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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Ah ha ha, I put broken glass in your dinner dear''
''It's only getting worse from here''
|'''[[King Diamond]]''', "More Than Pain"}}
The act of sneaking inedible or dangerous objects, such as glass, poison, drugs, etc. into an item of food or drink, with the hope that it kills/harms whomever has the misfortune to consume it.
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{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* At one point in ''[[Sakura Gari]]'' [[:Category:Yandere|Sakurako]] feeds Masataka a piece of sushi. He quickly spits it out, revealing that Sakurako had snuck in a piece of glass.
** Later, [[Depraved Bisexual|Katsuragi]] invites Masataka over to his home and gives him a cup of tea laced with a sleeping drug. [[It Gets Worse]] in a span of minutes.
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* ''[[Wedding Crashers]]'': At dinner in one scene John proceeds to spike Zach's water with eye-drops, which makes him sick, thereby letting John connect with Claire, Zach's fiance.
* Done twice in Disney's ''[[The Haunted Mansion (film)|The Haunted Mansion]]'' with poison being put into goblets of wine.
* In ''[[Ghost Ship (2002 film)
* The horror movie ''[[Night of the Demons]]'' features a mean old man who puts razor blades in apples on Halloween to do [[Moral Event Horizon|terrible things to children.]] At the end of the movie,
* ''[[Murder By Death]]''. Lionel Twain arranges for one of the cups of wine served to the guests to have a tasteless, odorless [[Poison Is Corrosive|acidic poison]] in it. It turns out to be a subversion: Twain made sure the cup with the poisoned wine was served to the one guest who could identify it.
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (1973 film)|The Four Musketeers]]'' (1974). D'Artagnan receives a case of wine along with a note that indicates it's from his fellow musketeers. Before he can drink any of it, an enemy [[Mook]] drinks some and dies...it was poisoned wine sent by Milady to kill him.
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* Jyugon starts his transformation process to a vampire in ''[[Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl]]'' when he eats a chocolate which has been infused with Monami's blood.
* Parodied and averted in ''[[Lemonade Joe]]'', a relentless parody of [[The Western]]. [[Complete Monster|Hogo Fogo]] has kidnapped [[Damsel in Distress|Winnifred]] and plans to subject her to [[Rape Is Love|a fate worse than death]], but is eating dinner in the saloon first. His brother, the less evil saloon owner, says he thinks Hogo's disgusting. Hogo opens his ring, puts some powder into a glass of water, and mixes it in. It looks like he'll try to make his brother drink it; {{spoiler|however, he then drinks it himself, and burps. It was antacid. He keeps eating his dinner, glutton that he is.}}
* In ''[[Troll 2]]'', Joshua urinates in the dinners that his family's hosts have provided them. {{spoiler|It's to stop the evil vegetarian goblins' plan.}} His father is not amused:
{{quote|You can't piss on hospitality! I won't allow it!}}
* Double Subverted in ''[[Wild Things]]''. When he and {{spoiler|Suzie}} are on the sailboat at the end, {{spoiler|Sam Lombardo}} is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to expect the drink to be poisoned, but is dissuaded when {{spoiler|Suzie}} assures him that she would be an idiot to try something like that, since she can't pilot the boat, and they're all out in the middle of nowhere. It ''is'' in fact poisoned, and {{spoiler|Suzie}} is perfectly capable of piloting
== Literature ==
* Willard Price's ''African Adventure''. While they're on safari in Uganda, someone tries to kill Hal and Roger Hunt by putting ground-up leopard whiskers in their food.
* ''[[Dune]]'' had terms for poisons used this way: chaumas (in food) and chaumurky (in drink).
* In ''[[Harry Potter
* In the first book of ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' Violet believes Count Olaf poisoned the oatmeal he serves to her and her siblings one morning because he's frankly a horrible guardian who was never nice to them in the entire time they've known him. He quickly proves them wrong by eating one of the raspberries on top of the oatmeal convincing the siblings that it's safe to eat.
** Earlier Violet was thinking miserably that she should've poisoned the sauce she's serving with the pasta for Count Olaf and his troupe considering how they are acting rude and refuse to eat the food the siblings made for them because they wanted roast beef instead.
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'' an Agatean courtier tries this on Cohen The Barbarian. It doesn't work and the courtier finds himself having a terminal case of indigestion when the tables are turned.
** A similar thing happens in ''[[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]''. The [[Grand Vizier]] tries to poison the Emperor, but he tries to do it in a very elaborate way: he claims he found the poisonous object in his ''own'' food, but that only the Emperor is worthy of it. They go back and forth on who should eat it for quite some time (Mort, because he can't leave until someone dies, even [[Lampshade Hanging|says]] "Would ''someone'' just eat it?"), but finally the Grand Vizier has to eat it, then tries to leave, leading to this:
{{quote|'''Grand Vizier''': Urgent matters of state, my lord.
'''Emperor''': Would these be the urgent matters of state in a little bottle marked "Antidote" on your dresser? }}
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** Also done to Supreme Allah in a more organic fashion. Once it's discovered that he's fatally allergic to eggs and must have his food cooked separately... Yeah, no more Supreme Allah.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "The Conscience of the King". Someone tries to murder Kevin Riley by putting tetralubisol (a shipboard lubricant) in his milk.
** The ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' episode
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Londo makes a request of Lord Refa:
{{quote|'''Londo''': Because I have asked you; because your sense of duty to our people should override any personal ambition; and because I have poisoned your drink.}}
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* ''[[CSI]]'' did it at least once, as did ''[[CSI: NY]]''. The CSI one was a juror wanting to induce an allergic reaction in another juror but she decided not to at the last minute. The NY one was also an allergic reaction kind of thing.
* In ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'', Mags Bennett kills one of her henchmen by giving him poisoned moonshine to drink.
== Music ==
* [[King Diamond]]'s album ''Abigail II: The Revenge'' has Abigail tricking Jonathan to eat food with glass shards on it after he rapes her in the songs "Broken Glass" and "More Than Pain".
== New Media ==
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' once had "ingestive" (swallowed) poisons that could be added to food or drink. One article in Dragon magazine #59 had several dozen examples, and a Dragon #69 article extensively described
* The video that accompanies the ''[[Clue]] VCR Mystery Game'' (and forms part of the game play) includes a dinner scene in Boddy mansion where almost all of the guests end up poisoning something that is served at dinner.
== Theatre ==
* In the play ''Holy Ghosts'' one character talks about his prizewinning dog, who was killed by jealous rival dog-owners by putting glass in his food.
== Urban Legend ==
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** [http://www.snopes.com/rumors/candy.asp Terrorists buy candy in bulk just before Halloween]
== Video Games ==
* Let's just say this trope is prevalent in [[Adventure Game]]s.
** ''[[Ceville]]'', for example, entails slipping Tabasco sauce into coffee.
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* In ''[[Heroes Of Might And Magic III]]'', this is how King Gryphonheart was killed.
* At the end of the Soviet campaign in ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert]]'', {{spoiler|Nadia}} successfully kills {{spoiler|Joseph Stalin}} by tricking him into drinking a poisoned cup of tea.
== Web Comics ==
* ''Dangerously Chloe'' first had Gabrielle slipping some [[Truth Serums|truth drug]] into Naomi's food and then to Prudence (the latter didn't work well, since she's an angel). Then Charity [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/still_on_a_mission made] Prudy [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/a_nice_cup_of_tea some tea].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In the [[Whateley Universe]] Jobe does this to three guys who just beat the snot out of him (because he won a sparring match against one of them). He puts a bio-weapon in their food and blinds them for several days. This [[Disproportionate Retribution]] cycle just gets worse.
== Western Animation ==
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* In ''[[Asterix]] and Cleopatra'', Edifice frames the Gauls by sending a poisoned cake to Cleopatra in the Gaul's name, which is quickly detected as being poisoned. Strangely, the cake was made without eggs or flour - the only non-toxic ingredient in the entire recipe was orange juice (for flavoring).
* ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'': Yumi's opponent in an [[Eating Contest]] sneaks into the arena the night before and dumps a bunch of iron horseshoes into her food to guarantee his victory. It almost works too, until Ami realizes that watching a baseball game makes Yumi [[Extreme Omnivore|eat anything you put in front of her]] out of sheer boredom.
== Real Life ==
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* Antifreeze is one of the most commonly used chemicals to poison people. Not only is it easy to obtain, it has a sweet, syrupy flavor (due to the ethylene glycol in it) that doesn't raise suspicion if mixed in with someone's coffee- until they drop dead from heart failure.
** There are two variants of antifreeze, the other based on ''propylene'' glycol, which is almost exactly similar, but non-toxic. It's somewhat more expensive and trickier to use (it oxidizes into mildly corrosive lactic acid on contact with air, and tends to foul up quicker), but can sometimes be ''more frequently'' encountered nowadays, specifically because it's so much safer than ethylene glycol.<ref>You need to drink it by the liter to experience even a mildly adverse symptoms</ref> So the enterprising poisoner might find their plans unexpectedly failing.
** What's more, ethylene glycol-based antifreezes now include a bittering agent to prevent deliberate and accidental poisonings, so all those wannabe [[Black Widow]]s out there will just have to find some other way to cash in on their husbands' life insurance
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