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May lead to [[It Tastes Like Feet]] or [[I Ate What?]] [[Fingertip Drug Analysis]] and [[The Ketchup Test]] are subtropes.

 

 

* [[Big Eater|Alice]] of ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' does this with a lot of things, including flowers and [http://www.mangareader.net/350-50866-26/pandora-hearts/chapter-48.html a pet bird].

* In the ''[[Patlabor]]'' episode "The Tragedy of L," Captain Gotoh tastes a sample of what appears to be blood (but isn't). This horrifies everyone else.

== Film ==

* In ''[[Pi]]'', Max tastes a suspicious melted computer part.

* The B-movie ''[[The Stuff]]'' begins with this trope: a miner, walking out in the woods at night, stumbles upon a mysterious white fluffy substance on the ground. Guess what? It's ''delicious''!

* In the obscure German movie ''[[The Ogre]]'', noone but [[Those Wacky Nazis|Hermann]] [[Great White Hunter|Göring]] shows the protagonist how to do it with deer scat. [[Squick]].

* A gag in ''[[Young Doctors In Love]]'' involves one character pretending to analyse urine by tasting it. Another character ends up tasting it for real.

* In [[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]], Ghengis Khan sniffs and tries to take a bite out of a baseball bat. When he realizes the bat is inedible, he tests its use as a weapon.

* In an odd moment in ''[[The Bobo]]'', Juan ([[Peter Sellers]]) grudgingly takes Olimpia (Britt Ekland) to a posh, dignified fur salon. When a server comes by with a silver tray of tea and wafers, Juan makes an undignified grab for a fistful of wafers. Everyone freezes, and, acknowledging the gaffe, he slowly draws them to his nose and sniffs them suspiciously before taking a bite.

* In the ''[[Coneheads]]'' movie, Beldar sniffs and eats the miniature soap as he and his wife stay at a motel during their first visit on Earth.

** Several seasons later, he forces a guy in an Antarctic research station to taste a woman's urine in order to test it to determine what's causing the Patient of the Week's unconciousness.

*** [[Truth in Television]], as taste-testing of human urine was done by [[Real Life]] physicians before chemical assays for glucose and other substances were developed. (Diabetes mellitus got its name because it makes a person's urine taste sweet.)

** Ten does this with [[The Ketchup Test|a blood sample]] in "The Christmas Invasion".

** And the Eleventh determined the age of a shed by licking its wall.

** It must be a Time Lord thing, as Romana once used the same technique to identify concrete.

* Going by fanon, Fraser does this in ''[[Due South]]''.

** In the pilot, Fraser apparently tastes some mud in a witness' garden before confronting her about harbouring a criminal. Vecchio concocts an elaborate theory about how the crucial information might have been gathered from the mud, before Fraser reveals that it was all just a bluff to make the witness think he knew something he was in fact guessing. Did he really put mud in his mouth? It depends on one's interpretation of just how far Fraser is willing to go for a convincing deception.

* Gil Grissom does this to ''a human bone'' in an episode of ''[[CSI]]''.

** Well, it's actually a rock, which he can tell by it not sticking to his tongue like a porous bone would. Still pretty nasty, though.

== Webcomics ==

* There's an early scene in ''[[The Hotel Fred]]'' where a character licks a message on a mirror, and announces that it's guacamole.

 

 

* Used by [[The Smart Guy|Kowalski]] of ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]''.

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Leela's Homeworld," Hermes Conrad uses this to determine whether the bright green waste product being generated by the Professor's latest invention is toxic waste.

'''Hermes:''' ''(dips finger in barrel and licks it off)'' Delicious fig pudding! Ooh, that's good! ... But a distinct aftertaste of ''toxic waste!'' }}

** In the episode "Love's Labors Lost In Space" the guy Amy's parents try to set her up with does this with the lobster bisque. He's not trying to figure out what it is; he's just gross.

'''Sokka:''' I have a natural curiosity. }}

* Most of the dishes cooked by Tino's mom on "[[The Weekenders]]" get this treatment.