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Trojan Veggies

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Trojan Veggies	comment	Every parent ever knows the struggle of trying to get their kid to eat a healthy amount of vegetables at the dinner table. The problem is that most vegetables are naturally bitter, and kids hate bitter flavors (scientifically, their tastebuds are more sensitive to bitterness than adults). But there are foods that kids do like to eat: macaroni, pizza, chicken nuggets, etc. The solution? Hide the vegetables inside a more appealing food, usually meat- or sweets-based, so the flavor of the preferred food will cover up the bitterness, or the kid sees their favorite food, goes "Score!" and shovels it down without thinking too hard about what went into it. This is usually done by chopping the vegetables into very small, fine pieces, grinding them up, or blending them into a liquid or a purée, and then mixing them up into another dish (for example, a soup or stew) as it's being cooked. Variations: The parents don't hide the food in anything but call it a different name that sounds more appealing to get the child to eat it. However, this usually only works with very young children, not that it stops some adults from trying it with older children anyway. The same trick is used to cover the taste of Foul Medicine or anything else that needs to be ingested but tastes bad. Pets are especially resistant to taking medicine and often have to be tricked into eating it. This trope can be Played for Laughs if the parent is really bad at hiding the vegetables — for example, sticking an entire, intact head of broccoli into a bread roll. The veggie-hater is an adult instead of a child and someone resorts to hiding vegetables in their food, characterizing them as a manchild. A vegetarian/vegan character tries to prove that not all veggies are Disgusting Vegetarian Food by preparing "regular" food for someone and then revealing it was vegetarian after they've finished eating it. (Please do not try this in real life, because there is a risk that you may accidentally give someone food with an ingredient they're allergic to. Wheat, soy, and nuts, three of the most common vegetarian staples, are also common allergies.) This trope and Greens Precede Sweets are related sub-tropes of Kids Hate Vegetables. Also compare Slipping a Mickey and Tampering with Food and Drink for more dramatic tropes about sneaking things into food and drink. Contrast Discreet Dining Disposal, if a child attempts to pretend to eat veggies while trying to dispose of them. If the child is told about what they ate afterwards or discovers the deception on their own, they may react with a Spit Take, "Et Tu, Brute?" or "I Ate WHAT?!." And no, kids. This "Trojan" is neither about a computer virus added in those vegetables, nor those rubber balloons your parents talk about before they "wrestle" in their bedroom.
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Trojan Veggies / int_191f959b	comment	In Yume no Crayon Oukoku, the Princess Silver's favorite food, her mother's vegetable rolls, include one of the vegetables she hates the most (asparagus) in it as a secret ingredient. As Silver is a staunch hater of any green food, it's implied that the Queen did this to not only give her a good snack but also to make her eat her vegetables properly.
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Trojan Veggies / int_25feb9b7	comment	Angela Anaconda: In the episode "Broccoli-Fest", when Angela's friends are trying to get her to like broccoli, Johnny goes first. He gives Angela a slice of pepperoni pizza, which Angela is excited to eat until she sees the piece of broccoli that Johnny hid in it.
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Trojan Veggies / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Inverted in the episode "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge", in which Marge reveals that she secretly adds meat juices to the vegetables she cooks for Lisa (who is vegetarian). In the tie-in book The Marge Book, Marge discusses how she makes her children eat their vegetables. One method is the "sneak attack when they get a snack attack" — namely by replacing the peanuts in Snickers bars with celery and green peppers, alternating the candy in PEZ dispensers with jicama cubes, and coloring soybeans and hiding them in bags of M&Ms. In "She Used to Be My Girl", Marge tries to help Bart administer a pill to Santa's Little Helper the dog by wrapping it in cheese, but Homer eats the "free cheese" instead.
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Trojan Veggies / int_27831967	comment	Parks and Recreation: A deleted scene reveals Leslie and Ben use this on their children, such as putting broccoli into their mac and cheese. Ben also reveals in that same scene he does the same to Leslie, prompting her to send the kids to (playfully) attack him. Ron's Trademark Favorite Food is steak and is practically the embodiment of the Real Men Eat Meat trope. Thus, when he tries to eat a banana, he's barely able to stomach it until he slices it up and puts it into a hamburger.
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Trojan Veggies / int_2bf8bd9	comment	Shining Resonance: Kirika (a grown woman, by the by) absolutely despises carrots. Agnum makes it a lifelong mission to get her to eat them somehow, resorting to cutting them up smaller and smaller. However, Kirika is extremely sensitive to the taste of carrot, and even magicks the extremely fine chopped carrot out of a plate of stew at one point.
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Trojan Veggies / int_3998144e	comment	In Chapter 6 of Sweetness & Lightning (Episode 4 of the anime adaptation), Kohei receives a lot of vegetables from his coworker and grandmother that he wishes to incorporate into his dishes, including bell peppers. His daughter Tsumugi hates them (much like Kohei did in his youth), which Kohei knows about but doesn't want to waste the veggies. Kotori then decides to incorporate them into a baked gratin, where the diced veggies will have their taste covered by a béchamel sauce, cheese, and cherry tomatoes (Tsumugi's favorite food). The gratin is able to make her eat at least some of the bell peppers, though when Tsumugi offers a bite of her portion to Kohei, he immediately recognizes that Tsumugi hid a lot of them under the cheese. He notes that it's at least a step and they'll go at it slowly.
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Trojan Veggies / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: Because Calvin is an extremely picky eater, his parents lying about the ingredients of dinner to get him interested in eating it is a Running Gag. In one strip, a disgusted Calvin asks what his mom is cooking for dinner. While the dish is actually stuffed peppers, Calvin's mom says that she's stewing monkey heads to get Calvin to be interested in trying them. It works but unfortunately Calvin's dad has now been put off his food. In another one, Calvin refuses to eat a plate of "green stuff." His dad sneakily says that it's a plate of toxic waste that will turn him into a mutant if he eats it. He gobbles it all up in a single panel.
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Trojan Veggies / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: In one Sunday strip, Jon disguises a dish of liver for Garfield by covering it with ice cream and calling it "Sweet Surprise." Unfortunately, the Genre Savvy fat cat realizes what's going on and gives Jon a surprise of his own by hurling the liver at his head.
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Trojan Veggies / int_468bebb0	comment	Another Discworld book, Making Money, has an inversion, both that it's being done by the kid and that the veggies are hiding something else: Moist hated liver and other offal, and always hid it under his vegetable or potato so his parents wouldn't know he wasn't eating it.
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Trojan Veggies / int_59593dcd	comment	Elderly male goblins in Snuff were dying of rabbit starvation until their wives began hiding fruit and veg in the rabbit stew. The males thought their improved health was due to magic. Another Discworld book, Making Money, has an inversion, both that it's being done by the kid and that the veggies are hiding something else: Moist hated liver and other offal, and always hid it under his vegetable or potato so his parents wouldn't know he wasn't eating it.
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Trojan Veggies / int_5e26bcbf	comment	In one episode of The World of David the Gnome, Lisa reveals that David refuses to eat dandelion greens despite their health benefits, so she sometimes hides them in other foods.
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Trojan Veggies / int_64e03e4b	comment	The "Angery" one-shot comic, originally posted on Facebook in 2016, begins with Meme Man receiving an order of a "steank with NO VEGETALS." When he is just about to take a bite of meat, Green de la Bean (an anthropomorphic green bean) appears saying "did someone said NO VEGETALS?" and takes a running leap into Meme Man's mouth. Meme Man then says "i taste a VEGETAL" and, in the final panel, "ANGERY" with Glowing Eyes of Doom and a fiery background.
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Trojan Veggies / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998): A self-inflicted example in "Beat Your Greens". The children of Townsville are fighting an alien invasion of Broccoloids, which are broccoli-like aliens that can only be destroyed by eating them. When the Broccoloids invade the town, the children pour giant vats of melted cheese all over them before devouring them alive.
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Trojan Veggies / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	Neopets: The description of the Pea and Carrot-Stuffed Turkey is "If your Neopet won't eat their veggies, you might want to try this dish."
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Trojan Veggies / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur: In "D.W. the Picky Eater", Arthur and Buster give D.W. a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and she eats it. D.W. learns that the boys tricked her by putting spinach in the sandwich to get her to like it, only for her to spit it out. At the end of the episode, D.W. eats a Little Bo Peep Pot Pie and she loves it. It is revealed that the pie has spinach in it, which she admits that she now loves.
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Trojan Veggies / int_8fc2832e	comment	Fizzy's Lunch Lab: In one episode, Professor Fizzy is visited by a food critic named Nelly Nitpick who doesn't like vegetables. He gives her a burger and she likes it. Fizzy then tells Nelly that it was a black bean burger. At first she is disgusted, but Nelly really likes the black bean burger anyway.
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Trojan Veggies / int_90dfba1e	comment	Vegan Artbook: In this◊ strip, Brie/Plausibel tricks some non-vegans into eating vegan food by pretending some unknown vegan dish is chicken.
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Trojan Veggies / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Dolorous Edd, a steward of the Night's Watch, hates prunes and recalls one meal where Three-Finger Hobb chopped up some prunes and hid them in a hen with chestnuts and carrots.
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Trojan Veggies / int_9e63932d	comment	The second half of Ojamajo Doremi's third season involves this in order to break the vegetable-hating curse cast on Hana.
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Trojan Veggies / int_9f89a5f0	comment	In the Pokémon fanfic "I Will Touch the Skies - A Pokemon Fanfiction", Grace has purchased some vitamins to help get her Pokémon stronger. However, her Togetic is a Picky Eater, preferring to eat only Oran Berries, so she has to crush up the berries and hide the powder within to get her Togetic to eat it. It's noted that Togetic was eyeing the food suspiciously, but ate it anyway, helped by the fact that vitamins don't taste like anything in this fanfic.
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Trojan Veggies / int_a12cd9cf	comment	Big City Greens: In “Tilly Style”, after growing too much zucchini, Bill can’t sell it all and is forcing his family to eat the surplus. After nearly a full week of this Cricket refuses to eat anymore and goes on a hunger strike. Bill tries to get him to cave by offering him a burger, fries, and a cake… made entirely out of zucchini. Cricket, of course, isn’t fooled for a moment since all three are bright green.
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Trojan Veggies / int_b4963c9f	comment	Good Eats: In "Undercover Veggies," Alton makes three dishes with parsnips hidden in them to win a bet against his veggie-averse, but highly perceptive, niece that he could get her to ask for seconds of vegetables before her visit with him was over. In "Give Peas a Chance," Alton disguises some peas as a hamburger patty, but then also advises against disguising vegetables on general principle because kids won't go on to eat them regularly if they don't know that they're eating them.
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Trojan Veggies / int_b61bbe0a	comment	Modern Family: In the episode "Arrested", Cam, who recently took a vegan cooking class, makes Alex and Luke "faux-con", bacon made out of soy, for breakfast in an effort to prove to Mitch (who hates faux-con and was easily able to tell the difference between it and real bacon) that it's just as good as real bacon. While the kids initially enjoy it and don't notice the difference until Cam tells them, Luke, unfortunately, turns out to be highly allergic to soy and has to be taken to the hospital.
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Trojan Veggies / int_be77a1a1	comment	Po from A Boy Called Po is autistic and won't eat anything but mac 'n' cheese, so his dad secretly mixes vegetables into the macaroni.
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Trojan Veggies / int_cf7739d0	comment	Ramona Quimby: In Ramona and Her Father, after Picky-picky the cat eats the family's Halloween jack-o-lantern, Mrs. Quimby saves the remains of the pumpkin for next week's dinners. The family soon gets sick of pumpkin pie and pumpkin custard; Beezus confesses to Ramona that she thinks their mother tried to hide pumpkin in the meatloaf, but she wasn't sure because everything was all mixed together. In "Ramona and Her Mother", the Quimby sisters get served tongue, which they hate. The next morning, their parents grind up the leftovers and put them into sandwiches for the girls, trying to trick them by adding pickle relish. The girls aren't fooled, but they eat the sandwiches anyway in an attempt to evade punishment by being "extra good".
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Trojan Veggies / int_d26874b6	comment	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days reveals that Rowley's mom is, according to Greg, "one of those moms who sneaks healthy food into your snacks". She puts spinach in her brownies, but she doesn't hide them very well, as Greg can immediately tell they have spinach in them when he takes a bite. The first time Rowley had a regular brownie was at Greg's house, and he spits it out in surprise. In Cabin Fever, the middle school replaces the unhealthy food in the cafeteria with healthier food. The French fries are replaced with something called "Extreme Sports Stix," but everyone quickly realizes they're just sliced carrots. In "Old School", Greg and Rowley try to sell ordinary water by calling it "NRG Fitness Water".
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Trojan Veggies / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats: According to Secrets of the Clans, Brambleberry, a RiverClan medicine cat, came up with a way to hide bitter-tasting medicinal herbs inside the bodies of freshly killed prey in order to get sick kits to eat them.
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Trojan Veggies / int_eb3ca096	comment	Discussed in Good Luck Girl!. Momiji's method for giving Ichiko a magic necklace to stop her from absorbing other people's happiness energy is compared to this trope.
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