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An index of tropes about milk, butter, cheese, ice cream, and other dairy products.
A subcategory of Food Tropes. See also This Index Is Having a Cow, Man!
Tropes:
- Bad Humor Truck: The driver of an ice cream truck is a villain.
- Cartoon Cheese: Cheese in fiction is yellow, triangular, and full of holes.
- The Character Ice Cream Bar: An ice cream bar that resembles a fictional character.
- Cheating with the Milkman: Milkmen are commonly associated with cheating on one's spouse.
- Cheesy Moon: The Moon is made of cheese (but I can't taste it).
- Constantly Lactating Cow: Cows and other livestock in fiction can always be milked.
- Drink-Based Characterization: Milk is sometimes considered a childish drink.
- Dropped Ice Cream of Sadness: Someone is sad after dropping their ice cream.
- Drunk on Milk: A character gets "drunk" on a non-alcoholic beverage.
- Face on a Milk Carton: A missing person's face that's placed on a milk carton.
- Fantastic Fromage: Dairy products from unusual sources.
- Heartbreak and Ice Cream: Coping through tragic times by eating ice cream.
- Hot Drink Cure: A sick character having some hot milk to sooth and cure themselves.
- Lactating Male: A male mammal who can produce milk.
- Lactose over Liquor: Someone would rather have milk than alcohol at a bar.
- Leaving Food for Santa: Putting out milk and cookies for Santa Claus.
- Marvelous Milk: Milk is a potent source of health and/or strength.
- Warm Milk Helps You Sleep: Drinking warm milk makes you sleepy.
- You're Drinking Breast Milk: Character drinks stored breast milk instead of a different kind of milk.
Metaphorical dairy:
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: A list of mundane things ends with something more disturbing, though it can also be the penultimate thing.
- Butter Face: Everything about this person is beautiful... but their face.
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Stereotype depicting the French as cowards at war.
- Cheese Strategy: An often unintended strategy that requires minimal skill to surpass when skill is otherwise required.
- Ham and Cheese: A (perceived) bad work is made better by an actor's hammy acting.
- Ice-Cream Koan: Something that sounds deep but is actually meaningless.
- Milking the Giant Cow: Making grandiose gestures while overacting.
- Milking the Monster: Making money off of the presence of a monster.
- Milkman Conspiracy: Seemingly innocuous organization secretly has lots of influence.
- The Power of Cheese: The advertised product is so good, it can solve anything.
- Score Milking: Usage of exploits in games to score a large amount of points.