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== Anime ==

{{quote|'''Spike:''' And is it tasty?

'''Jet:''' It’s totally disgusting. People eat it anyway for status, it’s "in" now. }}

*** The same book also plays with this as the Dwarf restaurant owner, Gimlet, apparently was unable to afford real<ref>the gnome rat-catcher charges too much for real, trap-fresh, rat</ref> rat a couple of times and was caught substituting chicken or even beef.

** Also, in ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' there's a reference to how, if people were reduced to eating cockroaches by a catastrophe, Mrs. Whitlow would still use a napkin to do so.

** The small dog rescued by one of the interviewees was adopted by a family, and kept them fed through the winter by killing rats for the stewpot.

** The men on the ISS eked out their food supply by killing and eating the lab rats.

* In [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''Homeward Bound'' (the last novel in the ''[[Worldwar]]'' series), astronaut Glen Johnson notices that his shredded meat sandwich tastes funny and, after thinking about the fact that the ship hasn't received supplies in several decades, decides he doesn't want to know what kind of meat it is. He suspects it's probably guinea pig, though.

* In Jeff Long's ''Year Zero'', Nathan Lee must trudge down a mountain in Nepal after being pushed off a ledge and abandoned without supplies. Passing through an area infested with leeches, he pulls them off his ankles and eats them to keep his strength up.

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

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