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Trademark Favorite Food
aka: Trademark Favorite Drink

Pizza is Totally Radical!

...and as a national spokesmodel for the Ethical Advancement of Melonade, I am contractually unable to drink, talk about, or bathe in any other liquid!

— Homestar Runner, "hremail 7"

A character is partly defined by a Trademark Favorite Food that he or she craves and eats, all the freakin' time. Usually in a way that makes you suspect that they're addicted to the substance. If they're a One Note Cook, they'll typically be good at making it.

Sometimes justified if the item is a Power-Up Food for the character.

When a character exhibits an obsession for food that corresponds with a stereotype for his race or culture, it is usually considered a Discredited Trope unless played to lampoon the stereotype.

See Also: Stock Animal Diet, which applies this to an entire species of animal, and Hollywood Cuisine, which applies this to an entire culture. Also Must Have Caffeine, the coffee-specific version; for Brits as often depicted, this is Spot of Tea. If the answer is "every food", you have a Big Eater. If it is "everything, no matter if food or not", you have an Extreme Omnivore. A specific, sometimes overlapping version of this trope is someone who has a Sweet Tooth. If they talk about that food all the time, they're Obsessed With Food. For a darker and more specific version look at I'm a Humanitarian. See also Impossibly Delicious Food. May overlap with Comfort Food in cases where the comfort food is the character's TFF.

Compare Your Favorite and Drink Order. Contrast with Does Not Like Spam.

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Manhua

Long Wei and strawberries from Infinity Game, as he apparently carries boxes of the stuff around with him.

Mythology

The Dagda of the mythological Irish clan of gods the Tuatha de Danann had such a liking for porridge that the one of the four mythological treasures the gods were said to have given mankind (other than a spear, a sword and the Lia F�il) was his magic cauldron that sated even the harshest of critics. He was even incapacitated by the enemy who made him so much porridge he was unable to resist until he crawled away with an embarassingly large belly.
Kappa in Japanese Mythology love cucumbers. One way to keep someone safe from Kappas was to carve their name into a cucumber; if a Kappa accepts it, they won't harm that person. The maki roll with cucumber in it is even named kappa maki after them.

Tabletop Games

One Paranoia mission introduces two Gamma-clearance citizens (cloned from two of the original programmers of The Computer) who maintain the core systems - and occasionally organize missions to the Outdoors to go scrounge up more Twinkies and Coke.

Theatre

In A Very Potter Musical Ron (and Harry) love Red Vines.
What the hell can't they do?
In My Fair Lady, Eliza has her chocolates. It can be interpreted that Professor Higgins denying Eliza her chocolates is what makes her snap and sing "Just You Wait", plotting his death in a gleeful Imagine Spot.
The schoolboys in Les Mis�rables have a thing for wine, especially Grantaire to the point of being told to put that bottle down.
In Cats Skimbleshanks likes a drop of Scotch in his tea, and Gus the Theatre Cat will tell stories for 'a toothful of gin' Naturally Fanon tends to exaggerate how much they love their respective drinks.