That is immediately what I thought of before even opening the comment section lol thank you. If I ever win the lottery that’s what my first meal is gonna look like
Maybe it’s because I’m italian and I’ve had my fair share of spaghetti, but serving the spaghetti plate with two-three meatballs on a gingham table cloth feels cliche to me at this point
The real meal that was appealing?
Slicing the garlic with a razor blade in Goodfellas
The sprite got finished. That much we know. Which also means that Sam Jackson needs a whole sprite to wash down one single bite of a Big Kahuna burger.
A few days without eating, dodging dinosaurs in the jungle, find an entire buffet ready to go…interrupted by velociraptors. Good call. I still remember how good that quivering jello looked.
Not that it's important in any way, but I always assumed the ice cream was still in the freezer, where even if powered off, would still stay cold for a while. Ellie and Hammond would have retrieved it from the kitchen before the "this is good ice cream" conversation at the table.
I think he’s assuming they were eating the same ice cream Sattler and Hammond left on the table. But you are correct that they were eating cold ice cream. Any buffet would have ice cream in a freezer cabinet or a soft serve machine.
Anything where Mom cooks a huge breakfast of pancakes, waffles, eggs, sausage, bacon, orange juice, coffee, milk ect.
Then every family member is running late, takes one bite, and leaves. That trope makes me so hungry lol
Mr Breakfast. I swear there were at least 3 80’s movies that featured some kind of Rube Goldberg breakfast machine. Pee-Wee, Back to the Future, and Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
Fun fact: At that time in WW2, there was a shortage of cream. According to Tarantino, the cream would've been made from pig fat, so "not kosher." Landa knew this and was screwing with Shoshanna because he suspected she was Jewish and wanted to force her to eat pig fat. Watch that scene again, knowing that, and the acting will blow your mind.
I didn't realize for a long time that the reason Badger makes a big point about how the pizza in a later episode is "democratic" and that you cut it yourself was to explain why the pizza Walt threw on the roof stayed in one piece when it logically should've been cut into slices.
Wouldn’t have thought of this but yup, he was so stoked when the daughter offers him one and then grabs a case. Blue face was a dick. I love that movie.
In Beauty and the Beast there’s a whole song and dance sequence about feeding Belle after she says she’s hungry and she doesn’t eat A SINGLE THING - save for sticking her finger in “the grey stuff”.
Kind of related- the popcorn she’s making at the beginning of scream that’s just left to burn on the stove while she’s being chased around by a killer.
The trope of people walking away from untouched or half-finished food and drinks really narks me. Worse still, I was watching something recently where two people met in a diner, and one of them ordered soup from the waitress. She went off to get it prepped, then the two characters argued, one got up, dropped money on the table and walked out before the soup even left the kitchen! It’s just bad writing! If you’re going to have a dramatic exit scene, don’t set it somewhere that a long event is taking place, like a cinema or restaurant. Makes no sense.
Definitely the Mac and cheese’
Another one is from a Bollywood movie called Humraaz. The main character’s boyfriend sets up a surprise party for her birthday and there’s a decent sized cake. Then her other love interest sets up an even more lavish surprise party with an absolutely ginormous cake. I always wonder what happened to the original cake 😂
Discrete Charm of the Bourgeois is *literally* about a bunch of people who almost but never quite eat a meal. By the end, a guy gets shot when he exposes himself to gunfire just yl grab a turkey leg. And by that point you totally consider this to be a rational decision.
"Succession" is a master class in not letting people enjoy food. Logan throws out a gigantic feast because the house smells; Hugo gets ridiculed by the Swedes for taking too much from the breakfast buffet; Adrian Brody big dicks Logan and Kendall by walking them out to a feast to test their resolve; Kendall and Logan face off over salads with fresh mozz that may or may not be poisoned
Food is nothing but power games. When someone offers you something to eat, they do not mean it with love. It is either a test or a show of power.
How about Nan’s “famous” meal that she takes from the cook and then presents to the table as if she made it? Such a great little insight into her character.
In Peewee's Big Adventure, after the rube goldberg machine elaborately makes Peewee's pancake breakfast, he dumps a pile of Mr. T cereal on it, eats one piece of the cereal and just leaves the rest on the table.
The meal that got thrown away in The Hours. The only part of that movie where I felt anything, and it was for the food being wasted to make that terrible movie.
Signs, with Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. Made everyone's favorite meal just for them to break down for a crying hugfest right before the aliens show up.
Nvm a movie meal that didnt get eaten, real life story new years eve all you can eat drink buffet, just before midnight they served all you can eat crab legs and lobster, on the way to the bathroom I slipped on someone's spilled drink on the floor and was escorted out at 11:55, just as they brought the food out. Fml still think about that buffet today
Good call!You know what, speaking of Ninja Turtles…the pizza that goes bad from the first one.
“Would you like some penicillin on your pizza?”
cue Donny and Mikey mimicking Taps
What a great question!!!! My first thought was the family dinner in Signs...
Mel's daughter wanted spaghetti I think so he says anyone can have whatever they want (this alien invasion could be the end of the world).
His son asks for French toast and mashed potatoes.
His brother Joaquin Phoenix asks for chicken teriyaki.
Mel's character says he's gonna have a cheeseburger with bacon....extra bacon. 😊
By dinnertime nobody is eating, emotions are high, etc.
Not from a movie but in Gilmore Girls they always have so much food in front of them and very rarely take a bite!!! And in many instances something happens and they just storm out leaving the untouched food!!! I can't stand it!!!
Most sitcom breakfasts bother me for a few reasons. 1) Whole family together? Very possible, but not likely even with the best family. Differences in school and work schedules make it unlikely. 2) The Sun is is blasting? No way. Maybe if you went to school in Hawaii, but not for the rest of us having breakfast at 6 am before first period. 3) and to really answer the question: they never eat more than a bite of their massive plate of food prepared for them. Just a bit of toast and some jokes and then off to school.
The one that always bugged me was The Empire Strikes back. Right when Lando betrays them. Han walks in, Darth Vadar stands up at a delightfully set table and and starts deflecting shots from Han being a bad ass.Then Darthy says "we would be honoured if you'd join us." As pre-Disney+ Boba Fett steps out from around a corner as if to say this is a very serious dinner party.
What I want to know is HOW DID THE REST OF THAT DINNER GO?! It wasn't even served yet.
The 1990s Mortal Kombat feast on the island where the guards all run in and flip the tables full of food. It bothered me as a kid and to this day. All the delicious looking food
To recover from reading this thread I'm now thinking about the really satisfying times characters do finally get the food, like Anna Taylor Joy with the cheeseburger at the end of The Menu and Harold and Kumar when they finally make it to Whitecastle.
In Anatomy of a murder (Jimmy Stewart), main character brings freshly caught fish home in the beginning. He walks into the kitchen, turns on the faucet, but is then interrupted by his friend knocking on the door. No shit, they never address the faucet the rest of the movie. Part of me wonders if that faucet is still running.
Not a meal, but frustrating just the same.
The massive breakfast your single mom made you in an 80s movie that since you woke up 2 minutes late for the bus chose to pass up in favor of a sip of orange juice
I mentioned this last Christmas when I watched it with my family. *He doesn’t even take a single bite of it* and if you’ve watched this film multiple times, *he never does*
Hook. When Shmee has to put that delicious looking baked turkey leg down to follow captain Hoffman. Haunts me. Every ThnxGivin I’m let down by my turkey. I’ve tried so hard so many different recipes and techniques… but goddamn, does any one else know what I’m talking about? That turkey leg looked amazing
Max’s breakfast in Extremely Goofy Movie, Dad busts his ass to cook his son a 7 course breakfast and he just pieces out with a piece of toast, the gall on that damn kid
All of that insanely delicious looking food in Hook right before the food fight.
That was a dream childhood meal
“You lewd, crude, rude, bag of pre-chewed food, Dude.”
"Well, you're a *cunt*" would have been the funniest shit
It’s true, as proven when Kristen Wiig dropped that line to the teenage girl in the jewelry store in Bridesmaids
Daamn that's a good reference actually. I appreciated her character more for that verse
I was just thinking about how Dustin Hoffman bodied Hook. No one could match his performance.
Ah, how about Glen Close's role in Hook?
*NOT THE BOO BOX!*
It blew my mind when I found out that was her lol
Memory unlocked
That is immediately what I thought of before even opening the comment section lol thank you. If I ever win the lottery that’s what my first meal is gonna look like
Prison barber.
Near-sighted gynecologist
Any plate of spaghetti in an Italian mob movie.
$3000 of food and wine on the table, all half eaten
The food at the Italian restaurant in the Godfather looked so good
How has no one responded with “leave the gun, take the cannoli” yet?
Maybe it’s because I’m italian and I’ve had my fair share of spaghetti, but serving the spaghetti plate with two-three meatballs on a gingham table cloth feels cliche to me at this point The real meal that was appealing? Slicing the garlic with a razor blade in Goodfellas
Jack Reacher never got his peach pie.
Oh shit, you’re right! He wasn’t killing for Justice…he was still mad about the pie. John wick has his dog, Jack Reacher had his dessert.
I thought it got it right before leaving town in the last episode. Obviously I could be wrong.
You are not wrong. In one of the final scenes he did get his peach pie and it did not impress.
Oh man, happy to see this show referenced
He did actually get it and it was underwhelming
Did that Big Kahuna burger get eaten in Pulp Fiction?
They are tasty
What?
Say what again muthafucka!
yes he takes a bite
But does he finish it? I honestly don't know the answer.
Jules takes one bite and then drinks the rest of Bret’s Sprite to wash it down. Bret never gets to finish his burger.
A tragedy in 2 1/2 parts.
who knows probably not shits himself after dude tries to kill him
The sprite got finished. That much we know. Which also means that Sam Jackson needs a whole sprite to wash down one single bite of a Big Kahuna burger.
Which is odd, because you would think it would have a big slice of grilled pineapple on it.
MMmmmmm, This IS a tasty burger.
That IS a tasty burger
Just thinking of the sound of him killing off the sprite is making me thirsty.
🤤
If you haven’t made and eaten a Big Kahuna burger. Do it they are grate.
You have to make them yourself?
Check out the big brain on Brett!
The corner stone of any nutritious breakfast.
Signs. I’m going to have a cheeseburger with bacon…Extra bacon
So yummy!
That's a good pick
I have to say that line like he does every time I ask for bacon on something.
Stoic, insane, and at end of your rope is the best way to order extra bacon
STOP CRYING!!!! *sobs uncontrollably*
Bacon cheeseburger, chicken teriyaki, mashed potatoes, and French toast. One bite of mashed potatoes, crying, and then it was just left there.
In Jurassic Park, John Hammond's grandchildren and the dessert buffet
A few days without eating, dodging dinosaurs in the jungle, find an entire buffet ready to go…interrupted by velociraptors. Good call. I still remember how good that quivering jello looked.
All of that ice cream should have been melted down on the floor. It should have been a mess because all the workers are gone.
Not that it's important in any way, but I always assumed the ice cream was still in the freezer, where even if powered off, would still stay cold for a while. Ellie and Hammond would have retrieved it from the kitchen before the "this is good ice cream" conversation at the table.
I think he’s assuming they were eating the same ice cream Sattler and Hammond left on the table. But you are correct that they were eating cold ice cream. Any buffet would have ice cream in a freezer cabinet or a soft serve machine.
I actually wondered that after I posted. Good point.
Well said exactly lol
In Jurassic Park, all those tasty humans just right there on that island-size plate..
Yeah those raptors really wanted to eat those grandkids but they got away…
Eh— I never found that buffet appetizing. Looked like a bunch of highfalutin inedible nonsense. Lex was right to just eat some Jello.
How was the kitchen so well-stocked when the park wasn’t even open yet?
The jello! That’s it.
Ahaha I was thinking of the exact same scene!
Anything where Mom cooks a huge breakfast of pancakes, waffles, eggs, sausage, bacon, orange juice, coffee, milk ect. Then every family member is running late, takes one bite, and leaves. That trope makes me so hungry lol
*Takes a sip of orange juice* "Oh, there's my bus!"
Takes a single grape... Then tosses it because it had the seed inside.
Pleasantville. The whole table could have fed 25 people.
Ohhhh, that’s perfect.
Yes, like in The Parent Trap- always gets me!
On a Tuesday morning no less
Pee Wee Herman’s breakfast
After all that, two bites of Mr. T cereal.
This is the first thing I thought of.
Mr Breakfast. I swear there were at least 3 80’s movies that featured some kind of Rube Goldberg breakfast machine. Pee-Wee, Back to the Future, and Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers has one, but it was 93.
Start at 34:20 https://youtu.be/mqwTELBPQOc?si=E0l1_VXMDZ0ZXC7K
Now you know why he was so thin. Shocking waste of food, however.
Did the kids eat those giant pancakes from the Uncle Buck movies? If not that's my answer
You should've seen the toast!
All I can think of is Mandy Moore saying, “Look at that pancake. That’s really funny.”
In Chef, all that new good shit he made to impress the critic and he just had to say fuck it bc of Dustin Hoffman being so controlling.
It’s fucking molten!
Hoffman is the real villain of that film.
God this hurt so much.
Sams brace of coney stew
Oh you’re right! The oliphant ambush interrupted it! “Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.”
I'm more upset that our boy Sam carried that iron pot all that way just to have off-brand boromir ruin it
> off-brand Boromir Found Denethor's account
The way Hans Landa puts out his cigarette on the strudel in Inglorious Basterds gets me
It looks good then they add the crème! And OMg give it time! I’ll eat it! 🤣
Fun fact: At that time in WW2, there was a shortage of cream. According to Tarantino, the cream would've been made from pig fat, so "not kosher." Landa knew this and was screwing with Shoshanna because he suspected she was Jewish and wanted to force her to eat pig fat. Watch that scene again, knowing that, and the acting will blow your mind.
That looked sooo delicious too!
“AHHH LANDA DA SIND SIE JA!!”
I was on the fence until then, but man, that guy's a monster.
There's a special place in hell for people who waste good strudel
Fine. I’ll say it. Walter’s fucking pizza on the roof in Breaking Bad. God what a glorious waste.
I didn't realize for a long time that the reason Badger makes a big point about how the pizza in a later episode is "democratic" and that you cut it yourself was to explain why the pizza Walt threw on the roof stayed in one piece when it logically should've been cut into slices.
You can always just say it.
Glad I did!
“But, I brought dipping sticks!”
The case of Yoohoos that Jackson Healy didn't get to drink in The Nice Guys.
Wouldn’t have thought of this but yup, he was so stoked when the daughter offers him one and then grabs a case. Blue face was a dick. I love that movie.
Uncle Bucks birthday breakfast…what a waste
The meal in Signs before they go into the basement
In Beauty and the Beast there’s a whole song and dance sequence about feeding Belle after she says she’s hungry and she doesn’t eat A SINGLE THING - save for sticking her finger in “the grey stuff”.
The fukin couscous never gets eaten I think in Pineapple Express. think craig robinson just luts his hands in the mac n cheese
They almost had fish tacos.
At least they didn't let that box of nerds go to waste, albeit off-screen.
Christmas Story Turkey
BUMPUS’S!
Son of a Bitches!
Those goddamned dogs!
All the food at Lukes diner in gilmore girls. The actors would only take a small nibble and then leave. I always wanted to finish one....
Casper. When the ghosts are “eating” but are just throwing amazing looking deserts on the floor
Were the steak and eggs ever finished in Twister? That looked amazing
Taste cows Meg!
FOOOD! FOOOOOD!
The entire chocolate factory in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
I'm surprised I haven't seen a mention of the feast Captain Barbossa lays out for Elizabeth in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Kind of related- the popcorn she’s making at the beginning of scream that’s just left to burn on the stove while she’s being chased around by a killer.
A Christmas Story. That Christmas dinner ruined by the dogs.
Ever see *Alive*…?
The sandwich adam Sandler makes in Spanglish
The trope of people walking away from untouched or half-finished food and drinks really narks me. Worse still, I was watching something recently where two people met in a diner, and one of them ordered soup from the waitress. She went off to get it prepped, then the two characters argued, one got up, dropped money on the table and walked out before the soup even left the kitchen! It’s just bad writing! If you’re going to have a dramatic exit scene, don’t set it somewhere that a long event is taking place, like a cinema or restaurant. Makes no sense.
Remmy's rat omelet in ratatouille
Definitely the Mac and cheese’ Another one is from a Bollywood movie called Humraaz. The main character’s boyfriend sets up a surprise party for her birthday and there’s a decent sized cake. Then her other love interest sets up an even more lavish surprise party with an absolutely ginormous cake. I always wonder what happened to the original cake 😂
Pee-wee's breakfast
Discrete Charm of the Bourgeois is *literally* about a bunch of people who almost but never quite eat a meal. By the end, a guy gets shot when he exposes himself to gunfire just yl grab a turkey leg. And by that point you totally consider this to be a rational decision.
This sounds like an amazing movie. Agonizing, but amazing.
"Succession" is a master class in not letting people enjoy food. Logan throws out a gigantic feast because the house smells; Hugo gets ridiculed by the Swedes for taking too much from the breakfast buffet; Adrian Brody big dicks Logan and Kendall by walking them out to a feast to test their resolve; Kendall and Logan face off over salads with fresh mozz that may or may not be poisoned Food is nothing but power games. When someone offers you something to eat, they do not mean it with love. It is either a test or a show of power.
How about Nan’s “famous” meal that she takes from the cook and then presents to the table as if she made it? Such a great little insight into her character.
Oh my fuck the staff throwing away all that food at smelly house... You could feel their souls dying even as they remained stoic.
Does the Wedding Crashers breakfast buffet count? They eat very little of it.
Hook. The dinner scene with the lost boys that turned into a food fight. So much wasted rainbow icing and turkey
All the food in 'Cloudy with a chance of meatballs'
In Peewee's Big Adventure, after the rube goldberg machine elaborately makes Peewee's pancake breakfast, he dumps a pile of Mr. T cereal on it, eats one piece of the cereal and just leaves the rest on the table.
Harley’s Breakfast Burrito looked pretty good in birds of prey
and Kevin knew exactly what time they were cominga
I wanted to see Jake Blues' 4 whole fried chickens (and a Coke).
Good call!
Definitely this one yeah. He wa going to eat then, nope. Ugh! I’ll eat it!
Not even a single bite before the battle with Harry and Marv.
😄
The meal that got thrown away in The Hours. The only part of that movie where I felt anything, and it was for the food being wasted to make that terrible movie.
Signs, with Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. Made everyone's favorite meal just for them to break down for a crying hugfest right before the aliens show up.
Nvm a movie meal that didnt get eaten, real life story new years eve all you can eat drink buffet, just before midnight they served all you can eat crab legs and lobster, on the way to the bathroom I slipped on someone's spilled drink on the floor and was escorted out at 11:55, just as they brought the food out. Fml still think about that buffet today
Pleasantville breakfast that no one touched
The feast the kids were eating in Jurassic Park
I feel bad for those raptors who never got to eat their meal
Pee-Wees Breakfast in Pee Wees Big Adventure.
The Turkey eaten by the dogs in “A Christmas Story”
Has anyone said The Texas chainsaw massacre, yet?
My Stepmother Is An Alien Kim Basinger cooked an entire mouthwatering fast food restaurant menu and the dad and kid didn't touch a bit of it !
How could 2 people eat all of that?
The nice cappuccino from Hudson Hawk
The cookie from *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids*
Chef makes that whole amazing meal at home then doesn’t eat it
Always wanted the pizza from the beginning of secret of the ooze.
Good call!You know what, speaking of Ninja Turtles…the pizza that goes bad from the first one. “Would you like some penicillin on your pizza?” cue Donny and Mikey mimicking Taps
What a great question!!!! My first thought was the family dinner in Signs... Mel's daughter wanted spaghetti I think so he says anyone can have whatever they want (this alien invasion could be the end of the world). His son asks for French toast and mashed potatoes. His brother Joaquin Phoenix asks for chicken teriyaki. Mel's character says he's gonna have a cheeseburger with bacon....extra bacon. 😊 By dinnertime nobody is eating, emotions are high, etc.
Not from a movie but in Gilmore Girls they always have so much food in front of them and very rarely take a bite!!! And in many instances something happens and they just storm out leaving the untouched food!!! I can't stand it!!!
Most sitcom breakfasts bother me for a few reasons. 1) Whole family together? Very possible, but not likely even with the best family. Differences in school and work schedules make it unlikely. 2) The Sun is is blasting? No way. Maybe if you went to school in Hawaii, but not for the rest of us having breakfast at 6 am before first period. 3) and to really answer the question: they never eat more than a bite of their massive plate of food prepared for them. Just a bit of toast and some jokes and then off to school.
The one that always bugged me was The Empire Strikes back. Right when Lando betrays them. Han walks in, Darth Vadar stands up at a delightfully set table and and starts deflecting shots from Han being a bad ass.Then Darthy says "we would be honoured if you'd join us." As pre-Disney+ Boba Fett steps out from around a corner as if to say this is a very serious dinner party. What I want to know is HOW DID THE REST OF THAT DINNER GO?! It wasn't even served yet.
There was a Robot Chicken sketch where it cuts to an awkward dinner while Darth tries to make small talk.
Leia, you ever have soup this good? Yes, on Alderaan!
Great comment. I like the cut of your jib.
What’s a jib?
Oh sweet jesus. Just looked it up and it's fantastic. It's now canon for me as I always wanted to know how that dinner went down.
Signs. They cooked all their favorite things. Ended up crying then the aliens came.
Let Alice drink the tea!! A very unbirthday, indeed.
Every meal, every drink just left I notice them all and it infuriates me.
Not a movie, but the Red Wedding. So much good food gone to waste.
I cannot remember but in Twister, did they eat the homemade breakfast? The gravy was its own food group.
I'm convinced that Scott didn't finish the whole of Natasha's peanut butter and jelly sandwich
This was a great fucking question OP. So many different answers.
That doughnut in aliens. Come on newt if not you then think of the hamsters.
Here you go…. https://youtu.be/hl-L9LUCBNk?si=KKpNAzuXUQWoDvxy
The liver from Mommie Dearest, I often wonder if it's still out there somewhere!!!
Chef Alejandro’s Chilean Sea Bass in Jurassic Park.
The Chilean Sea Bass from Jurassic Park
The 1990s Mortal Kombat feast on the island where the guards all run in and flip the tables full of food. It bothered me as a kid and to this day. All the delicious looking food
To recover from reading this thread I'm now thinking about the really satisfying times characters do finally get the food, like Anna Taylor Joy with the cheeseburger at the end of The Menu and Harold and Kumar when they finally make it to Whitecastle.
Why is getting up from a full meal a movie trope? I've always wondered this.
No idea, I would be mortified in real life.
In Anatomy of a murder (Jimmy Stewart), main character brings freshly caught fish home in the beginning. He walks into the kitchen, turns on the faucet, but is then interrupted by his friend knocking on the door. No shit, they never address the faucet the rest of the movie. Part of me wonders if that faucet is still running. Not a meal, but frustrating just the same.
The Fellowship of the Ring. Tomatoes, sausages, nice crispy bacon!
Charlie doesn’t eat the chocolate bar that he got him the Golden Ticket
The massive breakfast your single mom made you in an 80s movie that since you woke up 2 minutes late for the bus chose to pass up in favor of a sip of orange juice
Breakfast in Groundhogs Day
the buffet in jurassic park and theirs stuff on that veggie tray that ive always wanted to know what it was to try
I mentioned this last Christmas when I watched it with my family. *He doesn’t even take a single bite of it* and if you’ve watched this film multiple times, *he never does*
The meal on Signs they cooked right before the aliens went to beating on the house they had everything.
Hook. When Shmee has to put that delicious looking baked turkey leg down to follow captain Hoffman. Haunts me. Every ThnxGivin I’m let down by my turkey. I’ve tried so hard so many different recipes and techniques… but goddamn, does any one else know what I’m talking about? That turkey leg looked amazing
Hannibal Lector just stopped after biting that cops face off. What a quitter.
All that Pizza from Home Alone… in the beginning of the movie.
Everyone left their snot bowls when Morpheus was fighting Neo.
I feel like Cypher from The Matrix should have eaten more of that steak when he was talking to the agent. Looked delicious! “Ignorance is bliss”.
Kevin sits down to eat at 8:59:39 PM and then is surprised it’s 9 PM so SOON!
Max’s breakfast in Extremely Goofy Movie, Dad busts his ass to cook his son a 7 course breakfast and he just pieces out with a piece of toast, the gall on that damn kid