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Gourmet Pet Food
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When advertisers sell pet food, they know that it won't be Fido or Fluffy making the final purchasing decision — it's the pet's owner who must be sold. Thus, pet food commercials will present their product as if it's something the pet owner would want to eat themselves. They'll film pet food with the same loving attention they would the board of fare at a five-star restaurant: It will be served up on fine china instead of the plastic or metal bowl pets normally eat from. It will be garnished and served by candlelight. And consider that processed ground meat (and meat byproducts) would generally be gray in color, if cooked properly. But open a can of meat dog food, and it's usually a nice bright red; not that the pet cares about color, — the food coloring is added strictly for the benefit of the pet's owner. (Ironically, food coloring is one of the most common food allergies in dogs.) Many brands go out of their way to ostentatiously include "people" foods like pasta and vegetables, ignoring that cats and dogs can't properly metabolize either of those ingredients. Actual, non-gullible pet owners know the reality of what animals like to eat: Most of what the pets drag in from the yard is anything but appetizing to human palates, and the pet is perfectly happy to chow down on those organs and flesh raw (cats and dogs are born carnivores, remember). Most animals will eat what's in front of them whether you want them to or not. Pet food comes from vegetable and (small amounts of) meat byproducts from the human food industry; even the gourmet pet food is mostly meat left over from processing.note That said, there has been a movement to make biologically appropriate kibble recently, and there're now a lot of brands that are actually made with your pet's needs in mind. Wet food is still primarily bad. The rich, meaty look of gourmet dog food might lead some characters to a fridge mixup, in which they end up unintentionally Eating Pet Food. Compare and contrast Fake Food, 'food' in ads is prepped up and often non-edible. Dog Food Diet is an inversion where the humans intentionally eat pet food due to poverty. |
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The Simpsons: Inverted in "Burns Verkaufen Der Kraftwerk". Bart opens a can of "Carrot Cat Food" which is advertised as 88% ash and 12% carrots. They are actually quite common ingredients, though certainly not in those proportions. Snowball II is understandably disappointed when the food lands in her dish with a puff of gray dust. | |
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The Way of the Househusband: With the help of some of the neighborhood ladies, Tatsu whips up a gourmet clam chowder and chicken bowl for his old yakuza boss's dog while they're at the park. | |
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Future Diary: Karyuudo lets his dogs feast on prime beefsteak and whine while he simply dines on cup noodles. | |
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The Canterbury Tales: It has an Older Than Print example. The Prioress feeds her beloved dogs roast meat and fine bread with milk. It reveals her Moral Myopia, since she doesn't show anywhere near the same concern for human wellbeing, despite her holy orders. | |
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Grand Theft Auto III: An ad for Bitch'n' Dog Food the manual is probably the most logical Averted Trope, bonus points for admitting they use "the scrapings off the abattoir floor". Of course, in the game, the company is more into using Human Resources. | |
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The Warcrafter: After the Alliance raids Coil's house, Lok'tara (formerly Rachel) picks some of the meat and gives it to her dogs. When asked about it, she says it's "Wag-You" beef, which she picked because she thought it was specifically made for dogs. The others choke and/or freak out because she's speaking of Wagyu beef, which was already very expensive before Leviathan sunk Kyushu and international shipping tanked. Lok'tara tastes some, remarks it's not that great, and tosses another piece to her dog. | |
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas: The dog throwing up reveals that it ate carrots at some point, despite it and its owners having been in the sea for a while; vegetables are an extremely rare treat for sailors. | |
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Nintendogs: The café in the 3DS games offers desserts specially made for dogs that look indistinguishable from human food. Other games avert this trope for the most part, though. | |
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Fraggle Rock: "Gunge, the Great and Glorious" features Rover's Royal Repast as a fanciful dog food brand that Sprocket demands. He gets his wish but since the stuff is so expensive, he has to conform with tiny portions. | |
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The Truth: Lord Vetinari feeds his dog Wuffles the finest steak; the man subsists on dry bread and water despite being the ruler of a major city. | |
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Saturday Night Live: Subverted. In one sketch, the elegant packaging illustrations and elaborate descriptions are intercut with actual cat food cans opened onto plates complete with glopping sounds as the meatwad comes out of the can. | |
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Bear Nuts: Averted. The bear's zoo-mandated food is anything but gourmet. | |
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Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth: In the manga, Shawn Southern gives pet treats worth 500 yen each to his dog. They look enough like real sweets that the killer, in an attempt to frame him for killing his girlfriend, Emi St. Cloud, placed the cakes on the table to make it seem as though Shawn and Emi were both having them (even though Shawn dislikes sweets). | |
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