History Main / EdibleAmmunition

** In the following episode, Zed and Chopper have [[TheGadfly way too much fun]] chucking milk cartons at Ezra for his lightsaber training. Zeb eventually takes the entire crate of milk cartons and dumps them on top of Chopper, who is spinning up like a batting machine, hurling cartons until he knocks Ezra off the ''Ghost'' so he nearly falls to his death.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E02FighterFlight "Fighter Flight"]] because Ezra and Zeb have been fighting, Hera sends them on a SnipeHunt to fetch her a meiloorun fruit. This backfires when Ezra tries to steal a crate of meiloorun fruit from an Imperial troop transport. When the stormtrooper's armor shrugs off his energy slingshot, he uses the contents of the crate to knock the troopers off their feet.

* In the ArmedFarces movie ''Great Guns'', Creator/LaurelAndHardy are bombed with bags of flower during the 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers. [[TruthInTelevision This was actually done]] by the USAAC to simulate air attacks.

* ''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'' is an Australian spoof of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. One of the gags is having the Enterforaprize's saucer section used as a plate to hold food. This leads to a pun. "Fire crouton torpedoes!"

* ''Anime/DoraemonAndTheGreenGiantLegend'': The inhabitants of Planet Green, a race of PlantAliens, use ''grape'' cannons as their weaponry. One of them hits Gian in the face, which he swallows... and exclaims, "Delicious!"

'''Hawkeye:''' You'd be surprised how often they come in hand. Want one? I've got single- and double-malt.

-->'''Ten:''' I...can't! They're...too...delicious...
* A literal example in the first story of the ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'' when Jack makes his new HyperDestructiveBouncingBall lime-flavored, which enables him to eat himself, Maddie, and Jazz out when they get trapped in it...getting a stomach ache in the process.
-->'''Jack''': Uuuuuunnnh...lime...

* In the ''Dragonslayer Junior'' series of short videos, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19DKw7KAJqU a gun that fires chicken eggs.]]

* In ''Pinball/JunkYard'', the player must build a toaster gun to fend off [[AngryGuardDog Spike.]]

* The ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' toyline featured a tank that launched pizzas at enemies. The toy later received a new paint job and stickers when it became the Chicken Pie Machine for Playmates' ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' line.[[/folder]]

-->'''Glinda:''' Children, PLEASE. Do not, ''play'', with your food.\\

-->'''Panini''': But we don't have any battleships. Or infantry. Or--
-->'''Endive''': Just throw more food.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'', the gang is investigating a haunted candy factory (could be worse places to work, right?) when the MonsterOfTheWeek locks Scooby, Shaggy, and the factory's owner, Cass Elliot, in a storeroom. Fortunately, Cass finds a mechanical jawbreaker dispenser, and fixes it to shoot jawbreakers at the door until they batter it down.

* PlayedForLaughs by ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' in the episode "Sing a Song of Patrick", where an angry mob goes after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick with [[TorchesAndPitchforks torches, pitchforks,]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cotton candy.]]

* Energon in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' technically counts, if only because the robots use it as a power source. [[GreenRocks And currency]].

* The Turkey Drop episode of ''WKRP'' was possibly based on a real thanksgiving event in the late 1940's in Yellville Arkansas. After the first couple of years, the Turkey Trot festival simply got out of hand as some wit thought it would be neat to actually toss a few poor gobblers out of a low flying plane. This went on until a National Equirer photo of the event forced the promoters to can it in the face of severe disapproval from many quarters.

* And, in a bizarre reversal, ''lead'' [[note]]in the form of its acetate, which grows spontaneously on lead seals on wine bottles[[/note]] was an ingredient in Roman sweets long before it was made into bullets--it tends to make sweet things sweeter (people used to put it into sweet wine, too). Although people did eat it, it's not strictly speaking ''edible''. In that time and in the Middle Ages, lead was also used in dishware for the wealthy. The interaction of the lead with the acid in the tomatoes introduced in the 16th century from the New World may have increased European suspicion of the fruit/vegetable[[note]][[BrickJoke Again]], we have no interest in getting involved in this argument.[[/note]] for a time. You see, tomatoes were already suspect on account to their similarity to nightshade and belladonna (as it turns out, all are closely related--and the potato, too, for good measure), and the unusually high acidity of the tomatoes (citrus was uncommon in Western Europe outside Iberia and southern Italy at this point) leached the lead and may have poisoned some nobles, leading to their suspicion.

* Someone once used packet jelly (aka Jello) to make an edible laser.

* An urban legend states that a US squad fighting in UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo requested "tootsie rolls", sometimes used as slang among the armed forces as bullets. However, the supplier of the request didn't understand this, so he shipped ''actual Tootsie Rolls'', a popular fudge roll candy. Turns out, while joked to be hardened enough to used as ammunition after going stale from the long shipment process, the candies provided much-needed sugars, which helped energize the squad to win the front.

See also: EdibleBludgeon, ProducePelting, FoodFight, PieInTheFace, FoodSlap, {{Projeggtile}} and ProjectileToast.

[[caption-width-right:334:Exhibit A: The [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 Peanut Popgun]].]]

[[caption-width-right:334:Exhibit A: The [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 Peanut]] [[AlliterativeName Popgun]].]]

-->-- ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', describing the attack pictured

* And, in a bizarre reversal, ''lead'' was an ingredient in Roman sweets long before it was made into bullets--it tends to make sweet things sweeter (people used to put it into sweet wine, too). Although people did eat it, it's not strictly speaking ''edible''. In that time and in the Middle Ages, lead was also used in dishware for the wealthy. The interaction of the lead with the acid in the tomatoes introduced in the 16th century from the New World may have increased European suspicion of the fruit/vegetable[[note]][[BrickJoke Again]], we have no interest in getting involved in this argument.[[/note]] for a time. You see, tomatoes were already suspect on account to their similarity to nightshade and belladonna (as it turns out, all are closely related--and the potato, too, for good measure), and the unusually high acidity of the tomatoes (citrus was uncommon in Western Europe outside Iberia and southern Italy at this point) leached the lead and may have poisoned some nobles, leading to their suspicion.

** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64'': The Green Greens stage has Whispy Woods dropping apples that can either heal or be used as a throwing item (which is also what he did in ''Kirby's Adventure'' in Kirby's fight against him).
** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'': One of Princess Peach's special attacks involves pulling a very large turnip out of the ground in reference to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' and throwing it at somebody. Daisy borrows this ability in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.
** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': The TropeNamer is from a codec conversation between Snake and Otacon on Diddy Kong, the two get on the subject of Diddy's Peanut Popgun (which originated from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'').
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': In addition to bringing back all characters who have employed edible ammunition in previous games, the game introduces Banjo and Kazooie via DLC; one of their abilities is shooting eggs like in their source games.

->'''Snake:''' Hmm. [[TropeNamers Edible ammunition]], huh... Times sure have changed.

->'''Snake:''' Hmm. Edible ammunition, huh... Times sure have changed.

** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', except for Tiny Kong, all of the playable Kong's weapons launch things such as coconuts (Donkey), peanuts (Diddy, as stated), grapes (Lanky), and pineapples (Chunky). There are also explosive oranges used by Kongs and Kremlings alike.

** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' sees the [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguin]] [[HornyVikings Snomads]] use fish as ammo against the Kongs. Dixie Kong also uses a gun similar to Diddy's that fires bubblegum (a reference to her gum-chewing IdleAnimation in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'').

** One of the most famous examples is ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', where the player uproots large vegetables and throws them at enemies (and even defeats the final boss by making him '''eat''' them).
** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'', there are green watermelons that have seeds in them. They can be used to dispatch or knock back baddies and stunning them temporarily.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and its sequel have Star Bits, cosmic chunks that can be shot at enemies to stun them and apparently taste like honey. Several stages can only be accessed by feeding [[StarfishAliens Lumas]] large numbers of them.

** The TropeNamer is from a codec conversation between Snake and Otacon on Diddy Kong, the two get on the subject of Diddy's Peanut Popgun (which originated from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'').
** Also in the series, the Green Greens stage has Whispy Woods dropping apples that can either heal or be used as a throwing item (which is also what he did in ''Kirby's Adventure'' in Kirby's fight against him).
** One of Princess Peach's special attacks involves pulling a very large turnip out of the ground in reference to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' and throwing it at somebody.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has a number of food items, but only the Mad Milk is used as a projectile weapon. Basically it's a glass jar of milk thrown on the opponent, and a soaked opponent heals the attacker with all the damage they take.
** Sniper has has a variant of his [[UrineTrouble Jarate]] in the form of [[ItMakesSenseInContext a rabid loaf of cancerous bread]] which can be thrown at people. Being hit by said bread loaf doesn't hurt, but it somehow causes the victim to take more damage from enemy attacks.

* NASA and other research labs have 'chicken cannons', which use compressed air to fire whole raw chickens at aircraft parts to test how they handle in-flight collision with birds.
** A popular UrbanLegend states that British Aerospace once borrowed such a gun, only to fire the chicken right through the plane's windshield, the captain's chair, and end up with it embedded in the wall of the cockpit. When they explained the event and asked what went wrong, NASA told them that they should thaw the chicken out first. You see, when [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike a bird flies into your aircraft windshield or engine]], it tends to be alive (at first, anyway), and living birds tend not to be frozen. This actually happened at least once; a supermarket ran out of fresh chickens and a student, who'd been sent there to buy a chicken but not told why, bought a frozen turkey instead. This is recounted in ''Measuring The Earth With a Stick'' by Bob Macdonald. Mythbusters attempted to test the urban legend, only to run into difficulty when it turned out the windshields they were using weren't rated for bird strikes, frozen or squishy. They eventually got it right, demonstrating that frozen chickens would do more damage (though not that anyone had been dim enough to use them), but only after a couple different testing methods and a revisit on a later show.

* The massive ItemCrafting system found in ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'' includes a series of bombs made out of fruit, which somehow cause StandardStatusEffects.

* Potato launchers are a popular backyard tinkerer's project- usually it's nothing but an air cannon with a potato (or any other fruit/vegetable) crammed in the barrel. Designs which use hairspray or other aerosol sprays as explosive propellants tend to be popular as well.