History Main / TamperingWithFoodAndDrink

* Jyugon starts his transformation process to a vampire in ''[[{{ptitlekeueal74}} Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl]]'' when he eats a chocolate which has been infused with Monami's blood.

* In 1990, an employee at the Point Lepreau nuclear plant in New Brunswick [[http://articleleader.info/point-lepreau-nuclear-generating-station/ spiked the drink cooler with tritiated water]]. Apparently he was trying to play a practical joke, by forcing people to give daily urine samples for an extended period. The joke [[{{Understatement}} didn't go over too well]].

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 whomever has the misfortune to consume it. The non-lethal version of food tampering would be putting a love potion, sleeping potion/drug, etc. in food or more commonly, drinks; also known as SlippingAMickey.

** Later, [[DepravedBisexual Katsuragi]] invites Masataka over to his home and gives him a cup of tea laced with a sleeping drug.

* ''ZeroNoTsukaima'': Montmorency slips a love potion in Guiche's drink but before she can give it to him a frustrated Louise comes by and drinks it. HilarityEnsues, naturally.
** Also, when Tabitha was younger she was at a party with her family where a strange man gave her a glass of wine. Tabitha's mother, meanwhile, saw the man smirk as he walked away. She immediately recognized a potion in the wine and took the glass Tabitha held. Tabitha's mother drank the potion in order to save Tabitha, and she became mentally ill, for life.

* Women are warned often to not leave their drinks unattended due to fear of date rape drugs being placed into them.
* The Roman Emperor Nero had a particularly devious twist on this: When he wanted to kill his brother Brittanicus, he didn't poison the wine, as he knew that the food tasters would detect it first. Instead, he served hot wine at the banquet, then poisoned the cooling water instead.

* In ''Ghost Ship'' there's a flashback comprised of a montage of images of what occurred on the ocean liner. During this there's a scene in the kitchen where cooks are putting rat poison in food. We then see passengers eating the food and one person vomits as a result.

* In ''The Assassination Bureau'', Eleanora first poisons [[spoiler:her husband Cesare, the Italian assassin]], then prepares drinks for herself and Dragomiloff, slipping poison in his drink. Dragomiloff spins the table until it stops, picks up the goblet in front of him, drinks down the contents, and falls to the floor. [[spoiler:Of course, he was faking it.]]

* In ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', Ron Weasley swallows a poisoned drink that was actually meant for Dumbledore, and almost dies. (And this was just ''after'' Ron ate a love-potion hidden in candy that was meant for Harry; don't side-kicks ''ever'' learn they're just fall-guys?)

* Both played straight and faked in PersonsUnknown. Erika gets Joe to confess this way; later [[spoiler:Joe helps Janet fake her death by pretending to do this to a liquor bottle]]

* In ''Asterix and Cleopatra'', Edifice frames the Gauls by sending a poisoned cake to Cleopatra in the Gaul's name, which is quickly detected as being poisoned. Strangely, the cake was made without eggs or flour - the only non-toxic ingredient in the entire recipe was orange juice (for flavoring).

* In 1990, an employee at the Point Lepreau nuclear plant in New Brunswick [[http://articleleader.info/point-lepreau-nuclear-generating-station/ spiked the drink cooler with tritiated water]]. Apparently he was trying to play a practical joke, by forcing people to give daily urine samples for an extended period. The joke [[Understatement didn't go over too well]].

* In ''{{Monster}}'' Director Heinemann, Dr. Oppenheim, and Dr. Boyer are found dead when the three of them were mysteriously poisoned by candy left by [[CompleteMonster Johan Liebert]].

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* ''SpongebobSquarepants'': [[{{Squick}} The Nasty Patty]].
* In ''Asterix and Cleopatra'', Edifice frames the Gauls by sending a poisoned cake to Cleopatra in the Gaul's name, which is quickly detected as being poisoned. Strangely, the cake was made without eggs or flour - the only non-toxic ingredient in the entire recipe was orange juice (for flavoring).

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* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' once had "ingestive" (swallowed) poisons that could be added to food or drink. One article in Dragon magazine #59 had several dozen examples, and a Dragon #69 article extensively described 7 such poisons.

* In ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' you are required to drug yourself by [[DontTryThisAtHome mixing hangover medicine with alchohol]].

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* In the U.S. many people believe stories about psychopaths deliberately putting poison, razor blades and so on in candy given to children on Halloween.
** [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp Poisons]]
** [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp Pins and needles and razor blades, oh my]]
** [[http://www.snopes.com/rumors/candy.asp Terrorists buy candy in bulk just before Halloween]]

* In the {{Discworld}} novel ''Interesting Times'' an Agatean courtier tries this on Cohen The Barbarian. It doesn't work and the courtier finds himself having a terminal case of indigestion when the tables are turned.

* In ''TheSixthSense'' one of the [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready dead people the kid sees]] was a small girl poisoned by her mother putting cleaning fluid in her soup.

* ''{{Sukisho}}'' sees this done to Sora and Nao, with Soushi drugging their tea and taking them in for a vaugely described medical exam.
* In ''SaiunkokuMonogatari'', someone tries to kill Shuurei with a goblet of poisoned wine, probably due to the positive influence she was having on the emperor. The emperor immediately realizes that it's poisoned, but also knows that refusing the wine offered by a powerful nobleman would be a grave insult, so he drinks it in her stead, counting on his better constitution and larger size to survive the poison. He survives, all right, but also winds up being really sick for weeks. When Shuurei finally finds out what went down, she's torn between being impressed at him basically TakingTheBullet for her, and being angry at him for taking such a risk. (Not because she's got FEELINGS for him, or anything - it's just that the civil war that would result from his death would be really bad for the people. That's all, really!)
* In ''PumpkinScissors'', one episode features a visiting princess from a neighboring country, with a particularly draconian rule of succession: Whichever royal child survives, takes the throne. Poison is a favored means of sibling rivalry, and she reveals that on her 10th birthday, the cake was poisoned, causing the death of her favorite maid. (Everyone have poison-tasters, which seems to kinda' nullify the point, but whatever...) The fear of poison is so in-grown in her, that even when eating a hot-dog at a street-stand, where nobody knows who or what she is, she can't take a bite until somebody has tasted it for her first.

* Done twice in Disney's ''TheHauntMansion'' with poison being put into goblets of wine.

* ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'': During the dinner scene Yzma has Kronk slip some poison into Kuzco's wine. However, Kronk forgets which cup he put the poison in and mixes all three drinks together. As Kuzco is drinking his wine, Kronk and Yzma don't drink theirs. Kuzco falls unconscious for a moment before waking back up again and turning into a llama, making Yzma and Kronk realize that Kronk had accidentally given Kuzco 'extract of llama' instead of poison.

* Often referred to colloquially as "slipping a Mickey" (or Mickey Finn) into a drink.

* In the first MonkeyIsland game you are required to slip a nail file in a cake. You also drug yourself in the third game by mixing hangover medicine with alchohol.

** A similar thing happens in {{Discworld/Mort}}. The GrandVizier tries to poison the Emperor, but he tries to do it in a very elaborate way: he claims he found the poisonous object in his ''own'' food, but that only the Emperor is worthy of it. They go back and forth on who should eat it for quite some time (someone else even [[LampshadeHanging says]] "Would ''someone'' just eat it?"), but finally the Grand Vizier has to eat it, then tries to leave, leading to this:

** A similar thing happens in {{Discworld/Mort}}. The GrandVizier tries to poison the Emperor, but he tries to do it in a very elaborate way: he claims he found the poisonous object in his ''own'' food, but that only the Emperor is worthy of it. They go back and forth on who should eat it for quite some time (someone else even [[LampshadeHanging says "Would ''someone'' just eat it?"]]), but finally the Grand Vizier has to eat it, then tries to leave, leading to this: