# Best Movie Food Scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446 "2004-01-14T20:43:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/21 "2004-01-15T00:21:33Z")
\*“Well, I love the dinner scene from Coupon: The Movie. An excellently shot scene, in my opinion.” \* - SPOOFE I thought the same thing when I saw it. The lines are delivered as each character comes into view between the other’s heads. The rotating shot has perfect timing as if it were a cinematographic distributor cap. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/22 "2004-01-15T00:23:12Z")
Eating an apple in _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid._ Eating a pineapple in _Bannanas._ _Eating Raoul_ Cooking lobsters in _Annie Hall._ ``` *Buffalo '66*: "Hope you like tripe!" ``` ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/23 "2004-01-15T00:26:07Z")
> [@Ms Boods](#): > > Mr Creosote. _Meaning of Life_. An excellent example of an actor “projecting”. Terry Jones was it? Or was his name Ralph? ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/24 "2004-01-15T00:30:15Z")
For comedic horror, I’d offer the pie feeding scene with Vincent Price and Robert Morley in _Theater Of Blood_. There’s also the ending of _Eating Raoul_, great dark comedy moment. As for the comparison of bean eating in _Blazing Saddles_ and Terrence Hill films. The former is a classic funny scene in film history, but I’ve never seen anyone eat mere beans onscreen and act happier or more satisfied doing it than Terrence Hill. Good joke though, **tracer**. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/25 "2004-01-15T00:46:02Z")
When James Cagney “feeds” the grapefruit to his woman in…forgot the name. Billy Bob Thornton eating his salad in “Bad Santa”. Gary Oldman licking off the straight razor in the remake of “Dracula”. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/26 "2004-01-15T00:53:35Z")
How can any threads about food in films be considered complete without mentioning [The Grande Bouffe](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0070130/) ? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/27 "2004-01-15T00:57:15Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > When James Cagney “feeds” the grapefruit to his woman in…forgot the name. _The Public Enemy_ ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/28 "2004-01-15T01:09:07Z")
I don’t know what that thing is in _Amadeus_ when Salieri eats the chocolate ball off of it but it looks good. It looks like a big mound of white sugary goop with chocolate balls stuck all over it. When he pops one into his mouth you can almost taste it yourself. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Curious\_Writer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@A\_Curious\_Writer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Curious_Writer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/29 "2004-01-15T02:36:25Z")
I can’t believe you guys are getting so psyched up over eating? Why, the OP didn’t say anything about eating, but merely said the best food scene. And to not mention the gratest food fight of all time, a whole cafeteria of people it seems, throwing pies at each other, is just outrageous! It’s like…well…not liking Casablanca (to reference another thread) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/30 "2004-01-15T02:42:58Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > Denathor’s mad eating while Pippin sings in ROTK. > > So creepy. > > … I liked the movie but it didn’t take much effort on my part to imagine Pippin was weeping by the end of the song because he couldn’t stand Denethor’s messy eating habits… ---
**Author:** ![A\_Curious\_Writer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@A\_Curious\_Writer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Curious_Writer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/31 "2004-01-15T02:43:59Z")
> [@A Curious Writer](#): > > I can’t believe you guys are getting so psyched up over eating? Why, the OP didn’t say anything about eating, but merely said the best food scene. And to not mention the gratest food fight of all time, a whole cafeteria of people it seems, throwing pies at each other, is just outrageous! It’s like…well…not liking Casablanca (to reference another thread) 🙂 ``` Sorry, forgot to mentiont hat was "Blazing Saddles." Which did, at least get some mentions for "eating scenes." But, the OP was titled "food scenes," and my mind automatically shifts to comedy like that. ``` ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/32 "2004-01-15T03:02:06Z")
Ann Margaret in the orgasmically delightful bean, chocolate, and soap suds scene in Tommy. Elijah Wood ponders a very strange food – indeed has no idea where to begin on this strange looking red crustacean – in The Good Son. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/33 "2004-01-15T03:04:31Z")
_Tampopo_. Every scene is centered around eating or food. Every single one. There are segments about sex, birth, study, work, crime, pain and death, and every last one of them revolves around food. ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/34 "2004-01-15T03:06:02Z")
Well, it would have to be the Banana Boat Song scene in Beetlejuice! The shrimp cocktail hand was to die for! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/35 "2004-01-15T03:13:50Z")
I always like the scene in [PCU](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110759/) where hamburger gets dumped on the militant vegans. ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/36 "2004-01-15T03:37:22Z")
I love seafood but the restaurant shrimp tossing scene in \*The Blues Brothers \* was a turn off for me. I think there was a lobster eating scene in _Splash!_ that was equally unappetizing. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/37 "2004-01-15T03:39:41Z")
Wow, no one brought up the dog poop eating scene by Divine in _Pink Flamingo_. Oh, that would be **worst** movie food scenes… ---
**Author:** ![maikai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@maikai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maikai)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/38 "2004-01-15T05:03:11Z")
I’m a fan of Vatel, myself. ---
**Author:** ![kmg365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@kmg365](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmg365)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/40 "2004-01-15T05:40:59Z")
What? Is nobody mentioning _ **Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom** _? The sumptuous (and scurrying) dining scene in the Indian palace was absolutely to die for! (I’m surprised they didn’t get SARS or BSE after that meal;) ---
**Author:** ![kmg365](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@kmg365](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmg365)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/41 "2004-01-15T05:43:39Z")
And from a purely shark point of view, _ **Jaws** _ wasn’t half bad either;) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446.md?page=3)