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Mystery Meat

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Mystery Meat	comment	Food of unknown composition. Like value-priced sausages, which is all the parts of meat they don't put in the attractive cuts in the butcher shop display; discount meatloaf at a skidrow diner, which has mysterious chunks that aren't meat; and stew made by a Camp Cook with a mix of hard-to-identify items floating in it. Most of this comes from a largely cultural misconception of food and people who have little to do in preparing their own meals, especially anything that doesn't look like its origin. It's also much easier to demonize foods that rationalize an irresponsible diet. Thus you have certain kinds of food everyone hates in any form. Scares from the early 20th century aside, cheap sausage is generally made of chunked pork or other meat, fat, some offal and other by-products wrapped in intestine and loaded with salt. This is unhealthy in large quantities, but there's nothing inherently toxic about it. TV has you believe that hot dogs are Mystery Meat. Meatloaf is another scary food, which ignores the entire point of adding filler like oatmeal or rice to it to stretch a beef budget and not to cover up bad cooking. Meatloaf is always portrayed as some horrific dried-out swamp log, although this is largely true of any improperly baked food. Another common accusation leveled at such foods is that they're made from creatures not traditionally considered edible: vermin like rats and (these days) pigeons; domestic animals like cats and dogs; or, worse yet, stray cats and dogs, which are verminous and domestic at once; or even missing persons. (Opinions vary as to what creatures are considered edible — sometimes even with the passage of time, as with pigeons no longer being thought of as edible in the US.) If someone finds out what they ate, expect I Ate WHAT?! as a response. It may or may not taste like feet, just don't think about what it's made of if it does — or maybe you should. Sometimes the food is so disgusting that Even the Rats Won't Touch It. This trope even applies to Mascots and Non-Human Sidekicks more often than not: they'll be unwilling to eat organ meats, for example, even though in real life wolves and most other predators will go for organ meats first. Likewise, dogs will be averse to animal rinds/skins—again in sharp contrast with real life. Any North American show, cartoon, or movie which touches on elementary through high school can be expected to have at least one gag about this. Standards in educational institutions' food used to be quite low: strict health and safety guidelines were enforced, but flavor didn't matter, and what counted was just that it wouldn't kill you. These days, things are pretty good (school lunches are for-profit, so they try to be more palatable than bringing your own lunch; but they're also held to pretty strict dietary-health standards); but most content-creators came of age before these reforms, and old memories die hard, especially comical ones. While padding recipes with ingredients you have too much of has gotten tarred as a cheap, underhanded tactic of the Camp Cook or cafeteria cook, in Real Life professional kitchens, even the chef at a fancy restaurant will seek to avoid food waste by incorporating ingredients into some dish before they go bad. So if the roast beef is on its last day, it may be incorporated into a meatloaf. If some vegetables are on their last day, they might get thrown into a stew or a stir-fry. That stale cake may be soaked in coffee and turned into tiramisu. With the high price of food, making use of everything rather than throwing it away is sound business sense (and good for the environment).
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Mystery Meat / int_100d4e39	comment	Aladdin: The Series: Genie's Big Book of Things you Aren't Supposed to Know includes what's really in a tongue sandwich.
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Mystery Meat / int_16fc4335	comment	The trope is mentioned by name in Winds of Fury at a carnival, with the recommended cure for the inevitable stomachache being the snake oil sold by the medicine man in the next booth over (which is brandy with some medicinal herbs in it). The disturbing thing is that conditions in Hardorn are so bad that the mystery meat is actually an improvement over what some people had been eating.
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Mystery Meat / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: One arc involves burgers made from ground demon (after Bun-Bun drops the demon into the meat grinder).
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Mystery Meat / int_21d3ba1f	comment	Gunless: In an exchange when Sean is eating the first meal Jane made for him, he asks what went into it. She simply replies "meat".
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Mystery Meat / int_22211d68	comment	Dialogue in an episode of Bones includes a mention of a brand of "100% beef" hot dogs that were recalled for containing no actual meat. Another features a Victim of the Week who ends up in cans of stew served in a high school cafeteria. The latter episode is actually titled "The Mystery in the Meat".
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Mystery Meat / int_2342a881	comment	Mission Hill: The unfinished episode "Supertool" has its b-plot start out with Kevin trying to use the bathroom at school to brush his teeth to get rid of the aftertaste of the schools "Nutrition Loaf". Toby remarks that at least it's better than the even lower-quality "Behavior Loaf".
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Mystery Meat / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": Lunchlady Doris gets her ingredients from a barrel labelled "Assorted Horse Parts — Now With More Testicles" ("More testicles mean more iron!"). "Treehouse of Horror V": In the "Nightmare Cafeteria" segment, Doris grabs something from a barrel of "Grade F Organ Meat", which is labelled as "Mostly circus animals, some filler". "The PTA Disbands": Doris pushes gym mats into a meat grinder, while Principal Skinner insists that shredded newspaper provides "much needed roughage and essential inks". "Lisa the Vegetarian": Lisa imagines all the animal parts involved in making the dinner on her plate — the sheep part for the lamb chop, the chicken part in the chicken breast, and the rat tail, raccoon foot, pigeon head and part of a boot in the hot dog. There's also an exchange as Lisa searches for a meatless option during lunch; Lunchlady Doris suggests the meatloaf. "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can": When Krusty Burger creates the Ribwich, it creates hordes of devotees who follow it around to selected restaurants like Grateful Dead fans (including Homer, of course). Krusty has to announce that they had to stop making it since the animal they used was driven extinct, and implies that this animal was some kind of arthropod. Frequent offender Doris gets another one preparing the Valentine Day Heart special. This consists of actual beef hearts, one of them visibly still beating. Hey, beating means it's still fresh! One episode has a variation. The milk Fat Tony provided to Springfield Elementary turns out to be from rats. Upon finding out, Mayor Quimby is outraged... because Fat Tony promised him "dog or higher". When Homer, Mr. Burns, and Smithers flee to Cuba to escape the IRS, Homer quite enjoys the island, especially the food. "Kamp Krusty": The titular camp favors Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel. "Nine out of ten orphans can't tell the difference!" "My Sister, My Sitter": During the grand opening of the Springfield Squidport (in reality a transparent attempt at gentrifying the decaying waterfront district), Homer and Marge visit the food court that has set up shop there, which features all manner of international cuisine. Marge orders chicken tandoori from one stall, while Homer orders beef wellington from another. The viewer is then shown that all the stalls are supplied from a huge vat of the same grey, indeterminate...something or other.
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Mystery Meat / int_2d01f8dc	comment	Beavis and Butt-Head: One episode begins with the two in the school cafeteria, where they're mystified by that day's serving of mystery meat.
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Mystery Meat / int_323672c5	comment	The common assumption is that hot dogs, bologna, and other very finely minced sausages have that texture due to God-knows-what kind of scary ingredients. This is not a wholly unreasonable fear (especially for the cheap, rotgut stuff), but Life of Boris once made Doktorskaya Kolbasa (basically a Russian version of bologna) from scratch, using nothing but fresh pork, seasoning, ice water, and a food processor. The result was indistinguishable from a similar sausage bought in a store.
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Mystery Meat / int_32396c80	comment	Kronk's New Groove: The food that Kronk brings to the Flickering Embers Home for Seniors is Puree of Mystery Meat.
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Mystery Meat / int_33d00522	comment	Teacher's Pet: The plot of one episode is kicked off when the main character, a dog masquerading as a human student, identifies the mystery meat as being the same stuff served to him that morning for breakfast — dog food. He's unwittingly blackmailed into recanting his revelation, though. It turns out that the mystery meat was actually corned beef hash; Leonard had accidentally fed him that that morning instead of dog food.
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Mystery Meat / int_35af2104	comment	Inverted in The Fifth Elephant, when Vimes and Sybil sample Uberwald sausages for the first time. Vimes is shocked to find they're actually made of proper meat from appropriate farm animals, not the usual bread-filler, suet, and mysterious green flecks of an Ankh-Morpork "sausage".
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Mystery Meat / int_37a6e77b	comment	Camp Lazlo had a Halloween episode where a man made of mystery meat came to life and started eating and replacing people with duplicates like The Thing (1982).
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Mystery Meat / int_3ad902f9	comment	Moville Mysteries: One episode is about the local Conspiracy Theorist dragging Mo into investigating what the deal is with the new Mystery Meat at the cafeteria. Since it's really tasty, everyone keeps buying it and it glows in the dark. After hinting that it's of extraterrestrial origin, they find out it's actually made of tofu, which causes everyone to hate it because is healthy, and the makers of the meat break their deal with the cafeteria. Then when asked why the meat glowed in the dark, it's revealed the lunch lady didn't know it did that. A final shot reveals the meat makers were aliens after all.
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Mystery Meat / int_3c18c35f	comment	Things I Am Not Allowed to Do at the PPC: Agents aren't allowed to ask what the cafeteria food is made of, especially if it looks like something recognizable.
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Mystery Meat / int_3ee3ceda	comment	Subverted by Dibbler's Ecksian counterpart in The Last Continent:
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Mystery Meat / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: Anything that Calvin's mom cooks tends to come out looking like a plateful of green sludge. Calvin disdainfully calls it "toad stroganoff" in one Sunday Strip. However, in one strip, Calvin's mom tells him that it's "spider pie"; Calvin, being a Nightmare Fetishist, is persuaded to taste it again and actually approves, although his dad still doesn't want to try eating it. She tries the same trick in another strip, calling stuffed peppers "monkey heads" (with much the same result — Calvin happily eats it, but his dad rejects it).
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Mystery Meat / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-1361 is a living, man-eating mystery meat.
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Mystery Meat / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: Garfield has occasionally crossed paths with some Mystery Meat when Jon goes too long without cleaning the refrigerator. In one strip, he has to flee for safety because the Mystery Meat had crawled out of the tinfoil and tried to attack him. Another time Jon and the pets are on vacation and the local delicacy is something called Unguah. Exactly what an Unguah is is never specified, but judging by the cook's unhappy reaction to seeing a live one in his kitchen, it's probably some sort of vermin. Played with in another strip, Jon was looking over a yearbook talking about how the lunch ladies made school lunches fun with "Mystery Meat Mondays", to which Garfield replies with how he loves guessing games.
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Mystery Meat / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children: In one episode, Kelly comes home from her job as waitress at a local diner, annoyed about customers complaining about finding a cat claw in their food. What makes this example especially bad is that the meal in question was a salad!
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Mystery Meat / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: C.M.O.T. Dibbler's sausages and meat pies in the novels. They're not bad, technically. They have no taste. "Curry with meat 10p. Curry with named meat 15p". Once a character (probably Vimes) asks for a pie with named meat, and then adds when he says "named", he doesn't mean it should have been named Fido or Fluffy. "Yep, made with 100% real pig." "Don't you mean 'pork'?" "Manner of speaking. Definitely pig." Subverted by Dibbler's Ecksian counterpart in The Last Continent: Parodied in Feet of Clay, when a dwarf deli tries to pass steak and chicken off as rat, a dwarven delicacy. In Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, the section on etiquette with trolls mentions that the silicatious lifeforms have one word that means "animals" and one word that means "vegetation", which makes preparing meals for human or dwarfish friends a somewhat chancy affair. Inverted in The Fifth Elephant, when Vimes and Sybil sample Uberwald sausages for the first time. Vimes is shocked to find they're actually made of proper meat from appropriate farm animals, not the usual bread-filler, suet, and mysterious green flecks of an Ankh-Morpork "sausage". The canteen in Moving Pictures offers really dodgy food, taking advantage of the fact that most people in Holy Wood are barely scraping by. When Victor asks why trolls eat rocks, one replies that "you're made a' meat, and what do you eat?" Victor replies, "Good question." Later, they take to calling it "fish stew," on the basis that it's made of things found in water. By the same ticket, Ankh-Morpork chocolate is compared to "real" chocolate as having the same relation Dibbler's sausages have to actual meat. The list of ingredients of the standard Guild of Chocolatiers' mix is mentioned as "milk, sugar, suet, hooves, lips, miscellaneous squeezings, rat droppings, plaster, flies, tallow, bits of tree, hair, lint, spiders, and powdered cocoa husks", in approximate order of quantity.
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Mystery Meat / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring: The description of the Raw Meat Dumpling notes that it's "not for those who prefer to know the origin of their meats." Environmental clues heavily imply it's human meat.
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Mystery Meat / int_47fa9185	comment	The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood: For a time Toby has a job at a fast-food restaurant named "SecretBurgers!" where the "mystery" of the meat is upheld as a selling point. The advertisements promise that no two burgers are the same, and that each patty might be an unexpected exotic delicacy. Toby, having seen the kitchens, knows this is a lie: much of the meat is ground-up rats, stray cats and other vermin. Incidentally, the area is rife with crime, and occasionally people targeted by the Mega-Corps and gangs go missing. Their bodies are conveniently never found by police, but Toby knows where the pieces are. The patrons at SecretBurgers! know how horrible the food is, but they simply can't afford to care, underscoring what a Crapsack World the setting is.
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Mystery Meat / int_494e23	comment	In the first episode of Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, Nyarko serves Mahiro a lunch box she made for him. He likes it, but remarks that the meat doesn't taste like fried chicken and asks what it is. Her only response is a Not-So-Innocent Whistle, and when he threatens to puke it back up all she's willing to say is it's not dangerous to humans. For the rest of the series Nyarko is a bit more open about her meals (but Mahiro still refuses to eat anything that doesn't come from Earth... and then she tries to serve him pterodactyl, which leads to him further specifying modern Earth).
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Mystery Meat / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Many cooking recipes in the base game use Mystery Meat as an ingredient. It drops from all manners of beasts as well, regardless of whether they resemble mammals, reptiles, birds, or bugs. including vultures and giant scorpions. The Alliance quest "Dusty Crab Cakes" in Duskwood has players kill giant venomous spiders for their meat in Dusky Lump items ("Spiders are kind of like big crabs."), which are (secretly) the main ingredient to the Dusky Crab Cakes recipe the chef makes. Wrath of the Lich King has Chilled Meat, Northrend's version which drops from animals without a dedicated meat drop. Apparently, due to the conditions of the northern continent, it comes already refrigerated once you're done butchering. Toughened Flesh is the Cataclysm equivalent, dropping from any animal that doesn't have a different set meat drop. It's used to make "Blackened Surprise" and Goblin Barbecues. The Cataclysm expansion also includes the Unidentifiable Meat Dish, the description of which reads: "Somehow even more sinister than Mystery Meat." And this time, we don't know what's in it, but the fact that it can only be bought from vendors belonging to the local insane Apocalypse Cult does not bode particularly well. Battle for Azeroth has Questionable Meat which drops from animals in regions under threat of Old God invasion, used to craft dishes such as "Ghastly Ghoulash" and "Dubious Delight". Dragonflight has Maybe Meat which drops from animals with no set meat drop, used to prepare such meals as "Hopefully Healthy" and "Probably Protein".
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Mystery Meat / int_4cd32aa7	comment	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Halfling Clan Rumster is infamous for trading in dirt-cheap, bottom-quality foodstuffs of all kinds, but especially for its meat pies, which are rumored to contain everything from vermin to business rivals. In the Empire, food-borne diseases causing diarrhoea are commonly known as "Rumster's Revenge".
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Mystery Meat / int_510974b4	comment	Johnny Test: Johnny's dad's horrible meatloaf recipes. Doesn't just serve meatloaf by itself, he also serves it in burritos, tacos, etc. Every proclamation of Mr. Test's meatloaf for dinner is met with screams of horror from his family. One episode hints that there isn't anything in there that can be remotely called meat. He doesn't seem to try and hide that either.
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Mystery Meat / int_546876cb	comment	Sonic Boom: In "Three Men and My Baby!", Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles volunteer to babysit Chumley, Lady Walrus's infant son, after they accidentally injure Lady Walrus. Near the end of the episode, Chumley runs away, and when Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles search for him at Meh Burger, Sonic tells Dave it's great that Chumley is not ingesting Grade-D beef. Dave then tells Sonic, "I wouldn't call it beef, per se."
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Mystery Meat / int_5518bb2f	comment	Meatballs: Bill Murray during one of the camp announcements. It's arguably the Trope Codifier if not the source of the name.
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Mystery Meat / int_55dc8b2a	comment	Dandelion Wine: Doug's grandma has a disorganized kitchen and pantry full of unlabeled ingredients scattered everywhere. She just grabs stuff at random and throws it all together. Because of this nobody knows exactly what each dish contains, but that doesn't matter because she makes the most legendary, mouth-watering meals anyone has ever tasted.
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Mystery Meat / int_5612c44a	comment	Nickelodeon Clickamajigs: "Chef's Mystery Special" features a gonky lunch lady feeding gross slop that includes shoes, tin cans, rotten food, cigar butts, human body parts, and other inedible stuff.
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Mystery Meat / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: While trying to retrieve a paralyzed O-Chul and Roy's corpse from The Monster In the Darkness, Haley and Belkar end up using Food as Bribe, but since they're in the middle of a battlefield, ingredients are a bit hard to come by. Belkar ends up using a vulture to substitute chicken, and the Monster isn't exactly a conneisseur anyway, so he happily chugs down the entire pot of stew.
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Mystery Meat / int_5908ee91	comment	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: In a minor dungeon, the Dovahkiin discovers that some bandits have been using wolves for a dogfighting enterprise. They find the diary of the outfit's cook, in which the gourmet complains that the bandits don't appreciate his skill with vegetables and keep nagging him to get them some meat. The remaining clues in the kitchen indicate that the cook started feeding the bandits canine meat (from the fighting pit), and when they discovered what they were really eating, they... didn't take it well. In a book called The Red Kitchen Reader, a man recounts climbing into a red-painted kitchen as a child and eating some meat he found there. He describes it as being delicious, and had planned on sticking around to ask the kitchen's owners what it was, but got bored waiting for them to come home so he left. It's heavily implied that he stumbled into a Dark Brotherhood torture chamber and that the meat was very likely humanoid.
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Mystery Meat / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas has "Strange Meat" and Strange Meat Pie, which are actually fairly commonly found food items. It's implied that Strange Meat is human flesh deliberately prepared in such a way as to disguise it as something else, so that it can be sold to people who don't realize what they're buying. According to Old Ben, one butcher in Freeside made a killing off of this practice and sold it cheaply enough to put Ben's father's shop out of business. This continued until people started getting "shakes" (strongly implied to be Kuru) from eating it, including the butcher himself, who eventually died from the disease.
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Mystery Meat / int_5a3533fe	comment	On My Name Is Earl, to make up for giving Joy a godawful toe disease and getting her trapped in a bubble until she's better, Earl has to do all of Joy's chores, such as catching up on gossip, harassing the ice cream man over an incident that happened years ago... and buying meat from one of their trailer park neighbors, out of the trunk of said neighbor's car.
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Mystery Meat / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: In one arc where Schlock is infiltrating a circus he manages to get hired by the security department, whose head asks if he can use his discerning sense of smell to identify the meat in the concession stand's mystery meat sticks. It turns out they're sourcing the meat from the petting zoo.
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Mystery Meat / int_5d354f8	comment	In the Red Dwarf episode "Kryten", Lister is just taking a swig of tea when Holly happens to mention that among the items they need to stock up on from the Nova 5 is cow's milk, since they're now on the emergency back-up supplies: dog's milk.
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Mystery Meat / int_5dc630cf	comment	The Simpsons Hit & Run: In Level 3, one of the tasks in the optional "Princi-pal" mission is to get Principal Skinner dinner from Krusty Burger. When Lisa talks to the Squeaky-Voiced Teen, he asks her if she'd like to try a new Krusty Ribwich. Lisa refuses because she's a vegetarian, but the Squeaky-Voiced Teen assures her there's no meat in it; just paste and MSG.
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Mystery Meat / int_605761e0	comment	Sire: Johanna is an enthusiastic chef for the lineage children at the London haven. She is descended from Mrs. Lovett, and the subject of her ingredients is one that causes characters concern.
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Mystery Meat / int_61747237	comment	Retro Chill: The aliens' mystery meat is made of something so disgusting that the narrator refuses to describe what it is.
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Mystery Meat / int_61750a5f	comment	In Porridge, the prison food is sometimes unknown, coming from a tin which says "tinned meat". This also happens with a tin labelled "fruit pie filling".
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Mystery Meat / int_629fbaf8	comment	Jungle 2 Jungle has a short joke implying this trope about Central Park Hot Dogs when Mimi-Siku tells his city-bound father Michael that the hot dogs he's trying out tastes like his favorite food back in his tribal home, lizard guts. This causes some squeamish reactions from his father, who promptly spits out the portion he is chewing on and dumps the rest of the hot dog.
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Mystery Meat / int_62d998a4	comment	The Scavengers: Best not to think about what The Remnant were eating while on the march. What is shown is inedible looking green leaves topped with an unidentifiable grey slop. Whatever it was, most of the men felt that horse meat would be a definite improvement.
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Mystery Meat / int_6566e35a	comment	TFS at the Table has this as a Running Gag courtesy of "Grammy", the sea hag galley chef the group meets in the first session. In that session she served the group chicken soup and challenged them to identify the Secret Ingredient. It's not love, it's seagull. Later on she serves them pie containing pufferfish — toxin included and serves Eloy tomato soup with still-screaming mandrake. Of course, as horrible as her food may sound, if the players can make their Constitution saves they tend to get some nice bonuses out of it: the pie granted +1 Armor Class, for example.
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Mystery Meat / int_65926abb	comment	In Lawrence Block's The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons, Bernie and Carolyn eat a lunch purchased at Two Guys From Taichung.
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Mystery Meat / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: Soulcast meat is treated like this. Any Soulcast food is bland, tasteless, and with an unidentifiable texture. While everyone knows that the meat is transmuted from rocks, that knowledge doesn't really help.
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Mystery Meat / int_6c1d09b2	comment	Fallout 2 has a restaurant that sells "Large Wasteland Omelets". Your character thinks they're delicious, and eating one will heal you up to full health. If you check the shed behind the restaurant, however, you'll find a Deathclaw locked in it: the omelets are made from the Deathclaw's egg. In Fallout: New Vegas, you can encounter the restaurant owner's granddaughter, who's learned the recipe from the original character. This time she's open about the fact that it's made with Deathclaw eggs.
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Mystery Meat / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3: You might come across "Strange Meat". You might not want to eat that. It's human flesh.
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Mystery Meat / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 has a quest named "Mystery Meat"; Longneck Lukowski's Cannery is a pre-war cannery that survived the nuclear apocalypse mostly unscathed and was eventually repaired and reopened by Theodore Collins, who's made a very profitable business for himself selling canned meat to the rest of the Commonwealth... except as of late, there's been reports of people getting sick from his meat. While exploring the factory, the player finds that Collins product seems to consist of a mix of Radstag, Molerat and even Radroach, kind of gross but perfectly edible until they reach the basement, where they were told not to go. Turns out that Collins had difficulty getting enough meat to meet the unexpected demand, and when one of the basement walls collapsed, letting in a horde of Feral Ghouls, he decided to start using their flesh as filler. The customers are getting sick because they've unknowingly been eating heavily irradiated human flesh. After escaping the basement, the player is forced to kill Collins, who's willing to resort to murder to hide his secret.
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Mystery Meat / int_70814599	comment	Even Stargate SG-1 has done a gag on this. From an early episode:
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Mystery Meat / int_70fa4812	comment	Worst Cooks in America: Naturally, some of the worst cooks have ingredients that are unidentifiable and/or past their prime when introduced. Also invoked by Chef Anne, when she teaches them how to cook with organ meats (not usually eaten in mainstream US culture), and introduces the concept by making them dishes they all love, and shocking them when she reveals that they involve hearts and livers.
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Mystery Meat / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur subverts it since the food is not only edible, but healthy and delicious. It is played straight in the episode where Mrs. McGrady has cancer and her nephew takes over and makes something that's not only inedible, but none of the kids can figure out what the dishes are.
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Mystery Meat / int_746b7566	comment	Detox Camp: The only food available at camp (unless you go out and kill your own) is ambiguous-looking "Military Mush".
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Mystery Meat / int_75debb	comment	In Parrotfish, Sebastian is the only one who Grady knows who actually eats the school's disgusting hot lunches. The "meatloaf with mashed potatoes" is rather nondescript and covered in brown goo that is supposed to be gravy.
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Mystery Meat / int_7871793	comment	Eating Raoul: The dish is definitely not French. More... Spanish.
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Mystery Meat / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: In the slums Akira grew up as a Street Urchin in, the main supply of food is what the government hands out twice per day. These foods include things like meat produced by enigmatic Lost Technology devices, plants grown in radioactive fields, and meat from Nanomachine infested monsters, with the purpose being to test if these foods are safe for commercial sale. This sometimes results in horrific mutations. The food has warning labels, but most everyone in the slums Never Learned to Read and theyâ€™re Too Desperate to Be Picky even if they could. After Akira earns enough money, he donates funds for Sheryl to make sure the kids in the slum gang the two established together have decent food and can read.
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Mystery Meat / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: In an episode where they build a truck stop, Ferb can be seen scooping out ingredients from a large can labeled "assorted mammal chunks".
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Mystery Meat / int_7c60fb0f	comment	The Simpsons: In one story, Homer enters an eating contest where the objective is to wolf down as many meat pies as possible within a time limit. Homer manages to eat all but one of his allotments and is spurred on to finish the last one when he hallucinates the ghosts of the animals that went into it telling him to not let their deaths be in vain — a cow, a pig, a rat, and a platypus.
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Mystery Meat / int_7d5e43b0	comment	The Goodies episode "Kung Fu Kapers" did this with black pudding. "Pigs' blood...rats' brains...oh, poor tom kittens!" See also Music.
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Mystery Meat / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: Fallout 2 has a restaurant that sells "Large Wasteland Omelets". Your character thinks they're delicious, and eating one will heal you up to full health. If you check the shed behind the restaurant, however, you'll find a Deathclaw locked in it: the omelets are made from the Deathclaw's egg. In Fallout: New Vegas, you can encounter the restaurant owner's granddaughter, who's learned the recipe from the original character. This time she's open about the fact that it's made with Deathclaw eggs. Fallout 3: You might come across "Strange Meat". You might not want to eat that. It's human flesh. Fallout: New Vegas has "Strange Meat" and Strange Meat Pie, which are actually fairly commonly found food items. It's implied that Strange Meat is human flesh deliberately prepared in such a way as to disguise it as something else, so that it can be sold to people who don't realize what they're buying. According to Old Ben, one butcher in Freeside made a killing off of this practice and sold it cheaply enough to put Ben's father's shop out of business. This continued until people started getting "shakes" (strongly implied to be Kuru) from eating it, including the butcher himself, who eventually died from the disease. Fallout 4 has a quest named "Mystery Meat"; Longneck Lukowski's Cannery is a pre-war cannery that survived the nuclear apocalypse mostly unscathed and was eventually repaired and reopened by Theodore Collins, who's made a very profitable business for himself selling canned meat to the rest of the Commonwealth... except as of late, there's been reports of people getting sick from his meat. While exploring the factory, the player finds that Collins product seems to consist of a mix of Radstag, Molerat and even Radroach, kind of gross but perfectly edible until they reach the basement, where they were told not to go. Turns out that Collins had difficulty getting enough meat to meet the unexpected demand, and when one of the basement walls collapsed, letting in a horde of Feral Ghouls, he decided to start using their flesh as filler. The customers are getting sick because they've unknowingly been eating heavily irradiated human flesh. After escaping the basement, the player is forced to kill Collins, who's willing to resort to murder to hide his secret.
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Mystery Meat / int_7fa9264d	comment	A syndicated edition of To Tell the Truth has the panel served up with dishes of fancy delicacies, which host Garry Moore describes individually as the panel partakes. Things come to a hilariously abrupt halt when Garry tells the panel that the dishes they're eating were prepared for pet dogs and cats.
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Mystery Meat / int_7fc78282	comment	In The Lord of the Rings, it shows up in the Orcs' military rations. Given the Orcs' conversation, there's a non-zero chance that it was once a person.
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Mystery Meat / int_863b7825	comment	Yes, Minister has the Euro-sausage standardization incident in the Christmas special "Party Games". British sausages contain too high a proportion of rusk, and the "meat" they contain is (accurately described, at least for cheaper suppliers) unpalatable abattoir waste and scraps, so the EU attempts a reclassify them by the more accurate but highly unappetizing term "emulsified high-fat offal tubes"note Disturbingly, the scene in question actually depicts a fairly accurate description of the quality of the typical sausage for sale in British supermarkets at the time the episode was filmed. Hacker then twists the relevant information to make it look like the EU is planning to ban British sausages, and the resulting political hubbub gives Jim an opportunity to raise his profile and take advantage of an unrelated political crisis to become PM.
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Mystery Meat / int_8930ab06	comment	In The Pickwick Papers, Sam Weller, to Mr. Pickwick's horror, comments that "Wery good thing is weal pie, when you know the lady as made it, and is quite sure it ain't kittens." Apparently, Sam once knew a pieman who kept a lot of cats, but when Sam commented that he must be fond of cats, the pieman replied, "Other people is."
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Mystery Meat / int_8c0eb4d2	comment	Howard of Fresh Meat works at an abattoir and occasionally brings home... perks.
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Mystery Meat / int_8d814070	comment	Occasionally cropped up on MASH, in jokes regarding the unidentifiable (and often unchewable) meat dishes in the 4077's canteen.*
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Mystery Meat / int_8d840259	comment	SCTV: Kiddie show hosts Mrs. Falbo and Mr. Messenger do a show in the state penitentiary. At lunch, Falbo asks the guy serving chow "Do you have anything besides beef stew? I'm allergic to beef." He replies "Don't worry, lady, there ain't any beef in it!" Mr. Messenger says "I'll have lots, please!"
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Mystery Meat / int_8e0312e6	comment	RuPaul's Drag Race Season 2 had a mini challenge requiring the queens to determine whether a number of mystery meats were chicken or something else. This was when the series was a more straight-up parody of reality TV in general and was a take on the genre's gross-out eating challenges.
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Mystery Meat / int_8e2b9d52	comment	Quest for Glory III: The Meat Seller sells mystery meat as rations. If you ask him what's in it, he'll tell you in exhausting detail (and rhyme) until you decide that You Do Not Want To Know. Its greatest virtue lies in the fact that the merchant is such a terrible haggler that you can get it for virtually nothing.
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Mystery Meat / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: There's a set of recurring bizarre food items (Muscle Drink, Odd Morsel and Rancid Gravy) that are effective but also cause some weird Status Effects when consumed. Naturally, they can only be used in battle. Other examples include the Weird Takoyaki from Persona 3("Something other than octopus is inside") and the Mystery Stew from Persona 5 ("No ingredients listed"). Mystery Food X, despite the name, is not an example since we DO know what's made of (usually curry gone horribly, horribly wrong) with the mystery being what the girls did for the food to turn out like THAT.
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Mystery Meat / int_8f578d93	comment	Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis: One student claims that the roast served in the cafeteria of Al-Revis is dried Puni.
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Mystery Meat / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: Frequently served at Middleton High's cafeteria, to the disgust of the students. One episode has Kim and her class forced to watch a video saying what exactly goes into Mystery Meat; the class runs out screaming and wanting to vomit. In another episode, Mr. Barkin is filling in for yet another absent teacher who "made a mistake many first-year teachers make — she ate the cafeteria meatloaf". The class reacts with horror. In yet another one, Wade analyzes the gravy that a ghost (actually Sensei's astral projection) used to write a message to Ron on the cafeteria wall. Wade tells Kim and Monique that they do not want to know what's in it until they graduate. From college.
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Mystery Meat / int_90ab7fe1	comment	Recess: The cafeteria food of Third Street School is very hit-and-miss, and when they run out of food the kids actually want, they tend to substitute with horrific glop like liver and eggplant. "The Dude": Former student turned teacher, Franklin "The Dude" Dudikoff, claims that the school even smells the same as it did during his childhood. Spinelli says it's because the stench from the cafeteria is permanent. Subverted in one episode where Gus brings some of his dad's military rations for lunch, the normally universally reviled chipped beef on crackers, which is one of his favorite foods. Good thing too, since the cafeteria lunch that day is "German Seafood Feast" (i.e a way to use up the leftover fish sticks and sauerkraut). Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade: Taken to a final extreme when the school starts serving a synthetic food paste as part of a misplaced reform attempt by the school board. This is the straw that breaks the camel's back and T.J. ends up going on strike against the school's insane new policies.
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Mystery Meat / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series has the episode "Joker's Favor", where Gotham's most luckless Butt-Monkey, Charlie Collins, has had the worst day of his life, which is topped off by his wife making meatloaf that night. Of course, after a run-in with the Joker that ends up haunting him for two years before the matter is finally resolved, his wife's meatloaf is looking pretty good.
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Mystery Meat / int_90f7114	comment	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Best not to ask what goes into Mrs. Lovett's pies, even before her partnership with the eponymous barber.
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Mystery Meat / int_9180db32	comment	Daryl from Letterkenny mentions buying so-called venison from a street meat vendor, and finding out that it wasn't genuine the hard way.
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Mystery Meat / int_93f4768d	comment	Tiny Toons: In one episode, Babs Bunny enters a normally crowded school cafeteria, which is now empty. She handwaves this to herself with the phrase, "Hmm. Must be serving mystery meat today." According to pilot Montana Max, the airplane food served to Buster and Babs hasn't been classified by science yet. The two main choices are grey lumps in brown sauce or brown lumps in grey sauce.
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Mystery Meat / int_95fcf890	comment	The Spellcasting Series: The food served in the cafeteria at Sorcerer's University is notoriously inedible on any day when parents aren't visiting (the students learn cooking spells in their freshman year and use that to make their own food instead of eating there). The casserole served in the second game is used as a source of firefly larva (which is apparently part of the recipe), and squirrel vomit (produced when you to try to feed the casserole to the squirrel).
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Mystery Meat / int_96a429e8	comment	Beyond Heroes: Discussed in Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium, as Varric and Bethany eat some stew prepared by the Skyhold chef. Varric notes that they can be reasonably sure about what they're eating, as opposed to the mystery meat in the stew at the Hanged Man in Kirkwall. (This is a throwaway joke referring to one of the Dragon Age II loading screens, which made reference to the mystery meat used in the tavern.)
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Mystery Meat / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters: In "The Big Fix", Urkel is seen eagerly gobbling what Laura thinks are chicken wings. The nerd corrects her: They're frog's legs!
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Mystery Meat / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	The titular restaurant of Bob's Burgers doesn't actually go in for this (Bob actually takes it as a point of pride to only procure finest quality beef, despite the expense to his struggling business), but his kids often have fun acting as though it is, and the malicious health inspector will try to accuse him of such. One episode actually featured Bob trying out a cheaper meat supplier, who turned out to be illegally dealing in horse. Jimmy Pesto also sometimes alludes to using it in his own restaurant, as part of generally cheaping out on quality.
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Mystery Meat / int_9a527531	comment	Avernum: "Weird meat" comes from a variety of sources, of which the least disturbing is giant lizards used as livestock. At least one example (Garzahd's "pantry") is apparently humanoid in origin, maybe even human. However, all of it can be eaten without harm.
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Mystery Meat / int_9ab064e6	comment	Les MisÃ©rables: The Thenardiers' inn serves up some rather bizarre delicacies.
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Mystery Meat / int_9d47a2a2	comment	In A Song of Ice and Fire, the standard meal in low-end taverns and "potshops" in and around Flea Bottom in King's Landing is a "bowl o' brown", a stew made by boiling whatever the cook could buy, find, or scrounge that day into an unidentifiable goop over many, many hours on low or medium heat while occasionally topping it up with cheap, cloudy ale and whatever grains/leftover stale-bread come to hand both for thickness and that distinctive colour. People reduced to actually eating brown generally know better than to ask what went into it, although the veg is (generally) safe enough. Over the course of the series, cats, dogs, gulls, feral pigeons, questionably aged fish, dead horses... and quite a few inconvenient individuals (or parts thereof, in various stages of decomposition) end up in the stew pots. Worse, it's clear that this... delicacy-and-disposal-method... has been around for at least a century. Meeting a sellsword who admits to liking (and really missing) authentic King's Landing brown is enough to make Tyrion lose his appetite, though it doesn't stop his snark. It's also quite teling that during the siege of King's Landing, bread becomes unavailable very quickly, but the bowls of brown never go away (though they do get smaller and more expensive).
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Mystery Meat / int_9e8e9ba3	comment	In one of the Gaunt's Ghosts short stories, mention is made of a standard Guard ration called "slab". It's made from "reprocessed protein" (possibly making it a precursor to the "soylens viridiens" issued to the Guard in the Ciaphas Cain novels that take place several centuries later), and has no flavor beyond a mucusy texture. Back when Gaunt was in schola, one of his classmates discovered that it could be molded to look like plastic explosives, which resulted in a prank that was legendary in both the havoc it caused and the wrath of the faculty afterwards.
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Mystery Meat / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: Tintin - Tintin in America has a minor plot point that reveals that a mob-controlled corned beef producer actually uses dogs, cats, and other street animals, both strays and kidnapped pets. They actually have quite an elaborate setup showing live cattle going into a machine, and finished produce coming out.
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Mystery Meat / int_a5f8ce04	comment	"Mummy I Don't Like My Meat" by The Goodies. An impoverished family's child keeps asking her mother where all their pets and her father have gone.
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Mystery Meat / int_a77de360	comment	Dilbert: In "Company Picnic", The Pointy-Haired Boss wants to buy a brand of hot dog called "Zoo No More" for the company picnic because it's much cheaper than beef or chicken and allows a bigger beer budget (and he happens to own stock in the brand). When he actually goes to buy the hot dogs, he ends up buying even lower quality hot dogs from a seedy guy with a Coat Full of Contraband. Every single person who eats the hot dogs in that episode ends up with severe food poisoning, including the Boss and the seller!
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Mystery Meat / int_b0666b59	comment	Neverwinter Nights: One of the side quests in the mod Shadowlands involves killing a bunch of out-of-control fire beetles in the basement of the local inn. It turns out that they're the "secret ingredient" in a rather popular noodle dish sold by one of the market vendors.
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Mystery Meat / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Danger Mouse recoils after drinking Penfold's tea (episode "Ee-Tea!"). He pours it into an analyzer which tells him that it was low grade dishwater. Every cuppa in the land has been replaced with it, thanks to Baron Greenback.
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Mystery Meat / int_b12a057c	comment	Bogleech: In Burgrr.com Terms and Conditions ARG, this is the sort of stuff that the creepy restaurants behind the green doors are serving. So why are all the people clamoring for it? And why is it replacing all the other products on grocery shelves? If you're guessing a conspiracy by nightmarish beings from some undefinable otherplace involving brainwashing, brain parasites, and consumerism, then you're correct!
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Mystery Meat / int_b20f40bc	comment	The Return of the King: The Rankin-Bass adaptation features Samwise and Frodo amongst orcs in disguise. Despite the situation looking hopeless, Samwise mentions that at least the whipmaster allowed them to keep their food packs, saying that orc food makes rodents sick.
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Mystery Meat / int_b29621f3	comment	Parodied in Feet of Clay, when a dwarf deli tries to pass steak and chicken off as rat, a dwarven delicacy.
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Mystery Meat / int_b3693333	comment	Clue: Mrs. Peacock's enjoyment of monkey brains, a mystery meat to the other diners, is a key to two of the solutions.
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Mystery Meat / int_b3f687d1	comment	FoxTrot: Pretty much any scene set in the high school lunchroom is guaranteed to reference this trope, often exaggerated. In one strip, a planned meal of pasta with white sauce turns into past with red sauce because a cook cut herself and got blood on the food, which they served to the students anyway. In one strip, the cafeteria offers a vegetarian alternative: Meatless Mystery. Referenced at the summer camp attended by Jason and Marcus. The camp serves burritos one night, which the boys consider a major treat. Marcus notes over dinner that "Tomorrow night's menu just says 'grub'." Paige is excited because the cafeteria reads S.T.E.A.K. one day. This turns out to be Squid Tentacles, Eggplant, And Ketchup.
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Mystery Meat / int_b40c60f6	comment	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel): One issue has a group of Joe recruits being put through deliberately harsh training to see who cracks. Lunch is "mystery meat on a shingle". One disgusted recruit asks, "How do they get it so grey?".
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Mystery Meat / int_b4963c9f	comment	Good Eats: Used in the episode, "Oh, my! Meat pie!" Alton's ancestor repeatedly asks Mrs. Lovett what's in her pies...and she replies that she doesn't recall, but reassures him that it was fresh at the time. At the end, Scotland Yard comes by her pie shop to investigate several "mysterious" disappearances in the area, and she runs off to America with Alton's ancestor.
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Mystery Meat / int_bb55a676	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes: In the Threeboot, Karate Kid is dealing with the Fourth-Wall Mail Slot when Shadow Lass serves him a meal. He asks her what kind of meat it is, and she tells him to read the next letter. The next letter says, "Those goats in Brainy's lab were really cute. What happened to them?" After a Beat Panel, KK starts spluttering while Shady takes over.
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Mystery Meat / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Drowtales: After reaching topside and making camp, the crew decides to dine on meat of unknown origin. Kyo'nne teases the human slave Vaelia by suggesting that the meat she's snacking on might indeed be human◊.
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Mystery Meat / int_c10dc0ac	comment	This is a staple of the Stoneybrook Middle School's cafeteria in The Babysitters Club.
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Mystery Meat / int_c2ef4b61	comment	Brawl in the Family: Kirby eats a hot dog and transforms into a horrific-looking Mix-and-Match Critter.
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Mystery Meat / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Caves of Androzani", Peri is taken prisoner and served a bowl of unidentifiable green mush. Her cellmate calls it "nourishment" and cheerfully tells her it tastes worse than it looks.
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Mystery Meat / int_c4d37e84	comment	11/22/63: Al Templeton's diner infamously served beef at below cost, which should be economic suicide for a restaurant, leading to rumors that his food contained road kill, despite it tasting perfectly good. Al's food was legitimately 100% beef, no disgusting filler at all; the reason it was so cheap is because his diner secretly contained a time portal leading to the same location in September, 1958, and Al used it to buy meat at 50's prices.
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Mystery Meat / int_c564dcf0	comment	The canteen in Moving Pictures offers really dodgy food, taking advantage of the fact that most people in Holy Wood are barely scraping by. When Victor asks why trolls eat rocks, one replies that "you're made a' meat, and what do you eat?" Victor replies, "Good question." Later, they take to calling it "fish stew," on the basis that it's made of things found in water.
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Mystery Meat / int_cdcbdaed	comment	Wayside School has a lunch lady who can cook very well — if she's only cooking for one or two, but the more food she cooks, the worse it tastes. It's said that she cooks 500 meals, and only two students at a time are willing to eat it, and half of those who eat it go home sick. Mystery Meat is only part of the dishes she serves. Notably, as bad as it tastes, it can cause a person to spontaneously kiss someone and leave them with no memory of the act.
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Mystery Meat / int_d11c0f6f	comment	On an installment of No Reservations set in a backwoods joint somewhere in southeast Asia, the usually up for anything Anthony Bourdain was visibly nervous about meat from small animal. Tony's companion spoke very poor English and referred to it as "squeezil", causing Tony to have horrifying images of what it might be. Apparently, it's porcupine — after figuring it out, Tony was visibly relieved.
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Mystery Meat / int_d27c007d	comment	In Kill la Kill, Mako's mother makes croquettes that are considered absolutely delicious according to everyone who eats them, yet she always tells everyone that you don't want to know what she makes them out of.
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Mystery Meat / int_d3954793	comment	Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey: In one scene, Shadow and Chance (two dogs) discuss what they think hot dogs are made of. Chance doubts that they're made of dog, while Shadow doubts that they're even made of meat. Both agree that they taste the best when they fall in the dirt.
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Mystery Meat / int_d4caf593	comment	Bully: One of the missions done for Edna the Lunch Lady involves finding out exactly what goes into the mystery meat at Bullworth Academy cafeteria — discount meat from the butchershop. Not only is the meat just on the safe side of being rancid already, Edna states that it'll last for a month, as "there are no fussy eaters at Bullworth".
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Mystery Meat / int_d54b59cc	comment	Demolition Man: One scene has Spartan buy a burger from a member of the Resistance, only for the other characters to point out that the Resistance doesn't exactly have space and resources to raise cattle underground, and that the meat in the burger is almost certainly rat. Spartan doesn't really mind, since it's the closest thing he's had to a decent meal since being unfrozen in the future.
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Mystery Meat / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2 makes mention of ADVENT Burgers, served by the alien regime in their shining city centers. Everyone who's had one agrees they're an Impossibly Delicious Food, even though no one knows what they're made from — "reconstituted protein", sure, but from what? The aliens have banned the keeping of pets and livestock, and have spent the last twenty years eradicating Earth's indigenous animals, to the point that the rumor of a pack of wild dogs takes days to follow up on. And, of course, their master plan makes heavy use of Human Resources... The sequel mentioning a move to Artificial Meat further highlights that there was some natural source used during the occupation.
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Mystery Meat / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: Gramma Stuffum serves up these type of dishes whenever she's the villain. Most notable in "Operation: F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E.", where she works in Sector V's school cafeteria. The food is not only gross, it's also sentient and it forcibly tries to stuff itself inside children's mouths.
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Mystery Meat / int_d6f9b009	comment	The Bolt Chronicles: Penny broadly describes the horrid cafeteria food in "The School" by referring to a typically inscrutible and unpalatable meat dish. She calls it "hash-luscious."
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Mystery Meat / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park normally averts this, originally due to Chef's excellent cooking and a reasonable budget, but it's played straight on at least two occasions: "Succubus": Chef briefly quits his job after being ensnared by a succubus, and is replaced by the obnoxious Mr. Derp, who's more interested in trying to seem funny with terrible jokes than cooking, and only serves "yellow stuff, or white stuff". It's implied that Mr. Derp replaced Chef permanently after the latter's death in Season 10, but the food quality hasn't dipped again. "Sexual Harassment Panda": Frivolous lawsuits lead to the school being squeezed dry and Chef is reduced to serving something called "lumpy potato" for lunch, which is what convinces Cartman he was wrong for starting the lawsuit trend.
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Mystery Meat / int_dbf18509	comment	Jeopardy!: Early in the 1997-1998 season, there was a category "It Tastes Like Chicken", where contestants had to identify unusual types of meat, such as those from snakes, frogs, and alligators.
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Mystery Meat / int_dde8861a	comment	On Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Andrew finds himself eating a... "rodent" is probably as accurate as you're going to get.
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Mystery Meat / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II: One of the loading screens advises people to never order the stew in the Hanged Man (the local bar) because nobody's entirely sure what meat they use to make it.
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Mystery Meat / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Earshot" the cafeteria lady dumps rat poison into the dessert in order to murder the students. Xander, while stealing jell-o, finds her red-handed. In "Doublemeat Palace", Buffy starts working at the eponymous fast food place and finds a human finger in the meat grinder, leading her to believe the burgers are made from people. This ends up being a bait-and-switch: the finger was there because a demon ate one of the workers because he tasted like the burgers, but the meat itself was more mundane. Except that it wasn't meat at all — it was veggieburger-flavored with beef and chicken fat. Fattening cardboard. Charming.
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Mystery Meat / int_ed8085bb	comment	Played for horror in Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories with "Ominie-San", a mysterious purple glop that gives off black fumes that becomes inexplicably popular for lunch at a local school, and quickly spreads to the rest of the town. It also moves. The short ends before its true nature can be explained, but is implied to be some sort of brainwashing, as the main character becomes ravenous for it as well despite her earlier disgust.
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Mystery Meat / int_efe3702d	comment	The Great Outdoors: Roman refers to hot dogs as being made from "lips and assholes". In the next scene, when raccoons raid the cabin's trash, one of the raccoons says the exact same thing.
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Mystery Meat / int_f1ae884f	comment	Fallen London and Sunless Sea have a couple notable ones: A lot of the stuff Mr. Hearts sells is unnervingly odd, and not just because it looks like someone ripped it off a Starfish Alien using very dull knives. It has been known to walk out of the freezer on its own volition, attracts bugs like nothing else, will practically hypnotize you into eating it, and you will probably be violently sick afterwards. Rubbery Lumps outside of Mutton Island tend to be these, as they don't have access to the secret ingredients they have (an undisclosed sea monster) and thus have to make do with any oceanic beast that the fishermen bring in. A bad batch of Rubbery Lumps will leave you smelling like rotten fish for a long while, along with giving you horrible food poisoning that'll leave you puking for days. A good batch is, surprisingly, delicious. And also comes from eldritch sea urchins called Lorn-Flukes that willingly donated it, because those who eat them and die afterwards will turn into Drownies.
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Mystery Meat / int_f554e011	comment	Katawa Shoujo: At one point in Rin's route, Hisao refers to the food served at the cafeteria as "fried mystery lumps".
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Mystery Meat / int_f5799bd9	comment	The Critic: In "Siskel And Ebert and Jay and Alice", Jay and Alice are on their way to the Oscars, and Jay wishes he was in first class like Siskel and Ebert instead of being stuck in coach. Cue a stewardess getting to their seat with the airline dinner, and seemingly offers him a choice of "chicken or fish".
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Mystery Meat / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Mockolate on Friends. Monica is asked to come up with recipes for it while the company awaits FDA to approve it. (It doesn't.) And the taste? The first red flag is that real chocolate doesn't crumble when handled. The same company also makes Fishtachios, which is exactly what it sounds like. And should be avoided by people who are allergic to cat hair.
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Mystery Meat / int_f74b5f80	comment	It is occasionally mentioned that one shouldn't inquire too closely as to what the stuff some restaurants on Babylon 5 call "beef" actually is. Especially considering that the Head of Security couldn't get a steak delivered without having the Doctor fudge some paperwork to have it reclassified as medical supplies.
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Mystery Meat / int_f9addebf	comment	You Can't Do That on Television: A recurring sketch is a group of teens at a local diner called Barf's, where most sketches end with the Barfy Burgers living up to their name.
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Mystery Meat / int_fb8d0b81	comment	Sturgeon's Law: The eponymous law firm has a division that produces the Sturgeon Farms Extruded-Slurry Meat Brick: So warm, so dank, so delicious.
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Mystery Meat / int_febcb4ec	comment	Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade: Taken to a final extreme when the school starts serving a synthetic food paste as part of a misplaced reform attempt by the school board. This is the straw that breaks the camel's back and T.J. ends up going on strike against the school's insane new policies.
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