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When a character (usually female) eats something. Really slowly and suggestively, in a phallic metaphor. Or moves it in and out of her mouth, in the same way. Bonus points for drips on mouth and/or chest.
Common items are:
- Fruit (especially bananas)
- A chocolate finger.
- Frozen desserts. (especially popsicles and vanilla ice cream)
- Sausages.
- Peaches, for a different symbolism.
- A lollipop, which is part of the Sexy Schoolwoman trope.
- Drinking from a straw and from the lip of any glass or can.
- Hot/corn dogs.
- Milk.
Specific type of Visual Innuendo; in some carefully crafted situations may end up being the visual equivalent of Innocent Innuendo. Not to be confused with Blessed With Suck, however much you want it to be. A common subversion is biting down hard at the end. Contrast with Food Porn where the food itself is the object of desire.
Examples
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Anime and Manga
- The opening sequence to Excel Saga, which has Hyatt eating a banana very suggestively. Not food, but during the linking material of a Clip Show, Hyatt stands in the near background fellating a microphone, completely out of the blue.
- Wait. Excel Saga played a trope straight?
- They did play with the trope a bit — in the banana-eating scene Excel is in the foreground, slipping on a banana peel.
- That's actually what the opening's lyrics are about at that point (slipping on a banana peel, that is).
- Lesbian example from Mnemosyne: A woman orders a drink at a bar, but instead of sipping it normally, she dips two fingers into it and then licks the liquid off them.
- In a chapter of Youre Under Arrest Ken Nakajima was watching very interested' what is implied is an AV, but the only scene we can see before he is interrupted and had to hide the "evidence" is a close-up of a cute girl licking an vanilla ice cream cone.
- The Eiken anime did this in the second episode. One of the events in the school competition was to swallow a chocolate-covered banana, and the announcer noted that the Eiken Club member in the event obviously had experience doing this sort of thing...
- Miharu in the Girls Bravo anime did this, not to one banana, but to a fruit vendor's entire stock in quick succession, while he was telling a story about the experiences that inspired him to sell bananas.
- To multiple highly suggestive camera angles!
- Hell, "suggestive" isn't the right word for this scene — the girl is clearly performing oral sex on bananas! And eating them, admittedly...
- Kaidoh Kio. And the Yaoi Fangirls go wild...
- In episode 6 of Kanokon, Nozomu eats a Candied Apple in an impossibly indecent fashion, complete with hentai-style drool. Chizuru does not take kindly to being upstaged, however, and it soon turns into an actual Yum Yum Competition, with many types of carnival food being drafted for the festivities.
- There are a pair of doujinshi of Neon Genesis Evangelion that play with this, the first one consists of Asuka laying on the floor with suspicious white stuff on her hands and face, she had just been in an ice cream eating contest... with Rei. The other is Asuka licking something rather... flesh-colored while kneeling in front of a very embarrassed and nervous Shinji. It's a Red Bean paste popsicle.
- In episode 5 of FLCL, while Naota is talking with his friends about how he saved the town in the previous episode, Ninamori can be seen looking unimpressed as she eats a Popsicle in a suggestive manner. Takes a quick dip towards High Octane Nightmare Fuel when she stops licking it suggestively and... chomp!'
- Episode 4 also gives us Haruko and Naota's father eating eggs rather suggestively.
- In the first episode of Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae, Ai Enma licks a ''moist'' cherry in front of Hone Onna.
- Nishisawa's consumption of a coated strawberry in Hayate The Combat Butler was gag-censored for being too suggestive.
- Lampshaded in Touhou Project fandom — and how
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- Noir had Kirika doing the Les Yay version with ice cream at one point.
- Manabi Straight also uses ice cream... this time it's Mutsuki with a popsicle.
- Akikan! plays the "drinking from a can" version for all it's worth.
- All over the place in Kodomo No Jikan... the ending-sequence has Rin suggestively eating a Cherry, the OAV features no less than TWO noteable cases with Mimi - licking melting ice-cream off a cone, and getting a glass of milk spilled all over her face. And of course, in the story, Rin seriously can't drink water from a tap without making it look like a sexual act...
- Kanade and Yukino from Candy Boy do this using cake.
- In the manga Futari Ecchi, this is how the new wife is taught oral sex, using a chocolate-covered banana.
- The To Love Ru manga has a disproportionate number of images of Mikan eating popsicles or licking ice cream cones.
- Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle takes delight in showcasing Fai, turned into a vampire sucking and licking a wound on Kurogane's wrist.
- Great Teacher Onizuka features original sketches on the inside cover pages of each takubon (collected volume consisting of several chapters released weekly on Shonen Jump), and one was of Urumi nibbling on half of a Pocky as a very surprised Tomoko (I think) is eating the other end.
- Shion from Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni seems to get a little too much enjoyment from eating a popsicle while plotting her deceit and subsequent murder of the village chief and Keiichi.
- Air Gear makes good use of this trope through Ton-Chan, as seen here. This is all after screaming in fear of rape.
- Played straight in Azumanga Daioh with Sakaki and a popsicle.
- "I do a little push and pull action."
- A scene in Boku No Pico is famous for this trope. Pico enjoys some ice cream in a....strange way...
- Chocotto Sister has a scene wherein Choco eats a chocolate-coated banana, completely oblivious to the effect she was having on Kakeru.
- Kyou from Clannad anyone? when she was slowly sucking that lollipop while showing us a nice neck shot
- Shin Koihime Musou has a gratuitous scene with what happens to be a primitive form of glowstick in episode four.
- The sensual yet vicious manner with which Akio devours a flower in one of the later episodes tells you pretty much everything you need to know about his relationship to women and sex.
- Male example: Kio in Loveless is almost always seen sucking on a lollipop. At one point he offers to, er, demonstrate for Soubi. Who is also a guy.
- L from Death Note would be the king of the trope if any of it was played as intentional. He licks donuts, spoons, and his own fingers; he goes through strawberries and a banana; and once he ties a cherry stem with his tongue. The cast has more important things to do than notice any of this, but the fangirls...
- The boys of The Wallflower all get popsicles at one point. YumYum indeed.
- Akari in Domina No Do does it with a sausage.
Commercials
- This South Korean noodle commercial.
- The old Cadbury's Flake adverts (involving a woman eating said cylindrical confection in a very suggestive manner) weren't allowed to be broadcast before the watershed.
- Parodied by Bill Bailey in one stage show, involving the Flake jingle and some footage of animals copulating.
- Carl's Jr. ran a whole bunch of commercials with this theme back in the late '90s, and got boycotted by conservative Christian groups for it.
- There's a Magnum ice cream poster involving Eva Longoria Parker, holding said ice cream in her hand. Enough said.
- ALL Magnum ice cream ads are Yum Yum of varying degrees. They even have actors describing Ice Cream as if it was sex. And the cream dripping off their lips...
- The "girrrrrrthy" commercials that Ball Park Franks ran a while back. High Octane Nightmare Fuel indeed (though to many a Yaoi Fangirl who also like fat guys it may have been Fetish Fuel).
- Eliza Dushku's new Hulu commercial. Enjoy.
- Padma Lakshmi with a hamburger.
Fan Fiction
Film
- One scene in the film Tom Jones has Tom and a buxom woman consuming their dinner rather... suggestively to each other.
- Notably, this scene was lifted straight out of the original 18th-century novel, making this Older Than Radio.
- Parodied by a 1970s Dave Allen sketch, in which they're too busy throwing up afterwards to think about sex.
- In Mambo Italiano, the main character's sister is often seen eating popsicles, and he claims in one narrated sequence that this was "practice for high school" as it shows her and some guy in the back of a car doing things best left to the imagination.
- Jawbreaker has a variation, where Rose McGowan suggestively asks her boyfriend to eat a popsicle, and mimics him. Yes, that way.
- Earlier on, Marcie jokes that Liz's suffocation was caused by her "practicing" on the jawbreaker the girls choked her with.
- In Dude, Where's My Car?, the head alien "hot chick" promises the leads "oral pleasure" and demonstrates by swallowing a Popsicle whole.
- Face/Off: Castor Troy's favorite thing to say, so much so that they used it as his voice test when his enemy got his face was "Peach. I can eat a peach for hours."
- The truly bizarre Mexican Western El Topo has a scene where eating fruit becomes a visual metaphor for lesbian sex.
- In cult lesbian movie Go Fish, the love scene is intercut with a cooking scene. It works surprisingly well.
- In the early Jennifer Connelly bomb Career Opportunities, she plays a Hello Nurse character who must distract a group of armed robbers — she does so by eating a corndog. While riding a mechanical rocking horse.
- The girl who took an entire sausage all the way in and out of her throat in Howard Stern's Private Parts.
- He had, on Howard Stern On Demand, "deep-throat contests" where girls see how far they can take a hot dog without gagging.
- In the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo's film Forbidden Zone, the Queen of the Sixth Dimension is eating a large Polish sausage, spearing the entire thing on her fork. As she's about to eat, her husband, King Fausto (played by Herve Villechaize) looks on, licking his lips suggestively. She puts the sausage down and gives him a withering look.
- In A Clockwork Orange, the two girls Alex met in a record store were sucking on popsicles.
- Watch that scene again. Those aren't just popsicles, they're actually ... um ... anatomically correct popsicles.
- Fast Times At Ridgemont High used a carrot as an oral-sex-instruction prop.
- Dewey and Darlene do this with ice cream cones during the montage for the innuendo-laden Let's Duet in Walk Hard.
- Daisy Duke tries to distract some lawmen with some very suggestive (melting) ice cream eating in the direct-to-DVD Dukes of Hazzard sequel ...Or So I Heard.
- The iconic poster◊ for the 1962 version ofLolita.
- Tampopo, the Japanese "noodle western", combines this with some serious Fetish Fuel (an egg being passed from mouth to mouth between lovers in one scene, for starters...)
- Subverted hard in A Night At The Roxbury. While having a nice lunch party with Steve's intended in-laws (regardless of what he thinks about the matter) his fiancee, sex-crazed Emily Sanderson (who the film has spent a great deal of time trying to make the audience loathe) tries this on Steve. Both he, and the audience, do not have the reaction she was looking for.
- Of course, that's not to say it probably wasn't somebody's Fetish Fuel.
- Andy Warhol did a film consisting entirely of a drag queen eating a banana in a suggestive way. It can be seen here
Literature
- A recurring location in Sebastian by Anne Bishop is a cafe sandwiched between houses of prostitution and serving mostly suggestively shaped entrees. A rather hilarious scene describes the title character's reaction to watching a girl dip a "Phallic Delight" in cheese sauce and lick the sauce off.
- In The Dresden Files novel Turn Coat, a woman in the nightclub Zero is "doing a thing with her tongue and an ice cube that was ... distracting as hell."
- In Proven Guilty, when Maeve (a faerie queen of Winter) is drinking lemonade through a straw, Harry hears crunching noises coming from her mouth and realizes the lemonade freezes when it passes her lips.
- Which makes Harry very glad he had already bluntly turned down her advances moments before.
- Subverted in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, with Anasthesia making "the least erotic show of eating a banana ever".
- Parodied in Discworld with the wizards' housekeeper "daintily eating a banana, a feat which is quite hard to do."
- Don't forget Nanny Ogg's cookbook, The Joye of Snacks, containing recipes which are blamed for all sorts of indecorous goings-on (all off-screen, so we never find out exactly what makes "Bananana Surprise" so surprising. The chocolate pudding, however, is shown to act like an Aphrodisiac, making 2/3 of the men that eat it very hot around the collar and desperate to run off for buckets of ice water.
- Black Star Rising by Frederik Pohl takes a rather unusual approach to this trope. "Comrade, do you have a fascination with eating bananas, carrots, and juicy red sausages? Then comrade, you can be certain that to your work and study regimen we will be adding plenty of cold showers."
- The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons. The protagonists Meet Cute when the man (a soldier on patrol) sees the woman eating an ice cream at a bus stop and is instantly smitten by her.
Live Action TV
- Stephen Colbert does this a lot. The most famous on-screen instance involves a banana, but there have also been cases with ice-cream, coffee and (repeatedly) pizza (which resulted in a Pizza Boy Special Delivery that did not go how you think it would).
Jon Stewart: [watching Stephen eat Crazy Bread] Oh, that is disturbing!
- The unaired original Pilot of Firefly had Kaylee (Jewel Staite) eating a strawberry in such delight that her eyes roll back in their sockets. A toned down version was put into the later episode "Shindig".
- It's hinted several times in Firefly that Real Food — the kind that's grown in a garden — is either hard-to-obtain or impossible to grow on a spaceship. Kaylee even cobbles together an entire chocolate cake for Simon's birthday, and freely admits that it's "pretty much what [they] just finished eating". Kaylee's reaction, in that context, is understandable.
- Also played with later on when River tries unsuccessfully to eat the Ice Planet. Even though she's unable to even take a bite out of it due to it being "problematic," just watching her is so adorable.
- Parodies of Nigella Lawson's cooking shows. Nigella herself just occasionally tastes things, while coincidentally being good-looking, but comedians tend to blow it out of proportion. Note secondary punchline, immediately previous.
- The comedians don't over-egg it that much — the woman introduces more eroticism to her cooking than all the other TV chefs put together. Using her recipes, on the other hand, is a different issue...
- Rik Mayall didn't even need an excuse to get pervy in Bottom: "I could have been watching Sophie Grigson peeling a banana, or washing a cucumber..."
- Married With Children had a case where Al and his neighbor tried to rig a beauty contest for Kelly by being the judges. This fails when one of the other contestants unveils her talent entry, "Eating a banana."
- In Doctor Who, Romana II used to enjoy doing this, albeit probably unintentionally — although it did play into the Sexy Schoolwoman look that Lalla Ward (and/or her costumers) frequently favored.
- In an episode of That's So Raven where Raven eats a 3-foot-long hot dog and Eddie comments how tight his pants are. The "joke" is supposed to be that he's eating so much junk food that he's gaining weight, but to anyone outside the show's intended demographic, it takes on a whole new meaning.
- On the Les Yay front-with-a-twist, an early scene in the BBC Tipping The Velvet involves the heroine hand-feeding her eventual lover a raw oyster. There is exactly as little sub- in the text as you might imagine.
- More Les Yay: there are numerous close ups of Sugar Rush's Sugar eating hot dogs and the like extremely suggestively. It's not just in permanently horny Kim's mind!
- There was an act on The Gong Show (the original one) called the Popsicle Twins. Two girls just sat on stage and suggestively sucked on Popsicles. The audience loved it but don't think they did that great with the judges. Didn't get gonged though.
- They weren't gonged because Jaye P. Morgan was the only judge that knew what they meant, and she physically prevented the other two from gonging it.
- It was apparently that was put in just to be censored, so that the censors would be distracted enough to let other real acts sneak by, and it was let through unexpectedly.
- Also appeared in some manner on the new Gong Show, in which a lacklustre musical group had a Sexy Schoolwoman sucking on a lollipop whilst they performed (and indeed, the song included lines precisely to this effect such as "suck my lollipop, baby")
- Oz. Simon Adebesi's prag is seen doing this with a banana during a party he's throwing in his Luxury Prison Suite.
- Star Trek The Next Generation: Deanna Troi shows us the proper way to finish off a chocolate sundae.
- Star Trek Voyager. Jeri Ryan (playing the Doctor inhabiting Seven's body) has an orgasmic response to eating a New York cheesecake, as 'he' has never tasted food before. Given that Jeri Ryan has to fit into her skintight catsuit week after week, the pleasure was undoubtedly not acted.
- In the Buffy episode "Fool For Love", Drusilla (a vampire) sucks on Spike's bloodstained finger after he kills a Slayer.
- As Slayer blood is supposedly a powerful aphrodisiac, this might also qualify as foreplay.
- Bloodsucking is repeatedly used in this way throughout the series. In the least subtle example, Riley got sucked off (his wrist!) in a House of Vampiric Pleasures, with the camera angle and sound effects making it rather... confusing at first just where the sucking was taking place.
- One episode of Frasier includes the titular character eating a frozen treat with a friend of his, a girl he had a crush on in high school. He says to her, "There was a time when I'd have paid a thousand dollars to watch you eat a popsicle." Then she bites it off.
- The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Cameron. Potato chips, and later, pancakes.
- Worth pointing out that when she's eating the pancakes, she's staring at Derek the whole time, and ends it with a pronounced swallowing. Keep in mind, this is the same episode that also ends with Derek watching Cameron do ballet, with a mixed look of awe and horror on his face.
- One guess for the teaching tool used in Queer As Folk for Oral Sex.
Music
- Escape The Fate's "Situations" video. Actually, the whole thing's really three minutes and thirty-two seconds of Fanservice, but one digresses.
- German punk rock-and-misc band "Die Ärzte" dedicated an entire song — "Die Banane" — to the plight of a man who loses his composure and ruins a romantic dinner when his date decides to have a banana for dessert.
- There was that Pussycat Dolls music video with one of the girls not just eating an ice cream cone suggestively, but rubbing it all over her face.
- The entire premise of Alizee's "Gourmaides" ("kisses" in French). Complete with close-ups.
- The insert for Gackt's "Vanilla" is a young woman letting a vanilla ice cream cone drip onto her nearly uncovered breasts.
- The video for Groove Coverage's "7 Years & 50 Days", which takes it to weird levels.
- Played spectacularly, hilariously straight (well, kinda) in the Bloodhound Gang's video for "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo." NSFW, if only because you'll have to explain why you're laughing...
- Annie aime les sucettes.
- This song was written by songwriter and professional lech Serge Gainsbourg for 18-year-old France Gall in 1966. It's about a girl who likes lollipops and, of course, the lyrics are laced with double entendres. Gall famously didn't understand the song's second meaning and sang it innocently. Only after Les Sucettes caused a scandal did she realize what she had sung.
- That's Good by Devo has a scene described as "a french fry fucking a doughnut"
Theatre
- In the musical adaptation of the film Dangerous Beauty, when courtesan Veronica is asked how she manages to capture the hearts and loins of every husband in Venice, she picks up a banana, deep-throats it, and then pulls it out whole. Then she spouts some crap about education and how men admire powerful women, but screw that, it's clear which way the wind is ahem blowing.
- The beautiful female lead in Gilbert And Sullivan's ''The Mikado" is named Yum Yum. For the obvious reason.
Web Comics
Web Original
- Porn Star Eats Popsicle: Don't miss the part after the credits.
- In a Protectors Of The Plot Continuum installment, two agents snigger at a male coworker accidentally doing this with a chicken drumstick. ("He stayed in the closet for how long again?") He notices them sniggering and, being an anthropomorph with a carnivore's jaw strength and dental structure, chews the bone into splinters while glaring meaningfully at them, thus succeeding in unnerving two borderline Ax Crazy assassins.
- In I Am Not Infected Hartley gets Amanda a popsicle, which she proceeds to eat in the most suggestive way possible. How he thought this would help their uncomfortable situation is unclear, but no one ever accused Hartley of making any brilliant plans.
- True to form, Gaia Online has a few examples. Most are male, which is also expected given how much of Gaia's fanbase is formed by Yaoi Fangirls.
- Nicolae's oral fixation is the most obvious example.
- Two of the Valentines given out during the Valentine's Day '09 event have characters holding hot dogs, clearly about to engage in this trope.
- Even the back-to-school event is not exempt from this. Behold, the discussion about humiliation.
Gino Gambino: I went to a private boarding school, so we all had to change into our pajamas in the dormitories. All the other boys used to make fun of my sunken chest. One time they held me down and took turns eating soup out of it. How did I deal with it? Oh, mostly by crying, I guess.
- The Nostalgia Chick with a banana. In her review for Labyrinth. You get the point.
- Two Girls One Cup
- The first book in Tales Of MU has Puddy grabbing a donut specifically for the lesbian version.
Western Animation
- Used in The Boondocks in the episode "Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner", when Cristal suggestively licks whipped cream off her fingers while moaning, then whispers "It's edible."
- Parodied in Metalocalypse, where Murderface explains this as why he refuses to eat saussages, bananas and other similarly shaped food items. He'll also refuse to eat them if they are sliced, because of the castration metaphore.
- Later in the episode, when the band is hiding in a dark closet, the lights are turned on to reveal Murderface sucking on a sausage.
- Parodied/Lampshaded in Family Guy when Death sticks a whole chicken leg down his throat and sucks the meat off the bone, explaining this "talent" by saying "...I did some films in college I'm not particularly proud of..."
- Come to think of it, this particular gag is quite common in older cartoons. Values Dissonance or Freudian hijinks? You decide, dear tropers.
- Played with/parodied in a recent episode. Stewie chastises Lois for not slicing his banana: "What am I supposed to do, just stick it in my mouth —well, hello!"
- Used as a Running Gag in an episode of Duckman. Each time the vice principal of Ajax's school takes a bite of her lunch, Duckman launches into a train-tunnel-themed Imagine Spot.
- Spoofed in a Robot Chicken skit, in which a busty blonde is about to eat a corndog, but stops when she realizes that every guy in the bar is watching her.
- Somehow done in The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy where we get an extended scene of Irwin sucking a lemon to titillate Mandy (of course Mandy reacts with indifference).
- Done on Chowder with Endive, who does this to lobster dipped in sauce and sucks on them. Unfortunantly, since this is Endive we're talking about its Fan Disservice.
- Parodied in The Simpsons, as Grampa and Beatrice flirt by consuming pills in a suggestive manner.
- Also on the episode where Selma tries to find a man as per her Aunt Gladys's last request, during a date video taping, Selma chews on a (lit) cigarette and sticks out her tongue where the cigarette is now tied in knots (the only reason she can do that without feeling pain is revealed on season three's "Black Widower" where she told Sideshow Bob that a childhood accident where a bottle rocket went up her nose permanently destroyed her sense of taste and sense of smell. Then again, so does smoking for a long time, which also happened to Selma when she was a kid.
- And inverted into Fan Disservice when Patty and Selma find out that they can suck the many-days-dead conches and hermit crabs out of their shells to clean their seashell collection.
Real Life
- You see three women eating ice cream cones. The first is licking it, the second is sucking it, the third is biting it. Which one is married? The one with the wedding ring.
- Related to a Sherlock Holmes joke that is dirtier— the Great Detective identifies a nun, new bride, and mistress, by how they eat bananas.
- Allegedly a banana covered in chocolate is the ideal teaching tool for oral sex.
- There's also the related example of using the condom-on-a-banana thing in Health Class to teach students how to put them on.
- Using food to practice oral sex is a bad idea as food can break off in the throat leading to choking. Some fictional subversions of the trope will use this for comedic value.
- And of course there is the (in)famous You Tube video of a several women 'deep throating' a banana with various degrees of success.
- There is at least one male version of that parodying that video.
- The Kanamara Matsuri a.k.a. the Festival of the Steel Penis is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki. It features phallus-shaped objects of all types and sizes, including candies. Teen girls and adult women have great fun eating those in public.
- A recent Rolling Stone cover combined this with Les Yay by having Blake Lively and Leighton Meester seductively licking an ice cream cone.
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