History Main / AteTheSpoon

-->'''Mr. Harman''': Hah, I shouldn't do that - it take the pattern awf the cup!

* ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse: In Creator/DonRosa's Scrooge [=McDuck=] story ''ComicBook/TheBlackKnight'', after [[Literature/ArseneLupin gentleman thief Arpin Lusense]] attempts to steal all of Scrooge's money, he ends up stealing a jar of universal solvent (from [[ContinuityNod another Don Rosa story]] [[ComicBook/TheUniversalSolvent of the same name]], that eats everything except diamonds), not knowing what it is. He stirs it with a spoon while drinking his tea and notices what it is. He proceeds to take a suit of armor he stole from the money bin, add a layer of diamond dust to it, and then coat it with the solvent.

* ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse: In Creator/DonRosa's Scrooge [=McDuck=] story ''ComicBook/TheBlackKnight'', after [[Literature/ArseneLupin gentleman thief Arpin Lusense]] attempts to steal all of Scrooge's money, he ends up stealing a jar of universal solvent (from [[ContinuityNod another Don Rosa story]], that eats everything except diamonds), not knowing what it is. He stirs it with a spoon while drinking his tea and notices what it is. He proceeds to take a suit of armor he stole from the money bin, add a layer of diamond dust to it, and then coat it with the solvent.

* ''Series/FastForward'': Brent Smythe & Barry were once tasked with selling what was essentially toxic waste. They suggested marketing it as [[MayContainEvil popsicles]], only to be told tat it eats through wood and plastic. Their solution? Sell it on metal sticks.

* ''Series/FasrForward'': Brent Smythe & Barry were once tasked with selling what was essentially toxic waste. They suggested marketing it as [[MayContainEvil popsicles]], only to be told tat it eats through wood and plastic. Their solution? Sell it on metal sticks.

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* Happens once in the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse". To put Jerry out of the way permanently, Tom pours a variety of toxic chemicals into his milk. He spins the brew with a spoon, but the poisonous chemicals cause the spoon to melt, with the melted part falling into the toxic milk.

* [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/2253606/1/Football-Fiasco Football Fiasco,]] a Misfit-verse (crossover between ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' and ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'') fic, features Roadblock's Special Five-Alarm Chili. As he puts it, "It's not hot, it's atomic!" Roadblock has to prepare (and serve) it in a hazmat barrel (the only thing strong enough to hold it) and ladles regularly dissolve in it.

* In Episode 4 of ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'', Haruna (a OneNoteCook who can only make eggs) and Seraphim (a vampire ninja who's never cooked before) team up to make a bubbling purple concoction that eats chopsticks, a ladle, the pot it's served in, and the table they're eating on.
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' had a scene where a brew was being made to cure Lina's anti-magic curse. Of ''course'' it Ate the Spoon.

* On the old PBS cooking show ''The Frugal Gourmet'', the host talked about an attempt by a company in New Mexico trying to can chili peppers. The chili's acids ''corroded the cans'', '''weakened and dissolved the boxes''' the cans were in and was started to eat the pallets the boxes were on. The company switched to glass jars.

* In a twist on this trope, Theodore Gray, a chemist who write for Popular Science magazine, [[https://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2005-02/gag-spoon/ shows how to make spoons]] that do this in any hot liquid. The trick is to make them from Indium, a metal with an extremely low melting point, if you're curious.