Kentucky Fried...Combusken?

[Silencer]

If you were a trainer and pokémon are eaten all over the world, would you manage to eat a pokémon that's on your team? This could be redirected to the real world aswell. If you own a Golden Retriever and you go to China, could you manage to eat a dish that has Golden Retriever meat in it? (I think eating dogs isn't allowed in China but it used to be quiet a delicassy)

[Houndoom_Lover]

Heck, if I was hungry enough I'd eat a Pokemon. Jessie and James and Meowth are hungry all the time- They want Pikacu for the meat by now XD Screw the boss!

[Mewfour]

I honestly don't think it's like the real world at all. Would YOU try to f**k with a fire-breathing chicken? With that said I think they only eat the weak and gangly ones who are dead soon anyway. No wonder all the humans look so skinny and huge-eyed. </rimshot>

[Houndoom_Lover]

XD Oh my god! It's true!! And the fat people are the ones who live off of pokemon because every one knows pokemon are 99% fat.

[Silencer]

But in the pokéworld they have big robots that can just walk up to the pokémon and just grab it. Most likely it will be fireproof with airconditioning inside. I mean you could also use a net like J&J do alot of times. All pokémon struggle and don't seem to manage to pull of something as a flamethrower.

[Houndoom_Lover]

Man, when you think about it, hy don't J and J fry up Meowth and eat him? With soy sause.

[mr_pikachu]

Well, the way I see it, Meowth's ability to translate Pokemon speech to the human language and vice-versa constitutes the complete extent of the team's unique talents. So without him, they'd really be a bunch of complete losers.

Not to mention that Meowth has claws. Claws can hurt a little when they dig deep into your flesh.

[Houndoom_Lover]

XD You're right...Hey 0_0, Meowth, do they eat mice pokemon?

[rinku]

Well, the way I see it, Meowth's ability to translate Pokemon speech to the human language and vice-versa constitutes the complete extent of the team's unique talents. So without him, they'd really be a bunch of complete losers.

They're hardly winners WITH him...

If you read through the game text, there are quite a few mentions of wild pokémon preying on each other. There's definitely a circle of life going on out there that the show glosses over a bit.

However... it's also possible that the pokémon raised as farm animals are considered different to the wild ones, as in real life (even if they really aren't, as in real life).

Tropius' bananas are mentioned as edible, I think.

[mr_pikachu]

Yes, I believe Tropius' fruits are even mentioned in one of the new anime episodes as being edible. Presumably the "eating a Pokemon" isn't a problem in that case because it's sort of a regenerating, extra appendage that doesn't kill or hurt Tropius to be removed. When you think about it in that context, Deoxys being blasted was worse.

In general, though, eating part or all of a Pokemon is only referenced in-game. Rattata is apparently the prey of the RBY birds, for instance.

[Blademaster]

That there's what we call the food chain.

Still, eating some Pokemon may have been easier than others - could you imagine cavemen trying to catch, kill, and eat an Aerodactyl? That could've been entertaining...

[Silencer]

I would be more intrested to see how they try to go on a Kabutops. He has swords, they have clubs REALLY fair match-up if you ask me

[darktyranitar]

If they were going to survive, then they'd probably be training some young cub- maybe a Growlithe or Houndour- until they're big enough that they can prey those prehistoric animals.

Or maybe humans don't exist in the same time as the pre-historic Pokemon .

[Phoenixsong]

If we want to use a realistic timeline, then no. Aerodactyl (along with the new dinosaurs Zugaidos, Tatetops and whatnot) would have been long before humans... and Kabutops, being a trilobite-type-critter, would have been even earlier. Now, if there was a sabertoothed tiger or woolly mammoth Pokémon, then we can talk caveman food. I guess they might have eaten Swinub/Piloswine/Manmuu, though.

I have an interesting thing to report. People say they've never seen real animals in the anime and such (except for whoever it was that mentioned the dog)... I have. Think back, waaaaay back, to the first-season episode "The Sisters of Cerulean City" (I believe that's what it was called). Misty's sisters do their mermaid act, and afterwards Ash wanders through the basement looking for them so he can challenge them. First he passes a sign with a Magikarp and an arrow on it, pointing to an aquarium... well, he gets to the aquarium, but those swimmy-things in the tank sure ain't Magikarp. Or Goldeen. Or Horsea. Or anything remotely Pokémon-like at all. The entire aquarium contains nothing but normal fish, like angelfish and dolphin fish and what have you. So I think we can safely say that there's a chance their seafood, if nothing else, doesn't have to come from Pokémon.

[Blademaster]

If we want to use a realistic timeline, then no. Aerodactyl (along with the new dinosaurs Zugaidos, Tatetops and whatnot) would have been long before humans... and Kabutops, being a trilobite-type-critter, would have been even earlier. Now, if there was a sabertoothed tiger or woolly mammoth Pokémon, then we can talk caveman food. I guess they might have eaten Swinub/Piloswine/Manmuu, though.

Actually, according to the anime, Aerodactyl, Kabutops, and the like were around only 4 million years ago - ergo, they showed up about the same time as early humans/humanoids, so it is plausible that the two coexisted at some point.

Of course, back then the Aerodactyls and Armaldos were probably the ones doing the hunting...

[Silencer]

*Imagens pokémon catching humans and bragging that they caught a lvl99 man or woman*

Anyway, another sign that leads to believing that there are real animals in the anime. I think that there were numerous of times where J&J start thinking about stuff as sushi and meals involving meat and I could swear that I heard Ash say that he wanted a hamburger once. They could get that from Tauros but I don't really believe it since the sushi images show a lot of reallife like fishies.

[mr_pikachu]

Heck, whenever the gang gets into a town, Ash rants about one of two things: either a Gym battle (or equivalent contest) or a cheeseburger. We've had several debates about that one.

I'd forgotten about the Cerulean City scene, actually. I need to go back and watch it myself, but I'm pretty sure I remember what you're talking about now, Phoenixsong. Weird.

In terms of hunting Kabutops... what would be the point? It certainly doesn't look like you could get good food from it. The only plausible explanation I can think of would be to fashion the scythes into weapons, but it seems a little rash considering the enormous losses they would likely incur in taking out just a single Kabutops.

[absol_ninetales]

Me and my friend once made a pokemon restaurant, because we were discussing this topic...we vame up with loads of weird ideas like combusken soup...

maybe on the TV show, they really eat pokemon. It's possible. Though I wouldn't want to eat combusken thighs in soup... T_T||| It's weird, isn't it?