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Author: Megaptera

Feb 1st 2013 at 7:13:03 PM

I don't know if you need to separate out those two scenarios -- it seems like an awfully little detail, whether or not he cooked the food. Plus, there are other factors that might not even be included in your description, since the feeder doesn't always deliberately not give cutlery to the eater. The important thing here is that one person puts food into another's mouth as a romantic gesture. The most common way I've seen it done is the FancyDinner scene, where it's in a restaurant so they both have cutlery and neither of them prepared the food. Okay, on to examples.

Anime and Manga
* In ''PrincessMononoke'', when Ashitaka is injured and can't feed himself, San tries to put a strip of dried meat in his mouth. When he turns out to be too weak even to chew it, she takes it back, chews it up herself, and gently spits it into his mouth in a kiss. Slightly [[{{Squick}} squicky]] but totally played as romantic.

Video Games
* In [[TheSims The Sims 2]], one of the romantic interactions available when characters are eating at a table together is "feed a bite". The Sim initiating the interaction takes food off his/her own plate with the fork, and offers it to his/her partner. The partner either accepts it, which improves their relationship score, or is disgusted, with predictable results.