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* ''WebAnimation/ObjectTerror'': "I drank WHAT!?" (suddenly [[VomitIndiscretionShot barf-beams on Carpet]]) Dang, that was my new carpet! What was she ''thinking!?'[[note]]For context, Stapler drinks a bottle of a yellow liquid which se assumed was apple juice, but turned out to be Computer's urine.[/note]]

* ''WebAnimation/ObjectTerror'': "I drank WHAT!?" (suddenly [[VomitIndiscretionShot barf-beams on Carpet]]) Dang, that was my new carpet! What was she ''thinking!?''

* In W. F. Miksch's ''Series/TheAddamsFamily Strikes Back'' the Addamses throw a party to celebrate Grandmama's success as one of the witches in the PTA production of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}. The wife of the school principal asks for the recipe for the Demon Dip and after "witch's butter" - which gives it the blue color - and lizard entrails are mentioned, snaps that Morticia doesn't have to tell her if she doesn't want to. A similar goodie is the "Whirling Dervish Wassail," a punch which consists of "an exciting and tangy blend of quicklime, witch elm, mare's tail, Saint Elmo's fire, and several other potables which could hardly be described as inert ingredients."

* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', one event at the Prosaic Plains has Sol coming across a pond with seemingly clean, potable water. Unless they have enough knowledge in Biology to analyze it first, they only realize ''after'' drinking it that balneals pee into the pond to mark their territory.

** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1979/03/01 one old strip]], Garfield pounces on a chicken in the first panel. Then Jon appears and shouts, "Garfield! Did you eat my chicken?" Then he calms down and says, "No, of course not.If you had, there would be some bones left." (Cue the OhCrap expression from Garfield.)

** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1979/03/01 one old strip]], Garfield pounces on a chicken in the first panel. Then Jon appears, and shouts, "Garfield! Did you eat my chicken?" Then, he calms down and says, "No, of course not, if you had, there would be some bones left." (Cue OhCrap expression from Garfield.)

** In one old strip, Garfield pounces on a chicken in the first panel. Then Jon appears, and shouts, "Garfield! Did you eat my chicken?" Then, he calms down and says, "No, of course not, if you had, there would be some bones left." (Cue OhCrap expression from Garfield.)

* ''Film:/{{Clue}}'': Near the end, when Wadsworth is explaining who the killer is and how they did it, Mr. Green is especially nauseated upon finding out that what they had for dinner was a very popular Cantonese dish; ''monkey brains''.

** Double subversion in one strip, where Jon and Garfield were eating Chinese takeout. Jon says he was surprised Garfield ate the octopus, causing a shocked Garfield to go into a coughing, gagging fit, only to calm down in the last panel and say, "Actually, it wasn't ''that'' bad..."

** His mother quickly catches wise to Calvin's weird ways and starts claiming that her food is something grosser than it really is to get him to eat it: stuffed peppers become "stewed monkey heads", and the rice in his soup are claimed to be maggots. It works like a charm.

* Creator/GordonRamsay
** He once freaked out Creator/JeremyClarkson with this trope after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrqcmnUWBWc teaching him how to properly clean a lobster]], due to Jeremy never bothering to clean the digestive tract - that is, he had been eating lobster excrement his entire life.

* A pretty dark example from ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs''. After [[spoiler: Winston Chu and his girlfriend get killed during their wedding, Mrs. Chu asks the main character to get her the hitman who murdered him (Johnny Ratface) to find out who was the mastermind. After getting the information that it was Dogeyes Lin, a childhood friend and member of the same gang as Winston, she asks to get him as well. When you bring Dogeyes in, she welcomes him with a bowl of soup she force-feeds him, before revealing that it contains the meat of Johnny Ratface. You leave just as she grabs her cleaver and says that she's going to add him to the soup next...]]

* There have been multiple cases of real-life {{Yandere}}s [[https://www.stayathomemum.com.au/wtf/the-women-who-sneak-period-blood-into-their-partners-food/ secretly feeding their male partners their period blood]] out of a superstition that this will bind the men to them forever. At least one victim broke up with his girlfriend upon learning that she had been doing this to him.

* A PSA showing a glass of yellow fluid is captioned "Lemonade? Or paint thinner? If you can't tell, your kids can't either."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TugVVrT4I3I This PIF]] (Public Information Film) shows a group of little girls upstairs eating medicine that wasn't kept locked away, unable to tell the difference between the medicine and sweets, while their mothers are talking downstairs. [[NothingIsScarier One of the mothers comments how it is quiet up there and the ending shot has the medicines still on the table, but the children are nowhere to be seen.]]

* ''Manga/DrStone'': When Senku is making the cure-all sulfa drug for Ruri, he describes how nasty some of the acids involved in the process are ("The Yakuza used to use this to dispose of bodies!"). Kohaku shoots him a DeathGlare while asking "And you expect my sister to drink this?!", but he insists that they're just using the acids to make the final product. A few minutes later Senku needs to collect ammonia, which he does by [[JarPotty urinating into a jar]], prompting a repeat of the conversation.

* As a girl from Modern-Day Japan [[TrappedInAnotherWorld who got sucked into a Medieval Fantasy]], Yuna of ''Literature/KumaKumaKumaBear'' oftentimes ends up introducing foods and cooking techniques that are lightyears ahead of what the most talented and ''avant-garde'' chefs even consider ''possible'' due to the various technological restrictions and barriers to travel. Some examples include her introducing egg-based pudding (which quickly becomes a "Legendary Food" and the Royal Family's favorite dessert, especially with how difficult it is to make and store due to lack of refrigeration) and even makes an incredibly sought-after snack from a vegetable that's highly poisonous if improperly prepared: [[spoiler:potato chips]].

* In ''Manga/{{NPC}}'', Galador the orc refrains from eating sapient creatures due to ethical reasons, and routinely hunts animals and monsters for food, such as the local werewolves. When he realizes that the captured werewolf is perfectly sapient, can talk, and has a ''name''... as was presumably the case with the ones he just ate, and have been eating for a while... well, bathroom calls. Ironically, his freeloading amazon "wife" has no concerns about the ethicality of it whatsoever.
* Mahiro from ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' ends up oddly smart about this trope. His love interest Nyarko (and their mutual friend Luhy) are apparently good cooks, but being from outer space they use ingredients straight from Creator/HPLovecraft's kitchen; once Mahiro realizes this, he refuses to touch anything either of them makes. Notably, Nyarko isn't a bad chef at all; the few times Mahiro actually eats her meals (usually when he insists she stick to Earthly ingredients), he calls them delicious.
** One of those times where Mahiro ate the food is also a more literal illustration of this trope. After complimenting Nyarko's cooking, he says "This meat doesn't taste like fried chicken, what is it?" After some (failed) NotSoInnocentWhistling, Nyarko promises it's not dangerous, but isn't willing to elaborate any further.
** The UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash-animated ''Nyaruani'' series had an episode where Nyarko taught the audience how to make Cooked Whole [[SoundEffectBleep *BLEEP*]], whose main ingredient was {{Pixellat|ion}}ted and hard to obtain thanks to the [[FictionalGenevaConventions Space Washington Treaty]]. Needless to say, Mahiro spends most of the episode freaking out and refusing to eat it.

* One Creator/EddieMurphy comedy concert has Murphy talking about how some people make fun of accent or appearance of the owners of Chinese restaurants. In the bit the owner retaliates by making a "special Won-ton soup" for the person insulting him.

* When [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] gained possession of the all-powerful Infinity Gems from Thanos, he was ordered by the Living Tribunal to separate the Gems so that they might never be used in conjunction again. As a result, he formed the Infinity Watch, and distributed them among the six members (himself included). In the case of Drax the Destroyer, whom he gave the Power Gem to, Drax, suffering from brain damage at the time which had reduced his intelligence and personality to that of a child, thought it was candy and swallowed it. For a long time, it remained in his non-functional stomach, and even when he regained his true intelligence, he never truly figured out how to use it, only able to do so subconsciously. (Everyone he gave the Gems to could be trusted not to abuse their powers for one reason or another, which was the reason he chose each of them.)

* In ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'', for a while, the author has to wait tables in Austria. When one of the guests molests her, the cook sneakily avenges her by spitting on his schnitzel.

** In another comic, Odie is chasing after a noise-making ball which bounces into Garfield's food while he is eating. The two of them don't realize Garfield swallowed the ball until they hear the the sound the ball makes coming comes from Garfield's belly, which then causes Odie to chase after Garfield.

* In [[Creator/SergioAragones Aragones']] [[Magazine/{{MAD}} A MAD look at...]] section based on the border control debate, one of the strips feature two friends at a diner, with one of them loudly talking about kicking mexicans back to their country while eating. Then they turn around and see both cooks are visibly mexican and are watching them eat with disturbingly smug smiles...

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11009412/8/Arya-Lily-Potter Arya Lily Potter]]'' Remus comments that Wolfsbane tastes worse than the time Sirius and James put thestral dung in his kidney pie.
* ''FanFic/BlackenedSkies'': While Kaede fears that the various delicacies offered at the Death Row Delights kiosk might fall into this, Korekiyo is quick to reassure her that the 'Shinguji Stew' -- a dish themed after his own execution -- seems to be made of perfectly normal ingredients. Overly salty, yes, but he doesn't taste human flesh. Leading her to naturally question how he knows what human flesh tastes like.

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1350670/3/Harry-Potter-and-the-Dream-Come-True Harry Potter and the Dream Come True]]'', Harry puts a spoonful of dirt into his relatives' dinner before serving it to them.

* ''[[https://my.w.tt/P3thU3imbU In The Dark]]'' Otis Darwin forces [[Music/SpiceGirls Melanie Chisholm]] to drink LSD-Laced deer blood during her time in captivity.

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2927654/1/Perfectly-Abnormal Perfectly Abnormal]]'', Harry puts a spider in the pancake batter while making his relatives' breakfast.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12534781/1/Through-Their-Eyes Through Their Eyes]]'', 9-year old Augustus' parents disapprove of him owning a pet pig. They kill the pig and feed him to Augustus without initially telling Augustus.
* ''Fanfic/WolfInTheStreetsSardineInTheSheets'': After everyone makes their own taiyaki in a variety of flavors -- ranging from flavors like strawberries, honey and chocolate to things like carrots and [[TrademarkFavoriteFood sardines]] -- they realize that they have no way of telling the majority of the pastries apart. This leads to some unexpected combinations...

* In the first ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' movie, Dave is grossed out as he spots Theodore inching away from a chipmunk dropping on the sofa. Simon defends his brother by insisting it's just a raisin, and proves it by popping it into his mouth. After a satisfied Dave leaves, Simon spits it out, then whispers to Theodore, "You owe me big time!" The trailer originally had shown ''Alvin'' being the one who says the line after eating the "raisin" himself, and making this a case of NeverTrustATrailer.
* ''American Wedding'' (the third ''Film/AmericanPie'' film) has Stifler waiting for a ring-eating dog to defecate. When he gets it, the bride's mother mistakes it for a chocolate truffle and Stifler ''tries'' to prevent her from eating it...
** Clearly he has learned from what happened to ''him'' in the first two films. More of the same, different bodily products and delivery methods. (one example also fits the trope: he drinks from a beer left by a couple in a bedroom. Which Kevin mockingly describes as a "Pale Ale"...)

* In the horror anthology film ''Film/BodyBags'', the host character the Coroner (played by Creator/JohnCarpenter) downs a few glasses of the lethal chemical formaldehyde to set the mood.

* In the Irish short ''Film/CacaMilis'', Catherine kills the blind and chatty Paul by telling him that there was a worm in the titular cake that he ate and by inducing a severe asthma attack.
* In ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'', people freak out on seeing what appears to be a turd floating in the pool (it's actually a Baby Ruth candy bar), so they have Carl empty it and steam clean it. Carl then finds it, realizes it's a candy bar, and eats it (the swells still think it's a turd). Considering it's been floating in [[PuttingThePeeInPool pool water]], that's still pretty gross.

* ''Film/FightClub'':
** There are several references to people urinating or worse into food.
--->"Tyler was now involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel over the urine content of their soup."
** Later in the movie:
--->'''The Narrator:''' ''[after Marla orders clam chowder]'' ''Clean'' food, please.\\
'''Fight Club Member:''' In that case, may I advise against the lady eating the clam chowder.

* ''Film/GoliathAwaits'': One of the rescue party members is quite upset to learn that he is eating octopus eyes.
* In ''Film/TheHairyBird'', Frosty accepts Verena’s offer of getting high with pills, believing them to be benzodiazepines. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted ]] with Verena explaining the pills are Midols and Frosty asking for another. As expected, the Midol makes him drowsy and dizzy.

* In Fruit Chan's ''Film/LittleCheung'', a disgruntled prostitute drops a used tampon in her pimp's cup of tea, and he drinks it without noticing.

* In ''[[Film/TheNakedGun Naked Gun 33⅓]]'', [[PoliceAreUseless Frank]] goes to the crime lab where [[TheLabRat Ted]] has been examining the explosive used in the bombing their investigating. Frank [[SniffSniffNom dips his finger in the petrie dish on Ted's desk, tastes it, and begins to deduce what it tastes like,]] when Ted informs him that the petrie dish contains fertilizer, evidence relating to a completely seperate case. Frank makes a "yuck" face and while Ted continues his monologue, Frank grabs a random beaker full of yellow liquid off his desk to wash the taste out of his mouth with. In a double-whammy of this trope, Ted then takes the beaker off Frank's hands saying, "Let me take that urine specimen from you, Frank.", leading to the mandatory SpitTake.
* ''Film/NakedKiller''. The severed penis of a murder victim accidentally falls into the roll a detective is eating when examining the crime scene.

* In ''Film/{{Paul}}'', Agent Zoil drinks Clive's pee.

* In Creator/ZhangYimou's ''Film/RedSorghum'', the liquor that got pissed in (before distillation) tastes better.
* In ''Film/RoadTrip'', a waiter licks some French toast and stuffs it down his pants before serving it. The customer, oblivious to the prank, cheerfully eats it, saying it is the best he has ever had.

* In Creator/JanSvankmajer 's short film ''Shoes'' the characters eat several unusual things: knives, flowers, clothes, tables, napkins, chairs, body parts...

* In ''Film/{{Waiting}}'', a "beeyotch" makes the mistake of pissing off the waitstaff. Her food is... enhanced, so to speak. And made so that she doesn't even know what she's eating. For the morbidly curious: [[spoiler:The cooks put pubic hair, dandruff, and spit on her food. One guy even rubs the garlic bread in his pants and all over his penis and testicles.]] And for those of you even MORE curious, yes, this is ''TruthInTelevision''. Always, always, be NiceToTheWaiter.

* In ''Film/WhatPriceHonesty'', one of the many, many, ''many'' torture scenes the corrupt prison forced on the protagonist involves starving him for a week in an isolation cell, and while he's desperate, one of the guards then hands him his first meal in days, a full bowl of rice... covered atop a dead rat.

* A tough-looking brawler enters the bar, and orders a tankard of beer. He throws the beer away, and begins to chew the tankard itself. All other guests leave the scene in disgust, except one puny, small man. After the brawler has eaten the tankard, he throws the handle away. The puny man stares at him. The brawler says: "What are you looking at?" The puny man says: "Why did you throw the handle away? It is the tastiest part of the tankard!"

* Creator/LaurenceYep's ''Literature/DragonSeries'' novel, ''Literature/DragonOfTheLostSea'' has a boy named Thorn persuading the witch Civet into letting him cook a meal for her. He hides one of the Monkey King's hairs in her bowl of noodles. [[spoiler: And after she eats them, he speaks the magic words that cause the hair to change into an unbreakable chain]].
* In re-prints of the novel ''Literature/FightClub'', Palahniuk adds a foreword. In it, he notes that many ex-waiters told him that tampering with food was TruthInTelevision, including one man who claimed to be a former waiter at a 5-star London restaurant who bragged that UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher had eaten his semen ''five times''. His subsequent novel ''Choke'' [[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/chuck-palahniuk-american-scream-758121.html has a character based on that waiter,]] complete with soup urination.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', during Jaime Lannister's rather brutal BreakTheHaughty HumiliationConga at the hands of the Brave Companions, he is tricked into drinking horse piss to the company's general amusement. He's forced to keep drinking out of sheer thirst.

* In ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' (book only), a girl jobbing in a restaurant is hit on by some English {{Jerkass}} tourists. She retaliates by putting all kinds of squicky stuff in their food.

* At the end of the book/movie ''Film/TheWarOfTheRoses,'' Barbara Rose makes dinner for Oliver, who compliments her paté. She says, "Don't thank me. Thank Benny." Benny is Oliver's dog.

* In "The Real Slim Shady," Music/{{Eminem}} mentions that his ChaoticEvil alter ego Slim Shady "could be working at Burger King, spitting on your onion rings."

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', the Matter Eater mutant power lets you eat anything, and get sustenance out of it if it's organic. Useful when you need to EatTheEvidence.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Khorne Berserkers are [[ClingyCostume fused into their power armor,]] which recycles the Space Marine's waste into a bland, tasteless nutrient paste.
** For that matter, if you're invited to a party, and you even ''think'' that they might have something to do with Slaanesh, you don't want to accept in the first place, but you ''really'' don't want to know what's in the food, wine and drugs.
** Similarly, never accept high-end foods from your Dark Eldar slavers; they will not agree with your stomach, or your sanity.

* One of the Easter eggs in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' is that one of the toilets that looks like it has crap in it are actually two potatoes that you can eat!

* Forgath in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' absentmindedly drinks Dragon Lung Lantern Fuel after a fight with [[spoiler: Dellyn Goblinslayer.]]

* Osborne, from ''Webcomic/WallyAndOsborne'', does this [[http://wallyandosborne.com/2005/08/03/glug-glug here.]]

* Though it started off as a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Girls_1_Cup trailer]] for a scat porno, ''2 Girls 1 Cup'' became infamous on the internet for depicting two women [[spoiler:defecating into a cup, taking turns consuming it, and then vomiting it into each other's mouths.]] Though as with many other pornos, it's faked with [[spoiler:chocolate pudding.]]

* Writer Creator/JackLondon once gave a friend a glass of kerosene instead of water, causing the friend to suffer burns in his throat. This was likely done by accident.
* [[http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2010/apr/08/saginaw-cheerleaders-urine-tainted-soda/ Saginaw Cheerleaders Prank Teammates With Urine-Tainted Soda]]
* On the set of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', Creator/EliWallach burned his throat when he accidentally drank a bottle of acid that had been improperly labeled by the Italian film crew. (It was originally a drink bottle, hence the confusion.)
* An incident that was actually ''confirmed'' via a "restaurants from hell" style TV show involved a cook being recorded urinating into the jar of tomato sauce and then using the sauce to create takeaway pizzas.
* A [[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/hs-salad-dressing-befouler-booked high school student]] put his "product" into a bottle of ranch, which was subsequently used by various people.
* A disgruntled worker was caught on camera [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/piss.asp urinating into their office's coffee pot]].

* As noted in the ''Literature/FightClub'' and ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' entries above, there is a reason many say be nice to the waitstaff, as those incidences of food tampering have been TruthInTelevision. Nowadays, the waiter/waitress will likely go to jail for tampering with the food/beverages, and in extreme cases, the restaurant can get shut down. [[http://cjonline.com/stories/111003/pag_condom.shtml#.V6_CRfkrLIU One case]] had a woman find a condom in her clam chowder, and the incident traumatized her so badly that she can't eat soup or seafood and has problems with intimacy.

* On July 16, 2012, a Burger King employee on Website/FourChan anonymously uploaded a photo of his feet in two plastic bins of lettuce, accompanied by the statement "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." Disgusted 4chan users took just ''20 minutes'' to get the employee fired by tracking down the location where the photo was taken and calling the Burger King restaurant there. The scandal became the subject of a popular meme after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSYefZhv1s a video]] about mysteries solved by 4chan was uploaded by the popular channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClW44KG_EKETupl-3BlnLSQ Top15s]] in late 2017, with the scandal itself being referred to as "Burger King Foot Lettuce".

* In 2014, a Chinese restaurant owner was arrested for slipping opiates into his food in order to improve business, which came to light after one of his customers failed a drug test ([[BlamingTheVictim and was still detained for drug use afterwards]]). Even worse, this practice was not uncommon in China at this point.

** Years later, they released ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqx4ag5n5vI&ab_channel=Smosh Veg 'n Go]]''. As the vegan, after being assured that it's [[BlatantLies 100% suitable for vegans]], drinks it, she gets told that the packaging is made of 100% pure beef. Cue her [[SpitTake throwing up her Veg 'n Go]].

** Years later, they released ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqx4ag5n5vI&ab_channel=Smosh Veg 'n Go]]''. As the vegan, after being assured that it's [[BlatantLies 100% suitable for vegans]], drinks it, she gets told that the packaging is made of 100% pure beef. Cue her [[SpitTake throwing up her Veg 'n Go]].

* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': In [[https://youtu.be/2uJE48aKVNo Beef 'n Go]], as Ian happily devours his lifetime supply of Beef 'n Go watching the ad featuring the product, the interviewer ask the rancher what does he feed his cows with. The rancher responds: 100% wheat grass… and horse testicles. Cue Ian [[SpitTake spitting his Beef 'n Go out of his mouth]].

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* On July 16, 2012, a Burger King employee on 4chan anonymously uploaded a photo of his feet in two plastic bins of lettuce, accompanied by the statement "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." Disgusted 4chan users took just ''20 minutes'' to get the employee fired by tracking down the location where the photo was taken and calling the Burger King restaurant there. The scandal became the subject of a popular meme after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSYefZhv1s a video]] about mysteries solved by 4chan was uploaded by the popular channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClW44KG_EKETupl-3BlnLSQ Top15s]] in late 2017, with the scandal itself being referred to as "Burger King Foot Lettuce".