*“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.
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!"An excellent example of an actor “projecting”. Terry Jones was it? Or was his name Ralph?
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.
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”.
How can any threads about food in films be considered complete without mentioning The Grande Bouffe ?
The Public Enemy
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.
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) 
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…
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.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.
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.
Well, it would have to be the Banana Boat Song scene in Beetlejuice!
The shrimp cocktail hand was to die for!
I always like the scene in PCU where hamburger gets dumped on the militant vegans.
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.
Wow, no one brought up the dog poop eating scene by Divine in Pink Flamingo. Oh, that would be worst movie food scenes…
I’m a fan of Vatel, myself.
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;)
And from a purely shark point of view, Jaws wasn’t half bad either;)