History Main / EdibleAmmunition

* In ''VideoGame/BurgerTime'', Peter Pepper is armed with a pepper shaker.

* In the WebAnimation/YouTubePoop "Dinner Blaster", King Harkinian uses hamburgers as the ammo of his [[Main/MakesJustasMuchSenseinContext dinner blaster]].

* A UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory regarding the death of JFK suggested the reason why the bullet fired from a second shooter was never recovered from the President's body was because the bullet fired was made of ''meat''. ''Series/MythBusters'' tested this along with a slew of other strange ammunition theories but discovered that such a bullet simply did not have the strength to cause any damage.

* Some games of ''LARP/HumansVsZombies'' allow the humans to use marshmallows to stun the zombies, which is useful for campuses which ban toy blasters and sock balls.

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

* ''VideoGame/DensetsuNoStafy'': Both of this game's versions of the Kigurumi costume (pig and octopus) allow Starfy to fire food items; pork dumplings for the pig costume and octopus dumplings for the octopus costume.

** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'': The game has 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'').

* In ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow]]'', the Waiter Skeleton enemy throws a plate of burning-hot curry at you. If you get the Curry item drop by defeating it, the item will heal you just like any other food.

** The flash game involves an ice cream vendor using their ice cream products and ingredients as ammunition against children who seek to catch his truck and destroy it. According to the "Improve Recipe" upgrade in the game's upgrade menu, the vendor keeps specific versions of his products' recipes to use in this situation.

[[TheStinger Adds a whole new level of meaning to "eat hot lead", doesn't it?]]

* The movie version of ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'' has one scene where the Wickersham brothers turn entire bunches of bananas into rapid-fire machine guns by squeezing them under a big gorilla's armpits.

* ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'': In the prequel short "A Christmas Caper", Rico downs a bowl of peppermint candies, and is then used as a living gun by Skipper, shooting them out at the dog Mr. Chew to keep him away from Kowalski and Private.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-261 SCP-261]] once vended an item called Candy Bullets, during one of the many experiments undertaken to see just how weird it can get. In the package was a CZ-75 self loading pistol which was loaded with rounds made of various candy flavours. A D-class shot in the foot with one round (somehow they function as ammo), in addition to what happens to one when they are shot, reported a pleasant minty taste for some time. The pistol itself was also ostensibly edible, but way too hard to chew. Tasted of tutti-frutti.

* Both of the video game adaptations of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' gave Aladdin apples to throw at enemies. In ''VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames'', enemies could be defeated with apples alone, but in ''VideoGame/AladdinCapcom'' apples were only good for stunning enemies before taking them out with a GoombaStomp.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Season 9 parodies this concept when Caboose suggests that they can get unlimited ammo with a food dehydrator.

* There's a game called ''Mr. Nutz'', where the main protagonist is a red squirrel that throws acorns.

The final sequence of the game involves Klaus needing to avoid melons that are shot out of canons at him.

* The pizza-loving ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' also once used pizza as a weapon. Leonardo and Michelangelo cast several pizzas aften two kimono-stealing thieves. They partly succeed - they rescue all of the kimonos except one, master Splinter's. When ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo is brought to their world, he defeats Raphael, Donatello and Leonardo (who are all using standard ninja weapons). Michelangelo beats Usagi by [[PieInTheFace nailing him]] in the face with a pizza pie. Usagi asks what manner of fighting this is, and Splinter wryly goes, "I believe it is called, 'slapstick.'"

* ''Film/Daredevil2003''. Stuck on an airliner next to an annoying elderly passenger, Bullseye kills her by shooting a peanut down her windpipe. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Then he asks the stewardess for another bag of peanuts.]]

* In ''Film/Daredevil2003'', Bullseye kills the old lady he's trapped next to on the plane to New York with a peanut.

->'''Otacon:''' Wait, here's the best part. You see them lying on the ground after he shoots? If you pick up some of those peanuts, they'll restore your health a little.
->'''Snake:''' Hmm. Edible ammunition, huh... Times sure have changed.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: ComicBook/EttaCandy has, on a few occasions, chucked a box of chocolates in an Axis spy's face before decking them. She's never very happy about using candy this way, but she'll do it.

-->'''Four:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner Care for a jelly baby?]]
-->'''Eleven:''' Just spit them out!
-->'''Ten:''' I... can't! They're... too... delicious...

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} Forever After'' features a Chimichanga stand with a high-velocity launcher, no doubt to make the process of feeding hundreds of ogre warriors quicker, but doubles as a great anti-witch catapult as well.

* In the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' movie, Bullseye kills the old lady he's trapped next to on the plane to New York with a peanut.

* In ''Animation/TheReturnOfHanuman'', Maruti throws mangoes plucked from the gangsters' HQ's mango trees against the gangsters. Mangoes vs. Real Guns? [[spoiler:The former won.]]

* 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.

* Some types of C4 plastic explosive are designed to be safe to eat, and have been disguised as biscuits or pancakes.

* A UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory regarding the death of JFK suggested the reason why the bullet fired from a second shooter was never recovered from the President's body was because the bullet fired was made of ''meat''. Series/{{Mythbusters}} tested this along with a slew of other strange ammunition theories, but discovered that such a bullet simply did not have the strength to cause any damage.

* An urban legend states that a U.S. 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.

** As real black powder is extremely finicky as well as unsafe, a mixture of flour and corn starch is often employed (dyed dark grey with food coloring) blown onto the stage by fans. It has the advantage of settling realistically on the actors' faces and clothes, but spares the audience and the actors the stench of black powder as well as the safety hazards. This can also be used to stand in for ash.
** When staging comic plays, characters may fire gummies or even certain veggies as projectiles. Just about anything is three times more funny when candy is involved, especially a formal duel. Using celery or various kinds of onion like arrows is also common. This is done partly because actual ammunition can be rather pricey, partly as a safety measure (even a blank is potentially lethal), and partly as an artistic choice.
* In Theatre/{{Pantomime}} performances in the United Kingdom, a common tradition is to have a comic relief character - usually the play's dame - hand out small bars of chocolate by throwing them as projectiles towards the stands; a particularly good throw can send them all the way up to the upper levels.

* ''Film/SpyKids'' has the Machete Electroshock Gumballs, which, once chewed up and spat out, can electrocute anything.

** Camo is able to release vines with explosive [[BlazingInfernoHellSauce Firecracker Peppers]], the hottest peppers in all of Skylands. He can also create a ring of explosive watermelons that he can send out in a ring.