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* Nicky's house in [[Robert Westall]]'s, ''[[The Machine Gunners]]'' is being used a billet by a group of naval ratings; there's fresh bread and huge tins of real butter lying around open in the kitchen. Turns out these and a steady supply of booze are being smuggled off navy destroyers by several of the sailors.
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* In ''[[Terra Nova]]'', the father brings an orange to the family in the opening scenes.
* In the television production of [[Ngaio Marsh]]'s ''Final Curtain'', Alleyn appears on Troy's doorstep after escorting a fugitive from South Africa bearing a pineapple, and Troy makes a quip about painting a still life of it. The scene cuts to the same fruit on her dining table, prepared and being eaten by the pair of them.
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** At one point, the crew is hired to smuggle cattle.
* In the ''[[Foyle's War]]'' episode "Bleak Midwinter", set in rationing-bound [[World War II]] England, Foyle busts an operation that's been smuggling restricted food, leading to a subplot for the rest of the episode about who's going to end up with the food once it's done being held as evidence.
* The remake of ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' has the black market ship [[Meaningful Name|Prometheus]] which, in addition to smokes, drugs, prostitutes and jewelery, supplies the non-military members of the Fleet with the last remaining fresh fruit. It both serves to underscore that many civilians lack what the protagonists have been taking for granted and acts as a plot point to hint Ellen Tigh's connections when she shows up with a bowl full of grapes.
* The TV series ''[[Bootleg]]'' was centred around a pair of kids setting up a black market chocolate operation after chocolate is banned by the government.
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