Have you all forgotten the creative use of butter in Last Tango in Paris? Pretty fucking memorable.
Forgive my AR nature.
The Carrot/Hot Dog mistake in Fast Times was corrected already, but…
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).
The pie scene from Titus. Yummy flakey pie filled with:
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Matthew Rhys
**Lux Interior ** is right. The *Goodfellas * food gathering and preparation scene (including the voiceover) in prison is primo. Gotta love dem goombah gourmands.
“Please sir…I want some more.”
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”.
Jim Carrey splitting his soup in Bruce Almighty was pretty cool.
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.
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. 
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!”
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.
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.
Hmm…nobody’s mentioned the dinner scene in Alien. More specifically, the scene during which the humans are eating dinner.
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.
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.
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.
I still love Barbossa’s expression as Elizabeth eats in POTC. So dirrrrrrty…
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.
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.
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.