History Main / ObsessedWithFood

* King Louis XVI seemed more interested in food than his wife.

* A dark example with Giselle from ''VideoGames/FaustTheSevenGamesOfTheSoul''. As a young girl, she witnessed her parents dying while the family was trapped in their farm during a terrible winter, and for the rest of her life, she ate compulsively, even getting fired from a bakery for stealing pastries, which she was aware of and ashamed of how much she weighed.

* A dark example with Giselle from ''FaustTheSevenGamesOfTheSoul''. As a young girl, she witnessed her parents dying while the family was trapped in their farm during a terrible winter, and for the rest of her life, she ate compulsively, even getting fired from a bakery for stealing pastries, which she was aware of and ashamed of how much she weighed.

Food is important. Without the many things it provides, (not just nutrition, [[ForeignQueasine but culture]], {{comfort|Food}} and, ...well, [[IncrediblyLamePun just gives life more flavour]]) people would just keel over and die (...literally). Of course, this makes being hungry a big deal.

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7'' has one of the player character's [[MissionControl AWACS units]], AWACS Long Caster. During missions supporting the pilots of the Osean LRSSG, he often makes many analogies of situations to food, his official description stating that he often brings his meals onboard the AWACS plane he flies on, and his insignia is a hamburger with an Osean Flag on a toothpick on top. Despite his bottomless appetite, he is also able to fulfill his role as MissionControl for the LRSSG's Cyclops and Strider Squadrons.

** Homer Simpson. Whenever he hears (or thinks he hears) any mention of food, he responds with the CatchPhrase "Mmm, [food/thing that vaguely sounds like food]", then spaces out and drools.

* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'': PlayedForLaughs with Father Nightroad at the start of the first episode of the Anime, who hasn't eaten in 22 hours due to not being able to pay for a sandwich. Later, it's PlayedForDrama with Ion, who is a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire afraid of losing his self-control. However, when they're able to eat normally, neither is obsessed with food.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': [[CloudCuckooLander Sasha]] is this. Justified because there are major food shortages and she may not have the discipline to deal with hunger as well as the other soldiers. [[spoiler:She lived in the wilderness with a survivalist father, but wild game became scarcer as she grew up. She developed her food obsession shortly before leaving to join the military.]]

* Jake on ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen''. He can be easily pissed off if someone else eats his food, would often hold food in his pockets, eat food that dripped on his shirt and in one episode has a pie in his nightstand drawer. He even mentioned having eaten a [[ExtremeOmnivore snail]] at least once. When he's injured, he prefers to be driven to a fast food restaurant instead of the hospital. If he says he doesn't want to eat, it's usually a case of [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Out-of-Character Is Serious Business]].

* ''{{Series/Psych}}'': Shawn and Gus are often distracted from cases when they run off to get snacks (often at the worst possible time).

* On the first series of ''{{Series/Skins}}'', Cassie thinks about food a lot. She has an eating disorder, she organizes tinned food in other people's homes, has set strategies for pushing food around her plate to make it look like she's been eating, and believes someone is sending her secret messages telling her to "EAT!"
* In an episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' [[SympatheticPOV told from]] the MonsterOfTheWeek's POV, said monster is consumed with eating people's brains. He [[IJustWantToBeNormal tries to control it]] by going to Overeaters Anonymous, but ends up killing and eating his landlady (who he bonded with when he discovered she was also in OA).
* On ''Series/SchittsCreek'' David Rose loves to eat and constantly thinks about food. Not only does he have a tendency to shame eat and thus struggles with his weight, he talks about how much he eats all the time. He also cares far more about the post-game barbecue than his boyfriend's team's championship baseball game, even going to snag some chips before he's up to bat. When planning his wedding, he tells his father that the food is the only thing at the wedding he wants people to care about and really enjoys all the samples at the tasting.

* The Laughing Hyenas from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' are perpetually on the edge of starvation and will go to any length for a square meal.

* In ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'', Verge is fascinated with terrestrial food because as a [[TheGreys Sectoid]], he's ''[[WeaksauceWeakness fatally allergic]]'' to most of it. This means he's willing to split the bill at a restaurant if a squadmate consents to letting Verge use his {{Telepathy}} to [[MundaneUtility share the taste]] of something like a philly cheesesteak.

* The Nakarkos of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' is a cuttlefish-like Elder Dragon that's responsible for ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction entire ecosystems]]'' disappearing into its beaked maw. However, unlike other HungryMenace cases such as the Deviljho, whose metabolism is so intense that it's constantly starving, the Nakarkos is different. It ''does'' use a few bones from its prey to cover its arms with, giving it the initial appearance of a MultipleHeadCase Elder Dragon, but mostly, it just [[ForTheEvulz doesn't have anything better to do]] than eat everything.

* In ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', mainly in the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' season, Mario obsesses over food, mostly Italian food. Luigi as well but to a lesser extent than Mario.

* ‘’ Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': The titular character doesn't think about anything but eating (justified since he has a HyperactiveMetabolism which means he'll starve in hours rather than days and gathering ingredients and cooking's kind of a SeriousBusiness in his world). Naturally the anime adaptation has crossed over with One Piece.

** He is intelligent enough to

* The senior wizards in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' sometimes come across like this. In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', they become involved in football to fulfil the conditions of a bequest, since the alternative would be to reduce the cheeseboard ("Three cheeses isn't a choice, it's a penance!"), and Ponder institutes the concept of half-time to allow for the inability of the faculty to go more than an hour without a meal.

* UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers aimed at the affluent middle classes often manifest their own food obsessions. Count how many pages in the Sunday magazine supplements are given over to trendy or pernickety fad-food, where one meal might call for exotic ingredients, that in terms of price could pay for a whole family's food for a week. Or indeed reviews of the sort of trendy London eateries where a meal for two might cost £100 per head - before wine.[[note]]Invariably in London. Food reviewers do trek into the wilderness outside the M25 now and again, but usually to be patronizing about how the provinces try hard, poor darlings, but can't get it ''quite'' right. Or else to little colonies of metropolitan affluence out there in the sticks, like the smarter bits of Cheshire.[[/note]] The emphasis seems to be about being on the cutting edge of food trends, or else advertising that you can afford to pay these prices, more than it is about good food or nutrition.

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'': Jasminka Antonenko absolutely loves food and is always shown to be happily eating something whenever she is on screen. To the point that in ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademiaTheEnchantedParade'', when one Professor is shown to take away a bag of chips from her (due to her breaking the rules), [[{{Hammerspace}} she happens to always have another bag to immediately replace it]]. Her BigEater tendencies is later revealed by WordOfGod and the manga by Keisuke Satō to be the result of a Faery Beast that she ate when she was younger, which she is forced to subdue by eating constantly, not that she minds it by any means.

* {{Music/Gyari}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfkBYHFZAt8 Zettai ni Chocomint wo Taberu Aoi-chan]]" (roughly "Aoi-chan Will Eat Chocomint No Matter What") deals with [[{{Music/Vocaloid}} Kotonoha Aoi's]] obsession on eating chocomint-flavored ice cream and forcing it to others, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin no matter what.]] This extends from buying everything chocomint-flavored, like cakes and spaghettis, to ''imagining herself as the head of a chocomint axis out in a war against anti-chocomint terrorists'' (AKA making a not-Twitter account and dealing with trolls). It takes her sister making a chocomint equivalent of GargleBlaster and [[PolitenessJudo leveraging her position as the older sister to force-feed Aoi several cups of it]] to make Aoi stop forcing her will on others, but she hasn't stopped her obsession for it yet.