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[[caption-width-right:350:Now '''that's''' good coffee!]]

Do not confuse with a ''character'' eating the spoon, that's ExtremeOmnivore.

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* 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.

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

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* In ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', the best coffee melts or dissolves the spoon, or donuts.
* ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'' advises against using a wooden spoon when brewing [[GargleBlaster Whiffleberry glug]].
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* ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat for President'': Jim [=DiGriz=] orders a GargleBlaster cocktail that's somehow more than 100% alcohol by volume. When he throws it aside in a dramatic gesture, it starts eating into the starship floor.

* In the first episode of ''Series/ThreesCompany'', Janet talks about the awful punch that Chrissy made at the party the night before, which got her insanely drunk... and turned the ladle green.

* In the ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' episode "Terror", Eddie whips up a "home brew" that dissolves all the cups, forcing him and his friends to use metal containers to drink it with (It is also said to have taken the enamel off of the bathtub it was mixed in).
* ''Series/ElleryQueen'': In "The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger", Ellery uses a trick spoon designed to dissolve in hot water to explain how the crime was committed.

* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVII'', 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 the ''Webcomic/TeamFortress2'' comic "Blood in the Water", Sniper mentions that his family moonshine recipe doesn't last long because it eventually eats through its barrel.

* This happens a lot in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts (especially if it foreshadows a transformation sequence). One instance where it doesn't foreshadow a transformation sequence is in ''Fair-Haired Hare'' when Yosemite Sam puts poison in Bugs' glass of carrot juice.

* The ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' episode "Little Glop of Horrors". The titular glop served by the new lunch lady was so awful that the utensil used by one of the students dissolves.
* A variation in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/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 chopsticks that come out of his hat]], which come out melted. He says it's "too hot" for him, but they try to dump it on him anyway.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The Fake Smurf", the formula Hogatha creates for changing herself into a Smurf causes the spoon she mixes it with to dissolve.
* The Vizier's potion does this in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'': Pink-Eye's BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce eats a hole in the floorboards.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In the Thanksgiving Special, Gopher is saddled with pumpkin pie-making duty and actually produces a nice-looking pastry, although his methods ("processing" a pile of pumpkins to kingdom come with his signature explosives and mixing the batter with a ''blowtorch'') and ingredients (jalapenos and turmeric) are somewhat... questionable.
-->'''Gopher:''' Yessiree, that's what I like! A dessert with attitude!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Breadwinners}}'' episode "Brocrastination", [=SwaySway=] attempts to clean his and Buhdeuce's giant pile of dishes with a loofah, but the mass of bacteria that the dishes are caked in eats it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' "The Common Cold", Dan's attempt at a cold remedy eats a hole through Chris's table and floor.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' where Clam comes down with a condition that makes him fall in love with [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Gretchen]], one of Lazlo and Raj's attempts at a remedy is soup made with water from Raj's Kafizzle River snow globe. The water from the Kafizzle River is previously established to be [[GrimyWater highly acidic]], so every time Lazlo spills a drop of the soup it eats through the floor. When Lazlo comments that it's like lava from the earth's core, Raj states that it's [[UpToEleven even more powerful than that]].
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' had the dogs and Red Riding Hood entering the Three Bears' house. Red tries to sample Papa bear's hot porridge, which not only disintegrates the spoon but ''her entire arm'' as well.
* At the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Komputer Overload", Plankton is cooking a batch of chum that eats through the bottom of the pot, then ''moans'' as it eats through the floor.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' theme song, Fidgel's spoon corrodes a second after he sips a blue liquid from it. [[DelayedReaction Another second later his facial expression changes from joy to disgust.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': In "Dry Hard", Darkwing and Launchpad catch Bud Flud trying to poison a competitor's drinking water, only for Flud to fall over a railing and into the contaminated water, which turns him into the Liquidator. As Darkwing tries to get him out with a broom, the handle burns off in the toxin, leading him to assume he perished.
-->'''Liquidator:''' I ''was'' Bud Flud... before you mercilessly threw me into that contaminated vat of water!\\
'''Darkwing:''' ''Threw'' you?! You fell into the vat! ''(beat)'' I mean, I had nothing to do with that. We even tried to save you! ''(holds up the broom, notices the burnt handle, then sheepishly hides it behind his back)''

** In ''Literature/FeetOfClay'' one of Vimes' many theories for how the Patrician was being poisoned was cutlery made of arsenic. It didn't take long for Cheery to point out that an arsenic spoon would dissolve in soup almost instantly.

** The "Special sheep liniment" from The Wee Free Men is also quite strong. When Tiffany is asked by the toad how strong it is she replies with "It dissolves spoons." (No one in the books is quite sure about what would happen if it's ever given to sheep.)

** In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'' one of Vimes' many theories for how the Patrician was being poisoned was cutlery made of arsenic. It didn't take long for Cheery to point out that an arsenic spoon would dissolve in soup almost instantly.

* 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.

* [[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 haz-mat barrel (the only thing strong enough to hold it), and ladles regularly dissolve in it.

* In ''[[ComicBook/{{Asterix}} Asterix and Cleopatra]]'', Artifis tries to frame the Gauls by ([[VillainSong musically!]]) making a poisoned cake and sending it to the Queen in the Gauls' name. As he makes the "Special Iced Arsenic 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. His expression as this happens makes it even more funny: He's first surprised, before grinning at the mixing bowl.

** This is also a trait of anything a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] orders in a bar, because their drinks ''are'' corrosive chemicals.

* In the ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' episode "Terror", Eddie whips up a "home brew" that dissolves all the cups, forcing him and his friends to use metal containers to drink it with (It is also said to have taken the enamel off of the bath tub it was mixed in).

* This happens a lot in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts (especially if it foreshadows a transformation sequence). One instance where it doesn't foreshadow a transformation sequence is in ''Fair-Haired Hare'', when Yosemite Sam puts poison in Bugs' glass of carrot juice.

* 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 causes the spoon to melt, with the melted part falling into the toxic milk.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' had the dogs and Red Riding Hood entering the Three Bears' house. Red tries to sample Papa bear's hot porridge, which not only disintegrates the spoon, but ''her entire arm'' as well.

* Gallium is a metal that melts at around 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius). If you can make a spoon out of it, serve someone a hot drink with said spoon. Gallium spoons will melt in the user's hands (staining them gray, because liquid gallium, unlike mercury, ''wets'' skin and glass). Fortunately, gallium is non-toxic. Do NOT do this anywhere even remotely close to aluminum, because gallium forms a (very brittle) alloy with aluminum that crumbles if you so much as ''look'' at it funny. This is why metallic gallium is one substance that's on an omniverse-wide no-fly list, because almost every metal used in aerospace engineering alloys with and is in the process embrittled by the liquid form of the stuff.

-->'''Fred:''' Barney don't eat that stuff!
-->''(the end of the spoon burns up)''
-->'''Barney:''' I couldn't if I wanted to, Fred. No spoon!

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

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': In "Dry Hard", Darkwing and Launchpad catch Bud Flud trying to poison a competitor's drinking water, only for Flud to fall over a railing and into the contaminated water, which turns him into the Liquidator. As Darkwing tries to get him out with a broom, the handle to burns off in the toxin, leading him to assume he perished.
-->'''Liquidator:''' I ''was'' Bud Flud... before you mercilessly threw me into that contaminated vat of water!
-->'''Darkwing:''' ''Threw'' you?! You fell into the vat! ''(beat)'' I mean, I had nothing to do with that. We even tried to save you! ''(holds up the broom, notices the burnt handle, then sheepishly hides it behind his back)''

* In ''{{Rhapsodies}}'' Fedya thinks this is the reason his favorite bar, [[BadGuyBar Wolands]], probably doesn't [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/05172013/ serve girly drinks.]]

* With repeated exposure, sriracha can eat ''forklifts''. The manufacturing process for sriracha sauce, the popular Thai chili sauce often seen with green caps and a rooster on the bottle, has the vinegar-and-pepper mash stored in barrels and moved by forklift. Turns out sriracha seepage onto the lifting forks forces the company to replace them every few years thanks to how pitted and corroded they become.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' theme song, Fidgel's spoon corrodes after it was used to stir a bright blue liquid.

* In a 1999 Czech film ''Pelíšky'' (''Film/CosyDens''), set in TheSixties, achievements of the "[[AluminumChristmasTrees space-age socialist science]]" are examined, in the form of the plastic teaspoons from East Germany -- which [[http://media1.webgarden.cz/images/media1:5105f76ba1c9f.jpg/Pel%C3%AD%C5%A1ky.jpg promptly melt in hot coffee]]. The phrase "Where did the comrades from GDR make a mistake?" underwent rapid MemeticMutation in Czech.

* In the first episode of ''Series/ThreesCompany'', Janet talks about the awful punch that Chrissy made at the party the night before, which got her insanely drunk...and turned the ladle green.

-->"It comes in a bowl made of shuttle re-entry tiles...it comes with a side dish of Savlon...I put my spoon in, and it didn't come out!"

* Exaggerated in a late episode of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'' that had Betty [[RiseOfZitboy acquiring a massive green alien pustule on her nose]]. One of the strategies posed to get rid of it involved a large tureen of a horrible blue liquid. Luckily for Betty, it not only dissolved the ladle that was holding it in less than a second, but it also dissolved the tureen and the floor underneath it, causing the whole thing to fall into the ground. [[RobotBuddy X-5]] remarks afterward that he unexpectedly saw that coming.

* A Real Life cocktail called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_mule Moscow Mule]] is traditionally served in copper mugs. However, the Moscow Mule is acidic, and copper ''dissolves'' in acid (specifically, a pH below 6.0; Moscow Mules can easily drop below this), and after a certain point the dissolved copper becomes '''toxic'''. So for safety reasons, if you're going to serve your Moscow Mule in a copper mug, you must use a ''lined'' mug where the interior surface is something that won't react to acid (like stainless steel).

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins 3-2-1 Penguins!]]'' theme song, Fidgel's spoon corrodes after it was used to stir a bright blue liquid.

* A Real Life beer cocktail called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_mule Moscow Mule]] is traditionally served in copper mugs. However, the Moscow Mule is acidic, and copper ''dissolves'' in acid (specifically, a pH below 6.0; Moscow Mules can easily drop below this), and after a certain point the dissolved copper becomes '''toxic'''. So for safety reasons, if you're going to serve your Moscow Mule in a copper mug, you must use a ''lined'' mug where the interior surface is something that won't react to acid (like stainless steel).