Trademark Favorite Foods in Film.
Films — Animation
- The Bad Guys (2022):
- Mr. Snake loves Guinea pigs to the point of Fatal Flaw, as his reasoning goes out the window when he has the chance to eat a Guinea pig.
- Mr. Piranha enjoys beef and bean burritos, which may be why he has such terrible farts when he's nervous.
- Both Mr. Snake and Mr. Shark love push pops. Snake enjoys offering one to Shark only to eat it himself, resulting in a fight.
- The Book of Life:
- Jorge reveals Manolo loves spicy food and especially tamales de elote made by his mother, Carmen, who was originally from Chiapas.
- Word of God revealed Chuy's to be shoes.
- The triplets in Brave love pastries a lot.
- Brother Bear: Like grizzly bears in real-life, the bears in the movie really love salmon. The sequel has Kenai and Koda also being fond of berries and roots (which are also part of a real-life grizzly bear's diet).
- Despicable Me: The minions and their love for bananas. Agnes loves sweet things like candy, churros and ice cream.
- Frozen (2013): Multiple:
- Anna and Elsa share a love for chocolate. To the point that when they catch a whiff of it in the air, they make the same sniffing motion:
Elsa: So....this is what a party looks like.
Anna: It's warmer than I thought.
Elsa: And what is that amazing smell?
(the two sisters sniff the air together)
Anna and Elsa: (dreamily) Chocolate! [They giggle in unison]- Sven, Kristoff's reindeer, loves carrots, often trying to get more of the carrot than Kristoff and on more than one occasion attempts to steal Olaf's nose.
- The narrator in Geoff
notes that the title character has a "curious and unshakable love for beans". - Bobby in A Goofy Movie absolutely loves his "cheddar whizzy," to the point where he considers it an appropriate "fee" for his A/V expertise, will eat it straight from the aerosol can or from a massive blob in his hand, and has one with him in half the scenes he is in. The spray cheese is absent in the sequel... but he's equally eager about the "double cheesa" pizza he has at the end, and he helped his friends to immediately scarf down a big plate of nachos. Bobby really likes cheese.
- Home (2015): Captain Smek's is Footballs.
- Isle of Dogs: Each of the five main dogs discuss their favorite meal.
- Rex says that his favorite food is a double portion of Doggy Chop from the can mixed into a bowl of broken Puppy Snap treats with a vitamin crushed up into it. Though he does say that since his master wasn't rich, it wasn't a daily meal.
- King mentions that his favorite food is center cut Kobe ribeye, seared on the bone with salt and pepper. He says that it's his birthday supper every year.
- Boss's favorite food is hot sausage, yakitori style. He mentions that the snack vendor at the baseball games often saves him one on game days.
- Duke says that his favorite food was green tea ice cream, adding that he probably inherited a sweet tooth from his master.
- Chief denies having a favorite food at first, saying that he's used to leftovers and garbage. When he tells the other dogs about when he was a pet, he reveals that his favorite food was actually hibachi chili (this was shortly after he bites a child and runs away), and he switches to Puppy Snaps when Atari offers him one.
Chief: Crunchy... salty... supposedly, it cleans your teeth. This is my new favorite food. - The Jungle Book (1967): Baloo really loves many kinds of fruit, including pawpaw fruit, bananas, and grapes. He also likes eating ants at one point.
- The Lion King: Timon and Pumbaa really love grubs (Timon likes the crunchy kind, and Pumbaa loves the slimy ones), and Simba eventually joins them in eating grubs.
- Hammy from Over the Hedge and cookies. During the ending climax of the movie where he saves his friends by slowing down time...he stops and grabs the cookie RJ said he couldn't have earlier in the movie.
- Penguins of Madagascar: Cheezy Dibbles are the preferred snacks of penguins and octopi.
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits: Pirate Captain and his crew all love ham.
- Altivo the horse from The Road to El Dorado loves apples.
- Shrek:
- Waffles became this for Donkey, as a result of flanderization based on a comment he made in the first movie. Also parfaits, to a lesser extent — he named one of his children after them.
- Puss In Boots seems to have a soft spot for gazpacho. When it comes to drinks however, he loves heavy cream, being a cat. This has led to some times of him being Drunk on Milk though; one of his nine lives was ended when he got wasted and leapt off a church steeple to prove cats always land on their feet.
- Maximus from Tangled loves apples too.
- Woody Woodpecker: Woody loves peanut butter. To the point where Lance uses peanut butter snacks to bribe Woody into leaving his construction crew alone.
- In Zootopia:
- Clawhauser definitely has a Sweet Tooth, but he especially likes donuts.
- Nick is very fond of blueberries, which is amusingly Truth in Television as the red fox is known for their fondness of blueberries, apples, and plums. This becomes a Chekhov's Gun when he takes a handful of blueberries from Judy's family truck of farm produce and carries it to the final act against Bellwether, who's threatening them with the blueberry-shaped Night Howler pellets, so they switch them out to set up an Engineered Public Confession.
Films — Live-Action
- The Amazing Spider-Man: Gwen Stacy herself is so fond of chocolate that she once wished she could live in a chocolate house, which tips her dad off when she claims to not want to come to dessert.
- In the 2010 The A-Team, an angry Baracus can often be calmed by coconut curry with toast points, especially when prepared by Murdock.
- The Blues Brothers: Jake's four fried chickens and Elwood's dry white toast. Elwood moreso, seeing as he seems to just carry white bread around with him everywhere if the scene where he tries out a toaster he happens to come across by making himself some toast is any indication.
- In Branded to Kill, the antihero is obsessed with rice and constantly orders it, but it's the aroma that he loves.
- Donny, one of the characters in Cornered!, was nicknamed "Donny Donut" since he's almost always chowing down on them. In the end, the killer force feeds him them until he chokes.
- In Dick Tracy, Big Boy Caprice has a well-known fondness for walnuts, so much that finding walnut shells at a crime scene is proof enough for Tracy that he was involved in it.
- The alien refugees of District 9 love their cat food. Another mentioned favorite is tire-rubber.
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: E.T. enjoys eating Reese's Pieces.
- Bubba and his "srimp" in Forrest Gump. Forrest himself loved ice cream and Dr. Pepper. While visiting the White House, Forrest drank so much Dr. Pepper that he had to excuse himself while meeting President Kennedy.
- Fright Night (1985). The vampire villain Jerry Dandrige likes apples. A lot, actually.
- Ghostbusters (1984): Twinkies are considered Egon Spengler's favorite food thanks to a scene in which he uses a Twinkie to illustrate the amount of paranormal/supernatural activity in New York City. After Harold Ramis' death, some fans left Twinkies outside the fire station used as Ghostbusters HQ for both films.
- Ghostbusters (2016): Abby loves wonton soup, of which the local takeout always skimps on the number.
- In G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Duke really likes Dubble Bubble gum, and reluctantly gives his last piece to Breaker before the Paris chase scene begins. Breaker's love of the bubblegum is a carry-over from the comic character's trademark trait.
- Harry Knuckles and bananas.
- Home Alone: Kevin McCallister loves plain cheese pizza. The plot of the original film is kicked off when he gets into an argument with his older brother Buzz after the latter eats his cheese pizza—and when he's left behind by his family in the first two movies, he takes the opportunity to order a cheese pizza for himself."A lovely cheese pizza, just for me!"
- Jackie Brown: Ordell Robbie insists on screwdrivers.
- James Bond:
- In the original Ian Fleming novels, Bond really liked scrambled eggs. The short story 007 in New York even includes Fleming's recipe for "Scrambled Eggs James Bond''.
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Each of Blofeld's angels of death eats only one kind of food to "treat" their allergies.
- Moonraker: Drax loved cucumber sandwiches.
- Octopussy: Kamal Khan, eater of sheep's eyes.
- In Jane Wants a Boyfriend, Jane's diet consists largely of grilled cheese sandwiches.
- The Jungle Book (2016) has Baloo hankering for some honey, so much so that he tricks Mowgli into climbing a cliff to get him some. He and Mowgli even stack a lot of honeycombs into Baloo's cave for the bear to eat before "hibernation".
- Pauly Bleeker of Juno and orange Tic-Tacs, his "only vice."
- In The Killing Kind, Thelma is constantly serving Terry chocolate milk. This was probably his favourite drink when he was a boy, and is yet another sign of Thelma's refusal to acknowledge that he has grown up.
- In Let Me In the main character Owen adores his now and later sweets. Comments by his mother indicates its the only thing he eats, he acts look buying them for his girlfriend is a grand romantic gesture,and when he runs away at the end of the film hes shown to have taken the time to buy some for the train journey.
- Joe Bang from Logan Lucky loves hard-boiled eggs with salt. Unfortunately, his blood pressure means his doctor will only let him use fake, low-sodium salt substitute, which he isn't happy about. Clyde, meanwhile, loves fried bacon and is persuaded to listen to Jimmy's scheme by the offer of it.
- Ashley from Magic in the Water eats huge quantities of Oreos. She feeds some of them to Orky, who eats the filling and leaves the wafers.
- Nereus from A Man Called Nereus loves raisins.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- Tony Stark seems to have a thing for cheeseburgers. When freed from captivity by terrorists in Iron Man film, he demands Happy Hogan bring him to a press conference to announce he would no longer make weapons... and to get him a cheeseburger ("Cheeseburger first."). After Tony's funeral in Avengers: Endgame, Happy is seen comforting his young daughter... who asks if they can get cheeseburgers together.
- Yelena Belova apparently really loves macaroni and cheese. The opening flashback of Black Widow (2021) sees her asking her adoptive mother to make it for dinner. Many years later the now-adult Yelena makes the meal for herself in Hawkeye (2021) after breaking into Kate Bishop's apartment and getting bored waiting for her to come home.
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: America Chavez apparently loves pizza, especially pizza balls.
- Men in Black: Agents Jay and Kay are fond of pie. In Men in Black II, Jay likes to take people to a diner for pie before neuralyzing them. In Men In Black III, Jay gets pie with both Young!Kay in 1969 and present-day Kay at the end.
- MirrorMask: Valentine is ready for dessert, but did not hog those cakes. The Sphinxes like books.Hungry. Still hungry.
- In Music (2021), the titular character, an autistic girl with high support needs, insists on having fried eggs sunny-side up every morning. Despite her being mostly non-verbal, "Make you eggs" is one of the few sentences she's able to speak. It's Truth in Television that many autistic people have a limited diet and insist on eating the same thing every day.
- Mystery Team: "Chocolate milk just tastes better than regular milk"
- Napoleon Dynamite loves his tater tots.
- Agent Sands from Once Upon a Time in Mexico loves his puerco pibil, and will order it in any restaurant that he comes to in Mexico. Sometimes he'll eat a dish of this that he considers too good, prompting him to go around back and shoot the cook. In one of the extras for the movie, the "10-Minute Cooking School," Robert Rodriguez actually lays down how to make it.
- Marmalade for Paddington bear, just like in the books.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Captain Barbossa is frequently shown with an apple in hand. In the first movie, he claimed the first thing he would do once his curse was lifted was eat a whole bushel of apples. After his resurrection at the end of Dead Man's Chest, he finally eats a green apple after The Reveal.
- In The Professional, Leon is frequently seen drinking milk. It's also symbolic as milk is meant to represent his wholesome and childlike personality in spite of being a hitman who kills people for a living.
- The Proposition has Charlie Burns, eater of kangaroos.
- Norman Bates in Psycho is often seen munching on candy corn, a habit created by Anthony Perkins for the character.
- Shoot 'Em Up: Mr. Smith hates a lot of things, but seems to really like carrots. This is largely part of an extended Bugs Bunny reference. It also makes sense in that he has no money to speak of, but can grow them in an abandoned greenhouse for next to nothing. He also makes a crack that they're "good for your vision," going toward his superhuman aiming skills.
- In The Shape of Water, Col. Strickland loves cheap green candies and is seen popping them constantly. He even claims they are symbolic of his personality: plain and simple. The Fish Man also takes a liking to salted boiled eggs.
- Karl from Sling Blade loves his "french-fried potaters."
- Ted Brooks from Snow Dogs loves blue cheese. It's a trait he shares with his biological father Thunder Jack.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2020):
- Sonic's is Chili Cheese Dogs, as has become typical for the character. He tasted his first ones at the bar, since because the Hot Wings he originally ordered never came on time, he tried (and accordingly ate an entire basket of) chili dogs instead during his slow-motion run through the Bar Brawl. Even after becoming a reality-warping Physical God in the sequel, Super Sonic is content with only using his powers to summon them as a snack.
- Tom, being a cop, loves donuts. He is said to eat donuts everyday and revolves his life around donuts by not just eating them but treating them like toys or imaginary friends to talk to. Before learning Tom's name, Sonic dubs him "Donut Lord" due to this idiosyncrasy:Tom: Why do you keep calling me 'Donut Lord'?Sonic: Because you talk to donuts, and you eat them when they get out of line.Tom: (subtly impressed) Again, fair.
- The G.U.N. Commander loves anything Olive Garden, even gleefully telling the Wachowskis about how much he enjoys the Never Ending Pasta Bowl. In the sequel, he looks frustrated as he cancels a dinner appointment at the restaurant after new information is brought to him.
- Knuckles maintains his love of grapes from the games, and is incredibly excited to try ice cream with sprinkles following his Heel–Face Turn and subsequent adoption (along with Tails) by the Wachowskis.
- In Switchback, Sheriff Olmstead's BLT sandwiches, which he made himself.
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in both the early 90's and 2014 franchises, share their cartoon counterparts' love for copious amounts of pizza.
- Theodore Rex loves "COOKIES COOKIES COOKIES!"
- In the Errol Flynn movie They Died with Their Boots On, George Armstrong Custer loves his onions.
- Kendra and peanut butter in To the Bone. It's portrayed in a much less light-hearted way than a lot of examples because of her struggles with binge eating.
- In Tower of London, Clarence's favorite wine is Malmsey. Richard drowns him in a vat of it.
- Twister: The entire storm chaser team: "STEAK AND EGGS!" Specifically, Jo's aunt's steak and eggs. And gravy, considered in-universe a separate food group.
- In Two for the Road, Mark loves dem apples.
- In Venom (2018), the symbiote's eventual food order evolves from "people" to "tater tots, chocolate, and people".
- Garth's red rope licorice in Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2. He even built a licorice dispenser inside the Mirth Mobile.
- Darryl Zero of The Zero Effect stockpiles canned tuna and Tab soda.
- In Zodiac, the lead police officer loves animal crackers.
- Zombieland — Tallahassee just wants a Twinkie. He eventually gets one.
