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** Dorothy Sayers did a similar plot thirty years earlier with Literature/LordPeterWimsey in "The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran", but[[spoiler: in the Sayers' work, the weapon is a skewer for roasting chicken which would not be eaten but rather would have the blood evidence on it be destroyed while the chicken cooked]].

** In one story in ''Star Wars: The Han Solo Adventures'', a skiptracer shows Chewbacca a thick warrant he has to repossess the Millennium Falcon. Chewie responds by eating it, only to be told that there are multiple copies of the warrant.

* In a series of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strips, Snoopy imagines himself to be a spy and steals Sally's report which he thinks to be a secret document. When Sally catches him, he eats the paper, much to her anger. Yes, [[StealthPun a dog really did eat her homework]].
** In another Peanuts story arc, Charlie Brown sent Linus to scout another baseball team and told him to make notes on a square of bubble gum so he could destroy them easily if necessary.

* In the first case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', unable to accept the fact that his girlfriend is a serial killer, a suspect eats [[spoiler: a small glass bottle that had been used for carrying poison that is the evidence implicating her. He also ate the large gold necklace it was attached to. It was too big to swallow, so he chewed it up into pieces first. Thankfully, he survives, because this is [[IronButtMonkey Feeny]] we're talking about.]]

* Frank Drebin in ''Film/TheNakedGunThirtyThreeAndAThird'' eats the plans for a prison break, as a sandwich and then shredded with spaghetti sauce (it didn't help that a large stack of paper got dropped in front of him while he was doing so, forcing Drebin to eat ''all'' of it to make sure he got the sheets that contained the plan).

* The ''Redcap Kith'' in ''[[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming Changeling: The Dreaming]]'' (part of the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'') had a proclivity for this given their rebellious/pugnacious temperament and their [[ExtremeOmnivore Dark Appetite]] Birthright, allowing them to literally eat anything.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' suggests using Universal Digestion for this purpose.
* A common usage of the Matter Eater mutation in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''.

* In ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', Todd and Mrs. Lovett are wondering how they'll dispose of their first victim. Then she gets an idea: she could use a source of [[ImAHumanitarian fresh, inexpensive meat]] for her pie-making business.

* Unable to accept the fact his girlfriend is a serial killer, the protagonist of [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations]], Phoenix Wright, eats the necklace containing the poison that is the evidence implicating her. Thankfully, he survives.

* In the first case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', a suspect eats [[spoiler: a small glass bottle that had been used for carrying poison his girlfriend used to poison an attorney. He also ate the large gold necklace it was attached to. It was too big to swallow, so he chewed it up into pieces first. The shards of glass were apparently not a problem, because this is [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Feeny]] we're talking about.]]

* In ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'', the accusations against Napoleon and Joséphine are eaten by a couple of clerks who don't want to see them executed.

* In the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode “Lucky”, a young girl named Tracey goes missing after another girl is found brutally murdered, and nearly the entire town shows up to help search for her. Towards the end, more victims have been discovered and the killer is apprehended, but Tracey still hasn’t been found. The questioning of the unsub as to where she is leads to one of the biggest [[WhamLine wham lines]] in any episode of the show: under being told by a priest “God is in all of us”, the unsub responds “So is Tracey Lambert.” Turns out, the guy runs a barbecue restaurant and supplied food for the search party. The people searching for her had unknowingly eaten her, including her family.
** In the same episode, the killer feeds previous victims’ fingers to new victims before killing them and containing the cycle. He himself has a cookbook full of human meat recipes such as “Kobe girl steak”, as well.

* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': In ''The Hot Potato Job'', the team is stealing a "super-tuber" from a Big Ag company, but security in and out is tight and there's no way to sneak the full potato past inspections. Thus, the team instead just cuts off enough of the potato to regrow it and has a kid hide it in their cell phone case (since kids aren't searched), while the rest of the potato is tossed into the kitchen for the company cafeteria, where it's promptly made into fries and disposed of by the lunch crowd.

* ''Series/{{Leverage}}: In ''The Hot Potato Job'', the team is stealing a "super-tuber" from a Big Ag company, but security in and out is tight and there's no way to sneak the full potato past inspections. Thus, the team instead just cuts off enough of the potato to regrow it and has a kid hide it in their cell phone case (since kids aren't searched), while the rest of the potato is tossed into the kitchen for the company cafeteria, where it's promptly made into fries and disposed of by the lunch crowd.

* Used in a Golden Pie advertisement that riffed on TV cop shows.

* ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'' has - while Lois gives the family a LongList of chores in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" - Chris show the rest of the family a picture he drew of Lois while she's talking that portrays her as a naggy bitch. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny The family laughs at this]] until Lois gets suspicious and Chris does the trope to avoid getting in trouble.