossed out by something, they lose their appetite.
• Quick Nip: A character casually drinks while doing other things such as talking to others, showing that they're cool or dependant on alcohol.
• Radish Cure: A character wants something that's not good for them such as lots of junk food, so they're given just that in abundance with the intent to put them off wanting it.
• Raw Eggs Make You Stronger: A character eats raw eggs because they are a body-builder strongman (or wants to be one).
• Reading Tea Leaves: A character takes the opportunity to look at the tea-leaves, coffee grounds and wine pulp left from their drink, because they're trying to work out what their future holds.
• Real Men Eat Meat: Manly men love meat.
• Real Men Hate Sugar: Manly men don't eat desserts or anything too sweet.
• Real Men Take It Black: Manly men prefer their coffee black without cream.
• Recovered Addict: Someone who successfully recovers from being an alcoholic.
• Reduced to Ratburgers: A character who's starving and/or living in poverty take to eating animals that are considered vermin, such as rats.
• Revenge Is a Dish Best Served: Someone gets revenge on someone who wronged them or they don't like by spiking their food with something gross or something they can't eat.
• Roadkill for Dinner: Usually attributed to hillbillies and rednecks.
• A Round of Drinks for the House: A celebrating character orders drinks for everyone at the bar.
• Sapient Eat Sapient: Sapient beings trying to eat each other.
• Scavengers Are Scum: Animals that scavenge are depicted as evil, unpleasent, and cowardly.
• Schmuck Banquet: A luxurious banquet that's a trap tempts characters that come across it, with those who are smart or sensible not falling for it, and starving, reckless or stupid ones giving into their hunger and suffering the consequences.
• The Secret of Long Pork Pies: Human beings unknowingly eating human meat when it's made into a food.
• Secret Snack Stash: A character has their own secret stash of junk food.
• Self-Induced Allergic Reaction: A character deliberately eats food that they're allergic to, because they want to have an allergic reaction for whatever reason.
• Self-Poisoning Gambit: A character consumes some poison or pretends to to trick someone else into poisoning themselves.
• Sentimental Drunk: A drunk character is nicer than when they're sober.
• Single Malt Vision: Characters see more than one of the same thing when they're drunk.
• Sinister Sweet Tooth: Villains identified by their taste for the sweeter things.
• Slipping a Mickey: A person is knocked out from consuming a knockout chemical that was put in their drink.
• The Snack Is More Interesting: A character cares more about the food they're eating than what's going on around them.
• Snack-Stealing Seagulls: Seagulls steal food.
• Sneaking Snacks: Characters who are mischievous, secretive, or determined to have their favorite snacks secretly taking stuff from food stashes set up by others.
• Sniff Sniff Nom: When a character sniffs something before tasting or eating it.
• Snooty Haute Cuisine: Expensive food used to identify a character as rich and/or a snob.
• Soul Eating: A character consumes the souls of the living.
• Soup Is Medicine: Ill characters eat soup.
• Soup of Poverty: Poor people survive on soup.
• Spacetime Eater: A being whose diet consists of existence itself.
• Spiteful Gluttony: When a character eats out of spite.
• Stock Animal Diet: Different animals are stereotyped to like particular foods.
• Stock Medieval Meal: Characters in Medieval stories have limited food options which is narrowed down to bread, stew, meat, and beer.
• Stock "Yuck!": Certain foods that are stereotyped as disgusting or distasteful.
• Straw Vegetarian: A vegetarian or vegan who despises any form of non-vegan lifestyle.
• Sugar Causes Hyperactivity: Sugar and junk food makes characters, especially kids, go crazy.
• Super-Persistent Predator: A predator that won't give up until it catches its prey.
• Super Serum: Characters ingesting chemicals as a way to gain superpowers.
• Swallow the Key: A character who wants to keep something or someone locked up swallows the key.
• Sweet Tooth: Love of sweets as a distinguishing character trait.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Someone laces a character's food or drink with a harmful or deadly substance because they're trying to hurt or kill them.
• Tastes Like Disdain: When a character rejects food offered by another character to show that they don't like them or they're in a bad mood.
• Tastes Like Friendship: Characters befriend each other over food.
• Tea Is Classy: Characters who drink tea are sophisticated or wealthy, especially if they do so with a Proper Pinky.
• The Teetotaler: A character who doesn't drink alcohol.
• Tempting Cookie Jar: Children trying to steal cookies out of the cookie jar.
• Thank Your Prey: When characters say grace to their food if it contains meat, because they want to apologise or express gratitude towards the creature for being eaten so the characters can live.
• This Billboard Needs Some Salt: Gigantic monsters mistake billboards and scenery as actual food, and take a bite of them.
• Through His Stomach: Gaining a character's favor (usually romantic) by giving them food.
• To Absent Friends: Heroes make a toast to their deceased comrades.
• To Serve Man: Entire races and species of monsters and aliens that eat humans.
• Toast of Tardiness: Anime characters who are Late for School always eat toast as they run.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: A character whose willing to forgo their standards to eat.
• Too Hungry to Be Polite: A starving character or a character living in poverty is too hungry to bother with table manners.
• Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: A character who's so sad that they lose their appetite.
• Trademark Favorite Food: A character is defined by or strongly associated with a particular food.
• Trapped at the Dinner Table: A character (often a child or Picky Eater) isn't allowed to leave the table until they clear their plate.
• Trojan Veggies: A child character is tricked into eating vegetables that are hidden or disguised among other foods.
• Unaffected by Spice: A character eats extremely spicy food without discomfort.
• Unconventional Food Order: A character eats at an eating establishment that caters to those with a Bizarre Taste in Food.
• Unconventional Food Usage: When characters use food for anything other than eating.
• Undiscriminating Addict: An addict of any intoxicant they can get their hands on.
• Unsuspectingly Soused: A character drinks something that gets them drunk because the drink was full of alcohol.
• Vampiric Draining: A character's diet is extracted vital force from others.
• Vampires Hate Garlic: Vampires avoid garlic like the plague.
• Veganopia: A vegan character is from a utopia where everyone else is vegan.
• Vegetarian Carnivore: A carnivorous animal who's vegetarian, for whatever reason.
• Vegetarian for a Day: A character temporarily becomes a vegetarian.
• Vegetarian Vampire: A vampire who avoids drinking human blood.
• Villainous Glutton: A character's gluttony highlights their evil nature.
• Villain Raises a Toast: Raising a glass shows character's villainy.
• Virtuous Vegetarianism: A character is made vegetarian as a symbol of their inner goodness or purity.
• Vodka Drunkenski: Russians are obsessed with drinking alcohol.
• Wacky Cravings: A character suddenly develops a Bizarre Taste in Food because she's pregnant.
• Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere: Someone tries their best to abstain from their natural diet.
• Warm Milk Helps You Sleep: Characters struggling to sleep drink warm milk.
• Water Source Tampering: A character is paranoid that a water source is poisoned or bad guys actually poison a water source as part of a villainous plot.
• Weaponized Allergy: A character's allergies are used against them by another character, with possibly lethal results.
• Weight Loss Salad: Characters trying to lose weight eat nothing but salad.
• Weird World, Weird Food: A character from an alien world has a taste for the strange food there.
• White-Bread Palate: White people can't handle spicy food and/or generally have a Plain Palate.
• Wicked Wastefulness: A character is shown to be antagonistic, bad, or evil by wasting food.
• Wine Is Classy: Characters who drink wine are sophisticated or wealthy.
• Xenophobic Herbivore: Herbivores are depicted as prejudiced, especially against carnivores and omnivores.
• You Are Who You Eat: When a character eats someone they want to turn into.
• You Taste Delicious: A creepy, strange, or weird character licks food off another character, much to their disgust and/or bewilderment.
• You're Drinking Breast Milk: Characters consider breast milk to be undrinkable and will react with disgust upon accidently drinking it.
• Your Favorite: When a character offers/gives another character something that's apparently the latter's favorite treat.

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