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If the substance is blood, you're performing [[The Ketchup Test]]. For any case of testing mysterious substances by taste or smell see [[Sniff Sniff Nom]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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** Moreover, unlike a human cop she's highly unlikely to be poisoned as a result of tasting something nasty.
* Spoofed in ''[[Charade (Film)|Charade]]'', when Audrey Hepburn and [[Cary Grant]] are going through her late husband's luggage to see if they can find something valuable enough for him to have been murdered for. They find a tin of what appears to be tooth powder; at her urging, he does the test... and concludes that either it's peppermint-flavoured heroin or it really is tooth powder.
* The buddy-cop movie ''[[Tango and Cash]]'' opens with [[Sylvester Stallone|Ray Tango]] arresting two punks, who have driven an oil truck well outside his jurisdiction. The highway patrol arrives on the scene and chides him for his recklessness, and a search of the truck reveals nothing but oil. They ask if he thinks [[Shout Out|he's Rambo]], to which Tango calmly replies, [[Self
{{quote| Tango: "Mm...wanna get high?"}}
* In the movie version of [[Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince]], Dumbledore does this to some blood that's dripped onto Harry's forehead from the ceiling, but doesn't immediately comment. After he locates Slughorn, he identifies it as dragon's blood (which, as the alchemist who discovered the twenty uses of the substance, [[Fridge Brilliance|makes sense]]) and reveals that it's what made him positive the ransacked house was faked.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Bodie, Doyle and Cowley regularly do this in seventies action show ''[[The Professionals]]''.
* Also spoofed in one episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]'' -- presented with a bag of white powder, Norberg identifies it as a drug from a fingertip taste. Then, while the action continues in the foreground, he takes another fingertip, and another, and then a ''big'' fingerload, and starts rubbing it on his gums... When we next see him, he's high as a kite and draped around a piece of furniture.
* A variation on the trope occurred on ''[[Barney Miller]]'' when Barney suspects some brownies baked by Wojo's girlfriend have hashish in them. He asks Harris to test the brownies, which Harris does... by eating one, rather than sending it to the lab as Barney had expected.
* Has appeared a couple of times on ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' in the heroin-related subplots.
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