History Main / EatTheEvidence

* In the Spielberg/Zemeckis movie ''1941'', the lost Japanese sailors capture an American merchant. When they discover a small compass among his merchandise, and when he notices they are very much interested in that compass, he eats it immediately.
** The compass was the toy in a Cracker Jack box. The Japanese then force a laxative down his throat. Lucky for him they were too nice to just cut him open for it.

* In a series of ''{{Peanuts}}'' strips, Snoopy imagines himself to be a spy, and steals Sally's report which he thinks to be a secret document. When Sally catches him, he eats the paper, much to her anger.
** [[StealthPun The dog really did eat her homework?]]

** [[{{Friends}} Joey, everybody knows what you mean.]]

** [[NoodleIncident I do get the feeling this is a far more interesting story than the one you're telling us.]]

* At various South African diamond mines there used to be(and probably still are)an X-ray machine through which all workers have to pass on leaving to ensure that they did not seek an unofficial bonus to their paycheck.

*** [[spoiler: This is {{NoOneShouldSurviveThat Feeny}} we're talking about, of course it's not a problem]]

* ''Fried Green Tomatoes'': "The secret's in the sauce."

* In the first case of "Trials and Tribulations" ''PhoenixWright'' eats [[spoiler: a small glass bottle with poison that his girlfriend used to poison an attorney. He also ate the large gold necklace it was attached to. It was too big to swallow, so he chewed it up into pieces first.]]

* Subverted in an episode of [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]], when Garak is leaving the station for a prolonged period of time, and he decides to toy with his friend, Doctor Bashir [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2q2ySAOyqo]]:

* When a car full of college kids gets pulled over in ''Super Troopers'', one of them is forced to eat a bag of pot before the cops get close enough to see it. And then a bag of shrooms... The one tasked with eating it all was very reluctant, but the guy the drugs belonged to still insisted the eater pay him back after the fact.

* In KaraNoKyoukai, when [[BigBad Araya Souren]] asks how Lio Shirazumi will hide the body of his first murder, he responds by EATING THE BODY IN '''THREE HOURS'''.

** [[{{Friends}}Joey, everybody knows what you mean.]]

* And then there's the 1980s movie (and the subsequent musical adaptation) ''Eating Raoul'', which really needs no explanation beyond what's offered by the title.

* In ''PeepShow'', Jez runs over the dog which belongs to a woman who has expressed an interest in Mark. Rather than admit it, which would ruin Mark's chances of getting a job with her father, they try to burn it, only to find dog doesn't burn well. When caught the love interest, they claim it's barbecued turkey, and eat it to prove it. Unfortunately, they can't eat the metal dog tag, which gives it away.

** THe paper was thought up by Jasper Maskenlyne, a famous magician who would create dozens of gadgets for the Brittish including a special boot issued to commandos that contained a compass, a little map, and a garrote wire. Apparently bedrolls made of similar paper were also used, they were soaked in vegetable oil to make them water proof, and as an added bonus made them taste better if you had to eat them.

* Played with in the {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'': The regiments encounters some spies, one of whom tries to eat the code book to destroy it. It turns out the codebook was poisoned, so that by eating it not only would the code book be kept out of enemy hands, but so would the spy.

* The excellent German short film ''{{Schwarzfahrer}}'' has an extremely racist old lady sitting next to a black guy on a tram. She goes on and on about how horrible blacks and others are ("...They should at least have their names changed when they come over here, or else you can't tell them apart ''at all''. What's more, they smell awful. But there is no law against ''that''!"). When the conductor comes to check tickets, the black man reaches over and eats hers. She's hysterical when the conductor arrives ("That nigger just ate my tickets"), and [[CryingWolf he naturally doesn't believe]] her obviously racist story ("That's the stupidest excuse I have ever heard!"), so he takes her off the tram. None of the other passengers, who were silently listening to her antics, intervenes.