# help - what does a unicorn eat? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977 "2019-01-18T14:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/21 "2019-01-18T18:12:26Z")
I don’t know, but I’ll bet these people carry it. And are happy to charge an arm and a leg for it. [https://www.mazuri.com/](https://www.mazuri.com/) Don’t ask me how I know. :mad: All looks like dog food to me. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/22 "2019-01-18T18:20:14Z")
I’ll ask my 5 year old daughter when we’re both home. She’ll know. Also, do not confuse unicorns with pegasus or alicorns. The distinction is very important, and will cause a kindergartner to eye roll you. [This piece](https://www.tor.com/2013/09/24/equoid/) discusses less cute unicorns. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/23 "2019-01-18T18:49:28Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > They eat ears of corn. At least 5,000 a day. How do you think the got their name? A common misconception. The term “Unicorn” does not come from “uni” (one) and “corn” (a veggie), it is instead a bastardized contraction of “unique horn”. Each unicorn horn is as distinctive as a human fingerprint and is, in fact, the most common way a criminal unicorn is identified. Speaking of bastardized, all unicorns are, by the way. Bastards, that is. Greedy, sparkle hogging liars who stain your carpets ROYGBIV and make it feel like you’re living in a tie-dyed, disco ball hell-hole. They just happen to have a PR firm that puts DeBeers to shame. What do they eat? Shit’n’die, for all I care. [sub]Bitter? Me? Nah.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/24 "2019-01-18T19:26:19Z")
Cotton candy. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/25 "2019-01-18T20:07:10Z")
If my memory serves me the unicorn in Ariel ate peppermints. She was a bit of a jerk and made the protagonist unwrap them for her. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/26 "2019-01-18T20:10:37Z")
The “serious” answer is grass, covered with morning dew. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/27 "2019-01-18T20:14:54Z")
They eat YouTube clips of people doing parkour and shit cancer-curing movies. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/28 "2019-01-18T20:22:51Z")
ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qDsqPaJht0 (Hey — its Robot Chicken. I had to break the link in case anyone is at work. Or normal.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/29 "2019-01-18T20:31:03Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > They eat ears of corn. At least 5,000 a day. How do you think the got their name? No, they eat exactly ONE ear if corn a day. THAT’S how they got their name, uni-corn. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/30 "2019-01-18T20:44:35Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > No, they fart rainbows. And [they poop rainbow-colored soft-serve ice cream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/31 "2019-01-18T21:52:47Z")
You are all ignoring the basic physiology of unicorns. Built like a horse. Fast. Decent endurance. But it has a hard, pointed horn. It is obviously a predator that chases fast prey. Given the upward angle it can gore prey in the underbelly best if they are taller than the unicorn. So, it looks like giraffes are it’s favorite prey. (Just don’t ask me about their teeth.) ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/32 "2019-01-18T22:17:24Z")
According to the experts who write _My Little Pony_, they eat apples, apple based products, hayburgers, hayfries and daisy sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/33 "2019-01-18T22:22:00Z")
I am pretty sure it is common knowledge Unicorns survive on love.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/34 "2019-01-18T23:03:39Z")
I don’t know, but you should probably call the [Unicorn Feed and Supply](https://www.facebook.com/UnicornFeedSupply/) store. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/35 "2019-01-19T05:53:57Z")
According to the commercials I’ve been seeing on the Disney Channel lately, [they eat some kind of slime substance, and excrete sparkly poop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YKd4YjPnko). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/36 "2019-01-19T06:29:52Z")
I wish I were a unicorn, so I could stab idiots with my head. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/37 "2019-01-19T07:04:24Z")
Has anyone here tried unicorn hot chocolate yet? I’ve heard of it and it sounds absolutely delicious. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/38 "2019-01-20T02:17:56Z")
Broken dreams and lost hope, then poop and fart rainbows! ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/39 "2019-01-20T02:24:35Z")
Are you sure it isn’t a narwhal? They are easily confused. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977/40 "2019-01-20T02:45:42Z")
They eat candy, god dammit. Doesn’t anyone watch [documentaries](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJCNNwHUOE) anymore? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-what-does-a-unicorn-eat/827977.md?page=3)