History Main / TheFoodPoisoningIncident

* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': Kazai accidentally poisons the gang by tossing a partially eaten heartbreak fruit into a their soup cauldron, unaware that heartbreak fruit are only safe to eat raw and become toxic when cooked. Luckily the effects are more embarrassing than dangerous.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation:'' [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-666-and-a-half-j SCP-666½-J]] is an [[LethalChef apocalyptically bad]] crab-stuffed mushroom entreé whose discovery as an SCP was one of these, and still unleashes multiple, serial and localized apocalypses on the digestive system of anyone that eats them. The victims went through so much pain that the cooking staff had to be put into protective custody so the unfortunate people who ate it wouldn't try to murder them.

Someone eats bad food and doesn't know it. The chicken was old. The fridge failed and the egg salad sandwiches went off. The cook used dirty utensils. Or sometimes, they just think they ate bad food and panic. Occasionally, are horrified that they fed their family bad food. Once in a while, it will be seemingly RippedFromTheHeadlines (the ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' example came not long after a botulism scare on the east coast). If you have a LethalChef in your cast, count on at least one scene like this to happen during the course of the work.

Someone eats bad food and doesn't know it. The meat was old. The fridge failed and the egg salad sandwiches went off. The cook used dirty utensils. Or sometimes, they just think they ate bad food and panic. Occasionally, are horrified that they fed their family bad food. Once in a while, it will be seemingly RippedFromTheHeadlines (the ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' example came not long after a botulism scare on the east coast). If you have a LethalChef in your cast, count on at least one scene like this to happen during the course of the work.

Someone eats bad food and doesn't know it. Sometimes, they think they ate bad food and panic. Occasionally, are horrified that they fed their family bad food. Once in a while, it will be seemingly RippedFromTheHeadlines (the ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' example came not long after a botulism scare on the east coast). If you have a LethalChef in your cast, count on at least one scene like this to happen during the course of the work.

* On track 4 of Music/SuperGhostbusters, "Ghost-Boster", the singer gets food poisoning. [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry That makes him angry]]. He then calls the Ghostbusters as he believes it's caused by [=McDonald's=] putting a ghost in the burger.

** In "[[http://audreys-efanfic.freeservers.com/goodgravy.html Good Gravy]]'' , Chet gets everyone, including himself, sick when he uses mushrooms from his neighbor's yard in the Thanksgiving gravy.

** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12930880/1/Lucy-s-Secret Lucy's Secret]]'', Lucy tells a lie that Haiku and her sister had food poisoning and threw up on the carpet.

** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12718801/1/Bake-a-Load-Off Bake a Load Off]]'', Lucy gets food poisoning after eating a burnt brownie.

** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11371216/1/No-and-Uh-Huh No and Uh-Huh]]'', Tommy says, "No" for the first time when [[AppetiteEqualsHealth refusing food]] due to "food poisons".
** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12029318/1/The-New-Neighbor The New Neighbour]]'', Tommy has the poops and is throwing up. Kira wonders if it's food poisoning from the food she was giving him, but Didi suspects that he caught a virus from Dil, who had been showing similar symptoms.

* ''Series/TheWorstWitch'': Faked in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8325352/1/PMS-Potions PMS Potions]]'', where the girls are sneaking around and [[BathroomSearchExcuse pretend they were in the bathroom]] because they have food poisoning from the cheese the cook put on pizza.

* ''Film/PleaseGive'': It remains ambiguous if the elderly woman [[spoiler: dies at the end from drinking tainted juice]]

* On the season 6 finale of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Lily gets sick after eating soup, and Marshall, who had eaten the same soup, prepares for the inevitable effects to kick in, just as he's interviewing for his dream job. In the end [[spoiler: nothing happens to Marshall, and it turns out it wasn't the soup that made Lily sick; she was pregnant.]]

* ''Series/WhatsHappening'' Rerun thinks he has gotten food poisoning from bad beef at Rob's. Dee explains later that [[spoiler: it is actually appendicitis, and that Rerun had to get surgery]]

* In the ''Literature/BookOfExodus'', the Israelites [[JewishComplaining complained]] that all they've had to eat lately is manna. {{God}} decrees that they'll get the meat they desire, but [[VomitIndiscretionShot it will come out their nostrils]], and they'll get sick of it, as punishment for their whining and insolence. They find quail, just waiting for them, and (just as {{God}} had said) everyone who ate the quail meat got sick. ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane It isn't known if]] it was ''actually'' a MysticalPlague, or just an account of run-of-the-mill food poisoning, which would have happened ''very'' easily in a camp full of people, in a hot desert climate ''easily'' conducive to food spoilage, with no refrigeration and very limited alternative means of food preservation, no antibiotics, no modern cooking practices, no modern sanitation practices, and no germ theory. Or an account of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coturnism coturnism]].)

* One minor quest in ''VideoGame/{{Eastshade}}'' involves tracking down and warning four recent customers of Tam, a grocer who'd accidentally sold toxic tubers in place of zucchini. [[spoiler: Only one customer is found too late, already suffering from terrible discomfort.]]

* A rather [[PlayedForDrama upsetting example]] occurs in this ''Website/GoAnimate'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbg7gzmHPU video]], WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} is tricked into eating some green strawberries, needless to say, he turns out to be allergic to the green strawberries and he [[TearJerker/GoAnimate ends up dying as a result of eating them.]]

** Inverted in "Dying For Pie", where [=SpongeBob=] is thought to have unknowingly eaten a deadly pie, which will end his life at sunset. Squidward, responsible for bringing a pie-shaped bomb to Spongebob, feels guilty enough to spend the rest of the day doing anything [=SpongeBob=] wants. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that [=SpongeBob=] never ate the bomb-pie, but rather a different pie. He saved the bomb, which he promptly trips and thus throws into Squidward's face, producing a nuclear blast.]]

** In one episode, Rom claims that he once ate some bacon which didn't agree with him.

* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': Kazai accidentally poisons the gang by tossing a partially eaten heartbreak fruit into a their soup cauldron, unaware that heartbreak fruit are only safe to eat raw and become toxic when cooked.

** A more straightforward example is when Mr. Krabs sells spoiled Krabby Patties that have turned yellow and spongy as an attempt to cash in on [=SpongeBob=]'s popularity.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13163926/14/False-Pretences False Pretences]]'' Pansy uses her shark Animagus form to save Harry and a seventh-year student from some killer fish.
-->'''Harry:''' Well, at least try not to eat them. I bet they'd mess up your stomach worse than those prawn cocktail crisps we ate last month!

* In Stephen Manes' ''Chicken Trek'' Oscar and his inventor cousin are competing in a coast-to-coast chicken-eating contest. They and fellow competitor Madame Gulbenkian stop at a supposedly-competing restaurant which offers them some dubious-looking (and smelling) chicken. After Madame Gulbenkian wolfs hers down and then collapses while clutching her stomach, it's revealed that the restaurant lost its franchise status for good reason and that trips to the emergency room by customers happen "all the time".

* In Stephen Manes' ''Chicken Trek'' Oscar and his inventor cousin are competing in a coast-to-coast chicken-eating contest. They and fellow competitor Madame Gulbenkian stop at a supposedly-competing restaurant which offers them some dubious-looking (and smelling) chicken. After Madame Gulbenkian wolfs hers down and then collapses while clutching her stomach, it's revealed that the restaurant lost its franchise for good reason and that trips to the emergency room by customers happen "all the time".

* In Stephen Manes' ''Chicken Trek'' Oscar and his inventor cousin are competing in a coast-to-coast chicken-eating contest. They and fellow competitor Madame Gulbenkian stop at a supposedly-competing restaurant which offers them some dubious-looking (and smelling) chicken. After Madame Gulbenkian wolfs hers down and then collapses while clutching her stomach, it's revealed that the restaurant lost its franchise for good reason and that trips to the emergency room by customers happen "all the time".

* ''Literature/AuntDimity and the Family Tree'' has her father-in-law's housewarming party disrupted by eleventh-hour food poisoning at the caterer's firm; the narrator enlist help from the community to come up with the food.

* In ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', Moe Mortelli has a stint in the bathroom after the protagonist secretly spreads raw chicken gre on his toast so he can break into the detective's office.

* In one ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' you have to poison a bunch of {{PlagueDoctor}}s by putting a rotten apple into their soup. It later turns out that the plague they are supposedly fighting is a hoax and they have been doing the same thing to the population of the city so that they can take the people as slaves under the guise of taking them for medical treatment for the plague and then claim that they died when they don't come back.

* In ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', Moe Mortelli has a stint in the bathroom after the protagonist secretly spreads raw chicken grease on his toast so he can break into the detective's office.

** A milder example is "Pretty Patties", in which [=SpongeBob=] sells colored patties. The people who eat them don't get sick exactly, but their tongues do turn the same color (or pattern) as the patties they ate.