History Main / MiningForCookies

* DoubleSubverted in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. [[TheCaligula King Steve]] wants to start drilling for Mana. It's pointed out that you can't actually do that. Only for King Steve to luck out and actually succeed.

* One BadFuture episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimmAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' is a parody of ''{{Literature}}/GodEmperorOfDune'', where Mandy has become an immortal human-worm hybrid GodEmpress in the style of Emperor Leto. She maintains control of the world by keeping control of the spice equivalent, cinnamon. Her empire gets it from cinnamon mines.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' and SpinOff ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'', meat (in the form of sirloin steaks) is both mined and chopped off of monsters. [=WoL=] also has soup wells (presumably from hot springs boiling said meat into stew). While meat is [[WeirdCurrency used as money,]] the soup really is eaten.

* One ''WesternAnimation/USAcres'' segment on ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' had Orson, Roy, and Wade go up to an old mine that their grandfathers had been mining in, which is revealed to contain chocolate.

->'''Gus:''' Finally, all third, fourth and fifth graders will spend a portion of each recess helping to dig a cookie mine at the far end of the playground!
->'''Advisor:''' But why would there be cookies in the ground, your majesty?
->'''Gus:''' Are you contradicting me?!?
->'''Advisor:''' Oh, of course not, your majesty, no!
-->'''Gus''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', "King Gus"

!!Examples

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

[[folder:ComicBooks]]
* The merchandise tie-in comic book ''Air Raiders'' is set in a world where "air is more valuable than gold." Mention is made of "air mines", "air refinerys", and "air farms"...
-->'''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]:''' Which is it, comic? Is air mined or farmed?

[[folder:ComicStrips]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' once built a computer to predict the future, and got back a prediction that within five years all of humanity would be enslaved by evil squirrels in their nut mines.
* [[https://garfield.com/comic/2004/05/19 This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip has Jon casually going to work in the donut mines. Garfield then realizes he's dreaming.

[[folder:Film-Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'': In a scene that has since been cut from the original television airing, Yukon Cornelius tests the ground around Santa's Workshop with his pickaxe and finds an underground peppermint mine. He then reveals that the peppermint is actually what he's been searching for (not silver and gold like he originally thought), which explains why he licks his pickaxe after testing the ground.
-->"Peppermint! What I've been searching for all my life! I've struck it rich! I've got me a peppermint mine! Wahoo!

[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', the Oompa-Loompas are seen mining chunks of chocolate from Cocoa Mountain, a literal mountain of solid chocolate caught in an icy blizzard inside the factory.

[[folder: {{Folklore}}]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacle_mining Treacle mines and treacle wells]] are a common concept in English folklore, and may have inspired Creator/LewisCarroll and Creator/TerryPratchett.

[[folder:{{Literature}}]]
* Seen in ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''

--->"And the moral of that is--'The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.'"

[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
* Invoked on ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. When Penny complains about playing a made-up game, Sheldon counters that "all games are made up. They are not found in nature. No one digs in the ground and finds a rich vein of Rock'em Sock'em Robots."

[[folder:StandUpComedy]]
* In Ken Dodd's comedy routines about the Diddymen of Knotty Ash, the Diddymen worked in a jam butty (sandwich) mine.
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[[folder:VideoGames]]

[[folder:{{Webcomics}}]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Sam tricked a gullible robot into [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00552.htm buying shares in a meat mine]]. Fortunately he paid with 50 kg of diamonds, which Sam presumably hadn't realized yet were worthless on Jean.
--> ''Sam said he knew where several meaty ores had come down, along with a load of pure balonium.''
* One ''WebComic/VGCats'' strip had Leo, mocking {{MMORPG}} players, spout several nonsensical lines including [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=155 "How I mine for fish?"]].

[[folder:WesternAnimation]]

** Much of ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'' revolves around, and takes place in, the "fat mines" of Uberwald. Vimes is sent there to negotiate a trade package for raw fat that has been preserved underground so that Ankh-Morpork can make candles and soap and the like. It's speculated to be either the remains of the titular Fifth Elephant or the result of some cataclysm that buried many shaggy, blubbery megafauna all at once.

->'''Gus''' Are you contradicting me?!?

->Finally, all third, fourth and fifth graders will spend a portion of each recess helping to dig a cookie mine at the far end of the playground!

* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} once built a computer to predict the future, and got back a prediction that within five years all of humanity would be enslaved by evil squirrels in their nut mines.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode ''Operation: P.O.O.L.'', the villain often threatens to send people to work in the broccoli mines.

** In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'' we are shown Fourecks's beer wells

-->'''Linkara:''' Which is it, comic? Is air mined or farmed?

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode ''Operation: P.O.O.L.'', Negative Numbuh 4 often threatens to send people to work in the broccoli mines.

** Discussed when Alice asks if mustard is a mineral, the Duchess says that it is and that there's a mustard mine nearby. Upon hearing this, Alice realises that it actually isn't a mineral and tries to correct the Duchess but she doesn't listen.

* There's a number mine in ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth''. (Words, on the other hand, [[GrowsOnTrees grow on trees]].)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: P.O.O.L.", Negative Numbuh 4 often threatens to send people to work in the broccoli mines.

** At the end of the "Oily Hare" short, a Texas oilman dynamites Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole in hopes of an oil gusher. But instead, it ends up ''gushing'' carrots, obviously to Bugs' delight.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'', the home planet of the villain Overcat possessed "milk wells" which were similar to oil wells. His episode is kicked off when the milk wells begin to run dry and he first steals Earth's supply of milking cows and then [[DistressedDamsel Sweet Polly Purebred]] to act as milkmaid.

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** In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'' we are shown Fourecks's beer wells

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode ''Operation: P.O.O.L.'', Negative Numbuh 4 often threatens to send people to work in the broccoli mines.

** At the end of the "Oily Hare" short, a Texas oilman dynamites Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole in hopes of an oil gusher. But instead it ends up ''gushing'' carrots, obviously to Bugs' delight.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'', the home planet of the villain Overcat possessed "milk wells" which were similar to oil wells. His episode is kicked off when the milk wells begin to run dry and he first steals Earth's supply of milking cows and then [[DistressedDamsel Sweet Polly Purebred]] to act as milk maid.

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!!Indexes: ComedyTropes, TheGroundBeneathOurFeet

* [[https://garfield.com/comic/2004/05/19 this]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip sees Jon going to work in the donut mines. Garfield then realizes he's dreaming.

[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mustard_mine.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:It also contains veins of mayonnaise, ketchup and hot sauce.]]

This draft will be taken by ElBuenCuate.
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[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mustard_mine.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:It also contains veins of mayonnaise, ketchup and hot sauce.]]