History Main / BizarreBeverageUse

However, these are just some of many uses. Any use of a beverage besides drinking fits here. '''Important''': Only include water if it was already intended for drinking (e.g. in a glass, a drinking fountain, etc). AlcoholIsGasoline, DrenchCelebration, and HealItWithBooze are subtropes. Can overlap with BoozeFlamethrower, IntentionalMessMaking, and WaterGunsAndBalloons. Compare GrievousBottleyHarm, MolotovCocktail, and UnconventionalFoodUsage. TomatoSkunkStinkCure falls into this trope if it's tomato ''juice'', but under Unconventional Food Usage if it's tomato ''soup''. Can overlap with GargleBlaster if used as a weapon.

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-->-- '''Lou''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Skinner's Sense of Snow"

* ''VideoGame/ScienceGirls'': Diet soda is used as thrown weapons due to its lack of nutrition making it useless for restoration.

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* ''Series/UnderTheUmbrellaTree'': At the end of "Twins", this is discussed when Gloria and Jacob ask Holly for [[TomatoSkunkStinkCure tomato juice so they can neutralize skunk spray]].
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* A story arc in a Mickey Mouse comic had a time traveler from the future attempting to neutralize Goofy because his formula for eggplant-flavored soda can serve as a powerful fuel source. It ends up being terminally depended on by society, making whoever holds the recipe defacto ruler by ransoming it.

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* ''Music/KellyClarkson'': In the video for "My Life Would Suck Without You", Kelly is having an argument with her dysfunctional boyfriend, which devolves into a sequence of DefenestrateAndBerate where both throw the other's possessions out the window. When Kelly grabs a fishbowl to throw out the window, she allows her boyfriend to grab the fish and put it in a glass of water before throwing the the bowl out. The two make up shortly afterwards.
* ''Music/PreschoolPopstars'': In the music video for "Juice Box", the girls are seen swimming in juice.

* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'': The Chuckolator is a creature made out of Chuckola Cola, and can change its forms to wield a sword or rifle. It is set upon Mario and Luigi to defend the Chuckola Reserve that its creator has been working on for 1,000 years. (Speaking of which, the Chuckola Reserve is later used to help [[AdiposeRex Queen Bean]] bring up the Belly Belch worm that was controlling her.

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* ''Literature/RebornAsAVendingMachineINowWanderTheDungeon'': Is set in StandardJapaneseFantasySetting, when Lammis and a group of injured adventures are perused by a the King Frog Fiend - a [[PlayingWithFire fire controlling]] [[AmphibianAtLarge giant frog monster]] - she fears she will be killed. However, protagonist Boxxo - a [[ReincarnatedAsANonHumanoid sapient vending machine who was human in his past-life]] remembers a trick from said [[ReincarnatedInAnotherWorld past life on modern day earth]] and vends BlandNameProduct versions of Mentos and Coke to have Lammis and co shoot at the King Frog Fiend to slow him down.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'':
** In the original script, the time machine is powered by Coca-Cola; the stated logic being, [[InsaneTrollLogic since nobody knows the ingredients, it's essentially a scientific x-factor.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery'', a "potion of uselessness" may spawn. True to its name, it has no effect on you or other beings, ''but'' throwing it while on an icy level will propel you in the opposite direction. [[spoiler:A god, impressed by the player's cleverness in finding this use, will grant them a reward.]]

* Ryncol, the krogan liquor of choice in ''Franchise/MassEffect'' is infamous for [[GargleBlaster how strong it is]]. During one incident in the ''Citadel'' DLC, Grunt threw his bottle of ryncol at a C-Sec car. Turns out ryncol is volatile enough that either the impact or the exposure to oxygen causes it to act as a MolotovCocktail without needing to be ignited first.

* In ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'':

* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', The Scout has a bottle of milk "weapon" called the Mad Milk that can be thrown at enemies, with the Scout recovering 60% of his health from those covered in it for a limited time. The Mad Milk can also be used to extinguish burning teammates or be used to create [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality scrap metal, like any other weapon.]]

Maybe they're using it as a weapon. Perhaps the enemy can be killed from being soaked (see KillItWithWater if it's water) or just hates getting wet, or maybe a burst of soda is used to knock someone over.

They could also be using it to wash something, maybe even to wash themselves. Bathing in alcohol might suggest someone is TheAlcoholic or very rich. They might also be using the drink to "christen" something or give it a libation. [[GargleBlaster High-potency booze]] might be used to decrease an engine or strip paint. A BackAlleyDoctor might sterilize his scalpel with whiskey.

They could also be using it to wash something, maybe even to wash themselves. Bathing in alcohol might suggest someone is TheAlcoholic or very rich. They might also be using the drink to "christen" something or give it a libation.

* Libation, or the pouring of liquids--often alcohol--for different religious purposes, is so common across different cultures that Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libation relatively long list]] of it.

* In ''Film/{{Annie}}'', Miss Hannigan is seen pouring gin into her bath, likely a reference to "bathtub gin", a way that people used to make alcohol during prohibition. Annie is set just before the end of that mistake.