History Main / AteTheSpoon

*** Or electronics -- Jamie used a radio he "got for good behavior" to run an electric current through the salsa, expediting the process considerably. Salsa on it's own wouldn't do it nearly as quickly as with the addition of the electric current.

* In DonRosa's Scrooge [=McDuck=] story "The Black Knight", after [[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 coat a suit of armor he stole from the money bin with it.
** FridgeLogic I must add, if it eats everything except diamond it could only be held in someting made of diamond and it would dissolve the armour and the object used to coat the armor unless they were made of diamond too... Maybe its time to call BellisaurusMaximum.

* FridgeLogic I must add, if it eats everything except diamond it could only be held in someting made of diamond and it would dissolve the armour and the object used to coat the armor unless they were made of diamond too... Maybe its time to call BellisaurusMaximum.

* In DonRosa's Scrooge [=McDuck=] story "The Black Knight", after [[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 coat a suit of armor he stole from the money bin with it.

* Gallium is a metal that melts at around 97 degrees. If you can make a spoon out of it, serve someone a hot drink with said spoon.
** Won't really work, because gallium melts ''in the hands'' quite readily. If you handle gallium without gloves, you'll always have hands covered by a silvery gray layer of molten gallium.
*** Gallium spoons with plastic handles!

* In DonRosa's Scrooge [=Mcduck=] story "The Black Knight", after [[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 coat a suit of armor he stole from the money bin with it.

* In [[KingsQuest King's Quest 7]], Rosella gathers ingredients for a potion to change her back to human form. One of the ingredients (used to stir the potion) is a silver spoon. After the potion's been mixed, the only thing left of it is a melted lump of silver. This being King's Quest, it still has a use later on.

* In ''[[{{Asterix}} Asterix and Cleopatra]]'', Edifice tries to frame the Gauls by making a poisoned cake and sending it to the Queen in the Gaul's name. As he makes the cake of a variety of toxic materials (And strangely, no eggs or flour, or indeed any non-toxic materials other than orange juice), the spoon he was stirring the mixture with dissolves. And that happened ''before'' he added the sulfuric acid.

* In DonRosa's Scrooge [=Mcduck=] story "The Black Knight", after 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 coat a suit of armor he stole from the money bin with it.

** If you ask the head pirates from the first game about it, they give you TheLongList of ingredients, including sulphuric acid.

** If you ask the head pirates from the first game about it, they give you TheLongList of ingredients, including battery acid.

** If you ask the head pirates from the first game about it, they give you TheLongList of ingredients, including hydrochloric acid.

* A variation in one episode of ''InspectorGadget'': a group of {{Highly Visible Ninja}}s try to kill Inspector Gadget by giving him a bowl of "[[HaraKiri Hari-Kari]] Soup". Fortunately, [[InspectorOblivious he first tries to eat it with the provided chopsticks]], which come out melted. [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive He still doesn't take the obvious hint,]] and it falls to [[IntellectualAnimal Brain]] to save him.]]

*** Bismuth and tin are non-toxic, and lead is dangerous only in its soluble salts, which aren't used there. Cadmium on the other hand...

Compare PoisonIsCorrosive; see also some variants of KlatchianCoffee and GargleBlaster.

* ''GastonLagaffe'' once made [[LethalChef a hot sauce that burned through the bottom of the cup he kept it in]]. He later discovered that it was alive.

*This can happen if the dishes are extremely hot and the spoons are biodegradable (plastic). It's [[CaptainObvious It's generally a bad idea to eat the stuff afterwards, though.]]

*This can happen if the dishes are extremely hot and the spoons are biodegradable (plastic).

* One of the original Paddington novels had him attempt to make toffee, and end up bending most of Mrs. Bird's best spoons trying to stir it.