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If you're an [[Unsatisfiable Customer]] or otherwise not [[Nice to the Waiter]], this is how he may get back at you. It's not just limited to spit, either... as Real Life incidents have testified to over the years, an especially vindictive server may adulterate a customer's food with other bodily secretions -- or worse, any inedible or possibly poisonous substances he may find handy. And sometimes it happens not to get back at a particular customer, but at ''any or all'' customers, [[For the Lulz]] or even [[For the Evulz]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Persepolis]]'', for a while, the author has to wait tables in Austria. When one of the guests molests her, the cook sneakily avenges her by spitting on his schnitzel.
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{{quote|"Tyler was now involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel over the urine content of their soup."}}
* In ''[[Road Trip]]'', a waiter licks a pancake and stuffs it down his pants before serving it. The customer, oblivious to the prank, cheerfully eats it, saying it is the best he has ever had.
* The name of the Mexican restaurant that appears in ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]'' is very clearly shown to be "Escupimos en su Alimento" -- Spanish for "We Spit In Your Food".
== [[Literature]] ==
* In re-prints of the novel ''[[Fight Club]]'', Palahniuk adds a foreword. In it, he notes that many ex-waiters told him that tampering with food was [[Truth in Television]], including one man who claimed to be a former waiter at a 5-star London restaurant who bragged that [[Margaret Thatcher]] had eaten his semen ''five times''.
** His subsequent novel ''Choke'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100915113830/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/chuck-palahniuk-american-scream-758121.html has a character based on that waiter,] complete with soup urination.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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== [[Music]] ==
* [[Bob Rivers]] parody "[https://bobrivers.com/minimum-wage/ Minimum Wage]" begins with a client asking for a [[Bland-Name Product|Spiffy Burger]], "...and curly fries, but only if they're cooked in virgin peanut oil..." in an upper-class, sophisticated aristocratic British accent. It ends with the minimum-wage worker spitting in his food and telling the client to "enjoy your burger!"
* Invoked by [[Eminem]] in "The Real Slim Shady" as an example of the contempt felt by him and his [[Expy|Expies]] for most other people:
{{quote|''And every single person
''Is a Slim Shady lurking
''He could be working
''At Burger King,
''spittin' on your onion rings''}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the 2019 ''[[Big Mouth]]'' [[Holiday Special|Valentine's Day special]], during the scene where the restaurant goes into chaos, one waitress confesses how she spits in the customer's food and doesn't even know why.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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[[Category:Occupation Tropes]]
[[Category:The Jerk Index]]
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