History Main / CurrencyCuisine

* In ''FanFic/TeenTitansTokyo'', after Nabiki unknowingly accepted a cursed coin linked to Fafnir, the curse caused her to sleep-eat her entire jar of 1-yen coins. She still struggles with a near-compulsion to eat metal coins, noting that the more valuable they are, the better they taste.

[[DontTryThisAtHome Realistically, doing this would be a terrible idea.]] The reasons being A) depending on the substance the money is made of, eating too much of it can eventually cause illnesses like blindness from all the built up toxins in your body. B), money tends to get around a lot, so you never know how many germs are living on it. And C), it just doesn't taste very good, you're basically eating metal and drinking liquid paper. So unless you like eating that kind of stuff, it is just not advised.

May overlap with PracticalCurrency in cases where currency is food, such as Medieval Japan (''koku'' of rice) and Mesoamerica (cocoa). Not related to TastyGold. Compare PooledFunds for another unconventional use of money (specifically, swimming/bathing in it).

** Some versions of how a dragon becomes a DracoLich also involve the dragon eating its hoard during the process.

* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': One story involves a Frenchman suffering from a condition that gives him an addiction to eating inedible objects, with his favourite being coins. When he can no longer obtain any more, he starts eating things like thumbtacks and nails, eventually dying from his stomach being cut open by all of it.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', clams are the form of currency, so it doesn't feel out of place that Humphrey the whale eats them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} [[Recap/DeltaruneChapter2ACybersWorld Chapter 2]]'' has [[SnakeOilSalesman Spamton G. Spamton,]] an unsuccessful salesman who was reduced to living in the dumpsters of Cyber City. Dialogue for when you pay him for his "services" or buy an item from him (''"DELICIOUS KROMER"''/ ''"[Storing up for the winter]"''), plus a couple of his attacks in his fights that involve [[MoneyMauling inhaling dollar signs,]] suggests that Spamton is ''eating'' the money you give him.

[[DontTryThisAtHome Realistically, doing this would be a terrible idea]]. The reasons being A) depending on the substance the money is made of, eating too much of it can eventually cause illnesses like blindness from all the built up toxins in your body. B), money tends to get around a lot, so you never know how many germs are living on it. And C), it just doesn't taste very good, you're basically eating metal and drinking liquid paper. So unless you like eating that kind of stuff, it is just not advised.

And the more and more and more you're gonna feed it, the more hungry it'll get!]]]]

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-->'''Carter:''' In about an hour, I'm gonna piss away twenty grand.
-->'''Quagmire:''' What? [[TakeThat Are you gonna bet on the Knicks]]? (''Laughs'') I'm sorry, but how often- I mean- [[DontExplainTheJoke Oh, c'mon, nobody thinks that's funny]]?

-->'''Krusty:''' [[NeverMyFault You call this a drink?!]]
-->'''Bartender:''' No, I never called it a drink.

* In Manga/{{Toriko}} Gourmet Coins could be used at the Gourmet Casino but could also be eaten. The higher the value, the tastier it was.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Viva Mars Vegas", Amy plans a heist to steal back her family's fortune and the deed to their land from the Robot Mafia by getting an invisible Zoidberg to eat it all and smuggle it out of the casino. It almost works, until Zoidberg becomes too heavy to ride in the elevator, causing it to drop straight down and giving him enough motion sickness to start burping out dollar bills, eventually getting caught by the Robot Mafia.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Homerazzi", at a celebrities-only nightclub, Krusty blends up several hundred dollar bills at the bar and then drinks it, only to spit it back out again in a disgusted manner.
-->'''Krusty:''' You call this a drink?!
-->'''Bartender:''' I never said it ''was'' a drink.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The Dragon Ascendant PrestigeClass requires a dragon to amass a huge [[DragonHoard treasure hoard]] and then consume it all on its [[GodhoodSeeker first step to become a demigod]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Crime and Nourishment" has Garfield encounter an underground village of beings who eat money and use Italian cuisine as currency.

** The episode "Blind Ambition" has Peter consuming a large amount of nickels so he will be remembered for something. Unfortunately, [[RealityEnsues he winds up going blind from nickel poisoning when he wakes up the next morning]].

-->--'''Aunt Figg''', ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie''

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The ancient dragon Pixiu has a large appetite for gold, and the first thing it does upon being revived from its petrification is consume most of Scrooge's money bin. Scrooge is none too pleased about it to say the least, even repeatedly calling the dragon a "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal cash cannibal]]."

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': The ancient dragon Pixiu has a large appetite for gold, and the first thing it does upon being revived from its petrification is consume most of Scrooge's money bin. Scrooge is none too pleased about it to say the least, even repeatedly calling the dragon a "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal cash cannibal]]."

->Money is power
->If it were food, it's a dish I'd devour,
->EVERY HOUR!