# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/42 "2004-01-15T15:18:02Z")
Have you all forgotten the creative use of butter in **Last Tango in Paris**? Pretty fucking memorable. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Interior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@Lux\_Interior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Interior)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/43 "2004-01-15T15:31:23Z")
Forgive my AR nature. The Carrot/Hot Dog mistake in _Fast Times_ was corrected already, but… > [@](#): > > I also like the scene at the cafeteria in “Animal House” where John Belushi pops that egg and acts like he’s a giant zit. Those were mashed potatos. How about the scene in _Goodfellas_ where he was describing how they cooked and ate like kings while in prison, “He sliced the garlic paper-thin with a razor blade, so it would liquify in the pan.” (paraphrased). ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/44 "2004-01-15T15:51:06Z")
The pie scene from _Titus_. Yummy flakey pie filled with: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Matthew Rhys ---
**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, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/45 "2004-01-15T16:14:35Z")
\*\*Lux Interior \*\* is right. The \*Goodfellas \* food gathering and preparation scene (including the voiceover) in prison is primo. Gotta love dem goombah gourmands. ---
**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, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/46 "2004-01-15T16:18:58Z")
“Please sir…I want some more.” ---
**Author:** ![gleeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f14d63/32.png) [@gleeb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gleeb)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/47 "2004-01-15T16:28:00Z")
_Soylent Green._ The scene where they share the beef, of course, but even better the look on Edward G. Robinson’s face as he says “Strawberries”. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/48 "2004-01-15T17:04:56Z")
Jim Carrey splitting his soup in Bruce Almighty was pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/49 "2004-01-15T17:29:50Z")
I was always partial to the imagination dinner-scene from **Hook**. Not the green gloppy crap, so much as the food the Lost Boys were imagining was on the table. DAMN, what a spread. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/50 "2004-01-15T23:35:42Z")
Ok, so **Dooku** stole my mention of _Big Night_ hours ago. I’ll just mention that in addition to the great omelette scene mentioned, the scenes portraying the creation and slicing open of the masterpiece was the best portrayal of actual food I’ve ever seen. The food looked so beautiful I could have wept. Simply put, if you like food in your movies it’s a must see. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/51 "2004-01-20T13:17:00Z")
> [@Ex Machina](#): > > \*\*Lux Interior \*\* is right. The \*Goodfellas \* food gathering and preparation scene (including the voiceover) in prison is primo. Gotta love dem goombah gourmands. Not to mention the climactic scene, with Henry simultaneously braising veal patties and obsessing about the “shipment” that’s going out that evening. I love the shot where he’s tenderizing one of the patties, his eyes wide with coke and paranoia, continually watching the front door. Finally, he goes to the door, still carrying the patty, opens it, scans outside, bumps it closed with his shoulder, and goes back to the kitchen. All his priorities are on the same level. Not every time, but a lot of the times, that Mr. Rilch and I are making tomato gravy, we have this exchange: “Tell Michael don’t let the sauce stick—tell him to keep stirrin’ it.” “[sigh]Henry says don’t let the _sauce stick_.” “I’m stirrin’ it!” ---
**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 20, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/52 "2004-01-20T16:57:17Z")
Two scenes that give me a hankering for Chinese food: \*The Godfather \* when they are waiting for the call giving the location of the meeting between Salazzo and Michael and _My Favorite Year_ when Benjy is teaching his new girlfriend about _dim sum_ on their first date. You can’t go wrong with a cluster of those little white containers. It’s a prop that makes any scene delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Ouatic-7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Ouatic-7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ouatic-7)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/53 "2004-01-20T18:54:16Z")
How can any thread about great food scenes not mention this gem, particulary the big cook off between Chow and Bull with full contact cooking? At the last minute, Chow’s dish is destroyed so he must improvise and he cooks his final dish with “internal” skills. It includes barbecued pork so tender and delicious that the judge rolls around on it in ecstasy. There are also the “pissing beef balls” sort of a superball of foods. This is a comic movie but there are many other Hong Kong films about cooking and eating, which, unfortunately, I can’t name because I am having a fogey moment. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/54 "2004-01-20T19:42:36Z")
Hmm…nobody’s mentioned the dinner scene in _Alien_. More specifically, the scene during which the _humans_ are eating dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/55 "2004-01-20T20:56:59Z")
I like the scene in “Barefoot in the Park” when Charles Boyer is serving the funny appetizers that you have to “pop” in your mouth or they are nasty. Dunno why, just comes to mind. And has anyone mentioned “Like Water for Chocolate” yet? That whole movie is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/56 "2004-01-21T00:05:39Z")
Wow, still no mention of what I thought of first: Jennifer Beales eating lobster in “Flashdance”. Simply one of the sexiest things I’ve ever seen, and no one was naked, and she wasn’t miming anything. ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/57 "2004-01-21T05:23:24Z")
I really enjoyed the scenes involving Doctor Lecter and his meal in the cage during his brief spell as a guest of the Memphis police. And though the movie Hannibal was, in general, a let down, I loved the last meal in that film. Although not one of my favorites, I think I’ll also mention Bill Murray’s little snack after he finished cleaning the pool in _Caddy Shack_. ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/58 "2004-01-21T16:01:13Z")
I still love Barbossa’s expression as Elizabeth eats in POTC. So dirrrrrrty… ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/59 "2004-01-21T19:05:00Z")
> [@mlerose](#): > > Of course the creepiest food scene is toward the end of “The Cook, the Thief His Wife, and Her Lover” Mmm…pork chops! I’d nominate _My Dinner With Andre_, but come to think…do they ever get to eat? I just remember them talking for two whole damn hours. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/60 "2004-01-21T19:26:48Z")
> [@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) 🙂 The pie fight scene in _The Great Race_ is certainly one of the best food scenes, not to mention one of the best choreographies ever. I need to nit-pick however, it happens in the kitchen, not a cafeteria. Young Natalie Wood in her underwear covered in cream, mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446/61 "2004-01-21T19:55:49Z")
The fairly pornographic 1976 film ‘The Image’ has the best restaurant scenes, but not much food gets eaten in them. As for eating when watching a movie, I always need a bacon sandwich when I watch ‘Babe’. Don’t ever watch a Peter Greenaway film and consider eating at the same time, lots of food in his films, but not much of it is appertizing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-food-scenes/224446.md?page=4)