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* 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.
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** 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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