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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', when Kodachi gets a photo of a [[Not What It Looks Like]] scene between her and Ranma, she makes hundreds of copies and scatters them everywhere. Ranma proceeds to catch and eat them all.
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* In the famous [[Roald Dahl]] story ''Lamb to the Slaughter'' (filmed as an episode of ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''), a woman beats her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb, and feeds it to the detectives who investigate.
** This becomes a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[How Not to Write A Novel]]''.
* [[Discworld]]:
** Played with in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'': The regiments encounters some spies, one of whom tries to eat the codebook to destroy it. It turns out the codebook was poisoned, so that by eating it not only would the code book be kept out of enemy hands, but so would the spy.
** Parodied in ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'': Vimes claims he'll have to "eat the evidence", when a group of civic leaders find a packet of "arsenic" in his desk, and does so. Of course, he's actually making the point that it ''isn't'' arsenic; it's sugar.
* In the short story ''Two Bottles of Relish'' by [[Lord Dunsany]], a man uses the title items to help dispose of the corpse of the person he murdered. He also cuts down ten trees and chops them into logs, solely (as the last line of the story informs us), "in order to get an appetite."
* ''[[Thieves' World]]'' short story ''Blood Brothers''. After One-Thumb paralyzes a drug dealer, he slices him up and feeds him to his dogs.
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* One episode of ''[[COPS (series)|COPS]]'' showed a suspect trying to eat a stash of marijuana he was hiding in his car. However, the police caught him before he could finish his impromptu meal.
* An episode of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' involves Lister and Rimmer having to finish off two huge jugs of moonshine in 10 minutes.
* One episode of ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' had a wounded quartermaster official thank the doctors who saved his life by swapping the canned food the unit was supposed to get with the side of beef that was to be shipped to the headquarters of the general whose orders got the man wounded. When the general sends out MPs to track down the missing beef, they arrive at the camp just as the Colonel is about to start carving the roast. He deals with the MPs by inviting them to join the unit for dinner, after which they can honestly report back that there was no beef in the camp.
* In ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S2/E08 Cooperative Calligraphy|Cooperative Calligraphy]]", Troy suggests this is the reason the pen disappeared. The others are incredulous to this theory.
{{quote|'''Troy:''' Maybe nobody took it. Sometimes I think I lost something really important to me, and it turns out I already ate it.}}
* In the [[Pilot]] of ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'', a friend of Magnum's is found dead with several ounces of Cocainecocaine in his stomach. and itIt is assumed he was smuggling init this methodway. In reality he was assassinated and the drugs placed there to frame him in a very expensive plot that was hoped to have a big pay off. and theThe investigation, isof course, basedcame onfrom Magnum's desire to clear his friend's name.
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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** Parodied in a Michael Bentine sketch where a spy has to eat the secret plans of a rocket - and then a large ''model'' of the rocket.
** The paper was thought up by Jasper Maskenlyne, a famous magician who would create dozens of gadgets for the British, including a special boot issued to commandos that contained a compass, a little map, and a garrote wire. Apparently bedrolls made of similar paper were also used; they were soaked in vegetable oil to make them waterproof, and as an added bonus it made them taste better if you had to eat them.
* In [[Real Life]], aA man named Antonio Vasquez beat two men up with a sausage, and a dog ate it, destroying the evidence. He was caught when he left his wallet at the scene. And his pants.
* Watch [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825133038/http://thedailyuplift.com/2009/12/01/what-evidence/ this man] cleverly snatch and eat what may or may not have been a note implicating him in a bank robbery.
* In a sad but amusing incident of a man attempting this, the mortally-wounded captain of a French ship captured during the Napoleonic Wars attempted to do this to his code papers. Unfortunately he picked the wrong set of papers and instead chewed up his own commission.
* Sun Tsu in Ancient Art of War tells of a spy who's given battle plans written in silk that's enclosed in a ball of wax. The spy is instructed to swallow the ball and proceed to a location, sneaking past the enemy; once there, the ball will pass through his digestive system and out the other end. The spy doesn't know it, but the plans are phony and his whereabouts are leaked to the enemy so they will capture him and think the phony plans are real.
* At various South African diamond mines there used to be (and probably{{verify}} still is) an X-ray machine through which all workers have to pass on leaving to ensure that they did not seek an unofficial bonus to their paycheck.
** Before X-ray machines were invented, a daily cavity search was a part of black miners' routine - the white miners just had to empty their pockets and boots.
* [[Played for Laughs]] with this [https://web.archive.org/web/20121110062422/http://www.offworlddesigns.com/p-546-meat-is-murder-t-shirt.aspx t-shirt design].
* A related example, a man once tried to beat a DUI by eating his own underwear in the hopes that it would absorb the alcohol and defeat the Breathalyzer.
* [[wikipedia:Steve Brill|Steve Brill]], a man famous for foraging on plants that grow in natural parks and other public places in New York and encouraging such activity, was once arrested for such activity back in 1986 due to violating "nature preservation laws", but the charges were dropped when he (naturally) ate the evidence (i.e. the plants he picked), creating a public relations debacle for the authorities. He's become the official spokesperson for natural foraging ever since, and is tolerated by officals.
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