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* ''[[VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic]]'' inverts this. The invading Dwarves that are the player characters are healed by Red Sugar, a mineral that naturally occurs within Hoxxes 4, and remark it's highly addictive.

Subtrope of DrunkOnMilk. Compare FantasticDrug and SpiceOfLife. See also KlingonsLoveShakespeare, ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin and MarsWantsChocolate. Compare and contrast NoBiochemicalBarriers. SisterTrope to AIGettingHigh. If it's not intoxicating, just really tasty, see AliensLoveHumanFood.

* In Creator/JoeHaldeman's "A !Tangled Web", the !tang (who look like "perambulating haystack[s] with an elephant's trunk protruding") become intoxicated from eating sugar, and alcohol is like a psychedelic drug to them. On the [[InvertedTrope flip side]], "one bite of !tang bread contain[s] enough mescaline to make you see interesting things for hours"; one human fellow who eats some spends time "amusing them with impersonations of various Earth vegetables."

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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': apples[[note]](or any given Shinigami's TrademarkFavoriteFood)[[/note]] have the same effect on Shinigami as cigarettes or alcohol do on humans, and Ryuk actually goes through withdrawal symptoms [[LostFoodGrievance if he can't have any]].

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': Halkara's famous energy drinks, Nutri-Spirits, have the opposite effect on demons, acting more like very strong alcohol. Beelzebub is a particularly big fan of them, though she accidentally caused Halkara (and by association, Azusa) no shortage of misery before they were made aware of this fact.

* ''Literature/TheJenkinsverse'': Gaoians. like the vast majority of aliens, are immune to the intoxicating effects of alcohol. However, they can get the same symptoms after eating turkey meat.

** In the modern Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, Strawberries are a mild narcotic to the Mizarians, as revealed in the ''Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers'' series. Human merchants find productive trade on Mizar and its outposts.

* ''Literature/TheJenkinsverse'': Gaoians. like the vast majority of aliens, they are immune to the intoxicating effects of alcohol. However, they can get the same symptoms after eating turkey meat.

* According to ''Series/DoctorWho'', plain old ginger beer/ale has about the same effect on Time Lords as alcohol has on Humans. In one [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio adventure]] ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho081TheKingmaker (The Kingmaker)]]'', Creator/WilliamShakespeare got the Fifth Doctor sloshed on it and took the TARDIS for a joyride.

* According to Series/DoctorWho, plain old ginger beer/ale has about the same effect on Time Lords as alcohol has on Humans. In one [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio adventure]] ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho081TheKingmaker (The Kingmaker)]]'', Creator/WilliamShakespeare got the Fifth Doctor sloshed on it and took the TARDIS for a joyride.

* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'': Rachnera, the spider-girl, gets drunk off of caffeine, [[ShownTheirWork just like real spiders]].

** Expanded upon in [[{{ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye}} More Than Meets the Eye]]; there are a variety of Cybertronian liquors, ranging from a "weak energon spritzer" favored by prudes like Ultra Magnus, to "weapons grade nucleon" that can knock a Transformer out for hours. It's even possible to become the robotic equivalent of an alcoholic, by turning off your "fuel intake modulation chip" and overindulging. This happens to Trailcutter. It's also possible to forcibly turn said chip on ''permanently'', forcing the bot to go cold turkey, through PercussiveMaintenance. This ''also'' happens to Trailcutter.
* In ''Comicbook/{{The Vision|2015}}'', it's revealed that the android [[Comicbook/{{Runaways}} Victor Mancha]] is addicted to vibranium, which is apparently the robot equivalent of hard painkillers. [[spoiler: This tragically leads to Victor accidentally killing Vision's son after getting high.]]

* [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky Horror]] fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6927547/2/Seducing-Mother-Earth Seducing Mother Earth]] has Riff Raff and Magenta experience the horrors of chocolate addiction.

* ''FanFic/DiariesOfAMadman'' has quite a few, but the naga are probably the most extreme example, as mercury is used as a recreational drug.

* In ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'', fertilizer is revealed to be the equivalent of cocaine and steroids combined for Cosmo's race.

* ''WebComic/TheCyantianChronicles'':

* It seems that robots in the ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'' universe - or at least Pintsize - [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=463# get stoned on WD-40]].

* ''WebComic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'' introduces a species that has some, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00057.html unusual]] reactions to ginseng.
* The trolls in ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'' aren't actually supposed to eat sopor slime, but Gamzee never learned that due to his guardian [[ParentalAbandonment always being out at sea]]. As a result, he's an EruditeStoner. [[spoiler:Once the slime runs out, [[AxCrazy how]][[MonsterClown ever]]...]]

* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' the Arcona can become addicted to table salt, and there's even a quick and easy indicator. The entry in the ''Essential Guide to Alien Species'' features an excerpt from the journals of Mammon Hoole (a member of a species of {{shapeshifter}}s who uses his abilities to further his job as an anthropologist when the local species is likely to eat outsiders) describes an encounter he had with a young male of the species who was ready to mate, and had gone through a depressingly logical and tedious process to decide which of a selection of females it was going to be. When the young man, with Hoole in tow, reached the domicile of the lucky woman, he was shocked to find that since he had last seen her, her eyes had turned from green to gold, giving away her salt addiction and marking her as unsuitable for mating.

* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': it turns out that plain old cola has the same effect on Belldandy that alcohol should ("should" being the operative word - She's a ''[[HornyVikings Norse]]'' goddess, and thus NeverGetsDrunk). Fortunately, she's just as nice drunk as she is when sober, if not more so, which actually causes [[LiteralGenie problems of a different sort]].

* ''FanFic/EarthsAlienHistory'': As per canon, ginger acts like a narcotic to the Race in ''Fanfic/{{Worldfall}}''. It is downplayed compared to canon, however, as the Race also brought Rabotevs and Hallessi along with them, who are immune to its effects.

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!!Examples

* Lum and Ten (and, implying by extension, any other Oni) from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' would get drunk off of "umeboshi" - otherwise known as ''pickled plums''. Note that they're otherwise [[NeverGetsDrunk immune to alcohol]], [[ImmuneToDrugs drugs]] and poison. It's one of those "reversed reaction" things - in Japan, they're commonly eaten as a hangover cure.
** There was also an alien fruit juice that had that effect on humans (and not on oni).

Subtrope of DrunkOnMilk. Compare FantasticDrug and SpiceOfLife. See also KlingonsLoveShakespeare, ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin and MarsWantsChocolate. Compare and contrast NoBiochemicalBarriers. SisterTrope to AIGettingHigh.

* In the BudSpencer movie ''Aladdin'' the genie loses his powers during nighttime. After a group of government officials decide to dissect him suspecting him to be an alien, they find out that anesthetic only makes him giggle. After he asks for something to drink, it turns out a can of cola knocks him right out.

** In the modern Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse, Strawberries are a mild narcotic to the Mizarians, as revealed in the ''Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers'' series. Human merchants find productive trade on Mizar and its outposts.