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17->''"Good food is like music you can taste, color you can smell! There is excellence all around you. You need only be aware to stop and savor it."''
18-->-- '''Chef Auguste Gusteau''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''
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20'''Food porn is two things:'''
21* Food artfully portrayed in close-up, high resolution, well-lit photography reminiscent of the way one would show a model in [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} porn]]; and/or
22* Food given exceptional focus in any manner which causes the audience to drool over it and lust for it as if it were porn.
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24The second has probably existed forever, but the first is a trope primarily popularized by the modern CookingShow, cooking magazines , cooking books, advertising, and other visual media where the food is the main focus. In visual media, the presentation goes beyond {{edutainment}} or straightforward depictions of the food and tantalizes the viewer with careful close-up shots of artfully arranged dishes or the pristine appearance of their raw ingredients, choreographed action shots of its preparation and accompanying moans of pleasure produced by the people eating them. In written media, the same can be accomplished by writing at great length with poetic, descriptive prose about the food in a similar manner.
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26The production of professional, high-octane food porn is an involved process. [[http://www.harpers.org/archive/2005/10/0080776 These]] [[http://skinnygourmet.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-is-food-porn.html articles]] go into detail of the technique and principles. The camera operators borrow a lot of techniques from the conventions of actual porn: "pornographic gaze", extreme close-ups with shallow DepthOfField, careful cropping and lighting, [[GaussianGirl soft focus]], even shapes and arrangement [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything vaguely resembling parts of anatomy]]. EroticEating isn't this trope, but may be employed in it. The fact that the perfect food presented to the camera will be unobtainable to most people only adds to the porn appeal. Like real porn, there are also thousands of amateur examples, as plugging the term into a Flickr search will quickly illustrate.
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28Alas, as in real porn, many of these orgasmic delights are [[FakeFood photo shopped or faked some other way]]. This is ''especially'' true in commercials,[[note]]though by law they have to show the actual food being sold; the cereal may be real but the milk is white glue, the lettuce in the burger is protected by a hidden piece of cardboard...[[/note]] but it is also necessary: under hot studio lights, frozen foods will melt, hot foods go cold, cereal gets soggy, veggies wilt. Cooking shows, cookbooks and food magazines, on the other hand, will generally show you the real deal, even though it has been gone over by a stylist to look as good as it can. If you've ever puzzled over the term "food stylist" in credits, that's what this person does.
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30While food porn may be [[TheHedonist decadent]], exotic or [[SevenDeadlySins sinful]], food porn by itself isn't NotSafeForWork (Not Safe For Diets, on the other hand...), and doesn't involve sex. This is not to say it can't be ''combined'' or used in ways with actual sex appeal. Also no relation to [[LovePotion aphrodisiacs]].
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32But on the other hand, Rule34 would give the term "food porn" a more... literal meaning.
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34May happen when eating something prepared by a SupremeChef. Compare ImpossiblyDeliciousFood, EroticEating (where the act of eating the food is a blatant VisualInnuendo), DeliciousDistraction or OrgasmicallyDelicious (InUniverse versions), NutritionalNightmare (where you take unhealthy foods and make them even more unhealthy). See also CostumePorn and SceneryPorn.
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36Contrast NauseaFuel and PovertyFood.
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38You might have confused this trope for EroticEating.
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41!!Examples:
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45[[folder:Advertising]]
46* The entire premise of dining advertisement is to make the diners want to go out and order the food being sold. Equating food with sex by having attractive individuals eating the food is one thing, but most food ads will pornograph the food itself on top of that. To achieve this end, commercial advertisements will make sure that:
47** The food is viewed from angles which make its portions appear larger than they truly are.
48** Certain foods (like ice cream) that cannot keep long enough to take the perfect shot are often passed over in favor of longer-lasting substitutes.
49** Only the best takes make it in. A cook could burn 99 burgers and make 1 perfect one. Guess which one appears in the commercial?
50** Actors that consume food for commercials may appear to enjoy it on camera, but spit it out afterward. This is because they must do several takes. For the same reason that many actors do not drink unless they spit, or smoke unless they don't inhale, they can't eat too much fatty food lest it interfere with their acting abilities.
51%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpCqa0Rx0Yk This McDonald's Ad]] qualifies.
52%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBpkx_2ECEs This California Avocado Ad]] qualifies as well.
53%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVh0H4eW8Ws These]] ads for M&M Premiums combines Food Porn appeal with regular sex appeal, complete with reaction shots of the other M&M characters. (Well, you know what they say about the [[LovePotion green ones...]])
54* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFKE6PD_6U&feature=related The Marks and Spencer advertising campaign,]] featuring lovingly videoed Food Porn accompanied by Dervla Kirwan's seductive voice proclaiming "This is not just (food), this is (list of superlatives and special techniques, food)." A very common target for parody (arguably showing it's a successful campaign and has [[MemeticMutation permeated the public consciousness]]). For example, when Kirwan guest-starred in ''Series/DoctorWho'', "''These are not just Cybermen...''"
55** The music is less pornographic, but the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTBt_K5zTS8 current iteration of the campaign]] voiced by Matthew Macfadyen is pretty sexy.
56%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVWcoUVirbw This]] is a fine and shining example of ''radio'' Food Porn.
57* In a 2018 Australian [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7v2mqb outdoor dining promo video,]] there are numerous of plates and bowls containing delicious-looking food, and there are a few mouth-watering close-ups. ({{Trekkie}}s would recognize the black-haired, clean-shaven young man as Evan Evagora, the model-turned-actor who portrayed Elnor on ''Series/StarTrekPicard''.)
58* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mZUO5Mye0I Bowl to Soul]]", advertising the british food company Wagamama shows details of a dish being prepared and a woman enjoying it (stylized as her playing around in a wonderland of food).
59* "Advertising/DearAlice": The harvested food eaten at lunchtime and stored in the fridge is very lushly and appetizingly drawn to emphasize the high quality of agriculture in the SolarPunk setting.
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62[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
63Borderline-ubiquitous in Japanese media. Almost every anime and manga has a scene of food-focus, and many are entirely about food -- and [[Manga/{{Toriko}} not always in restaurant settings]].
64* ''Manga/Acca13TerritoryInspectionDept'' is famous as the show that says it's about conspiracies, but is actually about bread and cakes.
65* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has a great deal of focus on elaborate foods.
66* ''Manga/IsKichijojiTheOnlyPlaceToLive'' often focuses on the delicious snack foods the main characters treat their clients to.
67* ''Manga/{{Oishinbo}}'' is filled with drawings of food that invoke this trope.
68* Fumi Yoshinaga, creator of ''Manga/AntiqueBakery'', also made a manga called ''Manga/NotLoveButDeliciousFoodsMakeMeSoHappy''. There's a new restaurant visit in every episode.
69* ''Manga/YumeiroPatissiere'' has sparkling pastries that send their eaters on adventures.
70* ''Manga/TheWallflower'': Half the manga revolves around mealtimes, with panels devoted to displaying Sunako's culinary creations before they dig in.
71* Every chapter of ''Manga/CookingPapa'' revolves around the food Mr Araiwa gets to eat or make. Even in black and white, the meals look exquisite. To further whet the appetite, each chapter ends with how to make the dish.
72* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Imagine how hungry people get after seeing all the yummy food Goku got to eat.
73** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' leaned heavy into this trope when Whis first tried instant ramen. After taking the first bite, he practically has an [[TheImmodestOrgasm Immodest Orgasm]] before going into delicious detail on the simple yet scrumptious dish.
74* ''Manga/YakitateJapan'' deserves a mention as it consists mostly of [[CookingDuel baking duels]].
75* The entire point of ''[[Manga/ChuukaIchiban Cooking Master Boy]]'', plus [[CookingDuel cooking tournaments and duels.]]
76* ''Manga/TheDropsOfGod'' is like an oenophiliac's dream. It's a manga that not only has a plot based on wine, but goes into loving detail about wine whenever the chance arises. It even spawned the /a/ meme "decantering [sic]", where the restaurant is stunned into silence as he [[MundaneMadeAwesome decanters "from such a height" because it's so "magnificent and jawdropping".]]
77* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Sanji's cooking, and other fancy dishes...
78* ''Manga/RistoranteParadiso'' revolves around a restaurant in Rome. Naturally, lots of attention is put into both food and wine.
79* ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'': The titular Emma is a maid at a rich household and cooking for her mistress is one of her tasks. Thus, we get to see (in close-up) her bake bread, make scones, serve tea, etc. as well as wealthy people attending fancy dinners where they are served numerous courses of a variety of foods.
80* ''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'' takes place in rural Canada and has at least two major characters that are farmers (Lofty John and Jimmy Murray), leading to a lot of shots of farm produce. Camera shots particularly fixate on apples.
81* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': Do NOT read this manga on an empty stomach. The manga itself regularly spends at least a third of each chapter simply having people eat. The genius of the artist is that somehow it manages to make you salivate -- even when the food is in black-and-white!
82** What is possibly even worse is that, unlike with most other examples of Food Porn, the food described in Toriko doesn't exist, but the flavors the food is based on do. So during the description of say a meat that is a perfect combination of the best pork you have ever eaten and the best crab in the world, you salivate and imagine eating, only to be brought back to the cruel reality that this meat doesn't exist. Sheer mental torture.
83* Taken a bit more literally than most in ''Manga/HaruhiChan'', where Haruhi starts off intending to have Mikuru strip down so a life-sized Chocolate!Mikuru can be made. Played more straight with the chocolates they do make.
84* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' shows Chikage having a food porn moment by apparently getting a sugar high just from looking at food. She isn't normally allowed to have sweets...
85* Besides its extravagant animation, abundance of CostumePorn and attention to detail, ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' also takes great care to make you feel hungry every time the characters sit down to have a meal.
86* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' revels in this trope. To the point most of Ranma's suitors realize that they have more chance to win him over by going ThroughHisStomach rather than ShowSomeLeg.
87* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' has a lot of this. Especially evident whenever [[BigEater Usagi]] got to eat something.
88* ''Manga/DGrayMan'': Whenever [[BigEater Allen]] eats something or thinks about food we get to see a lot of it in all its delicious detail.
89* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' had this in its first episode when [[BigEater Miaka]] thought about the food she wanted to eat. And in a few episodes beyond.
90* ''Manga/BlackButler'' is this in spades just about every episode/chapter. From the type of tea Sebastian is serving, to the meal being prepared that day, everything is described and portrayed in such away that you can't help but start to salivate at the very sight of it.
91* ''Anime/RealDrive'' will make you want the sundaes that Minamo and her friends eat. Generally, food is depicted beautifully in the series, [[SceneryPorn along with other things]].
92* ''Manga/SupermanVsMeshi'' has this SO much, that this could practically be renamed "Food porn: The manga". Each chapter has detailed descriptions and imagery of Japanese cuisine with Superman's reaction always being that the food is delicious and speaking in PurpleProse about it.
93* Although ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Oh My Goddess!]]'' is more well-known for CostumePorn, TechnologyPorn, and SceneryPorn, there was a case of this in a manga chapter where [[LoveGoddess Peorth]] tried to woo [[NiceGuy Keiichi]] by preparing him a huge, elaborate feast "which insisted on being eaten"... even after that fiasco, Keii proved he was AboveTheInfluence and still had a nice, light dinner with [[MagicalGirlfriend Belldandy]].
94* It is impossible to watch an episode of ''Manga/KOn'' without drooling over [[TheOjou Tsumugi's]] cakes.
95* Most of the dishes in ''Anime/{{Tamayura}}'' are presented nicely, but extra points go to the sweets prepared by Fuu's grandmother.
96* Surprisingly, given the nature of the show this comes up more than a few times in ''Manga/{{Monster}}''.
97* ''Manga/WhatDidYouEatYesterday'' is based off of this. It can go for pages just listing food ingredients, how you make the food, and just showing off food. At times it can be hard to remember it's a SliceOfLife BoysLove series.
98* ''Manga/MaidSama'': Usui is an [[SupremeChef exceptionally good cook]]. You will be drooling by the end of chapters in which he cooks.
99* ''Anime/HellGirl'': In episode 9, "Sweet Trap," the desserts that Hiromi makes are simply divine.
100* Sometimes shows up in ''Manga/DNAngel'' like in episode 15.
101* Any meal that shows up in ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' is pretty much this. Some examples: [[http://pingroup.glittering-crux.net/File:Vlcsnap-2011-09-25-16h47m52s71.png Yuri's picnic lunch]], [[http://pingroup.glittering-crux.net/File:Vlcsnap-2011-09-25-16h24m38s216.png Himari and Ringo's bento]], [[http://pingroup.glittering-crux.net/File:Vlcsnap-2011-09-25-17h02m54s139.png a stew-based dinner]], [[http://pingroup.glittering-crux.net/File:Vlcsnap-2011-09-25-18h14m19s238.png cookies and tea]], [[http://pingroup.glittering-crux.net/File:Vlcsnap-2011-09-25-18h49m08s125.png a certain fancy dinner]]...
102** While not at the same level, [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Anthy's shaved ice and other desserts]], as well as [[Anime/YurikumaArashi Ginko's Spaghetti Neapolitan]], all from [[Creator/KunihikoIkuhara the same creator]] as ''Mawaru'', definitely deserve a mention here.
103* ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe'' likes showing off their food, especially the desserts. One instance then subverts this when parfait samples in the images of Polar Bear, Panda, and Penguin are quickly demolished by two enthusiastic patrons, causing Polar Bear to change his mind about serving the desserts as a special item on his menu.
104* ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' has multiple food-based characters (ranging from prepared meals to single ingredient items, the titular hero himself is one of the best foods in the universe of the show), so this is natural. The finished dishes always end up looking perfect when prepared by the right person, and a lot of times, the food is the most detailed-looking items in the show.
105* Two works by Chica Umino, ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'' and ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'', portrays most of the meals shown with loving detail.
106* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica.'' Despite being extremely dark, ominous, and/or philosophical for 99% of the runtime, a scene is still devoted to enjoying Mami's beautiful and delicious cakes. The sequel movie has all the characters sing a song about food to turn a monster into a giant multilayer cake.
107* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'': In the anime episode "Let's Go Eat Italian Food", Josuke and Okuyasua visit a new Italian restaurant run by Tonio Trussardi. The dishes are presented in a quite appetite-whetting manner, and even [[spoiler: the depiction of the effects of eating them]] is not enough to kill the appetite in-universe.
108* ''Manga/ABridesStory'' is filled with SceneryPorn and this trope. From food in daily meals to food-stands in markets and feasts in wedding, you will hungry when you read those chapters. At one point, there is ''verbal'' Food Porn:
109--> '''Amir's brother:''' I want some mutton. Slices fresh off the grill, piled high on a plate. The really juicy kind! Some fried rice might work, too... pour soup all over it and shovel it in! Oh, that stuff's good!
110* ''Manga/FoodWars'' is essentially food porn in every possible aspect. On any given page/in any given episode, you will find lovingly-drawn, mouthwatering images of food (including fresh ingredients, completed dishes, and beautiful shots of in-progress cooking). The series also features [[OrgasmicallyDelicious almost-explicitly-sexual "foodgasms"]] (in which delicious food causes characters to lose their clothes and experience quasi-sexual ecstasy), along with descriptions of the ''why'' of cooking that can only be described as a culinary {{nerdgasm}}.
111* In ''Anime/SpaceDandy'', the second episode is dedicated to the crew looking for the perfect ramen. While there is some iffy alien cuisine present, the characters eat it all without complaint, and it's hard to finish the episode and not want to fix yourself a giant bowl of the stuff.
112* From ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'', Holo loves food of all kinds, and her wolf nature means that Lawrence often has to describe new human foods to her. No one will blame you if you drool over the description of honey-pickled peaches with figs and almonds.
113* The second ending sequence for the ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' anime shows the Forger family cooking together, and then a beautifully animated shot of all the dishes they made.
114* The food is ''Literature/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit'' is so deliciously drawn that you want to reach into the screen and pull it out. The feast Balsa is served in Episode 1 is a standout example. In Japan, the novel series even includes a cookbook.
115* ''Manga/GourmetGirlGraffiti'' can safely be called "Food Porn: the Anime." This trope ''and'' OrgasmicallyDelicious appears at least OnceAnEpisode, but usually more.
116* ''Manga/MissKoizumiLovesRamenNoodles'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is about a girl named Koizumi who loves eating ramen]] and her classmate Yuu who loves watching her do it. The sole purpose of the series is apparently a) giving the reader a sudden urge to eat ramen and b) making the male readers wish they were ramen.
117* ''Anime/DeathNote'' is quite guilty of this throughout its first season. L spends almost every moment on screen eating some form of sweet and each scene focuses on his food quite heavily.
118* [[http://kotaku.com/studio-ghibli-food-gifs-will-make-you-hungry-1654394989 Studio Ghibli films]] are stuffed with this. From the assorted piles of spirit food in ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', to fresh vegetables being picked and washed in ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'', to bacon and eggs sizzling in a pan in ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', it's liable to make mouths water in viewers who haven’t eaten in a couple of hours.
119* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' combines this with D&D-style monsters to produce lusciously illustrated depictions of Grilled Kelpie, Holy Water Sorbet or any manner of strange (but delicious-looking) creations.
120* ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'' shows some very strange-looking dishes, nevertheless describing the smell and taste. In Chapter 25, after making a stew described as looking like sticky mud, and Reg's bad grilling, they show a dish of roots, eggs, fish and some sort of pork. [[http://mangakakalot.com/chapter/made_in_abyss/chapter_25 Nanachi's reaction]] is [[TheImmodestORGASM something to look at]].
121* ''Manga/SilverNina'' has multiple chapters centered on young Nina, who has until then grown up in Europe, getting to try out Japanese foods with her uncle. The food itself frequently receives great attention to detail.
122* ''Literature/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'' is about a restaurant, so the food porn has narrative justification. The people in the fantasy world [[OrgasmicallyDelicious love]] them some Japanese comfort food.
123* ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'' has an in-universe example; the Catians decide to launch a diplomatic mission to Earth just because of Eris's description of Okinawa cuisine.
124* In ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'', food is portrayed with incredible detail: from grilled meat, to ''onsen'' fried eggs, ''nabe'' and campfire curry. The food evidently tastes as good as it looks, given the characters' enjoyment of their meals.
125* ''Manga/WakakoZake'' unsurprisingly has some of this, being a manga that's almost exclusively about enjoying food and drink. The drawings of food are less gratuitously detailed than in many other examples, but they're still more lovingly drawn than the characters or backgrounds.
126* ''Manga/TodaysMenuForTheEmiyaFamily'' is a lighthearted spinoff of the ''Franchise/FateSeries'' that focuses on the characters' daily lives and the delicious meals they cook for every kind of occasion.
127* Although food isn't the focus of the series like it is in ''Today's Menu'', ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'' does its best to carry on the ''Fate'' tradition, especially when [[DemotedToExtra Shirou]] is around.
128* ''Manga/TisTimeForTorturePrincess'': Many of the "tortures" involve tempting the Princess to talk with [[FoodAsBribe delicious food]], vividly drawn and described.
129* Volume 3 of ''Manga/OurDreamsAtDusk'' has a few examples of lovingly-drawn food, such as the awkward lunch Utsumi attends. One scene in particular focuses on the protagonist trying onomichi ramen for the first time, complete with his mental commentary:
130-->'''Tasuku's thoughts:''' The biting flavor of fish broth with soy on the thin noodles is... But the minced pork back floods it all with a rich texture. For a soul weary from walking...
131-->'''Tasuku:''' [[{{Understatement}} It's good.]]
132* ''Literature/WelcomeToJapanMsElf'': Various Earth foods are very well-described[[note]]Generally Japanese food, but other nations' food do crop up[[/note]]. This is justified by the fact that the other world's food quality is generally not great, partly due to lack of seasonings. Marie, Wridra, and others who tasted Earth food generally has quite extreme reaction when eating, sometimes bordering on OrgasmicallyDelicious. Also, food (and their containers) are the only items he's allowed to bring from Japan to the other world (and, after a bit of experimentation, the reverse). Even basic food like home-made katsudon and gyoza end up lovingly illustrated.
133* ''Manga/GohanNoOtomo'' depicts its various feature dishes in mouth-watering detail, which stands in stark contrast to the otherwise simplistic character and background designs. The full-page colours serve to make the food look even more appetizing.
134* ''Manga/TheWayOfTheHousehusband'': Whenever Tatsu cooks (which is pretty much every second chapter), it results in detailed, hunger-inducing shots of the food in question.
135* ''Manga/IWantYourMotherToBeWithMe'': The food from Kobaiken (Yuzuki's family's restaurant) is drawn in lavish detail.
136* ''Anime/PrincessConnectReDive'': The series loves food so much that nearly every episode is named after a dish and the main characters are in an adventuring party with the stated objective of sampling food from across the kingdom. You had better believe that it's got loving close-ups on rice balls, omelettes, mugs of boulliabaisse and even, [[DoesNotLikeSpam much to the distaste of Karyl]], fried bugs.
137* ''Literature/CampfireCookingInAnotherWorldWithMyAbsurdSkill'' extensively describes the cooking process of each dish Mukohda prepares, all of which leads to mouth-watering results that the denizens of the world find absolutely divine. His cooking is also what leads him to forming a contract with a legendary beast. The anime adaptation wastes no screentime giving closeups of the finished dishes. If you ate something beforehand, expect to feel hungry again.
138* ''VideoGame/YoakeMaeYoriRuriiroNa'': {{Averted|Trope}}. Due to serious production problems, the anime tried to pass a green ball with squiggly lines off as a cabbage. It was so embarrassing it made the term "cabbage" shorthand in Japan for an anime production falling apart. What makes this notable, however, is that this incident is considered the reason ''why'' anime lavish so much attention on Food Porn -- to avoid reminding people how terrible the cabbage in ''Crescent Love'' looked.
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141[[folder:Comic Books]]
142* ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'':
143** The main character's girlfriend is a food critic with the ability to describe food so accurately and vividly that people actually taste the food. She writes Food Porn Literature.
144** For a literal example, a oneshot character is a food photographer whose works actually induce orgasms in the viewers.
145* While Creator/AnthonyBourdain's ''ComicBook/GetJiro'' is first and foremost a satire on trendy cuisine, it is also a love letter to good cooking.
146* All the dishes presented throughout ''ComicBook/Seconds2014'' are drawn with lovingly detail. This is a comic about restaurants after all.
147* Quite common in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' whenever food is being served, especially since Obelix is a BigEater. The Pirate Captain's birthday feast in ''Asterix and the Great Crossing'' is a prime example. [[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54e652f6e4b021b682b6d4d1/t/554baf53e4b0e66924e4bb15/1431023453091/Donec+eris+felix+multos+numerabis+amicos Feast your eyes.]]
148* ComicBook/{{Dollicious}}: Since series is about cooking, it's pretty much center around this. One story has Ramen make every dessert in the cook book.
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151[[folder:Comic Strips]]
152* A ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strip features Portnoy watching a late night commercial for "Boo-Boo Burgers". The viewpoint is from the side, so you can't see the screen, but the soundtrack of "someone eating a Boo-Boo Burger" could have been lifted verbatim from one of the more... climactic... scenes of just about any convenient porno. The strip ends with Portnoy grumpily paying for a Boo-Boo Burger, while commenting on his hatred for them.
153* One ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' Sunday strip had nothing but detailed panels of Peter making coffee, bacon and eggs, peanut buttered toast, and orange juice. In the last panel, Peter is smelling his breakfast, and Roger, with a glass of brown liquid nearby him, comments "[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I'm telling you, Andy, NOBODY starts a diet on a Sunday!]]", to which Andy responds "Roger, pipe down and drink your breakfast.".
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157* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12699919/1/Cucinando-Sōkoku Cucinando…Sōkoku?]]'': The author sure gives some nice descriptions of the Vicciola Pepper Filet Mignon and Kobe Beef Tataki Italy and Japan had finished making during their so-called "cooking competition".
158-->At the end of said hour, Italy and Japan had finally finished and had prepared enough for everyone present to have two plates each with all able to try both of theirs. Four pieces of Vicciola meat marinated in olive oil, fat, butter, and sauce were seasoned with kosher salt and cracked black pepper with rosemary sprinkled on top and potato wedges on the side were on the Italian's dishes while several slices of Kobe beef slathered in chili oil and sprinkled with cracked black pepper and sea salt with enokitake and tatsoi on the sides were on the Japanese's.
159* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/JustANormalCoffeeShop'' is supposedly set in a coffee shop [[spoiler: (it's not)]], some of the food and drink descriptions can get very detailed:
160** Steven’s hot chocolate in Chapter 1: ''Sweet, rich, creamy, with a delicious drizzling of syrup and cinnamon on top''
161** Pearl’s cinnamon tea and apple pie in Chapter 3
162--->''As the dark steaming liquid swirled inside the porcelain, the fragrance of cinnamon wafted to her nose. Mixed with the sweet aroma of apple pie, it was simply divine and Pearl couldn’t help the dreamy, almost obscene sigh that left her lips. She then grabbed her fork, carefully stabbing the tip of the pie. It was a delight to hear the crust crunch as the tines sank into it, and then watch the filling ooze out as she brought the fork further down, breaking a piece off. Ah, such decadence!''
163* The ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' doujin series titled ''Koishi the Loving Gourmet'', in which the eponymous character (who is InvisibleToAdults, btw) is sharing the meal with other Gensokyo residents. And by 'sharing', we mean that she's dining without paying -- if they don't know you're there, they can't charge you any.
164* The fanfiction ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/953674 A Feast Of Foods]]'' parodies ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''[='=]s tendency to use this.
165--> ''Jon had broken his fast on only a small sliver of garlic sausage and a raw onion. And a fresh bun, filled with raisins, pine nuts, and apple. With butter. And half a duck. And a bowl of lamb stew, simmered in ale and wild herbs.''
166* Cori Falls is shameless about this trope to the point where later in her fanficcing career half the ''story'' is just talking about what the characters ate. The lady could have had a promising career in writing restaurant brochures.
167* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9906097/1/Small-Problems Small Problems]]'' has this in the last chapter whenever the author is describing pancakes.
168* In ''Fanfic/WhenTheMoonFellInLoveWithTheSun'' Peeta gets elevated from "baker's son who's pretty good with icing" to SupremeChef who seems to be trying to win Katniss' heart by going [[ThroughHisStomach through her stomach]]. About 20% of ''the entire story'' is dedicated to lavish descriptions of luxurious and delicious food and Katniss' rapturous reactions to it.
169* In ''Fanfic/AndTheGiantAwoke'' Tyrion hires Jelena, a skilled and very creative Essosi chef. Every meal described afterwards is a homage to the wide variety of foods she comes up with, from potages to sandwiches to the most lavish feasts of King's Landing.
170* In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', there are multiple instances of food being described and cooked as part of AuthorAppeal. In fact, you know that Green Phantom Queen has written certain parts of the original three stories of the ''Blossomverse'' solely because of this trope.
171* In ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'', quite a number of the Hogwarts feasts (especially the Halloween and Christmas ones) have the food described in loving detail. Extra emphasis is on how magical they get, allowing food to be shaped into impossible displays with amazing tastes. Just as an example from Harry's second-year Halloween feast, one dessert is a brownie and sponge layer cake, cemented with caramel, covered in a chocolate shell and shaped into a full-sized pumpkin! With lemon aftertaste!
172** And then the Hogwarts house elves are gifted Muggle cookbooks by the Weasley Twins and more modern food starts showing up, like pizza and paella.
173** Even Dragon!Harry, who can [[ExtremeOmnivore eat literally anything]], has his own specially-made food stylized just as artistically, with just as unusual tastes. He finds a metal cleaver made of mixed metals quite unusual, but thinks that the iridium in it provides a nice spice.
174* ''Fanfic/AMothersTouch'': Yoko spends the first part of Chapter 6 making a delicious stack of chocolate-chip pancakes with extra syrup and whipped cream. This has a justification in-universe because she's using them to lure out [[SweetTooth Sora]] so he can tell her what he knows about the Fusion Dimension. And also because, just like ''Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail'', the author is a major foodie.
175* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40425528/chapters/101269389 A Stack of Fresh-Fried Parathas]]'', a collection of vignettes regarding [[Series/MsMarvel2022 Kamala and Bruno]], as friends and as a couple, features food as a major theme throughout. To quote the introduction: "A Pakistani girl and an Italian boy fall in love. Of course food is part of the story."
176* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In "The Teacher," Dr. Vanderbilt appears as a guest in Penny's Home Ec class and makes over-the-top fancy breakfast fare. Penny's description of the various dishes is enough to cause her friend to drool.
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180* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' features Food Porn during the "Be Our Guest" musical number when the servants treat Belle to dinner.
181* The Pixar animators that worked on ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' made careful studies of food and chefs to get the look right and it shows, complete with carefully crafted closeups. The sensual enjoyment of food is one of the themes that drives its main character, Remy. Most of the other entries on this list are about the pleasure of eating. ''Ratatouille'' emphasizes the artistry involved in cooking the food.
182** And then there's the closeup of the titular ratatouille itself at the climax. Who would have thought a basic vegetable stew could look so ''delicious''?
183* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'', especially during the scene where RJ teaches the family of animals how humans treat food.
184* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' contains way more of this than you'd expect, even considering that the female lead wants to open her own restaurant.
185* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' features this during the scenes where Coraline ate dinner with the Other Mother. Never wanted to have a chandelier that double as a milkshake dispenser so badly. Also, who could forget:
186-->'''Other Mother:''' ''(opens a box)'' They're cocoa beetles... from Zanzibar! ''takes a bite''
187* Played straight with [[FishOutOfWater Twilight Sparkle]] in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' when she eats an apple without using her hands.
188* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' and [[WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2 its sequel]], even when it's AnthropomorphicFood -- at times, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou of the homicidal kind]].
189* ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs'' features a scene roughly halfway in the movie of a chef preparing a traditional bento box in great detail, complete with fresh fish, crab, squid, vinegar rice, [[spoiler:[[BreadEggsMilkSquick and wasabi poison]].]]
190* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' ends [[spoiler: with literal Food Porn via an orgy]].
191* The hot chocolate Ned Flanders prepares for Bart in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' is deliciously over-exaggerated in the number of toppings he gives it. First a mountain of whipped cream then shaved chocolate, then a vanilla wafer, topped with more whipped cream to act as glue for a marshmallow, then finally toasting the marshmallow with a kitchen torch.
192-->'''Bart''': Oh my God!
193* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': The Evil Queen invokes this with the poisoned apple. After coating it with Sleeping Death poison, she commands it to "turn red to tempt Snow White, to make her hunger for a bite". Sure enough, the apple turns a bright, appetizing shade of red, making it all the more tempting for Snow White (and the audience).
194* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', the scene of Jin making dumplings consists of lots of closeups on the near-photorealistic ingredients being prepared. And it looks ''delicious''.
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198* ''Literature/TheAgeOfInnocence'': The 1993 film version has several over-the-top sumptuous shots of elaborate gourmet dishes. It helps set the film's mood of decadent 19th-century upper class extravagance.
199* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': Has a flicker of this when Avatar Grace tosses Avatar Jake a Pandoran fruit and, well, to put it this way: "He takes a bite of her ''big, juicy fruit.''"
200* ''Film/BabettesFeast'': Lovingly displays the entire process of preparing the meal. Like ''Tampopo'', this is a movie that will make viewers suddenly realize they want to eat.
201* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': Has Harley Quinn's [[TrademarkFavoriteFood beloved]] bacon-and-egg sandwich from Sal's, made step by step in mouthwatering detail while Harley gushes about each ingredient. For extra points, the whole scene is basically a parody of the MaleGaze.
202* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': Golly, that steak looks good... and with the RealitySubtext of rationing during World War II, it's probably even ''stronger'' in-universe.
203* ''Film/Chef2014'': is full of this, to the point where the last forty minutes basically dispenses the plot and focuses on the cast making Cuban sandwiches and other delights around the country.
204* ''Film/{{Chocolat}}'': A movie about a woman trying to change the world through a chocolate shop wouldn't be complete without beauty shots of it to match.
205* ''Film/TheCookTheThiefHisWifeAndHerLover'': Never has cannibalism been so tempting.
206* ''Film/{{Daisies}}'': The two protagonists spend most of the film ravenously eating as much food as they can stuff in their mouth. The infamous sequence with the {{food fight}} is a supreme example. Never watch this movie with an empty stomach.
207* ''Film/DaughtersOfTheDust'': That crab and shrimp gumbo family dinner looks so delicious.
208* ''Film/EatDrinkManWoman'': The protagonist of this movie, Tao Chu, is a [[SupremeChef professional Chinese chef]] who cooks a scrumptious dinner for his three unmarried daughters once a week. The movie starts by showing him cooking one of those with gorgeous cinematography, and other similar scenes of food preparation and serving appear throughout the movie. The entire film could be considered one big Festival of Food Porn for Chinese cuisine.
209* ''Film/GoodBurger'': If there's one positive note that would be said about this critically panned film, it's how delicious the burgers at the titular restaurant look (hence the film's title), especially with the secret sauce made by the [[GeniusDitz dim-witted employee, Ed]].
210* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'': The movie has FoodPorn as an ongoing motif to represent Henry Hill's high-class mafia lifestyle. As a wise-guy Henry is always eating like a king, and the film pays close attention to the meals he has, and all the mobsters always seem to have their meetings at restaurants or over dinner at each others' houses. Henry's narration of events even pauses several times in the movie so he can go into detail over how the food on-screen is being prepared. [[spoiler: When Paulie finally tells Henry to get lost and leave the mafia, he's cooking sausages in a pan while Henry (having lost weight from his cocaine addiction) looks on hungrily. At the end of the film when Henry has to leave his old life behind and become "an average nobody" he laments that an order for spaghetti with marinara sauce now only gets him egg noodles and ketchup.]]
211* ''Film/Compulsion2013'' features Amy, who is obsessed with making every dish perfect because she associates food with love. As a result, her presentation is always very detailed, with numerous comments on the various spices and seasoning she has used.
212* ''Film/{{Hairspray|2007}}'': The SidekickSong "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" is Food Porn set to music. And when Edna crashes Maybelle's party to take Tracy away, Maybelle entices her to stay with a soul food spread.
213* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'': The White Castle commercial that sends Harold and Kumar on their quest. It even includes sleazy-sounding porn music. There's also the Burger Shack drive-thru guy's description of White Castle burgers.
214* ''Film/HarryPotter'': Sometimes shows up, especially during the feasts at Hogwarts, or that pudding that Dobby ruins in ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]''.
215* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': The feast of imaginary food, once Peter [[YourMindMakesItReal begins to believe in it]], is seen by the audience in full splendor.
216* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'': Parodies the trope with a video of a girl cutting a piece of steak with her feet on the porn channel.
217* ''Film/JiroDreamsOfSushi'': This 2011 arthouse documentary has been described as about 80 minutes of this trope. Many reviews suggest that if you don't eat before seeing the film, make sure you have dinner reservations immediately after, because you will be drooling by the time it's over. (Word of advice, though: ''don't'' go for sushi: you'll probably be disappointed unless the place you go to is nearly as world-class as Jiro's.)
218* ''Film/JulieAndJulia'': Particularly the way they present the filet of sole in the scene with Julia Child and her husband at the Parisian restaurant soon after transferring over from China, the scenes dealing with the ''boeuf bourgignon'', and even the scenes with pre-Julia era Julie Powell making a bruschetta with a tomato salad topping that looks mouthwateringly delectable. Some of the recipes Julie recites, too, such as the chocolate cream pie (WordOfGod is that's Nora Ephron's recipe, not Julie's) and chicken with mushrooms, port, cream and butter. Ooh la la!
219* ''Film/LastHoliday'': Features a lot of delectable food. Justified, as Georgia wants to be a chef, and works in a department store in Kitchen Wares.
220* Creator/LaurelAndHardy: Verbal food porn would show up in some movies -- in "Pardon Us" they're in prison going on a hunger strike, when a guard lures them out of it by describing a sumptuous feast being served in the mess hall (which of course was a lie). In "Block-Heads", Ollie reunites with his long-lost Army buddy Stanley and invites him home to his wife's cooking that he lovingly describes. Naturally, his wife isn't keen on the idea (it being their anniversary is one reason).
221* ''Film/MarieAntoinette2006'': Contains several displays of mouth-watering desserts.
222* ''Film/TheMatrix'': Cypher comments on the taste and juiciness of a piece of steak that he is about to eat, although he knows it isn't real. Then there are he orgasm-inducing cakes the Merovingian serves.
223* ''Film/TheMenu'' is a film about a LethalChef who sets up a group of rich customers for an increasingly deranged culinary experience designed to mock and insult them. Each and every one of the courses he serves is depicted in sumptuous detail on screen, in a manner homaging the Creator/{{Netflix}} cooking series ''Chef's Table''. Ironically, during filming, the food sat out for so long that it was often cold and fairly unpalatable by the time they finally served it to the actors to eat on screen.
224* UsefulNotes/NorthKorea: This country's films have a suspicious tendency to do this.
225** ''Film/OYouth!'': 1994. Features several lavish dinners, which is even more remarkable since it was produced in the depths of the horrible famine of TheNineties that killed something like 10% of the North Korean population.
226** ''Film/TheSchoolgirlsDiary'': 2006. Has several shots showing the large meals the family eats. Enough to give one the impression that the film is yelling, "Hey, look at how much food we have! Our nation is so prosperous and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not starving at all!]]"
227* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': The Pale Man sits in front of a [[SchmuckBanquet table full of fresh, tantalizing food]]. [[FoodChains Do not eat]] ''[[ForbiddenFruit any]]'' [[ForbiddenFruit of it]].
228* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''. Brief in-universe example: due to the nature of his curse, Barbossa cannot taste anything. So he invites Elizabeth to dinner and just watches her eat and drink. The look on his face while this happens is, in the [[WordOfGod words of Director Gore Verbinski]], "like a vampire seeing blood."
229* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'': Had this during scenes where Mia is training to be a princess by learning how to eat properly, as well as the State Dinner scene where we get close-ups on each food item.
230* Creator/QuentinTarantino: A favorite trope of the director.
231** Quite a few food-related scenes in ''Film/PulpFiction'': The one in EnemyEatsYourLunch when Jules enjoys Brett's burger and soda, or Mia and Vincent in the diner standing out.
232** ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': The strudel scene. Set in WWII, so the strudel was rather something.
233** ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' features the tastiest-looking beer you'll ever see. The cake's not too bad either. And the iced tea looks really refreshing.
234** ''Film/DeathProof'': The [[JabbaTableManners gross way]] Stuntman Mike eats his nachos does not diminish how appetizing they look.
235** ''Film/TheHatefulEight'': The stew at Minnie's looks amazing.
236* ''Film/TheSantaClause'': PlayedWith when the camera pans over a very appetizing Christmas dinner...and then pulls back to reveal that it's on a TV screen while Scott Calvin is busy extinguishing a burning turkey.
237* ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner'': When Mr, Matuschek invites errand boy Rudy to share Christmas dinner with him:
238-->'''Matuschek''': Rudy, do you like chicken noodle soup?\
239'''Rudy''': I certainly do, Mr. Matuschek.\
240'''Matuschek''': And what would you think of roast goose stuffed with baked apples, and fresh boiled potatoes in butter, and some red cabbage on the side, huh?\
241'''Rudy''': I'd love it!\
242'''Matuschek''': And then some cucumber salad with sour cream...\
243'''Rudy''': Oh, Mr. Matuschek!
244* ''Film/SoulFood'': With multiple displays of yummy... soul food (with a theme being how important those meals are to the family). Collard greens, macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoes, etc. You '''will''' walk out of that movie hungry.
245* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': Featured some Food Porn during the scene where steerage passenger Jack joined the first-class passengers for dinner as a reward for preventing Rose from almost falling off the boat.
246* ''Film/{{Tampopo}}'': It blurs the line between FoodPorn and fetish in the romantic scenes featuring a good deal of Erotic Eating, the rest of the movie is focused on the protagonist producing the perfect ramen, with visuals to match.
247* ''Film/{{Waitress}}'': The shots of not just the gorgeous pies, but how lovingly they were made.
248* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' (1971), and ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' (2005): Food Porn is pretty much a given in both. But if you want to experience true chocogasm, be sure to watch the opening of the 1971 version.
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252* ''The Affinity Bridge'': Spends a lot of time on the [=1800s=] British food the main character eats.
253* Creator/AntonChekhov:
254** ''On Mortality: A Carnival Tale'': This darkly humorous short story is several pages of a glorious Food Porn, which suddenly ends with the [[BigEater main character]] dying of a stroke right before eating the best piece of meal.
255** ''The Siren'' is full of lush descriptions of Russian cuisine. It also overlaps with DeliciousDistraction in this case.
256* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'': Especially prominent in Dawn and Claudia books of the series.
257* ''Literature/BreakfastOfChampions'': Mentions a science-fiction novel that [[AuthorAvatar Kilgore Trout]] wrote about a planet where food was scarce, so the inhabitants' pornography is people eating food slowly and happily.
258* ''Literature/TheBrotherhoodOfTheBlackFlag'': Has several vivid descriptions of meals provided in a variety of locations, from taverns to fancy balls. Captain Reynard has a tradition of welcoming new crew members with a lavish feast shared with his officers, and Michael [=McNamara=] is no exception.
259* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Qwill, a lover of good eats, is often treated to great dishes from gourmands, restaurants, and charming home-cooks, each of which are described in scrumptious detail.
260* ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'': introduces the Ghost of Christmas Present sitting on a throne of mouth watering food. The same ghost takes Ebenezer to the market where the groceries look just as delicious. Even the humble meal at the Cratchit's house is much fawned over.
261* ''Literature/CrazyRichAsians'': Both the novel and [[Film/CrazyRichAsians its film adaptation]] are full of lavish descriptions of the best food Singapore has to offer, from the famed Lau Pa Sat hawker centre to the spread at Nick's grandmother's mansion.
262* ''Literature/TheCrossesBoysCounselor:'' Since the novel's setting is in Jamaica, it gets pretty descriptive about the local cuisine. For example, Sitara and Carolyn have a breakfast meeting at a local restaurant in Montego Bay where Sitara is eating a traditional Jamaican meal of ackee and saltfish with boiled bananas, fried dumplings, and bammy slices, along with a cup of jasmine tea.
263* Creator/CSLewis:
264** ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': Occurs frequently throughout the series, most notably the feast conjured up by Bacchus at the end of ''Literature/PrinceCaspian''.
265*** [[https://daily.jstor.org/turkish-delight/ This article]] explains why Turkish Delight was important enough to Edmund to sell out his family to the White Witch.
266** ''[[http://www.philosophyforlife.com/mc15.htm Mere Christianity]]'': Food Porn is used as an analogy to explain his theories about regular pornography -- basically, that if an audience had the same reaction to a presentation of food as to pornography, one might assume they come from a country in the middle of a famine and are starving. However, the "starving" theory is immediately picked apart when Lewis points out that the next step would be to determine whether there was in fact a famine and that no one could accuse our society (and in ''TheFifties'' at that) of being undersexed. (See the [[Quotes/FoodPorn Quotes wiki for the full quote]]):
267-->''You can get a large audience together for a striptease act (...) Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon...''
268** ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'': Lewis discusses Food Porn briefly, calling it "gluttony of delicacy," an overly sensuous concern with the taste and appearance of food that doesn't involve overeating.
269* ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'':
270** In ''Literature/TheWeeFreeMen'', Tiffany is subjected to FoodPorn as a traditional ploy of TheFairFolk, with the twist that she's more tempted by a vast and varied selection of cheeses than by sweets. She's a dairy worker, and was curious what they'd taste like.
271** ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'':
272*** A lot of detail is given about the deliciousness of Glenda's pies. Given that she's a cook at the Unseen University, whose wizards are notoriously fond of their meals, it's not surprising that her food holds a high standard.
273*** Glenda's grandmother, who was the cook at the Assassin's Guild, had ''Vetinari'' practically salivating at the fond memory of that cooking. He is pleased Glenda has continued with that level of skill.
274** ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'' has a mouth-wateringly detailed description of a high-class chocolate shop. [[spoiler: Susan and Unity go on to weaponise the chocolate against the Auditors who have a WeaksauceWeakness against it.]]
275** C.M.O.T. Dibbler's sausages-in-a-bun, however, are Food ''Gorn'' more often than naught... but that only happens when they actually enter someone's mouth. Up until that point, they quite often look remarkably appetizing, as do his pies. The recipient, in any case, can identify everything that went into their production, and then immediately wish they hadn't.
276** ConversationalTroping in ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'', when Vimes reflects that the way people think about food and sex are comparable: "it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination -- but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done [[{{Metaphorgotten}} and maybe had a slice of tomato]]."
277** In ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', Mrs. Gogol's [[TheBigEasy Genuan]] cooking (which doubles as the medium where she sees the future) is described as astonishing, even if most foreigners would probably not be comfortable with [[ForeignQueasine the amount of many-legged swamp creatures that go into it]]. Even Mrs. Pleasant, a very good chef in her own right, is blown away by it.
278** When the Wizzard Rincewind is stranded, first in the Discworld's Far East and later on in its Australia, this trope becomes explicit. Rescued by a tribe of nubile women who have no men, who promise they will do anything he wants, the particular unfulfilled craving that has given him lurid and frustrating dreams for months on end is the first thing on his mind. He asks them if they have any potatoes.
279* ''Literature/DeadSouls'': Those squires like to eat.
280* ''Literature/DyingEarth'': All meals in the series are described in exquisite detail, and all are either lavishly this trope or [[NauseaFuel nauseatingly inedible]] with no middle ground.
281* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': Contains very detailed descriptions of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon cuisine. It will likely leave the reader with a craving for a nice, juicy slice of wooly mammoth.
282* ''Elizabeth Chadwick'':
283** Her novels of Norman England and the Angevin Empire frequently contain vivid descriptions of food; most notably at grand occasions like weddings, coranations, and religious feast days, but also on a smaller scale in cozy family gatherings.
284* ''Literature/EllaEnchanted'': Has a lot of this. Especially pronounced seeing as how one of the characters (Mandy) is an excellent cook.
285* Creator/EnidBlyton:
286** Her books are bound to feature this, given that she was writing during [=WW2=] when rationing was causing, if not hunger, then definitely a craving to pig out on ForbiddenFruit. It's a wonder the girls in her boarding school series can even move after one term. The series' have usually forbidden midnight feasts.
287* ''Literature/TheFamousFive'': Famously described all the kids' meals in meticulous detail. "And lashings and lashings of Ginger Beer!"
288* ''Literature/{{Fluke}}'': The titular stray dog's persistent hunger leads to tantalisingly vivid descriptions of any available food.
289* ''Literature/TheGirlWhoChasedTheMoon'': Does this with cakes, to the point where one edition of the book even has recipes for three of them in the back. There's also a big deal made of southern-style barbecue pork sandwiches (the preparation, the different varieties).
290* ''Literature/GoblinMarket'': Spares no detail in describing the succulent fruits the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]] sell.
291* ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'': Has lots of good old Southern comfort food porn, either detailing the rich meals that Scarlett and her family enjoyed during good times, or detailing the bitter memories of what they couldn't eat during the last years of the war during Tara's years of poverty.
292* ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'': the series originally included extended, lavish descriptions of meals. Series creator [[Creator/StratemeyerSyndicate Edward Stratemeyer]] reasoned that since teenage boys have huge appetites, they'd appreciate such detail. Later editions of the earlier volumes saw such passages removed, in accordance with the growing preference of young readers for dialogue and action over description.
293* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Each school year opens with a huge welcoming feast. Christmas dinners also get this treatment, as you'd expect. One of the "rules" of the ''Harry Potter'' series is that in any scene set during a meal in the Great Hall, it will always be mentioned what food is being served, even if it's only in a throwaway line. Apparently, a book Rowling read as a child (''Literature/TheLittleWhiteHorse'', specifically) did this and she liked it.
294* ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'': Every other paragraph is a loving description of the fresh milk and creamy cheese that her grandfather makes on his farm. ''You want the cheese toast''.
295* In ''Literature/HisOnlyWife'' Afi prepares three meals for her husband Eli when he calls to say he will be at their flat (for the first time in weeks), since she does not really know what he likes and really wants to please him: "akple and okro soup, fufu and light soup, and yam and red fish stew." She also puts great care into choosing ingredients and preparing meals. Even if the reader is not familiar with Ghanaian food or even with West African food in general, they might end up drooling.
296* While at sea, Literature/HoratioHornblower doesn't usually get anything better than preserved brine meat, hard biscuit with weevils and "coffee" that's just [[BadToTheLastDrop burnt bread in hot water]]. So when he ''does'' get actual good food, it's described in great detail. Pellew's dinner in ''Hornblower and the Hotspur'' is the high point; several pages are used to describe the steak-and-kidney pie, ragout, ''fresh'' vegetables, wine and cheeses, with some rather amusing PurpleProse about how angels in Heaven might call on Pellew's chef for advice on how to prepare their mashed potatoes, and other such asides.
297* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Creator/SuzanneCollins has a field day with this trope. The Capitol is flamboyant in everything (including meals), and it's narrated by a girl who spent most of her life with barely anything to eat.
298* ''Literature/TheIliad'': A lurid description of a feast, featuring a "double fold" of meat, is repeated at least twice. The Feast Scene is a staple in ancient Greek epics, almost as important as the Great Battle Scene.
299* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': Has descriptions of not one but ''two'' feasts in ''Eldest'' within the space of a few chapters, although this isn't a trademark of the series.
300* ''Ishq and Mushq'': Has a lot of food porn with the Indian food Sarna cooks, especially in the early chapters.
301* The ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels are all over this trope; in addition to being a heavy drinker, 007 is something of a gourmet who loves to eat out. The high point is perhaps the meal that Bond and M eat at Blades (the latter's club) in ''Moonraker'' -- smoked salmon, a marrow bone, fresh strawberries, expensive wine, cognac and shots of Latvian vodka (which Bond sprinkles some ground black pepper into), although special mention should go to his breakfast in ''From Russia with Love'' in which the best part of a chapter is used to describe a boiled egg, toast (with a choice between honey, jam and marmalade) and [[RealMenTakeItBlack black coffee]]. Then there's the short story "007 in New York", which mostly consists of Bond wondering where and what he's going to eat when visiting said city, with a footnote detailing his preferred recipe for scrambled eggs [[note]] basically, use more butter than you usually would, and serve with pink champagne[[/note]]. It's worth noting that when Creator/IanFleming started the series, Britain was still on rationing. Think on that, and imagine how powerful the food imagery would have been when the books were first published.
302* ''Literature/JellyBelly'': Has this in ''spades''. It's to be expected when your narrator is a preteen boy who loves to eat!
303* Creator/JRRTolkien:
304** ''Extremely'' detailed descriptions of the foods served in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. In both stories the viewpoint character is usually a hobbit, who are [[BigEater famous for enjoying food as thoroughly and as often as possible]] and the four hobbits are getting less than they're used to, so they pay attention to every item on their current menu. (Even if it's just elven waybread.)
305* ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': The series describes, in-depth, nearly every meal and dish that ever came up in the narrative, especially in ''Farmer Boy''. It's likely that the reason is a combination of the author's eye for detail and the sad fact that her family often went hungry or ate the same food every meal for months at a time when she was a child, resulting in her considering a decent meal to be a sensual and special experience.
306** The reason it's "especially" in Farmer Boy? Almanzo's family was much more well-off than Laura's. Laura's family had one or two cows at a time. Almanzo's had six or more -- it's mentioned that Almanzo only milks the old, gentle ones. So the quantity and variety of food affordable to young Almanzo is something that Laura probably never experienced, and that made it special.
307* ''Literature/LikeWaterForChocolate'': Practically swims in this trope. Each chapter opens with a traditional Mexican recipe, and specific foods are often symbolically tied to themes and plot points.
308* ''The Lost Diary of Don Juan'': The Corpus Christi chapter features HIGHLY detailed descriptions of the extravagant meal served for a major Holy Day. Following the example of the titular protagonist and a few others, nearly all the guests eventually begin to consume and enjoy their food in a HIGHLY sensual manner.
309* ''Literature/MadameBovary'': Part 1, Chapter 8 features an elaborate ball at the chateau La Vaubyessard. Emma is awed by the lavish presentation of fancy foods, including things she's never tried or even seen before.
310* ''Malleus'': Inquisitor {{Literature/Eisenhorn}} manages to turn this into an interrogation tool. He deliberately enjoys a fine glass of vintage amasec[[note]][[SpaceX SPACE Cognac]][[/note]] and a lho stick[[note]][[SpaceX SPACE cigarette]][[/note]] during an interview with [[WickedCultured Pontius Glaw]]. [[BrainInAJar Glaw, being unable]] [[AndIMustScream to experience either of these]], is caught off guard and subsequently becomes more forthcoming with information.
311* ''Literature/MobyDick'': Has one chapter titled "Chowder", which is dedicated to the eponymous food.
312* ''Literature/TheMoonlitVine'': Puerto Rican food features heavily in this story about a teenager who learns she is a descendant of Taino chieftain Anacaona. A special mention goes to ''alcapurrias'' (fritters made with green bananas, taro root, and ground beef), described in enough detail to make the reader drool.
313* ''Literature/NeroWolfe'': Title character is a gourmet (among other things) and employs Fritz Brenner, an excellent chef. Every Nero Wolfe story contains at least one detailed description of a fine meal, and at least two (the novel ''Too Many Cooks'' and the short story ''Immune to Murder'') revolve around food and cooking, and thus have huge portions of food porn.
314* ''Literature/NightfallSeries'': After growing up at the Resistance, where she had to survive on scraps and rats, Myra ends up in the vampire’s palace. During their first meeting, Prince Vladimir treats her to an elaborate dinner and practically gives her a lesson in gastronomy and wine-tasting. She is shocked since she has always viewed food as a means of survival and not something to enjoy.
315* ''Literature/RainbowMagic'': Cakes and other food items are lavishly described and illustrated.
316* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Let it suffice to say that there is at least one grand (mostly vegetarian[[note]]Not ''entirely'' vegetarian as the woodlanders do eat fish[[/note]]) feast every book and woodlanders really love their food, enough to inspire some people to try to convert them to [[http://www.redwall.net/kitchen/ real life recipes]] and there's an official [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Redwall_Cookbook Redwall Cookbook]].
317* ''Literature/TheReincarnatedVampireJustWantsToEnjoyHerNewLife'': Goes into exquisite detail with each and every meal Scarlet, the main character, makes, and the description will make you hungry, and yes, the recipes are real.
318* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': One scene in ''Defender of the Crown'' plays this trope very straight, featuring a page long description of a royal banquet.
319* Creator/RobertAHeinlein novels would sometimes have an interlude with extensive and loving discussion of the food the protagonists are eating:
320** The meals of the recently arrived colonists on Ganymede in ''Literature/FarmerInTheSky''.
321** The breakfast Joan/Johann Smith orders in ''Literature/IWillFearNoEvil''.
322** ''Literature/{{Friday}}'' is laden with lovingly detailed descriptions of luscious -- and cholesterol-laden -- meals. (Any single meal Friday eats in the Tormeys' household gets more description than all three human Tormeys put together.)
323** The restaurant menu and the breakfast food description in the short story "Cliff and the Calories", collected in ''Expanded Universe''.
324** The "Happy Hangover" breakfast description in ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress".
325** The "Harvest Brunch" and "Holiday Eyeopener" breakfast descriptions in Chapter 1 of ''Literature/ToSailBeyondTheSunset''.
326* Creator/RobertBParker:
327** Novels tend to feature this (he started his career as a professional food critic), especially the ''Literature/{{Spenser}}'' series, which often goes into elaborate detail about what the character is making and/or eating. This is less pervasive in the ''Literature/SunnyRandall'' novels (except when Spike, the ManlyGay restaurant owner is around), so it could just be the character.
328* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'':
329** As Sunny later develops the ability to cook, food descriptions are frequent.The yummiest is the brunch at the beginning of book 12.
330** The most outlandish is in Book 10, where Sunny is forced to make breakfast for the villains with what basically amounts to some snow, some coffee beans, and a frozen jug of orange juice. And she does. ''And it sounds really good.'' [[KickTheDog And Olaf ruins it anyways.]]
331* ''Sexplosion'': In this mock book review, Creator/StanislawLem describes the rise of literal food porn after most people become uninterested in sex due to overexposure.
332* ''The Silver Lotus'': Author Thomas Steinbeck (son of [[Creator/JohnSteinbeck John]]) uses this trope several times throughout the novel, most notably in the description of the wedding feast for the two main characters.
333* Creator/SMStirling fills his books with loving descriptions of food.
334* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Dedicates pages to describing what the characters are eating in excruciating detail. The books as a whole are prone to DescriptionPorn. And now, that Food Porn is being [[http://innatthecrossroads.wordpress.com reproduced in rapturous reproducible detail]].
335-->[[MemeticMutation "...and a flagon of Dornish wine."]]
336* ''Literature/{{Spectrum}}'': Close to being ''Food Porn: The Novel''. Each of the seven parts opens with long passages about some dish or other (even something mundane like rice gets such a rhapsody that it would be enough to make one ravenous). Both Martin and his uncle are gourmets and love to cook. The meals on every planet and every station Martin visits (even the spartan cuisine of the Library) are always described in loving detail. Even when Martin’s ''jailed'', he doesn’t forget to note the quality of the prison dinner.
337* ''Sport'': Louise Fitzhugh's novel has a scene in which Sport's stepmother-to-be cooks dinner for him and her fiance. Sport all but drools over it.
338* Creator/StevenBrust:
339** All of the ''[[Literature/{{Dragaera}} Vlad Taltos]]'' books contain loving description of food, wine, cooking, and ''Literature/{{Yendi}}'' both starts and ends with an extended "onions" metaphor. Read ''Literature/{{Dzur}}'' without getting hungry at least once. It's impossible. (To clarify, each chapter of the book begins with an overly long description of each course of a seventeen-course meal in the finest restaurant in the world, which the main character eats casually while waiting for every assassin in the city to learn he's back in town.)
340* ''Literature/SuperMinion'': Has a lot of this, which is unsurprising given that it's written in the first person from the perspective of a character who regarded food as its utmost priority even before downloading a mysterious software package that among other things gave it the ability to appreciate good food. Tofu at one point spends about five minutes describing a battle with a superhero, and then half an hour describing a company dinner after the battle.
341* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': Especially following the second book, the series likes to describe what people and dragons eat in fine detail (dragons enjoy their food cooked as much as anyone else, something that Europe hasn’t yet discovered). Laurence actually hires a Chinese cook to feed Temeraire, who after experiencing the fine dragon-cuisine of China has taken a liking to having his cows more prepared than 'freshly slaughtered and raw'.
342* ''Literature/TitaRosiesKitchenMysteries'': ''Literature/ArsenicAndAdobo'' can spend several paragraphs describing the ingredients, appearance, and taste of anything Lila eats or cooks. Since Lila helps out at her aunt's restaurant and her best friend is a barista who likes to experiment, there is no shortage of new food and drinks to describe. ''Literature/HomicideAndHaloHalo'' and ''Literature/BlackmailAndBibingka'' tone it down just a little.
343* ''Literature/ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn'': [[PluckyGirl Francie Nolan]] tries to write a novel about the [[WishFulfillment luxurious life a wealthy heiress]] named [[AuthorAvatar Sherry Nola]]. She's working on a passage about Sherry ordering up bunch of "simple" desserts (including strawberry shortcake, French chocolates, and a dozen charlotte russe) when she has to stop because her mouth is watering. Her teacher had reprimanded her before about writing stories about being poor and hungry, but she realizes she's writing about poverty and hunger here as well, only in a roundabout way.
344* ''Literature/TheYearOfTheRat'': Food is quite an important topic. Many meals are colorfully described. Some, though, may not seem so much of Food Porn outside the book's fantasy world: for example, a boiled crow with carrots...
345* Joanne Harris's novel ''Literature/{{Chocolat}}'', as the movie.
346* Creator/PoppyZBrite's series of novels starting with ''Liquor'', which makes sense since the books are about two chefs who start their own restaurant.
347* Many, many cookbooks, especially those designed in the UK; the ultimate, though, has got to be ''The French Laundry Cookbook'' by Thomas Keller, the greatest classical chef in the United States.
348** ''[[http://www.fiftyshadesofchicken.com/# 50 Shades of Chicken]]'' is a parody of Type 2.
349-->'' Spread the bird flat, breasts up, in an oiled roasting pan. Roast until golden and succulent, 40 to 50 minutes. Let rest for 10 minutes, then have your way with her, squeezing on lemon juice if she needs a tang.''
350* Pretty much anything written by Creator/RoaldDahl. Notice a pattern here? This trope is particularly associated with English literature (as in the country, not the language), especially children's literature.
351* Several of Thomas Wolfe's works, notably ''The Web and the Rock''. Especially the circus section in Chapter 3.
352* Books by Helen Fern Daringer use this frequently, especially ''Adopted Jane''. (Since the protagonist grew up in an orphanage, it's unsurprising that she especially appreciates the food she eats when she's not there, even though it's not a bad place, and she always has enough.) The scene with biscuits and butter and honey is very memorable.
353* Prof. Paul Campos went into some detail on the subject in the nonfiction ''The Diet Myth''.
354* The meal that, unfortunately, [[VillainousGlutton Raymond Trottle]] from ''Literature/TheSecretOfPlatform13'' eats. The most loving and delicious description is lavished on the knickerbocker glory.
355%%* Some of Jennifer Wiener's books really pile this trope on like mad.
356%%* Done with a hot dog in ''[[Literature/PigeonSeries The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!]]''
357* Most series by L. E. Modesitt, Jr., such as ''Literature/TheSagaOfRecluce'', will often delve into details about the meals being served and the accompanying drinks.
358* ''{{Literature/Neuromancer}}'' got its parody: "Gastromancer". The name already says it all.
359* Certain mentions of food in the Literature/AubreyMaturin series have a similar effect: The smells of bacon and coffee can always put Jack Aubrey in a good mood, and he tries to provide his officers with the best food available when they dine in his cabin.
360* This is the main theme of Creator/ItaloCalvino's short story Under The Jaguar Sun. Set in Mexico, Calvino's describes the pleasure of eating as a substitute of sex, because is a shared sensorial experience, exemplified by the middle-aged couple the story focuses on. He also devotes a great deal of attention to the tradition and description of mexican cuisine, which involves some incredibly [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly sacred]] and [[IAmAHumanitarian dark]] origins. Nevertheless, you ''will'' crave mexican food after finishing it.
361* Cathy Kelly's novel ''Homecoming'' is all about this, connecting food and recipes to all manner of life experiences, human interaction, family history and self-discovery.
362* In Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's satirical story "How to Write a Blackwood Article", Mr. Blackwood launches into this while advising Zenobia how she could write a horror story about her sensations upon [[UndeadAuthor choking to death on a chicken bone]]:
363-->Indeed what gentleman (or lady either) of sense, wouldn't die, I should like to know, for a well fattened capon of the right Molucca breed, stuffed with capers and mushrooms, and served up in a salad-bowl, with orange-jellies en mosaïques. Write! (You can get them that way at Tortoni's)
364* Chapter 6 of Creator/JohnGrisham's ''Playing for Pizza'' takes us through every step of a full-course dinner served at a trattoria in Parma, Italy, down to descriptions of how the dishes are made and which wines are paired with them. ''Do not read this chapter without ordering a pizza first''.
365* In general, mystery books-- especially [[CozyMystery Cozy Mysteries]]-- will either have a detailed description about food, a detailed description of a character eating food, a delicious illustration of food, a recipe of food in the story, a food-based title (bonus points if it's a {{Pun}}), or all of the above. Many come with recipes in the back, and whole cookbooks have been made from the food in mystery books.
366* ''Steel Crow Saga'' by Paul Krueger uses it to illustrate cultural divides and the crossing of them, with quite a lot of CulturalPosturing from the characters on the superiority of their country's cuisine gradually turning into appreciation for others' cuisine. Special mention goes to the feast Jimuro has at [[spoiler:Steel Cicada's hideout]], as its the first time he's tasted his native foods in years, and the one [[spoiler:Roumei]] prepares for [[spoiler:Lee]] to demonstrate her appreciation of the latter's heritage.
367* Zigzagged in ''Literature/TheWorstWitch''. Usually, the food is as dreadful as school food is expected to be, but Maud appreciates date pudding and custard after she has been put on a strict diet by her mother. In ''A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch'', Mildred meets a magician transformed into a frog, who reminisces sadly about a proper old-fashioned tea, with crumpets, butter and honey.
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371* Pretty much every show on the Food Network. The fact that some of the newer crop of hosts are also pleasing to look at doesn't hurt either. Ad slogans have included "Watch how food can arouse you," "This is... orgasmic," and so on.
372* ''Series/TheBigBrunch'' showcases its contestants' brunch items lovingly, and the judges react enthusiastically to most of the creations.
373* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'':
374** In "Carelessness Code", a SoundToScreenAdaptation, Miss Brooks has no money for lunch due to Mr. Conklin's arbitrary "carelessness code" fines. A lot of time is spent with Miss Brooks looking hungrily upon Harriet's cafeteria lunch of roast beef and mashed potatoes.
375** In the "Thanksgiving Show", Walter Denton describes his typical thanksgiving dinner to Miss Brooks:
376--->'''Walter Denton''': Well, usually Mom cooks a big turkey. And we have dinner at about four o'clock in the afternoon. Oh gosh, I'll never forget last year's meal. First we had a fresh fruit cup and then some delicious vegetable soup. And then this golden brown turkey was served with a special dressing of raisons and chestnuts. And then we had some candied yams with a baked marshmallow covering and . . . .
377* Parodied in a fake ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' bumper for the Food Network. The slogan: "Porn for fat people."
378* [[BigFun Ralphie Mae]] has a similar routine about watching Creator/RachaelRay make a chocolate cake while he was on ''Celebrity Fit Club''.
379* ''Series/GoodEats'' is one of the few modern shows to avert this trope -- while the show does have staff who make sure the food looks good for the camera, Alton frequently makes a point of eschewing garnishes and overly fancy presentation and his camera work tends toward being quirky rather than pornographic.
380%%* [=ElGourmet.com=] channel and the cooking shows in Utilísima.
381* Giada [=DiLaurentiis=] takes this one step further. Not only does her show have close-ups of her preparing food, but the soundtrack would fit well in REAL pornography. Go on, listen to it; if you watched her show in the past, you will never watch it the same way again. It also doesn't hurt that she always cooks in low cut dresses. However, at least you'll be able to prepare many of the dishes Giada makes, both in their general simplicity and affordability.
382* Ina Garten springs for the most expensive ingredients ever but also manages to make a dinner into a "You have no choice but to run the dishwasher after this meal" affair. And everything is "fabulous" or so good "people will go crazy" for it.
383* ''Series/TheMakanaiCookingForTheMaikoHouse'': A lot of emphasis is given to food preparation and cooking, and the camera often lovingly pans over Kiyo's finished dishes.
384* ''Series/ManVFood'' is the food-porn equivalent of a gang-bang, food porn taken to an extreme gonzo level. It does manage a lot of money shots on the way, as Adam Richman tours American eating places to see what they do best.
385* ''Series/NoReservations'' both exploits this and analyzes it, even dedicating two [[http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/02/no-reservations-food-porn-episode-featuring-momofuku-video/ episodes]] to the phenomenon so far (see page quote). However, Bourdain had written [[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/04/RV201066.DTL an article]] on the subject as early as 2001, well before he became a TV host.
386* ''Series/IronChef'' (Japan and America) is this trope personified. Though IC Japan tends to mix in equal parts {{Squick}} and ValuesDissonance; you know, just like actual Japanese porn.
387* Creator/NigellaLawson makes ''everything she does'' on her cooking shows sound flirty and slightly dirty. The fact that it is entirely possible to make a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12J95N6Zyqc porny-sounding audio-scene]] purely from the commentary she gives during one of her Christmas shows speaks volumes. One begins to wonder if her choice of words is intentionally done to have the most... effect.
388** ''Series/DeadRingers'' showed her filling out income tax forms, using the same kind of visuals and language as her shows, ending with her pen... erm, well, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything spraying ink everywhere]]. Trouble is, the line 'I'm going to stroke this box now' really wouldn't sound out of place on one of Nigella's shows.
389** A scene from ''Series/TheWestWing'' features White House Chief of Staff Leo [=McGarry=] explaining to his secretary that something will have to wait until the morning, as he must leave now or he'll "miss his show". His secretary declares it to be "like soft porn", adding that "no one needs to massage oil into a leg of lamb for that long". Given the timing of the broadcast, it is very likely they were referring to Ms Lawson.
390* For the Latin-American with Casa Club in their cable service, [[http://www.encasadekristina.com Kristina Wetter.]] Sure, her cooking on camera looks almost asceptic and chirurgical, but the results are absolutely mouth-watering. And let's not talk about her cooking books...
391* And for you who like the {{genki|girl}}-ish UsefulNotes/{{New York|City}}er thing, there's Creator/RachaelRay.
392* In ''Series/PushingDaisies'' the shots at the piehole of all the different pies baked by the Piemaker are absolutely mouthwatering. Add to that the candy from another local business, Bittersweets, and you've got mounds of beautiful and absolutely delectable food on camera.
393* Alluded to by ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': "I find pastrami to be the most sensual of all the salted cured meats." More than alluded to in the rest of the episode: George begins involving food in his foreplay. His girlfriend of the moment, Tara, accepts things like strawberries, chocolate sauce, and honey, but balks when George tries to integrate a pastrami sandwich on rye with mustard. She breaks up after he not only keeps sneaking food into bed, but tries to watch TV during sex as well. Later in the episode, he realizes that he's conflated food and sex to the degree that food now makes him aroused. The subplot ends with the quote above, when he discovers that Elaine's friend Vivian has exactly the same kink: sex, pastrami, and TV, all at the same time.
394* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' has a weird example of what might be considered Food ''{{Gorn}}'' in its opening sequence... [[https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/dexter/ here]].
395* Creator/GordonRamsay's cooking shows, where the cooking sequences are filmed in music video style closeups to the food, energetic and somewhat frantic quick cuts and all set to rather groovy music.
396* Creator/JamieOliver's food shows sound like a crossover with ''Series/TopOfThePops''. He's especially fond of Music/NenehCherry's "Buffalo Stance" as backing music.
397* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
398** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]" has gratuitous Food Gorn, being as it is about a race of aliens that are slaves to the pleasure of eating to [[ImAHumanitarian pretty extreme levels]], and an allegory for how [[AuthorTract eating meat is wrong]]. The Second Doctor gives a long and graphic speech about eating meat which was clearly intended to {{Squick}} viewers out, but [[NightmareRetardant it's not uncommon for fans to find it makes them hungry]].
399** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", the Master's speeches about Christmas Dinner make either make you disgusted with it or really, really hungry.
400** It has the beginning of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]", where the Doctor snacks at young Amy Pond's house after regenerating. First, she fried some really delicious-looking bacon, which the Doctor sadly rejected. Then she made what was probably the most beautiful-looking bowl of baked beans ever (though the sight of him spitting it out on the sink [[NauseaFuel might put off some people]]). Then she gave him bread with some butter, which for some reason looks really mouth-watering. After rejecting it, the Doctor finally picks his snack of choice: fish fingers and custard. Oh, and he pours the custard to a big glass bowl. Mmm...
401** The food that started off the whole sequence, one of most most delicious-looking ''and'' delicious-sounding apples ever, only to be promptly spat out, awwww...
402* Two literal examples from ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
403** The team once investigated a murder that traced back to an exclusive party dedicated to EroticEating, complete with obligatory chocolate-sauce-covered-model / strawberry-dipping scene.
404** There was another case involving a sushi restaurant that employed beautiful women to serve as "tables"...clothed only in strategically placed seaweed.
405-->'''Stella:''' Oh, that can't be sanitary.
406-->'''Danny:''' Who cares if it's sanitary? I want to see the menu.
407* Nadia always samples each of her dishes as soon as they're done on ''Series/BitchinKitchen''. Cue the satisfied moans and description of how all the flavors and textures fit together.
408* The KoreanDrama ''Series/{{Pasta}}'' is set in an Italian restaurant and features lots and lots of pretty plates of food.
409* ''Gourmet'' (AKA ''Grand Chef''), a Korean show.
410* ''Feast of the Gods''. Heck, even Korean shows that aren't specifically about cooking have a fair amount of this.
411* On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', after he has his heart attack, Jack asks Liz to eat a huge, beautiful steak in front of him so he can enjoy it vicariously. Of course [[BigEater she wolfs it down while his back is turned]].
412** There is also an episode with a plotline all about Sandwich Day, a once a year holiday where the teamsters give out sandwiches to everyone for free. Frank describes the day with the same level of awe a child would use when talking about Christmas. Towards the end of the episode, Liz eats her own sandwich (with obligatory dipping sauce) rather than chase after her love intrest.
413* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnXFTqf8niA This]] ''Series/HowItsMade'' episode about sushi.
414* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' toes the line between Food Porn and Food {{Gorn}}, considering that some of it is probably made with human flesh. It says a lot that some of the meals are shot just as lovingly as some of the murders.
415** Taken to the extreme in the show itself, as you'll probably think the food looks pretty damn awesome before being disgusted at yourself. For example, in season 2 Hannibal preps a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossobuco Veal Ossobuco]] after '''''cutting the shanks from a human leg.'''''
416** It's especially notable that, due to fan interest, the people behind food prep [[http://janicepoonart.blogspot.co.uk/ run a blog on the meals presented]]. While the dishes and recipes are implied/shown to made of human, the food porn shown isn't fake (or made from people).
417* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' Shawn sure loves to show off his pineapples.
418* ''Series/TwinPeaks'' sure does love coffee, and pie, and donuts.
419* ''Series/ReplacingChefChico'': The Filipino and Filipino-fusion foods the fine dining restaurant creates for its guests are given a lot of attention. For example, in the first scene, Ella is shown painstakingly putting a plate of lumpiang sisig together, with the camera focusing on each ingredient being chopped before she puts it all together with stellar plating. For any foodies in the audience, they also make it a point to utilize ingredients and techniques unique to the Philippines, such as by emphasizing the use of the rare artisanal sea salt ''asin tibuok'' in one dish.
420* Done in the ''Densha De Go!!'' episode of ''Series/RetroGameMaster'', where the narrator describes the five famous train station bento boxes that Arino and the [=ADs=] will compete for.
421* ''Series/{{iZombie}}'' has a tendency to show extremely well prepared meals in which the primary ingredient is human brain. In the first season Blaine even ran a gourmet meat store with a chef exploring the exciting new realm of zombie cuisine.
422* ''Series/SamuraiGourmet'' may devote a higher portion of its screen time to Food Porn than some actual cooking shows. But it's not a cooking show; it's a light drama about a retired Japanese man and his daydreams about a samurai. Also, despite the title and the fact that Kasumi ''really'' [[OrgasmicallyDelicious enjoys his food]], neither he nor the samurai is technically a gourmet.
423* ''Series/TheSopranos'' is a delight for food-watchers, as they're eating in almost every scene. Chef Artie Bucco is a particular purveyor of this as he loves to discuss his ingredients at length.
424* ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff'': The show never misses an opportunity to showcase the contestants' offerings in close-up, high-resolution, slowly-rotating shots that give the audience a good look at every individual flake of a pastry. And even when the food itself doesn't turn out quite as intended, they preface each challenge with a stylized drawing of each contestant's ''intended'' offering, which is often nearly as mouth-watering as the real thing, even collected into [[https://www.amazon.com/Great-British-Bake-Colouring-Book/dp/1473615623 a coloring book]] full of all the bakes and set dressings.
425** Biggest plot twist? The artist who creates the drawings has come out and admitted that he hates cake. The travesty.
426* ''Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain'', a docuseries that follows chef Anthony Bourdain to various nations to sample the culture, history, and food of the locale. Being that the host is a renowned chef and that a key component of the show is the food of the region, the shots of the food he eats are highly embellished and lovingly framed to instill the most amount of food-lust in the viewer.
427* ''Series/NailedIt'': Although the competition is about amateurs bakers failing at making grandiose desserts, the actual desserts they are basing themselves on are gorgeous and edible works of art capable of making any sweet tooth's mouth water.
428* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
429** In general, the 24th century shows, ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', and ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', featured the replicator, capable of generating any food(s) or drink(s) the characters desired, so sometimes, we see our characters enjoying certain dishes.
430** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "The Game", Riker meets Troi in Ten Forward, where she's enjoying a chocolate sundae, and goes into surprising detail about the way she eats it.
431--->'''Troi:''' It's not just a matter of taste. It's the whole experience. First of all, you have to spoon the fudge around the rim, leaving only ice cream in the middle. Then, you gently spoon the ice cream around the sides, like you're sculpting it. Relish every bite. Make every one an event. And then, with the last spoonful, close your eyes.
432--->'''Riker:''' I had no idea it was such a ritual.
433--->'''Troi:''' Chocolate is a serious thing.
434** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' devotes so much attention to the crew's meals that Evay of [[http://www.triphammered.com/ Triphammered]] devotes an entire section of her website (called the [[http://www.triphammered.com/Extras/FoodChain.shtml "Food Chain"]]) to chronicling what they eat in each episode.
435* ''Series/KodokuNoGurume'' follows a Japanese businessman as he visits various real-life restaurants in Japan and tries out their dishes, which inevitably involves sumptous close-ups and the main character's ecstatic {{Internal Monologue}}s while eating the food.
436* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', all the fighters from the future eat and eat when they come back, particularly Riley and Jessie, who "can't stop eating" Chinese food from the food court at the mall. According to the DVD commentary, this is also Author Appeal, as the writer who wrote the line also loves food court Chinese food. Inverted with Sarah, as the only food she seems to be able to make is pancakes and PB&J.
437* ''Series/KantaroTheSweetToothSalaryman'' puts sweets on display heightened to such a degree that one can easily buy into the orgasmic reactions the main character has to all of them.
438* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self]]", the seven-course meal that is served to Daniel Molloy and was prepared by Louis de Pointe du Lac's personal chef looks absolutely gorgeous and delicious. They're the type of fancy dishes that you'd find at a ''very'' expensive restaurant.
439* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': The opening of "A Brisket, Voodoo, and Cannonball Run" displays Connie's smoked brisket being served in loving detail.
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443* Music/{{Psychostick}}'s song "The Hunger Within" has descriptive verses of various junk foods as the protagonist is a hungry man who can't afford to buy food until his next paycheck in a few days.
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447* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Mr. Conklin's Carelessness Code", Miss Brooks has no money for lunch due to Mr. Conklin's arbitrary "carelessness code" fines. A lot of time is spent as Miss Brooks looks enviously upon Harriet's cafeteria lunch of roast beef and mashed potatoes.
448* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVZ2UGyMnVY J.C. Webster III]] routinely rants about food porn when he calls into ''Radio/CoastToCoastAM''.
449* ''Radio/InAndOutOfTheKitchen'' is a spoof of FoodPorn writing.
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453* In his "Beyond the Pale" special, Comedian Jim Gaffigan describes the Food Network as porn when you're hungry. "'What are you watching?' 'Uh... uh, Food Network...' 'Why are your pants off?' 'I-I like food... a ''lot''.'"
454* In his "Comedy Central Presents" episode, Creator/GabrielIglesias remembers phone sex with his former girlfriend, who shared his love of food. Instead of telling him what she was wearing she described what she was baking: "Chooooocolate... caaaake..."
455* A joke from the early Creator/BillBailey show ''Cosmic Jam'' has him relay the experience of standing in line at a local takeaway and realising that someone had to have taken all the photos of the food that the shop uses for advertisement. He muses on what the life of a food photographer must be like, before acting out a man photographing food while calling it a "Saucy minx".
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459* It makes sense that ''VideoGame/CookingMama'' does this, considering that it's a cooking game. From the games packaging, to the pictures that show the food being prepared in the minigames, to the pictures of the finished product when you successfully complete the recipe, each time it looks delicious.
460* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' is prone to this. Some levels have a huge stock of foods for you to eat. Should you get fat, your firepower becomes much [[MoreDakka deadlier]].
461* Then there's ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', which seems to have an unhealthy fixation on beautifully rendered foodstuffs amongst cartoony Sonic graphics. An example [[http://i32.tinypic.com/2ldtyz4.jpg here]] that it must be noted is in [=NO=] way altered. Then there are all the collectible foods in the game, each with its own graphic and description. And if you feed them to Chip, he'll even tell you how it tastes.
462* Masahiro Sakurai has a tendency to put photo-realistic food [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} in]] [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros his]] [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising games]].
463* Creator/{{Vanillaware}} games are particularly notorious for their ''very'' eye-catching food. It's recommended that you're not on an empty stomach when you see it.
464** ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'' has your standard healing items, but it also allows you to cook your own, and visit restaurants. In the latter two cases, you get to see the food being prepared by invisible hands, then consumed, while the character comments on it. The visual style of the game only helps.
465** ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' also features this to a lesser extent. But only in that the gorgeously crafted food sprites aren't right in your face in first-person view.
466** ''Videogame/DragonsCrown'' continues the tradition of gorgeous-looking food in its Cooking Minigame, wherein your adventurer gets to prepare dishes using the various ingredients they came across on their journey, some of which having come off of slain bosses. Best part, there's an incentive for doing this beyond the visuals: each dish gives your plucky adventurer stat-bonuses for their dungeon run.
467** ''VideoGame/ThirteenSentinelsAegisRim'' features many dishes and meals that the characters enjoy so much, which those scenes tend to make players hungry for those dishes, especially since they show the dishes in so much detail. As a celebration of the game's release on the Nintendo Switch, Atlus has uploaded recipes of 3 of the most popular dishes from the game on their offical website and as videos on their social media for fans to make for themselves.
468* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' has some food vendors and a barkeep where the Nameless One can buy several foods and drinks. You're then treated to a detailed first-person paragraph of him enjoying his meal. Feeling hungry yet?
469* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
470** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': Done in a rather bizarre way, where the waiters in the restaurants of Lumiose City (except the Sushi High Roller) give you some rather detailed descriptions of the [[HauteCuisineIsWeird outright WEIRD entrees]]. For example, the third course at the two-star Restaurant Le Yeah is "Azure Bay Slowpoke Tail [with] Payapa Berry crudités glazed in extra virgin Oran oil". The chef claims that "it has been described as the gastronomical equivalent of a Gastly glaring at a Hex Maniac". The fourth is cheese made from an Arbok's Toxic venom, aged up to 180 years; the chef claims that "simply biting into this blue cheese will give off an odor so foul, your nose hairs will burn." [[SarcasmMode (Sure... sounds delicious.)]]
471** Ironically, Cafe Le Nah has the most sensible, simple food descriptions, which are in themselves very appetizing. Fresh ingredients, minimally-seasoned so their flavors are the highlights of each dish. [[SincerityMode Yum!]]
472** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' goes full into this trope with the Curry Dex. The whole thing is a cooking minigame where you combine ingredients to make curry on rice for your Pokemon and player character to eat, and the end result will be one out of 151 possible types depending on the combination. Needless to say, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9qwuZ0xcVs the illustrations and descriptions for all of them are very appetizing indeed.]]
473* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' occasionally dives into this.
474** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'': Milk is a healing item in, and the item descriptions make it sound really good. In particular, the latter game has special milk variants that sound even more tantalizing.
475** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'': The original couldn't fully accomplish this on a Game Boy screen. However, the remake for Nintendo Switch made some soup in the background of a particular house look really delicious for seemingly no reason; it's almost disappointing that Link can't actually taste any of it.
476** Grandma's Soup from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' and the Superb Soup from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]''. Both are powerful healing items (the former even gives you an attack boost), they have mouth-watering descriptions, and Link definitely enjoys them; just compare his reaction to consuming soup to taking a standard healing potion.
477** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' leans the hardest into they trope. You can scavenge all sorts of ingredients to make all sorts of delicious and health-boosting food items. Your ingredients sizzling after Link dumps them in a pot is guaranteed to make the player hungry. Unless you use bad ingredients, [[LethalChef in which case...]]
478* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagicIV'': One of the benefits of the game being text heavy as it is. The very first mission of the haven campaign features one of these during the introduction of one of the playable characters.
479* Many games by Gust, especially the ''Atelier'' and ''[[VideoGame/ExaPico Ar tonelico]]'' games, feature a lot of delicious- (and often bizarre) looking foods, carefully and lovingly described.
480* The InteractiveFiction game ''VideoGame/SavoirFaire'' is full of this. The protagonist starts hallucinating about various delicious foods when hungry, and one major puzzle is finding all the ingredients for a meal. (You can even go for a vegetarian version if you prefer to.)
481* The ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' of games has food as healing items, each described in loving detail. If you have the materials and the recipes, you can whip up your own.
482* In ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' games, you can check out the ovens for [[RareCandy stat-boosting food items]] or a short, appetizing description of what the locals are cooking. [[RuleOfFunny Or a short, alarmed description]] of the [[ForeignQueasine fried grubs]]. Or, in ''Dark Dawn'', a [[AndThatsTerrible short, tragic lament for a ruined oven that will never cook again]].
483* Many ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games starting from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' include dozens of different food items to find on top of the standard Pot Roast, ranging from fresh fruit all the way up to modern dishes that shouldn't even exist in the depicted time period, each one with a well-drawn sprite and a brief description. The most exquisite food items provide large boosts of HP.
484* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'':
485** ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'': Once you get 100% completion, you unlock "Louie's notes", which describe in excruciating detail how to prepare every enemy in the game that's not poisonous. While most of these are humorous, the ones that get into genuine detail make them sound absolutely delicious.
486** ''VideoGame/Pikmin3'' also leans into this. One of the game's main objectives is collecting fruit, both to sustain your characters and also to solve a famine back home. As such, the team seemingly went out of their way to make the fruit look as delicious as possible, even when fruit is converted into juice. Brittany's descriptions also help, though they're not quite as in-depth as Louie's.
487* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' has this in spades, although some of the food items are really disgusting NauseaFuel. Most of them are so lusciously described it may make you hungry, perhaps the most decadent of Food Porn can be found at The Crumpetmonger, but you can find examples in nearly any store that sells food. Here is the description of the caramel apple bundt cake which can be found at The Crumpetmonger. 'A golden vanilla cake topped with juicy red apples and caramel. Yum!'
488* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has at least 62 different types of food, based on the wiki. These range from baked potatoes to cocktails to pies. In particular, Gnome-style cooking is described as ImpossiblyDeliciousFood and real-world equivalents have been developed for sale in gaming conventions.
489* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' The Chef crafting discipline, a world of depth unto its own. There are hundreds of dishes to happen upon, with many of them requiring logical component parts (Want cookies? Better make some dough first.)
490* The ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'' series has a [[http://cluecrewcookin.tumblr.com/ blog]] dedicated to its cooking minigames. An entire blog! ''That's'' the level of FoodPorn we're dealing with here. (Special mention goes to the ''Icicle Creek'' game, in which Nancy is masquerading as a cook- the developers paid loving attention to mimicking the sound, the ''exact sound'' of Canadian bacon crackling on the stove, and the burn marks on well-cooked hamburger meat...)
491* ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' gives you a large assortment of food items to feed to your Miis, each of which is accompanied by a photo of the food item and some (often-humorous) FlavorText.
492* ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' features restaurants, bars, and convenience stores where you can get food and drink items to recover HP, gain EXP, and get other benefits. Food and drink are generally portrayed through real photos of the items, including a heavy amount of ProductPlacement, with FlavorText to underscore it all. In particular, restaurants around town often have gorgeous photos of every menu item to help advertising like in real life.
493* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' does this with ramen on the bottom screen. Three times. In one chapter. And even the low-resolution sprites of the other food items manage to become this when they're coupled with their detailed text descriptions.
494* ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'': The finale for the [[SupremeChef Bandaged]] [[CordonBleughChef Poissonier]]'s storyline ends with a massive, seven-course meal for the [[WasOnceAMan Fathomking]] and his court, and every last plate is lavishly described to the point that, even knowing [[KrakenAndLeviathan what exactly went into that meal]], you'd want a taste yourself. StarfishAlien has never sounded so delightful.
495* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
496** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyAdvance'': Two of the Gaddgets exist purely to show off tasty-looking food sprites. "Dessert Menu" has you select a base dessert, a fruit, and a sauce, and shows you what the resulting dish looks like. "Cake Maker," meanwhile, lets you decorate a cake however you like, with decorations like cream swirls, fruit slices, and candles you can place wherever you want.
497** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'':
498*** After Bowser defeats Midbus, he gets treated to a victory feast organized by Boos that Fawful brainwashed. It's an impressive display of cakes, giant hot dogs, turkey, doughnuts and ham which Bowser comments on when he first sees it.
499--->'''Bowser:''' So many greasy, succulent, very unhealthy dishes! I've been craving this stuff like crazy! I'm gonna eat it all!
500*** There's also the Snack Basket Bros. Move which involves filling up Luigi with cookies, doughnuts, cakes and other various desserts.
501** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash,'' there's a part where Mario must [[ItMakesSenseInContext cook a steak for a picky restaurant customer.]] The steak is one of the few objects in the game rendered realistically and not in the game's papercraft style. According to the developer commentary in the manual, their goal was to make the model as mouthwatering as possible so that everyone who played the game wanted to eat the steak. They even went so far as to buy a super-expensive piece of meat as a business expense and photograph it incrementally to capture it cooking, photos of which can be found in the manual. And yes, they say it was delicious.
502* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' delves into this trope with the Culinarian job quests, where it starts out cooking out basic dishes for training, to cooking a feast for the Sultana, Nanamo Ul Namo herself. In the main story questline for ''Endwalker'', there is the heroes' visit to Old Sharlayan, a scholarly city-state whose regional specialty is the NondescriptNastyNutritious archon loaf. So unsavory is archon loaf that one restaurant was opened in Old Sharlayan, the Last Stand, ''specifically'' to provide people with more palatable cuisine. The large dinner spread that the heroes have curtesy of the Last Stand's cooks looks scrumptious, with foods including cookies, sandwiches, and even ''cheeseburgers and pizza''!
503* Ignis in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' frequently comes up with a new recipe and cooks food for the party. In-game, the foods give you stat buffs, but they're also notable for looking both delicious and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HKyKdSqMU extremely realistic]]. You can thank a dev team that has ShownTheirWork for this as to get everything just right, they [[https://www.eater.com/2016/12/21/14030230/final-fantasy-vx-15-food-review actually went outdoors with the kind of camping equipment the party packs and made the meals with the help of actual cooks]] then took pictures and rendered the meals in-game to make them look absolutely scrumptious.
504* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' has the bistro in Twilight Town opened by Scrooge [=McDuck=], with the chef being Remy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', where you participate in cooking mini games to make dishes using the ingredients you can find while going through the Disney and Pixar worlds. On top of the stat buffs they provide, all of the dishes look delicious as well, with each dish having a unique and lavish description of its flavor, smell, and texture logged in Sora's Gummiphone.
505* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': The game draws and describes food items in so much detail that it can make you salivate. miHoYo even posts recipes on the Chinese website under the title "The Steambird | Teyvat Food Notes" for players to cook at home (provided one can read Chinese, of course). And over on the game's offical social media sites is their Liyue's Cuisine Collection series of videos where a chef prepares the recipes from Liyue.
506* The ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed]]'' [[GameMod ROM Hack]] ''VideoGame/PokemonSweetVersion'': Since ''everything'' in this game is a LevelAte, well, tf you're a sweets lover, expect to go into a trance when you read the Pokésweets entries.
507* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': Because to kill an epic monster, you need an epic meal. [[https://youtu.be/QeRZPV7JXt8 See what we mean?]] The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFIXAvOQBMc Grammeowster Chef]] cutscene is both this and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments utterly adorable.]]
508* ''VideoGame/CookServeDelicious'' is a restaurant sim where every food item is drawn in lush detail. The sequel is even more intense, [[SerialEscalation with over 150 items]]. Good luck playing either without getting hungry.
509* In the first ''VideoGame/ShepherdsCrossing,'' your in-game progress log has a "Dishes" section full of detailed illustrations of food and your ExpositionFairy, Brammy's, descriptions of them. You can't cook in the game, so this ''only'' exists for some gratuitous food porn. The second game does have cooking, and [[InconsistentSpelling Brummy]] lovingly describes the taste of the various dishes you can make.
510* In ''VideoGame/{{Overcooked}},'' the various foods you can make, though cartoony, are nonetheless designed to look appetizing. The VideoGameRemake of the first game even improved the graphics for some recipes used in the first game, so the soups, once just bowls of flat color, now have delicate swirls of cream on top of a much richer-looking broth.
511* Subverted in ''VideoGame/TimeAndEternity'', whose [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome nigh-universally praised visuals]] include artwork of the cakes made at the Ricardulce bakery, which are [[LethalChef best described]] as Food '''{{Gorn}}'''.
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515* Far more love, gentleness, and caressing detail is given to the food in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' than the [[FetishRetardant sex]] [[{{Narm}} scenes]]. ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'' actually has numerous scenes that do nothing ''but'' talk about food. Over and over. The sheer frequency is one of the criticisms leveled at it as the scenes in question all tend to be the same.
516** The mapo tofu scene in ''Heavens Feel'' may be an intentional Food Porn equivalent of FanDisservice.
517* To a lesser degree in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. It's an AuthorAppeal, it would seem. The sexual descriptions tended to more food analogies than many readers [[{{Squick}} could comfortably stomach]].
518* ''VisualNovel/HotelDuskRoom215'' and its sequel ''VisualNovel/LastWindow'' have a few shots of dishes, which Kyle Hyde finds to be as tasty as they are visually appealing.
519* ''VisualNovel/TheLetter'' features nice pictures of pancakes, cakes and many other dishes, often accompanied by descriptions of said dishes.
520* There is a lot of food in ''VisualNovel/StrawberryVinegar''. All of it looks amazing. [[http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/407340/ss_dae9c89480b7477b3e635bcc3342cefc3be6ba9f.600x338.jpg?t=1457975223 An example from the Steam page]]. The descriptions alone in some scenes are enough to make your mouth water. On one occasion, even when Rie is describing shaved ice as "cheap" and "artificial" the photo [[http://i.imgur.com/AzZXKd8.jpg still looks delicious]].
521* Whenever the Ushiromiya family in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' sits down to have a meal expect lots of Food Porn. Given the nature of the show, some particular scenes could even count as ''Food {{Gorn}}''.
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525* ''Webcomic/HangInThereKogasaSan'' does this a fair bit, as [[AuthorAvatar Kogasa]] and several of "her" friends are major foodies.
526* The many [[http://schoolbites.net/d/20091202.html splash pages of sweets]] in ''Webcomic/SchoolBites'' are often referred as "porn for girls".
527* Terezi, of ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', has a condition that allows her to ''taste'' colours, and her narration goes into much detail over this. [[spoiler:Karkat]]'s blood, for example, is 'sweet, sweet candy red.'
528* In ''Webcomic/{{Heartcore}}'', Royce's "muse" is food. The fancier and tastier the food, the better. Quite fitting for the demon whose [[SevenDeadlySins sin]] is gluttony.
529* Parodied, like so many other things, by ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}''. "Sex with avocado! Sex with avocado!"
530* Frequently crops up in ''Webcomic/GourmetHound'', which overflows with lovingly-illustrated, mouthwatering pictures of the dishes being cooked by the characters.
531* Used InUniverse in ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'' where the cast reads (or, rather, Thistle reads to everyone else) a [[DimeNovel penny-dreadful]] SwordAndSorcery novel[[note]]the comic itself being Swords-and-Sorcery turning the in-universe book into Historical Fiction[[/note]] titled "[[PunctuationShaker T'Fa'Nii]] the Clanless: a Season of Blades." After defeating an orc warband threatening a village, T'Fa'Nii is treated to a sumptuous feast described in a way that can only be called "laviscous detail." It makes Lyra hungry and Thistle has to skip that part.
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535* Website/YouTube: the internet shows “Cooking Made Sexy by Tifa” and “Cooking With Cans”. [[https://www.youtube.com/user/HotForCooking]], [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MidnightChimes]]
536* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and [[ParodiedTrope mercilessly parodied]] by the ''WebVideo/SortedFood'' crew, who call the presentation of their finished dishes "Bring on the '''Sexies'''".
537* Lampshaded in the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' Strong Bad e-mail "bottom 10", where one of the list's entries was "Chocolate desserts with dangerous names", accompanied with pictures of chocolate things thrown together ridiculously; one such creation included unwrapped Hostess brownies.
538* [[http://foodporndaily.com/ Food Porn Daily]]. You're welcome.
539* A frequent ''raison d'être' for many food blogs. Witness the [[http://www.slashfood.com/category/food-porn/ food porn category]] at [[http://www.slashfood.com Slashfood]] as an example.
540* Then, there's the [=FailBlog=] relative, [[http://epicute.com/ EpiCute]], which presents outlandish but mouth-watering desserts... And truly breathtaking, spectacular, or even adorable presentations for just about everything else. Including vegetables.
541* Just about every Phase story in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. Phase is a rich kid with a phenomenal palate and maybe a decade of experience in fine dining all over the world. He grew up in a mansion that had two master chefs, plus sous-chefs. He is always wheedling fine cuisine out of the [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]] chefs, and then giving loving reviews of everything about the food. Possibly the originator of the word "foodgasm".
542* The "Sunday Sweets" on ''Blog/CakeWrecks''. [[http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/tag/sunday-sweets Link for your viewing pleasure]]. The rest of the blog can sometimes fall under Food {{Gorn}}.
543* ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'', but can border on the {{Squick}} side sometimes because it is not the kind of soft, loving and tender porn; WebVideo/EpicMealTime is the manly, bacon filled, made of meat food porn for you perverts out there and one of these men is a trained chef. Think about that for a while. Almost as if completely Lampshading themselves, videos came to feature a bevy of attractive ladies eating in a much more sensual fashion alongside the super-carnivores... well, as sensual as you can be when eating a bacon big mac wrapped in bacon stuffed inside a pizza and covered in more bacon, then deep fried.
544* ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'': At the end of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-UC7v-Ou24 Should science be morally ethical?]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STBbgr00FOw Should Atheists Celebrate Christmas?]]'', Harry randomly posts a picture of an excellently-prepared dinner that he made. Posting 'sirloin steak with triple-cooked, Parmesan-coated chips, spinach and Béarnaise sauce' in the former and 'chicken breast with crème fraîche and chive-topped fondant potatoes, courgettes and white wine sauce' in the latter.
545* Look at this article for a [[http://sweetapolita.com/2011/04/chocolate-espresso-bundt-cake-with-dark-chocolate-cinnamon-glaze/ chocolate espresso cake with chocolate cinnamon glaze]], It was almost sexual the way he keeps showing the photo of the cake and describing how sensual it is.
546* The [[http://www.flickr.com/groups/food_porn/ Flickr photo group]].
547* [[http://polyvore.com Polyvore]], a fashion website, has ''lots'' of FoodPorn in it. [[http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/search.collections?&query=food Just search 'food' in the Collections search engine.]] It doesn't hurt to mention that most of them are pastry, confectionary and sweets. You can also try searching with words like 'sweets', 'hungry', etc.
548* Website/{{Reddit}} has an entire board devoted to this concept. It is named, appropriately, [[http://www.reddit.com/r/FoodPorn FoodPorn]]. YMMV as to the quality, though, as many of the photos are user-created and -submitted.
549* This [[http://foodfuck.tumblr.com/ tumblr]] is just amazing.
550* ''Podcast/TheBrianAndJillShow'', co-host Jill Whelan is described as a "foodie" who loves her recipes.
551* The ''Food Adventure Program For Awesome People'' [=FAPFAP=] episodes of WebVideo/EatYourKimchi explore the cuisine of South Korea. These often include a short segment of artfully shot close-ups of the food being manipulated with chopsticks or broken open to the same jazzy-ish tune.
552* In ''WebVideo/WelcomeToSanditon'', Thursday episodes are fillers and they consist either of cut fan-submitted videos or Clara's recipes. Clara is an owner of local ice-cream shop Sanditon Scoops. Her recipe is usually something very sweet, topped with her delicious ice-cream. For instance, she showed her viewers how to make chocolate brownies sandwiches with nuts and fudge and ice-cream filling.
553* [[http://9gag.com/gag/aRQ1gOq Grandma's cooking from around the world.]] The only porn with grandmas you'll ever want to see.
554* The concept is discussed on the now-defunct cooking blog Culinary Brodown, to the effect that feeling vaguely ashamed is part of the experience of traditional pornography, and that food porn should be no different -- so glamorous food photography should not be called "food porn" unless it's greasy, sugary, unhealthy junk food that makes you feel guilty.
555* In a morbid but still mouth-watering twist, photographer Henry Hargreaves did a series of Food Porn images out of [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/12-pictures-of-death-row-prisoners-last-meals#.csWrE30Pk Last Meals requested and eaten by Death Row inmates.]] He explains how disturbingly easy it was to feel kinship and connection with the murders in spite of their violent crimes just by looking at their meals, and laments Texas no longer offers the Last Meal privilege to its inmates.
556* The ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' episode for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmLUXoK1I8o here]], makes fun of the game's use of this trope (skip to at 3:18).
557-->Because we all know what you're really here for, anyway... lovingly rendered fantasy soup.
558* Parodied in ''WebVideo/TheKateringShow'' episode "Food Porn" (naturally).
559* As a cooking show, ''WebVideo/BingingWithBabish'' features this a lot, particularly when cross-sections of burgers or sandwiches are shown. There's also the fact that a common theme in the show is to reproduce food porn from other media as faithfully as possible. Seeing fictional food porn come to real life? And be given a recipe with how to create it? ''Chef's. Kiss.''
560* ''WebVideo/ComediansInCarsGettingCoffee'', as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin befitting the name]], includes gorgeous close-up shots of coffee beans brewing.
561* ''WebVideo/Steve1989MREInfo'': Steve's channel focuses on foods that wouldn't typically be considered glamorous, specifically military rations-- usually at least several years vintage and sometimes bordering on {{Squick}} with his BizarreTasteInFood allowing him to eat and seemingly enjoy obviously expired meals. But, sometimes he comes across particularly noteworthy rations and cannot contain his excitement as he eagerly eats them. Bonus points for being especially well preserved after decades of storage. The overall presentation, with Steve's soft voice and the close perspective of the camera above the tray of food which makes it seem almost as if you're at the table eating these things, has been likened to WebVideo/{{ASMR}}.
562* ''WebVideo/TheVictorianWay'': The episodes are usually titled "How to make X — The Victorian Way". The show presents various delicious recipes of classical British cuisine in the Victorian way. The videos are beautifully shot with lots of details on ingredients and the final product.
563* Tolkien's aforementioned penchant for food porn is parodied in Website/SomethingAwful's "[[https://www.somethingawful.com/news/hobbit-chapter-one/ Rough Drafts: The Hobbit]]":
564-->''Great big juicy peaches, fresh hot waffles, cheeses of every sort, barrels of mead, cupcakes as big as your head - no! control yourself, Tolkien, or everything you've built will come crashing down around you''
565* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ_FrN6FNViZVjxHUvf6_xA ChefClub]] presents the finished [[NutritionalNightmare and oft-unhealthy]] dishes in mouth-watering ways, cutting to show the fillings, repeatedly playing pouring melted cheese... one case has the comment section deeming it as this trope in a too literal sense, as [[FreudWasRight a whole carrot being inserted into a chicken]] was played thrice!
566* ''Website/TheHardTimes'': "Man Only Watches Anime for the Food", which describes a guy who enjoys the food depictions in shows like ''Manga/FoodWars'' and ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'', but completely ignores the plots.
567* ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': Food is repeatedly described in great detail, including its layering, components, associated cutlery and the cooking process. There are entire paragraphs focussed on cooking.
568* ''WebVideo/NickDiGiovanni'' is full of this trope. Considering that he's a finalist in Series/MasterChef, it's not hard to see why he would excel in this area.
569* One ''Kittisaurus Villains'' episode of ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' features a slow motion shot of a strawberries and cream cake Claire is about to eat. It's little wonder Dodo's response to it is an emphatic "Wow!"
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573* ''WesternAnimation/LibertysKids'': Any scene with Henri that isn't played for comedy will probably include this. "Green Mountain Boys" is a good episode if you like pancakes.
574* The ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' franchise is famous for this, thanks to Scooby and Shaggy's extreme hunger.
575* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
576** They did this with pancakes in the episodes "Love Thy Trophy", "Jungle Love", and "The Man With Two Brians".
577** Done with apple pie in the episodes "The Man With Two Brians" and "Barely Legal" (although the latter had some of Meg's hair in it.)
578* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
579** "Grandma's Kisses" is good episode to watch for this if you happen to be a fan of chocolate chip cookies.
580** The irresistible Krabby Patty as seen in episodes like "Plankton!" and definitely "Just One Bite".
581** "Club [=SpongeBob=]" spends a good minute dedicated to [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick gobbling up mouth-watering picnic food [[AccidentalGoodOutcome dropped from a falling plane as a 'reward' from the Magic Conch Shell for doing nothing.]]
582* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' does this at times whenever Angelica (who is a major SweetTooth) indulged on cookies, cakes or other such sweets.
583* ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' does this to the Nth degree.
584* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' has its fair share. Pretty much expected, since it's a SliceOfLife and the kids would hang out at a burger joint.
585** One notable instance is an episode where Doug spends the weekend with his Grandma, who lets him eat cake, pizza, sundaes, donuts and so on, but unfortunately ends up putting on some weight as a result.
586* Disney has proven that they are quite capable of making a drawing still look delicious.
587** Case in point: [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts the 1948 short]] ''Three For Breakfast''. You'll be dying for pancakes afterwards.
588** Another food porn accomplishment for Disney came about during a Disney Channel special called "The Plausible Impossible". In it, Walt Disney himself describes in mouthwatering detail the food on a table (as it is being enticingly animated) to Donald Duck in order to draw him into into demonstrating for the audience. See ''[[https://youtu.be/39z1MrlPYxE?t=1092 here]]'' for the...tastiness.
589** The Silly Symphony short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5dowCyaP7I The Wise Little Hen]] has this towards the end. With the titular hen's cooking from her corn harvest looking quite appetizing too bad Pete Pig and Donald Duck (in his first ever appearance) refused to help the hen by faking a stomachache or else they would've gotten some instead of Castor oil.
590* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has some delicious-looking food, particularly in the Fire Nation (check out the shots of the buffet table in "The Beach"). In the DVDCommentary for "The Blind Bandit", Mike and Bryan even mentions how the food drawn by a certain background artist always made them hungry. Some things, though, like the stewed sea prunes and Sokka's smoked sea slug, are very {{Squick}}, unless you're a Southern Water Tribe native.
591* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' sometimes delves into this, with for example Yugo's blanquette or the feast at the end of the Gobbowl arc. And then there's the whole of episode 8 and its bakery contest; even its MonsterOfTheWeek can make you salivate.
592* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Creme Fraiche", where Randy Marsh gets obsessed with cooking and literally gets turned on by it thanks to the Food Network, going as far as to masturbate to it and have a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything phone chat]] with them.
593-->''"Oh yeah.. glaze the fuck out of that chicken..."''
594** That being said, since the show started to have more detailed art, the food also started to look very detailed and tasty (this includes the episode mentioned above, even if the characters complained that the food did not taste good). The food is especially detailed for WesternAnimation standards and especially for adult cartoons.
595* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': Elmer Fudd extols the praises of the grilled cheese sandwich...like Barry White with a speech impediment.
596* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]" has the cake Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness ("MMMM" for short). Not only does it look tasty, but it is constantly described in a manner that [[spoiler:motivated Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Rarity to each take a bite whilst no-one was watching]]. The same goes for the rest of the other bakers' desserts [[spoiler:which were eaten by the bakers themselves]].
597* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
598** When Homer becomes a rude food critic, a bunch of local Springfield chefs hires an assassin to kill him. The assassin decides to kill him with a poisoned eclair. The description and picture of the eclair he provides is so tempting that the chefs start drooling and try to grab the picture.
599** In one episode, Homer is seen watching a cooking show and the female speaker in the show is talking as if she were a phone sex operator.
600** Then there's the time Homer's Vegas wife shows up at his house, so Marge exiles him to the treehouse. The Vegas wife comes up there and starts making him a giant sandwich, to which he reacts exactly like it's a striptease. The gag is topped off by Marge hearing his exclamations...and knowing exactly what's really going on.
601** Watch "Fatzcarraldo" if you're a fan of chili dogs.
602** "Lisa Sings the Blues" has a compilation of realistic-looking New Orleans cuisine.
603** For those really into apple pie, "Forgive and Regret".
604* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' depicts Jake cooking some beautiful, realistic-looking Korean food to share with Finn, who doesn't want to eat it because he thinks it smells weird. What a Philistine.
605** The episode "Time Sandwich" shows Jake creating an ultimate sandwich which looks really great (though adding the soul of a lobster is a bit extravagant).
606* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Weekend at Benson's" is great if you're a fan of spicy food (or really, just hot peppers in general).
607* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
608** The camera closes in as [[BewareTheQuietOnes Onion]] pulls out a hamburger and Steven says "Hey, Good Lookin'"
609** InUniverse example: in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook "Open Book",]] [[MuggleBestFriend Connie]] rails about the ending of her favorite book series: not only were the main characters StrangledByTheRedString, the book spent ''50 pages'' talking about their wedding cake! [[KidHero Steven]] awkwardly agrees that [[ComicallyMissingThePoint it deserved 20 pages at most.]] "It didn't even have strawberries!"
610* The Creator/TexAvery cartoon "What's Buzzin', Buzzard?" addresses its WWII-era audience enduring meat rationing with two hungry vultures, one of whom rhapsodizes about how he'd love a steak, going into descriptive detail while the screen shows a beauty shot of a steak -- then a title card reading "5 Minute Intermission for Drooling"(which lasts about two seconds). Then, at the end of the cartoon an announcer breaks in with "Ladies and gentlemen, due to overwhelming popular demand, we're going to show the steak again!" and back to the beauty shot.
611* In ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'', the show tends to do close-ups on several foods in the show and shows great details on them.
612* If you love candy and tend to have a major sweet tooth, then ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' is a show you gotta watch.
613** The show also did this with pancakes and maple syrup in the episode "No Syrup for Old Flapjacks".
614* In a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Foghorn Leghorn cartoon, Miss Prissy lays out a really nice spread for Foggy.
615** In ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', Sylvester vows to give up eating birds. Back home he sits down to the tv and is immediately faced with a cooking show beauty shot of a roast turkey with an announcer's florid descriptions making his stomach growl.
616--> After-a basting, you find your bird turns out golden-a brown. Every succulent morsel will simply melt-a in your mouth. See how easily the white-a meat-a slices, eh? Yum, yum! Doesn't that-a look...
617* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' did this with pizza in "Nergal's Pizza".
618* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'':
619** "The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!" did this with burritos.
620** With chili cheese dogs in "Timephoon!"
621* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has a {{literal|Metaphor}} example in “The Shell.” When Gumball [[ItMakesSenseInContext ends up at Banana Joe’s house while chasing after Penny]], he accidentally walks into [[AnthropomorphicFood his]] bedroom, where he’s watching [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything an orange get peeled on his computer with a creepy grin on his face]]. [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Gumball, understandably]], closes the door.
622* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': The prepared salmon in "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E28KingRunNativeYouthOlympics King Run]]" looks as delicious to the viewers as it does to the characters.
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626* OlderThanSteam are still life paintings from TheMiddleAges, and UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance. Although they look lovely to look at with all the mishmash of common grocery objects and to see the lives of the people who ate them, and how food we see it today looked like, they also carried hidden allegorical messages from each food item, such as bread for wholesomeness and humility, oysters for lust, grapes for both devotion and decadence, peaches for abundance and love, lemons (which were expensive at their time) for earthly luxury, dead fish for memento mori, artichokes for Paradise, and a mishmash of these can contain hunger, gluttony, and the transcience of wealth.
627* Bento. [[http://crookedhouse.typepad.com/crookedhouse/images/2008/09/03/bento_box_lunch_three_little_piggie.jpg Here]] [[http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-04/bento-box.jpg are]] [[http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/joaniesee/hello_kitty_bento.jpg a]] [[http://www.gourmet.com/images/food/2009/03/fo-bentobox608.jpg few]] [[http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2008/09/bento-geisha.jpg examples]].
628* For that matter, Japanese cuisine in general. Traditional Japanese high cuisine places a much higher emphasis on plating skill than European cuisine does. And considering how particular the latter can be...Related to the note in television, compare the presentation scores for Japanese chefs to European ones on ''Series/IronChef''. On ''IC America'', Morimoto consistently has the best presentation scores of any chef that appears. Even fast food in Japan is much more neatly packaged than in the U.S.
629* While Japan does indeed have good FoodPorn, other countries do pretty well too. Most if not all countries on the globe have at least a handful of talented professional cooks and people who cook at home and do a decent job at creating something yummi and appealing.
630* Any high-end restaurant is most likely going to spend time making sure their food is as visually pleasing as it is delicious.
631** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alinea_%28restaurant%29 Alinea]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Achatz Grant Achatz]]'s first restaurant in Chicago. The restaurant places so much emphasis on being as [[http://chicago.grubstreet.com/20120727_alinea_560x372.jpg visually stunning as possible,]] [[http://m.alwecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Alinea-Chicago-Pigeonneau-à-la-Saint-Clair.jpg you're willing to forgive]] [[http://www.alifewortheating.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Alinea-Chicago-Chocolate-blueberry-honey-peanut.jpg its stereotypically small portions.]] (Achatz's second restaurant, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_%28restaurant%29 Next]], serves somewhat larger portions, but they are also well-plated; this comes at the rather interesting cost that instead of making reservations, you ''buy tickets'' to eat at a particular time, with the effect that if you want to eat at a peak time it costs quite a lot.[[note]]That is to say: you can eat dinner there for an arm and a leg at 7:30 Saturday evening, or just an arm at 4:30 Friday evening, or actually something reasonable at like 3:30 Tuesday afternoon.[[/note]] )
632* Hello Kitty's food products are all about this, [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/hello-kitty-macarons/ even something as simple as macarons.]]
633* Touristy areas in Mexico know how to work this perfectly. Mostly with [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/lime-and-lemon/ limes, lemons,]] [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/los-arcos-coconuts/ coconuts]], [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/weekly-photo-challenge-a-round-of-drinks/ and lots of drinks.]]
634* Creator/RolandBarthes discusses this in his essay on "ornamental cookery" in the book ''Mythologies''. He contrasts the elaborate dishes presented in ''Elle'' magazine, aimed at a working-class readership, to the simpler dishes in ''L'Express'', which catered to a more affluent audience that could actually afford to prepare the food.
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637----
638->'''Statler:''' Kids these days never have to learn that looks don't matter the hard way.\
639'''Waldorf:''' You tell me. At the very least, they won't have to gag upon tasting my uncle's delicious-looking clam chowder!\

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