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Movie you associate with eating most

posted 20 years ago by wdevil-1
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Like most people that visit this site, I just finished watching Moonstruck again and it prompted me to go to IMDB to see what kinds of topics were being discussed.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that is borderline obsessed with the eating scenes of the movie. Everything looks so good, especially the bread with egg in the middle.

I started thinking about other movies that had memorable scenes involving food. (Some might be a bit obscure)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the scene where they enter at the beginning and start tearing into the candy)
Fatso (Dom DeLuise dunking a piece of bread in sauce at his cousin's wake)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (Gene Wilder eats and entire box of rich chocolates to hide the fact he knocked them to the floor)
Monty Pythons the Meaning of Life (Man literally explodes from eating one mint too much)

And for honorable mention, two Little Rascals episodes (don't know titles), the first dealing with Valentines Day and Spanky switching out a cheese sandwich and cream puff with sliced and liquid soap that Alfalfa eats, and an episode that they go camping and forget to bring food, but Spanky and Scotty have the thickest jelly sandwiches I have ever seen!

Boy, I must have too much time on my hands! I'd be interested to hear scenes that anyone else recalls,

[–] piper-35 20 years ago

I'd love to be invited to dinner at Loretta's house! Oh the food!
One other movie makes me want to eat and eat and that is Hanna and Her Sisters.
They have alot of dinners and dinner parties in that movie and it all looks so
good!!!
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory makes me want sweets--really bad!

~The Power of Three will set you free!!~

[–] pmaltman 20 years ago

Eat Drink Man Woman or Chocolat.

[–] dr-kyre 19 years ago

Mostly Martha - about a relationship between two chefs. The first time I saw this in the cinema, even though I had just eaten, I had to rush over to a friend's house to cook! (I served her chicken breast with champagne mustard sauce and steamed asparagus; she said I could move in any time.) If you love food in films (or just food), this one is a must!

[–] yttimsmc11 17 years ago

NUTTY PROFESSOR with Eddie Murphy. The Klump family always has such a huge spread of grub. Actually, now that I think about it, those scenes make me NOT want to eat...EVER. Nevermind.

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[–] SeisCinemaSeis 16 years ago

You have already mentioned most movies related with food that I remember, but here there are a couple more:

A Chef in Love
Noodle
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Mr. Creosote segment)

[–] jjjunob 15 years ago

Not a movie, but: "The Sopranos" always did it to me. My God, the pasta I consumed watching that series! :-D

[–] jimjo838 15 years ago

I know this is pretty obscure, but for me it's "The Prince and the Showgirl" with Marilyn Monroe and Lawrence Olivier (1957 I think). I love the scenes where the fancy 'cold supper' is served as Olivier attempts to seduce Monroe. I've even attempted to replicate the supper, with cavier, etc., as I watch the movie. I also like to do a little drinking game as I watch, doing the vodka shots and drinking champagne whenever the characters do. You end up with a PERFECT buzz!

[–] ificandream56 19 years ago

I always associate The Godfather with eating, whether it be cannoli, spaghetti, or oranges.

[–] jluckie3 19 years ago

ok so i love making spaghetti and watching this film! secondhand lions makes me want sausage, Goodfellas is another one that makes me want italian food. i love this film!

[–] mauispiderweb 19 years ago

The part that gets me is when Olympia is making bird's nests for breakfast: the thick slices of italian bread with a hole in the middle for the fried eggs. I had never seen that before and I immediately made it after seeing the movie. It was sooooooooo delicious.

[–] kennebec 16 years ago

My dad used to make that for us for Saturday morning breakfast. I remember him cutting the hole out of the bread with a shot glass. We're Irish-American, not Italian-American, but it was one of our favorite meals. I love that scene in Moonstruck because it makes me think of him.

[–] KatrinaW 19 years ago

If you love Moonstruck, you'd love the movie "Big Night". It's about two Italian brothers who own a traditional Italian restaurant at the Jersey shore in the 50's. The food seems to compliment or frame every scene in the movie. In fact, the last half of the movie takes place at a dinner party in the restaurant, and every new course is unveiled with great ceremony and fanfare.

It makes me hungry just thinking about it!

[–] DrMaeRoushdy 19 years ago

Moonstruck
The Godfather
Chocolat
My big fat greek wedding
Shallow Hal!

I'm one of the chosen few, Who went ahead and fell for you.
I'm out of bold, I'm out of touch,I fell too fast, I feel too much.
I thought that you might have, some advise to give, on how to be, insensitive.

[–] mauispiderweb 19 years ago

OMG that bread in the Little Rascals! I couldn't believe the size of the slices! Was it really like that, back then?

Also, the Little Rascals when they think they're losing Miss Jones for Mrs. Wilson, and she makes that pasta dish, whatever it was? Maybe mac and cheese or just spaghetti and sauce, but they put all the salt, pepper, and horseradish in it. Just her serving it to the kids and piling it up on their plates makes me hungry, even though it's spiked with hot stuff. I love when Buckwheat eats it and his braids fly up ... classic!

[–] nativenewyorker88 8 years ago

Oh, wow. I thought I was the only one that remembered that scene with fondness. Doesn't help that I love spaghetti! Just recalling that scene makes me want to enjoy a big plate of spaghetti & meatballs.

[–] birdwell-2 19 years ago

I always have a steak and mashed potatoes when sitting down to The Harvey Girls or The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance. I love all-American comfort food!

[–] tiskertabell 19 years ago

Like Water for Chocolate, Babette's Feast and yes, maybe Moonstruck. Why does Cher have grey hair in this movie?

[–] nativenewyorker88 8 years ago

Yes, I remember that scene too from the Harvey Girls. I did likewise. Plot myself down with a good steak and potatoes while watching that scene.

[–] chiffonade 19 years ago

As a hardcore foodie (see tag line below), the foodie movies have the most appeal to me:

Eat Drink Man Woman
Tortilla Soup (the Hispanic version of EDMW)
Like Water For Chocolate
Babette's Feast
Chocolat
Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe?
Big Night
Woman On Top
Pieces of April

I'm sure I'm leaving some out...

As for Moonstruck (which is my favorite movie), yes, I love the egg in the bread but wish they had shot it until she didn't break the yolks.

I love the restaurant scenes where the professor keeps getting drinks thrown in his face ("Pardon the disturbance...a pretty mental patient."). Rose goes there to eat alone because she feels so comfortable ("You're eating alone." "I'm not eating alone."). It's the place where Johnny proposes ("He's ruining his pants!")

Although I detest his infidelity, I love the scene where Cosmo woos Mona ("You have such a head for knowing."). - I lust after that espresso machine every time I watch this movie.

And every time Loretta winds up outside Ronnie's apartment and he holds out his hand, I yell "GO WITH HIM, GO WITH HIM!" as though she's going to do something different this time.

I watch this movie when I need cheering up. I watch this movie when I need a dose of Italian-ness. And I watch this movie because I never tire of seeing the gorgeous older woman score the incredibly virile younger man.

Chiffonade

Food is more than gasoline for the body.

[–] hereminton 19 years ago

I had never in fact thought about that question until I saw and read this board. I've never really associated any movie with eating, because if it is in it it's just as a subplot. But I would have to pick Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which I saw last summer in a theater, and I have brought a few Willy Wonka cany bars since then, just because of this movie. But it is correct on here, that Moonstruck does have alot of Italian cooking and eating in it. I never thought much of that when I saw it from 1989 into the 1990s, though spagetti was my favorite food as a child, and I continued to eat it, and raviolli, in the late 1980s and 1990s. But I often go to Olive Garden now, which is a purely Italian restaurant, it is my favorite restaurant and the only one I really want to go to. This is because I (like Lex, below) am a devoted vegetarian, and absolutely love the garden salad there, as well as the minestrone soup, which I also occasionally get-both with free refills and breadsticks. I haven't seen Moonstruck since becoming a vegetarian, and never thought of it when in Olive Garden all these recent times, but probably will the next time I go, and I hope to see it on DVD soon, maybe I should get a carry out of garden salad and breadsticks to eat while watching it. And no, I don't associate Jurrasic Park with eating either, except for this line, which is my favorite movie line of all time and gave me my imdb signature.

"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park

[–] dathaler 18 years ago

No one mentioned "Howard's End." Lotta eating in that film too--the younger brother do love desserts.