History Main / TamperingWithFoodAndDrink

* In 2017, the ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' fanartist, Avimedes was given cookies with needles inside, suffering a tongue injury. The motive for this is not clear.

RazorApples and SlippingAMickey overlap with this trope. WeaponizedAllergy is appropriate when the added substance is safe for most people, but intended to hurt a single person who happens to be allergic. The MasterPoisoner is highly likely to practice this art. Lethal versions are often TrickedToDeath. Overlaps with SharingTheSickness if a sick person infects someone's food with their disease.

RazorApples and SlippingAMickey overlap with this trope. WeaponizedAllergy is appropriate when the added substance is safe for most people, but intended to hurt a single person who happens to be allergic. The MasterPoisoner is highly likely to practice this art. Lethal versions are often TrickedToDeath.

When done with drugs to a large group of people, it's EverybodyMustGetStoned

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** In "Homecoming", after Scott decided he wants his homecoming party to allow alcohol and drugs, he starts to deliberately spike all the food and drinks. Cue Scott filling the punch bowl with cigarettes, putting a beer can between two halves of a slider sandwich, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and pouring beer into the homecoming ballot box]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "The Fair-Haired Hare", this is the objective of Yosemite Sam slipping poison into Bugs Bunny's carrot juice, so he -- upset with a court order demanding they share the property -- can own the jointly owned property outright. Of course, Bugs is wise to this attempt and in the end, it's Sam who blasts off like a rocket.

The act of sneaking inedible or dangerous objects, such as glass, poison, drugs, etc., into an item of food or drink, with the hope that it kills/harms whoever has the misfortune to consume it. As such, it also covers deliberately adding an otherwise harmless ingredient to which the intended recipient is known to be allergic.

RazorApples and SlippingAMickey overlap with this trope. The MasterPoisoner is highly likely to practice this art. Lethal versions are often TrickedToDeath.

* In 1984, the Rajneesh cult attempted to take over the government of Wasco County, Oregon with a bioterror attack on its largest city, to make non-Rajneeshee voters get sick and stay home on election day, so the votes from Rajneeshpuram could carry the election. They sprayed ''Salmonella'' cultures onto the food in salad bars in 10 restaurants. The bioterrorists also spiked the water glasses of two county commissioners with ''Salmonella''. Seven hundred fifty-one people were afflicted with gastroenteritis, and 45 of them were hospitalized. The plot failed when non-Rajneeshee voters rallied to the polls on election day.

* WebOriginal/FortniteLoreSociety: Mester once drugged his lesbian crush with estrogen so she could develop an interest in men.
-->'''Legend Jones:''' So let me summarise.
-->'''Legend Jones:''' You want me to drug her so she gets an interest.
-->'''Mester:''' or you can go the mester moment route and put it in her food
-->'''Legend Jones:''' This is borderline rape.
-->'''Legend Jones:''' This isn’t even a joke anymore, that’s basically rape.
-->'''Mester:''' this girl hit me once, and she was a lesbian. So i put estrogen in her gfs food, and asked her out. She said yes
-->'''Legend Jones:''' YOU DID WHAT