History Main / MiningForCookies

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

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

* A side quest in VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel in [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind The Claptastic Voyage]] DLC called "Chip's Data Mining Adventure" has [[PlayerCharacter the Vault Hunter]] going through a mine shaft and mining for embarrassing data relating to Claptrap.

* One BadFuture episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' 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 instead of... you know... growing cinnamon trees.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' episode "Journey to the Center of the Nursery" has an ImagineSpot where the Muppet Babies were forced to work in "the pepper mills," a parody of a salt mine with walls of rock pepper that makes the kids all [[PepperSneeze sneeze]] uncontrollably when they try to mine into them.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Mustard O' Mine" is about [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, and Squidward going to the Mustard Mines to get more mustard for the Krusty Krab. Other condiments, like mayonnaise, ketchup, and hot sauce are found in the mine as well.

* The ''MuppetBabies1984'' episode "Journey to the Center of the Nursery" has an ImagineSpot where the Muppet Babies were forced to work in "the pepper mills," a parody of a salt mine with walls of rock pepper that makes the kids all [[PepperSneeze sneeze]] uncontrollably when they try to mine into them.

* [[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.

* ''VideoGame/JamesPond 3: Operation [=StarFI5H=]'' is about Dr. Maybe mining [[CheesyMoon cheese from the moon]]. The whole moon is made of not ''just'' cheese, but [[LevelAte other diary products too]], but Dr. Maybe wants to mine specific, valuable cheese. The "Cheese Mine" levels are destroyed when James Pond clears them, which creates a PermanentlyMissableContent situation in one level with a [[SecretLevel Micro-Map]].

* Similar to the Spaghetti Hoax above, an NPR economics correspondent once filed a story on cheese mining. It was set at the Lombardi Cheese Mine in Wisconsin, and the Parmesan Mine in Italy. The reporter quoted one miner: "People just have crazy ideas. Some people think cheese comes from cows! There's only one way to get cheese, and that's to dig it out of the ground." The date of the report was April 1.

* The infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax Spaghetti Tree Hoax]], pulled by Creator/TheBBC news TV show ''Panorama'' in 1957. April 1, 1957, of course. The program depicted spaghetti growing on trees and being harvested. Some viewers wrote in seeking advice on growing their own spaghetti bushes.

* A side quest in VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel in [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind The Claptastic Voyage]] DLC called "Chip's Data Mining Adventure" has [[PlayerCharacter the Vault Hunter]] going through a mine shaft and mining for incriminating data relating to Claptrap.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' and SpinOff ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'', meat (in the form of sirloin steaks) is both mined and chopped off of monsters. [=KoL] players can also dig up things like cardboard, bubble wrap, and Velcro ore. [=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.

* 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.

* In ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'', several varieties of candy, including chocolate, jam, candy canes, and rock candy, are mined for in the Candy Cane Caves. Once it's mined, chocolate is then taken to the Chocolate Refinery because even though this is a crazy magical world, it's still been underground.

* An NPR economics correspondent once filed a story on cheese mining, set at the Lombardi Cheese Mine in Wisconsin and the Parmesan Mine in Italy. The reporter quoted one miner: "People just have crazy ideas. Some people think cheese comes from cows! There's only one way to get cheese, and that's to dig it out of the ground." The date of the report was April 1.

A ComedyTrope in which an off-beat setting includes mines, wells or springs for substances that do not actually occur naturally in the Earth's crust (but that do exist; {{Unobtanium}} mines don't count. Neither do mines that are named after something abnormal, but are still normal mineral mines.). Foodstuffs are particularly common.

Mining seems to be a bit romanticized in fiction, from the idea of being able to strike it rich with one lucky stroke, to the horror of thinking that you might have to stay the rest of your life inside a mine working for an evil overlord. Since mining seems to be so interesting, any resource the characters need will be mined from the ground. ANY RESOURCE.

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

** We see a treacle well in the book.

Mining seems to be a bit romanticized in fiction, from the idea of being able to strike it rich with one lucky stroke, to the horror of thinking that you might have to stay the rest of your life inside a mine working for an evil overlord. Since mining seems to be so interesting, any resource the characters need will be mined from the ground, ANY RESOURCE.

* One BadFuture episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' 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.