History Main / DiscreetDiningDisposal

* Enid Blyton's short story "Junket through the Window" is about two siblings who regularly dispose of food they don't like by throwing it out of the window. However, they [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin get into trouble]] when they do this without realising the gardener is directly in the line of fire.

* Enid Blyton's short story "Junket through the Window" is about two siblings who regularly disposes of food they don't like by throwing it out of the window. However, they [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin get into trouble when they do this without realising the gardener is directly in the line of fire.

* In the Tv movie special for ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' World possesses the body of a stuffed dog and pretends to help Mac and company. He invites them into his home and gives them cookies dusted with a large amount of powdered sugar. Moments after eating the cookies, [[WhyCantYouSayGoodnight everyone falls asleep due to the "sugar" being sleeping powder.]] What World didn't know about Mac was that he is strictly forbidden from eating any [[BerserkButton sugar]] and that rather than eating some of the cookie he was given, he only pretended to, presumably to avoid showing disrespect.

* In the epilogue to ''[[{{Belgariad}} Polgara The Sorceress]]'', Prince Geran considers stashing his spinach in his pockets for later disposal.

* [[AmericanGirlsCollection Molly]]'s mom tells her about doing this as a child when Molly is being stubborn about not eating her vegetables.

* During the period of alcohol Prohibition in the US (1920-1933), one of the most effective teams of revenue agents (the guys tasked with enforcing Prohibition) was that of Isidore Einstein and Moe Smith ("Izzy and Moe"), who got up to all kinds of hijinks in the course of doing their job. Eventually, word got out that Izzy kept kosher...so the proprietor of the establishment they were investigating undercover tried to get him to eat a ham sandwich. Moe contrived a distraction, allowing Izzy to quietly dispose of the ham and eat the rest of the sandwich, allowing them to make the bust.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Stan develops an eating problem and disposes of food by hiding it in his clothes or in his enormous mouth (he has a huge chin area).

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms'' Milo hates the broccoli his mom makes him eat so he gives it to his cat who then throws it up. Long story short, his mom found out.
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* In ''Film/MarsNeedsMoms'' Milo hates the broccoli his mom makes him eat so he gives it to his cat who then throws it up. Long story short, his mom found out.

* Occurs in the ''{{Seinfeld}}'' episode where Jerry doesn't like the mutton that his girlfriend serves. He spits it into a napkin and puts it in the pocket of his coat.

* In an episode of ''Series/ElleryQueen'', Inspector Queen discreetly pours a cup of Ellery's awful coffee down the sink, and then follows it by pouring the entire pot out. Ellery then attempts to refill his cup from the empty pot and only notices anything is wrong when he takes a sip from his cup and finds it empty.

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* Used in ''{{Rugrats}}'' in the episode where Suzie gets an easy-bake oven and makes...something with it. She gives the things to the babies and they hate it, so they discreetly get rid of it in various ways.

* Stewie tries to pull this in ''FamilyGuy'', but fails when Brian puts the broccoli back on his plate.

* {{Doug}} couldn't tolerate the strict prune diet from his BabysitterFromHell.

* In the thanksgiving episode of ''TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', as the family settles down to dinner, Nicky is seen discarding his vegetables... with Carlton doing the same thing.

* The episode of ''{{Futurama}}'' where Bender became a cook, and the crew does this.

* Calvin of ''CalvinAndHobbes'' would come up with creative ways of getting rid of his dinner; in one strip, he shovels it onto his father's plate when he isn't looking.