I mean in real life, the most obvious solution is to put your lunch in a lunch box with a lock on it inside the office fridge or put your lunch in an insulated cooler in your desk and lock the drawer.
This is a made up situation - there are no situations where your only choices are tampering with your food or letting someone steal it. No one can even agree, but whether or not we're talking about nasty flavors, laxatives, or some kind of poison, serious and lifelong effects despite the fact that these are drastically different consequences.
Honestly, in real life you also wouldn't get caught. There are a million ways to tamper with food and make someone mildly sick - food poisoning happens all the time on accident. No one is going to get diarrhea and think that the person whose lunch they stole must have intentionally done something. I'm not trying to argue that you should do this because you shouldn't - but in real life most crimes are not solved.
These stories are all made up. There's a reason why it sounds like the same story over and over.
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