According to TVTropes it was in George Romero's 1985 Return of the Living Dead?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrainFood
@cstross As a zombie scholar, yes, I believe this is true.
@jwz @cstross I'd have said /Bad Taste/ but turns out that was 2 year later
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