History Main / MiningForCookies

* In ''VideoGame/CookieClicker'', you can procure cookies in many absurd ways. Mining is one of the earlier options. [[JustifiedTrope Although the game suggests the planet is composed at least partially of cookie dough.]]

* A side quest in VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel in [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind The Claptastic Voyage]] DLC called "Chip's Data Mining Adventure" has [[PlayerCharacter the Vault Hunter]] going through a mine shaft and mining for embarrassing data relating to Claptrap.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', "King Gus"

** This is a universe with sapient swamp-dwelling mattresses and screwdrivers that grow on trees, so it may not be as crazy as it sounds.

If the ''entire'' landscape is built of food, it's LevelAte. Compare to GrowsOnTrees.

* Deconstructed in ''Film/TheStuff.'' A man finds, well, ''stuff'' that looks and tastes like whipped cream coming out of a geyser and markets it as a low-calorie dessert topping. It turns out to be [[spoiler: an amorphous PuppeteerParasite]].

* Deconstructed in ''Film/TheStuff.'' A man finds a, well, ''stuff'' that looks and tastes like whipped cream coming out of a geyser and markets it as a low-calorie dessert topping. It turns out to be [[spoiler: an amorphous PuppeteerParasite]].

A ComedyTrope in which an off-beat setting includes mines, wells or springs for substances that do not actually occur naturally in the Earth's crust (but that do exist; {{Unobtanium}} mines don't count. Neither do mines that are named after something abnormal, but are still normal mineral mines.) Foodstuffs are particularly common.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': In the episode "Steel Angel, Shakkoumon" ("Stone Soup" in the dub), the soup served at a Chinese restaurant, run by a Digitamamon eventually turns out to come from a spring. The same spring later turns out to contain the last [[McGuffin Holy Stone]].

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "King Gus". Gus is made king of the playground while Bob's away, and promptly goes mad with power. His demands include that everyone start [[TropeNamer mining for cookies]] (his/Bob's advisors are too afraid to contradict him).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'', the home planet of the villain Overcat possesses "milk wells" which are similar to oil wells. One episode is kicked off when the milk wells begin to run dry and he first steals Earth's supply of milking cows and then [[DistressedDamsel Sweet Polly Purebred]] to act as milk maid.
* One ''WesternAnimation/USAcres'' segment on ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' had Orson, Roy, and Wade go up to an old mine that their grandfathers had been mining in, which is revealed to contain chocolate. Unlike many instances of the trope, Orson recognizes that chocolate doesn't normally come from mines, but his grandfather's journal actually has an explanation for how it came to be: [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning]] hit cacao trees, and the charred beans combined with sugars from plants.

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "King Gus". Gus is made king of the playground while Bob's away, and promptly go mad with power. His demands include that everyone start [[TropeNamer mining for cookies]] (his/Bob's advisors are too afraid to contradict him).

* ''Radio/BleakExpectations'': In a visit to France, it turns out they have cheese mines. Brie, to be precise. Apparently workplace disasters are common, but the foremen don't care, since being swept away by cheese is every Frenchman's dream.