A Brief History Of Eating Pokemon
The relationship between Pokemon and food is a complicated one. When you first read this headline, I bet your first thought was Brock mislabelling onigiri as doughnuts in the English dub of the anime. No? Educate yourself. Then come back and read about Pokemon and food. Hello again. Let’s eat.
First of all, I need to explain what I mean by Pokemon food. I’m not going to discuss foods that you feed to Pokemon, like Poffins or PokeBlocks, and I’m not going to cover Pokemon that look like food, like Alcremie or Vanilluxe, unless it is insinuated that trainers have eaten said Pokemon. I will, however, be discussing whether Magikarp sushi would taste good, why trainers eat Farfetch’d but not Pidgey, before moving onto the most important PokeFood of all: curry.
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Nearly every PokeDex entry for Chansey references eating its eggs, which it lays daily, as they are nutritious and delicious. But we don’t eat other Pokemon eggs. And what if we accidentally ate one of the other kind of Chansey eggs? You know, with a little Happiny growing inside? Well, eating Pokemon isn’t against the rules of this weird world.
It continues, as all the best things do, in Johto. Team Rocket has returned! And this time, they’re selling Slowpoke Tails, which are described simply as, “Very tasty. Sell high.” The only thing you can do with them is sell them, but it’s made clear throughout the game that they’re incredibly tasty. The same game also has Moomoo Milk, which admittedly Pokemon drink and not trainers, but it still goes to show that Pokemon themselves - and their produce - is used as sustenance as well as for sending into battle and helping you to become the very best like no
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