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Often played for laughs, especially if the evidence is something that no-one would normally consider edible.
May induce [[I Ate What?]] afterward.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ranma
** But the ultimate example is the "Ukyo's Secret Sauce" story where, when confessing that he (accidentally) ruined Ukyo's personal sauce that she has been aging for ten years failed to cause the whole mess to subside (Ukyo jumped to the conclusion that Akane forced Ranma to claim it, so it made things ''worse''), Ranma gulps down the ''whole cask'', and almost dies from it. Note that this was less to hide how terrible it tasted from her (she was the first person to find out), but more from desperation to [[Reset Button|return things to the way they were]], so that [[Status Quo Is God|he wouldn't have to reveal whether he loved Akane or Ukyo better]]. Before that, he devoured every okonomiyaki that Ukyo made with it, but that was to protect her from [[
* In the manga of ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' it's explained that {{spoiler|Light eats the killer scrap of paper he used to kill Higuchi with.}}
* One chapter of ''[[Franken Fran (Manga)|Franken Fran]]'' had a man attempt to serve his murdered daughter to the guests at her birthday dinner. Unfortunately, Fran instantly recognized the human meat for what it was, being a surgeon.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the new ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' movie, one of the Chipmunks is accused of defecating on a chair, but [[I Ate What?|another eats the... evidence,]] claiming it's just a raisin, while muttering "You owe me!". [[Squick]].
** I wonder how John Waters felt, realizing that a coprophagy gag was now mainstream enough for what was ostensibly a children's movie?
* Frank Drebin in ''[[The Naked Gun (Film)|The Naked Gun]] 33 1/3'' eats the plans for a prison break- as a sandwich and then shredded with spaghetti sauce.
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* In ''[[The Big Easy]],'' when he realizes he's been caught accepting bribe money, Detective Remy McSwain tosses the cash to the crowd in the bar and eats the envelope it was given to him in.
* And then there's the 1980s movie (and the subsequent musical adaptation) ''[[Eating Raoul]]'', which really needs [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|no explanation beyond what's offered by the title.]]
* Not exactly ''eating'' the evidence, but in a variation on the theme, the title creature's [[Self
** In fact, the game ''Concrete Jungle'' explored what would happen if he didn't get rid of the evidence. It wasn't pretty.
* When a car full of college kids gets pulled over in ''[[Super Troopers]]'', one of them is forced to eat a bag of pot before the cops get close enough to see it. And then a bag of shrooms... The one tasked with eating it all was very reluctant, but the guy the drugs belonged to still insisted the eater pay him back after the fact.
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