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A character, coming across some unknown substance, will sometimes smell it with a puzzled expression, then hesitantly taste it. It is almost always something that most people would definitely not want to put into their mouths, but the character somehow decides that this is the best way to determine what it is, sometimes because they might be wondering "Is It Something You Eat?". This isn't smart; to test whether a substance is fit to eat, one starts by rubbing it on the arm and waiting an hour to see if it causes a rash, then putting a bit on the tongue without swallowing to see if numbness or swelling occurs. A character who blithely eats something potentially dangerous may have the Idiot Ball, or just be an idiot. May lead to It Tastes Like Feet, Tastes Like Chicken, Tastes Like Purple or I Ate WHAT?! Fingertip Drug Analysis and The Ketchup Test are subtropes. Tasty Gold is closely related, although in that case it's texture that's being tested. |
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Sherlock apparently knows what mercury tastes like, which comes in useful in "The Reichenbach Fall". He does do a lot of experiments. | |
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Adventure Time: In one episode, Finn tries to show Susan Strong how to toast marshmallows. Susan tosses away the marshmallow and gnaws at the stick. In "The Pods", when the final pod starts leaking brown fluid, Jake touches it and licks his finger. |
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has Napoleon Solo doing this five minutes into the first episode, confirming that the substance found is magnesium thermite. | |
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In π, Max tastes a suspicious melted computer part. | |
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House: House has cheerfully tasted a homeless woman's old vomit in order to diagnose her. He snacks on homemade tomato sauce, currently being tested for botulism. He forces a guy in an Antarctic research station to taste a woman's urine in order to test it to determine what's causing the Patient of the Week's unconsciousness. (Truth in Television, as taste-testing of human urine was done by Real Life physicians before chemical assays for glucose and other substances were developed. Diabetes mellitus got its name because it makes a person's urine taste sweet.) |
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When the MythBusters tested the "liferaft parachute" scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, they took some time to dig through everything in the life raft's survival kit. Grant poked a hole in a bottle of green liquid, sniffed, then took a sip. | |
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Walter has a habit of doing this on Fringe. Subverted in that he often knows what it is (for example, some food he's left lying around the lab or gotten on his clothing) or at least knows it isn't what the other characters think it is (as when he waits until after tasting the contents of an urn to point out that he knows it isn't human cremains - presumably because of the color and because it was actually ashes, while cremains technically aren't). | |
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This also occurs with Ryuuko in Cellar Secrets, however, unlike Reimu, she gets a more of a pass on it, as, due to having been locked away in a cellar since she was in her formative years and being a currently rehabilitated Feral Child, she hadn't had much a chance to learn how not to identify objects this way. According to chapter eight, she categorizes things this way by grouping things as edible and inedible based on what they taste or feel like. | |
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In the Coneheads movie, Beldar sniffs and eats the miniature soap as he and his wife stay at a motel during their first visit on Earth. | |
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Most of the dishes cooked by Tino's mom on The Weekenders get this treatment. | |
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In Yokoka's Quest, Yokoka sniffs and licks mud off her hand in a Q&A strip, thinking it might be chocolate. She then does exactly the same again with the mud on her other hand. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin occasionally does this with his mom's cooking. | |
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Supernatural. In "Southern Comfort", Garth steps in some sticky green goo which he tastes to identify it as ghost ectoplasm, to the visible distaste of the Winchesters. | |
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The sketch was redone on The Muppet Show, replacing Not-Quite-Kermit with Lenny the Lizard. It can be seen here. | |
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A gag in Young Doctors in Love involves one character pretending to analyse urine by tasting it. Another character ends up tasting it for real. | |
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In Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, this is parodied when Beth and Greg find a pile of toxic waste with a Sickly Green Glow. Greg dips two fingers in and dabs it on his tongue to taste it. He confirms it's nuclear waste then tastes it again to reconfirm. He then takes out a spoon to try some more. Finally, they leave the puddle to notify the camp, but not before Greg has another spoonful of the goo. | |
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In the pilot of Red Dwarf, Dave Lister keeps licking and eating the white powder that is all over the ship. Pity he's that Dave. He's rather disturbed to learn that the powder is the remains of the rest of the crew. | |
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The X-Files: Considering that Fingertip Drug Analysis is Agent Mulder's favourite investigative technique, it's almost inevitable that he would do this from time to time. For instance, he smells and then has a lick of poisonous digitalis in the episode "Eve". In "Revelations", Scully can smell flowers while performing an autopsy. She recalls that accounts of miracles involved flowery scents, and she asks Mulder to smell Mr. Owen. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: As part of 5th Edition's simplification of Unknown Item Identification, any character can identify a Magic Potion's effects with "a little taste". | |
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On Farscape, Chiana happily chomped on a tube of lipstick while experimenting with cosmetics. ("A Constellation of Doubt") | |
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In The Sims 2: Castaway the only way to identify whether unknown plants are edible is to have your Sims eat them and see if they throw up. This includes toxic plants like manchineel fruit, which in Real Life are so poisonous that their sap can burn skin. | |
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Quick Draw McGraw: In "Dynamite Fright," Quick Draw does this to a stick of dynamite. | |
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Sokka from Avatar: The Last Airbender does this to the slime/honey? covered walls of a cave. | |
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On Oz and James Drink To Britain, James May does this with a puddle of something that has leaked from the wheel well of the mobile brewery (a.k.a. caravan) he and Oz are traversing Britain in. The puddle turns out to be James' own homebrew beer. | |
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In the first episode of Gargoyles, while locked up in the rookery with Brooklyn, Lexington, and Bronx, Broadway does a textbook example to some slime he finds. His brothers are understandably disgusted and concerned (that he might eat them). | |
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Done constantly by Hareta in the Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga, because he was Raised by Wolves. Things that have been in his mouth include Poké Balls, Badges and a Galactic Grunt's ass. | |
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The exterminator from the movie MouseHunt does this with mouse droppings. He can tell a disturbing amount about the mouse from this... | |
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In episode 105 of Kaeloo, Kaeloo notices a white liquid on the floor. She dips her finger into it and licks it, and realizes that it is yogurt. | |
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Laci Green rolled out a Birth Control video, and the results might astonish you. | |
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In the Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days episode "The Tragedy of L," Captain Gotoh tastes a sample of what appears to be blood (but isn't). This horrifies everyone else. Captain Britten is the butt of a similar joke in the animated version of Dominion Tank Police. After his first taste he assumes it to be blood plasma; Lovelock is forced to tell him that it's urine. |
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Murdoch Mysteries: Only the Sniff-sniff part happens with various coroners who examine organs while performing an autopsy. It appears it was a standard thing to do and sometimes the smell helps to crack the case. Sometimes even the Nom-part occurs. Dr. Ogden's sister Ruby is visibly disturbed when she watches her sister do it, who tells her she shouldn't be such a mouse. Dr. Grace hands Constable Crabtree a sample of substance from a dead body. He looks at it, sniffs it and then tastes it. He comments that is looks like soot, smells like soot and tastes like soot. Dr. Grace is surprised that he's in the habit of tasting soot, and George tells her he used to clean his aunt's chimney and was once destined to do so for a living. Murdoch tastes the contents of a dynamite stick used to stage a train robbery and says, "Flour." |
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Red vs. Blue: In season 14's "The 'Mission'", after finding the base on the ice planet, Iowa licked it to check that it was real and not a hallucination. | |
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Used in the BattleTech novel Impetus of War, where Loren Jaffray finds an old, abandoned pump station covered in a mysterious white substance with no other way to identify it. Turns out to be nothing more than a large amount of spilled, stale baking flour...which ends up being exactly what he wants (he also had intel on the building that had informed him that it had been used to store flour and was double-checking, not just randomly tasting something he'd found). This is because he wants to set up a building-sized dust bomb, very similar to what happens in a grain silo explosion, to use against their Clan enemies, who won't see it coming because they hold to Honor Before Reason. | |
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Humorously inverted in the last episode of Fraggle Rock. Upon finally discovering the existence of Fraggles, Doc had been attempting to lure Gobo out with some food, including some pizza, a donut, and even some dog biscuits. Gobo would often take them undetected, but instead of eating them, he and the other Fraggles had been using them as decorative pieces. | |
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In Disney's Tarzan, Tarzan, investigating a shotgun casing, picks it up, sniffs it, then licks it. Apparently the taste was unpleasant. | |
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Neko in Project K Return of Kings chomps on a bird and comments "I can't eat it." | |
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In The Elder Scrolls, you can eat alchemy ingredients to figure out what they do, inflicting a weakened version of that effect on you in the process. | |
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The B-movie The Stuff begins with this trope: a miner, walking out in the woods at night, stumbles upon a mysterious white fluffy substance on the ground. Guess what? It's delicious! | |
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, young Willy Wonka seems willing to taste anything as a potential candy ingredient, including mashed caterpillars and the green goo left on his machete after cutting a giant mosquito in half. | |
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Big City Greens: In "Green Greens", Bill uses this method when he sees his kale plants wilting and detects amounts of plastic, before discovering it's the result of Cricket burying trash in the garden. | |
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Futurama: In the episode "Leela's Homeworld," Hermes Conrad uses this to determine whether the bright green waste product being generated by the Professor's latest invention is toxic waste. In the episode "A Flight to Remember" the guy Amy's parents try to set her up with does this with the lobster bisque. He's not trying to figure out what it is; he's just gross. |
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Fraser does this in Due South. In the pilot, Fraser apparently tastes some mud in a witness' garden before confronting her about harbouring a criminal. Vecchio concocts an elaborate theory about how the crucial information might have been gathered from the mud, before Fraser reveals that it was all just a bluff to make the witness think he knew something he was in fact guessing. Did he really put mud in his mouth? It depends on one's interpretation of just how far Fraser is willing to go for a convincing deception. Fraser also sniffs dog urine and baby vomit in two different episodes. |
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In the Studio C sketch "Couchville", Matt is digging around under his couch cushions and gets his fingers coated in an unknown pinkish substance. He reacts with disgust after taking a sniff and a tentative lick, but finding nowhere to wipe off his hand, he sticks his fingers in his mouth and slurps it. | |
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In Baroque, you identify certain unidentified items (such as Bones, Flesh, and Hearts) by biting them. This can have potentially disastrous results, such as when the unidentified item turns out to be a Boom Bone. | |
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In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Genghis Khan sniffs and tries to take a bite out of a baseball bat. When he realizes the bat is inedible, he tests its use as a weapon. | |
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In the sci-fi comedy Paul, a Man in Black hot on the trail of an escaped extraterrestrial searches for clues at the scene of a car wreck and comes across a puddle of unidentified liquid. In closeup, we see the agent's hand dab a sample of the stuff and lift it off screen. After a beat, he sputters and violently spits it out. It turns out one of the protagonists lost control of his bladder upon seeing the alien. | |
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In 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the Palaeolithic prehumans wake up to find a totally alien monolith outside their cave, they are completely freaked. It relentlessly sits there as they slowly grow bolder and start checking it out, including a few sniffs and a quick nibble to see if it's edible. | |
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In an odd moment in The Bobo, Juan (Peter Sellers) grudgingly takes Olimpia (Britt Ekland) to a posh, dignified fur salon. When a server comes by with a silver tray of tea and wafers, Juan makes an undignified grab for a fistful of wafers. Everyone freezes, and, acknowledging the gaffe, he slowly draws them to his nose and sniffs them suspiciously before taking a bite. | |
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Gensokyo 20XX: Due to being near blind from the rat poison incident, Reimu has a habit of putting things in her mouth to see if they are edible or not. Ironically, this is what caused her to eat the rat poison that left her near blind in the first place, along with Curiosity Killed the Cast and Curiosity Is a Crapshoot, along with being an Extreme Omnivore. This also occurs with Ryuuko in Cellar Secrets, however, unlike Reimu, she gets a more of a pass on it, as, due to having been locked away in a cellar since she was in her formative years and being a currently rehabilitated Feral Child, she hadn't had much a chance to learn how not to identify objects this way. According to chapter eight, she categorizes things this way by grouping things as edible and inedible based on what they taste or feel like. |
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Doctor Who: Ten is fond of this. He's even licked a piece of Dalek tissue. He analyses a a blood sample in "The Christmas Invasion", his very first episode, by sticking his tongue in it. Eleven determines the age of a shed by licking the wall. The Second and Fifth Doctors also do this occasionally. Thirteen is fond of this as well. She eats some dirt to determine her location, time period, and the location of a nearby Alpaca farm (and its Tripadvisor rating, but that may have just been the Obfuscating Insanity talking). She also both squicks and intrigues Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont when she does a taste analysis on a crushed skeleton hand to determine its century of origin. Then she sniffs a man's coat to determine that they've arrived in Devon in 1949. The sniffee indignantly points out that it's 1967 (he's had the coat for a while). It must be a Time Lord thing, as Romana once used the same technique to identify concrete. |
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CSI: Gil Grissom does this to a human bone. It's actually a rock, which he can tell by it not sticking to his tongue like a porous bone would. Still pretty nasty. In "Crime After Crime" the coroner detects PCP by smelling an organ of the deceased (not tasting it, though). |
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Captain Britten is the butt of a similar joke in the animated version of Dominion Tank Police. After his first taste he assumes it to be blood plasma; Lovelock is forced to tell him that it's urine. | |
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In Mole's first appearance in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, he plucks a speck of dirt from beneath Milo's fingernails and, through a combination of microscope analysis and licking it, quickly determines Milo to be a linguist. | |
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Star Wars Legends: On an unfamiliar planet, faced with a dish full of eight-legged insectoid things in pink sauce, Zak Arranda from Galaxy of Fear dips a finger in and tastes it to determine if it's as foul as he initially thought, then tucks in enthusiastically. It's a caution he'd do well to have remembered later in the series, when he tries a normal-looking puff pastry, made for fishlike Mon Calamari, and realizes it's full of tiny live crabs. | |
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Jubal Early, the bounty hunter in the final episode of Firefly, sniffs and then licks part of the railing support on the stairway to the cargo bay of a spacefaring equivalent of a rusty old tramp steamer. | |
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In Spaceballs, Lone Star jams Spaceball 1's radar in order to rescue Princess Vespa. The radar screen on the bridge starts dripping a viscous red substance, which Dark Helmet samples and tastes on his fingertip: "Raspberry! Only one man would dare give me the raspberry: Lone Star!" | |
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In Mass Effect: Andromeda, science officer Suvi Anwar does the lick test on an alien rock out of habit, forgetting that this is a very bad idea in a star cluster that has been royally messed up by both a dangerous dark energy phenomenon and a malfunctioning terraforming network. Fortunately she doesn't suffer any long term effects. | |
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In the video "Troy Shaves His Face," by YouTuber troyhasacamera, creator of Marble Hornets, Troy takes the shaving cream, sniffs the brush, tastes it, and proceeds to cover his whole face in it. In a bloopers tape posted on his Facebook profile, while first tasting the shaving cream, he almost pukes. | |
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In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the T-X picks up a bloody gauze and uses her tongue to do a DNA sampling. To a hidden Kate Brewster, it just looks like some random blonde woman who likes to chew medical waste. | |
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Ratatouille: Remy's job in the rat pack is detecting any poison in food that is found. | |
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In The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Lord Garmadon follows the ninjas through the jungle by licking the dirt with their tracks. | |
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Jim Ellison does this in The Sentinel. Justified due to his heightened perception. | |
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J-Men Forever just has the sniff version. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "The Inconveniencing" they break into an abandoned convenience store and Mabel examines some dust by licking it off her finger. | |
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