Pizza is Totally Radical!note
Twig: You have any more Nuka-Cola?
Old Man: I got Sunset Sarsaparilla?
Twig: That's not Nuka-Cola.
Old Man: I got Sunset Sarsaparilla?
Twig: That's not Nuka-Cola.
A character is partly defined by a Trademark Favorite Food that they crave and eat, all the freakin' time. Usually in a way that makes you suspect that they're addicted to the substance, and they may have developed their addiction from the first time they tried it. If they are a One-Note Cook, they will typically be good at making it.
Sometimes justified if the item is a Power-Up Food for the character.
When a character exhibits an obsession for food that corresponds with a stereotype for their race or culture, it is usually considered a Discredited Trope unless played to lampoon the stereotype.
Note that this trope is not merely about a character saying they like a certain food, or being shown enjoying it once or twice. To count, the character must consistently be shown to have a strong affinity for that food.
See Also: Stock Animal Diet, which applies this to an entire species of animal; Hollywood Cuisine, which applies this to an entire culture (Brits Love Tea is a subtrope); and Must Have Caffeine, the coffee-specific version. If the answer is "every food", you have a Big Eater. If it is "everything, no matter if food or not", you have an Extreme Omnivore. A specific, sometimes overlapping version of this trope is someone who has a Sweet Tooth. If they talk about that food all the time, they're Obsessed with Food. For a darker and more specific version look at I'm a Humanitarian. See also Impossibly Delicious Food. May overlap with Comfort Food in cases where the comfort food is the character's TFF. Likely to overlap with Far-Out Foreigner's Favorite Food. In a particularly shameless work, this may be occasion for some Product Placement.
Compare Your Favorite and Drink-Based Characterization. Compare and contrast Pizza Topping Conflict. Contrast with Does Not Like Spam. If a Big Eater character passes up on their trademark favorite food, it's a sign that things have gotten serious.
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Advertising
- Pretty much the bread and butter (pun intended) of breakfast cereal mascots:
- Sonny, who is Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo!...
- Trix are for kids, because life's just a bitch sometimes to innocent cartoon bunnies.
- Chip, the Cookie Crisp dog/wolf, who used to have a human robber companion.
- Lucky, the Lucky Charms leprechaun.
- Sugar Bear "can't get enough Super Golden Crisp".
- Fred and Barney constantly fight over both Cocoa and Fruity Pebbles.
- Sonny, who is Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
- Gackt and e-ma.
- The Frito Bandito robbed people of their "Frito corn cheeps" until he was deemed an offensive racial stereotype.
- See also The Power of Cheese.
- McDonald's: Several of the McDonaldland characters were associated with a particular food, most famously Grimace with milkshakes, Hamburglar with (guess what) hamburgers and the Fry Guys (and later, the Fry Girls) with (you guessed it) french fries. Birdie the Early Bird was best-known for her love of breakfast sandwiches.
- Lesser-known in McDonaldland were Captain Crook (who tried to steal Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, the chain's fish sandwich), Uncle O'Grimacey (Grimace's uncle, who also loved milkshakes, only of the mint-flavored kind that were sold on St. Patrick's Day), and the Griddler (a short-lived character who helped promote the restaurant's McGriddles line of breakfast sandwiches).
- Cheetos, the favorite food of Chester the Cheetah.
- Hostess snack foods: The characters enjoy pitching (and apparently, in a nod to cannibalism) eating the foods shaped like themselves. These include the Happy Ho Ho, Captain Cupcake, Fruit Pie the Magician and most famously, Twinkie the Kid. Twinkie the Kid was so associated with the food that when schools began anti-junk food campaigns and thereby banned the popular snack cake from the classroom, several newspapers ran cartoons of Twinkie the Kid hanging himself.
- Meet the Turketarians.
- Despite being a battery-operated rabbit, according to his official profile on the Energizer website, as well as a 2017 commercial, the Energizer Bunny's favorite food is carrots.
- Morris the Cat is the sarcastic orange tabby mascot for 9-Lives cat food.
- itemLabel's Peepy enjoys peanuts as its favorite food and are more than willing to rob someone of them.
Asian Animation
- In Banzi's Secret Diary, Banzi's friend Namnam likes strawberry milk and is often seen drinking it.
- Flower Angel: Qianhan is said to love blueberry mousse, Yitong likes caramel pudding, and Shuxin likes fruit tarts.
- In Kung Fu Pork Choppers, Hampton is obsessed with lollipops.
- In Lamput, it is implied that fried chicken may be Specs Doc's favorite food. In "Diet Doc", Specs Doc tries to resist the urge to go to a fried chicken restaurant to avoid ruining his new diet; in "Cast Away", one of the photos he carries with him shows him with a large bucket of fried chicken; and in "The Desert Years", he sees a Hollywood Mirage of a bucket of fried chicken and has to be snapped out of chasing it by Lamput.
- In Motu Patlu (2012), Motu's love of samosas is carried over from the comics the show is based off of. This time, there's an additional benefit he gets from them: There are quite a few episodes where he'll eat a samosa to make himself stronger, allowing him to save the day easily.
- In Noonbory and the Super 7, Totobory loves honey more than any other type of food.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf:
- Paddi is a notorious Big Eater who is Obsessed with Food and he will gladly eat any piece of food he can get his hands on, but he especially likes green grass cake.
- Banana Wolf is a wolf who likes eating bananas. You probably figured that out just from reading his name, though.
- In Tik Tak Tail, Tail loves carrots so much that Tik often uses them as a Delicious Distraction for him.
- Upin & Ipin: Ipin's favorite food is fried chicken. He even starts fantasizing about fried chicken whenever he sees something that resembles a chicken drumstick, especially in later episodes.
Comedy
- Emo Philips seems to really like coleslaw if his stand-up routines are anything to go by, sometimes with stories loosely relating to one another via the food. He also has a recipe for coleslaw on his website detailing a failed attempt to make the dish and culminating in getting rich enough to just buy nice deli slaw.
- Jim Gaffigan has made a very successful career basing a large percentage of his jokes around his favorite food, going as far to title one of his books, Food: A Love Story. However, nothing with get a larger reaction from him than bacon.
- And then there's the inverse concerning what may be his Trademark Least Favorite Food: "Hot Pockets!" He gets plenty of comedy mileage out of making fun of them.
- Gabriel Iglesias is known for joking in his routine that the reason he drinks diet Coke despite already being "fluffy" is "so I can eat regular cake". He's apparently started getting gifts of cake from fans.
Comic Strips
- In AJ & Magnus, when AJ is frustrated that he can't get Twix to take his medicine, no matter what he wraps it in or bribes Twix with:
AJ: I'm out of ammo, dude.
Magnus: But did you try cheese?
AJ: Cheese!? Why would—
Twix: [zipping in] Who said "cheese?" [...] Mate, I'd do anything for a hunk o' tasty cheddar!
AJ: [frazzled] I'm never doubting cheese again! - Eric Wimp eats a banana to turn into Bananaman.
- Banks of Barkeater Lake and bacon — to the point that he couldn't give it up even after having a hypertension-induced stroke.
- Big Nate: Nate absolutely loves Cheez Doodles, to the point where he can tell if you're spelling "Cheez" wrong in your head.
- Traditionally, Dagwood of Blondie (1930) has favored tall, multi-layered sandwiches (hence the term "Dagwood Sandwich"), but in recent years, he's expanded his palate to include stuff like pizza. For a while, it was stated that his favorite food was spare ribs with saurkraut.
- Bloom County:
- Opus the Penguin loves herring, with lots of mayonnaise. He also likes Ding-Dongs, Zingers, and similar snack cakes.
- A basselope's favorite food is Pop Tarts. (This is also why the one in the strip is The Last of His Kind; they died out due to high blood pressure from clogged arteries because they ate them with too much butter.)
- Calvin and Hobbes:
- Hobbes: Tuna sandwiches, as well as salmon.
- Calvin: Any sugared cereal, but particularly Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs. He is also mentioned to like hamburgers, but is only shown eating them once. He's also been shown to go out of his way for pizza and cookies.
- Dennis the Menace (UK): Dennis has a friend called Pie-Face, who is obsessed with pies.
- Dennis the Menace (US): Dennis sure loves pizza, but hates vegetables of any kind with a passion... once to the point where he turns up the oven to 550 degrees on Thanksgiving Day, just so the family would be forced (in haste) to order pizza as their Thanksgiving dinner. He also loves cookies, especially the ones Mrs. Wilson bakes, and ice cream, to the point that Dairy Queen used him as its mascot for thirty years.
- FoxTrot:
- Played with in a Sunday strip when Roger brings home a dozen doughnuts, and the kids immediately start fighting over the one with chocolate sprinkles. While they fight, Andy takes the chocolate sprinkled one — not to put an end to the fight, but because it's her favorite as well.
- With Paige's sweet tooth, it's no surprise that her favorite treat is ice cream.
- Just about the only thing that can drag Jason away from a session of World of Warquest is pizza.
- Garfield:
- Garfield's favourite food is lasagna — the joke being that such a time-consuming and intricate meal is being served to a house cat. The official Garfield website had an entire archive of lasagna recipes that fans had submitted for our favorite feline to enjoy. In the comic, one of his grandfathers explained why lasagna is Garfield's favorite food: as it turns out, the titular cat was born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant, and when he was still a kitten, he accidentally tripped the cook as he was carrying a tray of lasagna and he had a bite (lasagna was the first food he ever ate). The animated half-hour special Garfield on the Town visually depicts this in a flashback.
- In the earlier strips, Garfield used to absolutely love whole roasted chickens, until December 14, 1980, when he never ate it again after Jon forbade it. Garfield then chowed down on hamburgers instead.
- While lasagna is still established as being Garfield's favorite food, it's rarely mentioned nowadays and, at least since 2006, seems to have been largely replaced by pizza (Garfield's favorite food after lasagna). Word of God seems to support this, as Jim Davis (the creator of Garfield) once admitted that he wishes he had made pizza Garfield's favorite, as he finds it a lot easier to draw than lasagna.
- A Woolseyism example: In the 1980s, one Norwegian translation made joika balls — a type of meatballs made partially from reindeer meat — Garfield's favorite instead of lasagna. This required some Willing Suspension of Disbelief from the readers, since a plate of joika balls looks nothing like a plate of lasagna, but nevertheless, Norwegian Garfield fans regarded this as canon for years.
- Once she started dating Jon, it's been revealed that Liz loves donuts, but she tries to resist the urge to eat them due to them not being healthy.
- Kyles Bed And Breakfast: Kyle's pancakes are well liked at the bed and breakfast.
- Madam & Eve: Mother Anderson loves her gin and tonic (with ice and lime), and is seldom seen without holding a glass. She even has a gin vault in the house stocked with hundreds of bottles just in case.
- Mafalda:
- Reversed with Mafalda and her mom's soup as her anti-favorite food. On the other hand, her brother Guille absolutely loves soup.
- It's actually implied that Mafalda loves pancakes. The only thing that can convince her to eat soup is the premise of having sweet pancakes as dessert.
Raquel: Fine, if you don't eat your soup I won't give you dessert!
Mafalda: I won't have it! Ever! And no blackmail can ever make me back off my principles!
Raquel: ...Pancakes.
Mafalda: [gulping down the soup] Man do I squick myself so much at times!
- At the end of every Nero album, the characters have an Every Episode Ending where they traditionally eat Belgian waffles. In real life, during special celebrations of the comic strip, waffles have been baked for the guests and visitors as well.
- Snoopy of Peanuts likes cookies, and angel food cake with seven-minute frosting (and root beer, when he's in "Flying Ace" and "Joe Cool" modes). But his absolute favourite food is pizza. It's the only thing that could lure him out from under an icicle (he was afraid to make the slightest movement in case it fell on him).
- The Perishers: To the eternal disgust of his friends, Marlon loves inch-thick ketchup sandwiches, the only meal with a blast radius.
- Popeye:
- Popeye: Spinach. It's his Power-Up Food.
- Wimpy: Hamburgers.
- Olive Oyl: Olives.
- Eugene the Jeep: Orchids. (Actually, that's the only thing Jeeps eat.)
- Rasmus Klump: The cast has at least one pancake dinner in every story. It is the favorite dish of the titular bear cub. Skæg the seal enjoys eating pickerels.
- Rip Haywire: Rip LOVES pancakes, to the point where he'll carry a portable griddle on stakeouts.
- An old Robotman and Monty (in its Robotman days) strip where Monty decides that he needs a trademark food, and spends much of the strip eating pork chops, before discovering that he doesn't really like pork chops that much.
- The Wacky Adventures of Pedro's eponymous burro loves tumbleweed tacos, alfalfa milkshakes, and apparently any kind of ice cream.
- Zippy the Pinhead: Zippy loves Ding-Dongs with taco sauce.
Manhua
- Long Wei and strawberries from Infinity Game, as he apparently carries boxes of the stuff around with him.
- Ma Teng from Ravages of Time is rarely (if ever) seen without his bowl of noodles, and Liaoyuan Huo love steamed buns so much that he has his own shop which also serves as a front for his true profession of assassin.
Music
- Many Vocaloids have a favorite food, decided by the fans (though on at least one occasion there was a contest to decide it). The most famous is Hatsune Miku's, whose character item is leeks/negi, which was the result of that one video. You probably know which one.
- Kaito: Ice cream
- Kagamine Len: Bananas
- Kagamine Rin: Mikan oranges
- Megurine Luka: Tuna
- Kamui Gakupo: Eggplant
- Gumi: Carrots (and at times rice lunches)
- Yuki: Apples
- SF-A2 miki: Cherries
- Most UTAU voicebanks also have these, notably baguettes for Kasane Teto and cucumbers for Sukone Tei.
- Kid Rock manages to work in a reference to shrimp at least once an album. ("Devil Without A Cause" had one practically every other song.)
- The Aquabats!: "Magic Chicken!" is a song about a guy who really loves fried chicken.
I was born out back
Behind the chicken shack
I was raised in a cardboard box
Yeah, before when I was single
Used to hear the chicken jingle
That's how I learned the chicken rock - The B-52s have "Butterbean", about the titular bean, a staple of the Athens GA vegetarian community that most of the band members (sans Cindy) were part of. According to the band, everybody in Athens likes butterbeans - and some refuse to eat anything else. The band were somewhat kicking back against aggressive fast food advertising (which Fred Schneider remains particularly vocal about) as well as paying homage to their hometown. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of fans of the band who became fans of butterbeans as a result of the song.
- The earlier "Cake", in which Kate and Cindy describe numerous cakes that they enjoy baking and eating.
- Barenaked Ladies' iconic song "If I Had $1000000" famously refers to Kraft Dinner (the Canadian brand name for boxed Kraft macaroni and cheese, a staple food among the country's working and middle class) as a food the singers would no longer have to eat if they were rich, but still would. In response, fans began bringing boxes of KD to concerts to throw at the band after the line was sung, and it got to the point that it posed a risk to the band's instruments and personal safety (not to mention the cleanliness of the venue). The band eventually had to post signs at the entrances to their concerts encouraging people to donate their Kraft Dinner to the local food bank instead, and security staff were instructed to confiscate any boxes they found.
- The band attempted to score a sponsorship deal with Kraft but were rebuffed until early 2020, 28 years after the song first became popular, when former lead singer Steven Page appeared in a commercial for KD and the company released a limited edition product called "Dijon ketchup" (a reference to a joke in the song about what kinds of fancy condiments they would put on Kraft Dinner if they were rich).
- Beastie Boys mention White Castle a lot especially on their earlier songs (Licensed to Ill alone featured a reference to the burger joint on every other track).
- Starting with the film UHF, "Weird Al" Yankovic has been known for his love of Twinkie-Weiner Sandwiches (a Hostess Twinkie split down the middle with a hot dog inserted and topped with Cheez Whiz). Since becoming a vegetarian, Al has switched to tofu dogs.
- In The Weird Al Show, Al's favorite food is apparently jelly bean-and-pickle sandwiches.
- Captain Beefheart with "Abba Zaba", based on his affection for the peanut butter filled taffy of the same name. Abba Zaba was also a Working Title for Safe as Milk that had to be scrapped for trademark issues, and the back cover has a black and yellow checkerboard design as a nod to the candy's packaging.
- The Supremes, in "Buttered Popcorn," sing about a boyfriend who likes it "for breakfast, lunch and dinner too." note
- According to Jonathan Coulton, Code Monkey like Fritos. Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew. Code Monkey very simple man with big warm fuzzy secret heart. Code Monkey like you.
- In one interview Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon gave in the early 1980s (i.e. from 1983 or earlier), he confessed to being partial to orange-colored Smarties (the British kind, a variant of regular M&Ms). One big fan took note of it and sent him many tubes of nothing but orange-colored Smarties, which he munched on during another interview. In a separate interview at around the same time period, Nick Rhodes stated that he adored strawberries and champagne.
- Bob Marley regularly noted his liking for Irish Moss, a type of Jamaican seaweed that is regarded as an aphrodisiac. Bob specifically felt that his consumption of it made him irresistible to women - and judging by the fact he had 13 children he may have had a point.
- Rush drummer Neil Peart was apparently quite fond of In-N-Out Burger; not only did he have a sticker of the logo on the side cases of his motorcycle, he credited the use of a Bible verse in a song to not just the original verse, but an In-N-Out milkshake cup. (Other favorites he's mentioned include cherry pie and potatoes in every way, shape, and form. There's also a FunnyOrDie sketch wherein the band gets upset at two fans [the main characters from the film I Love You, Man, in fact] faking backstage passes and sneaking into their green room after the show. What pisses Neil off the most? They ate his sandwich.)
- Ozzy Osbourne said in his autobiography I Am Ozzy that when Black Sabbath started touring in the United States, he became obsessed with pizza and would order 10-20 slices per day, because pizza apparently didn't exist in 1970s Birmingham, UK. At least once, his wife and manager Sharon had to warn people to keep him away from McDonald's because of his addiction to Big Macs, and on The Osbournes, he demonstrated a love for burritos (specifically Cali-style mission burritos from Chipotle Mexican Grill) and carrot cake. Later on, he was into eclairs from a particular UK supermarket, ice cream, salads with chicken, roasted salmon, and Pink Lady apples. Parodies like depicting him as having a taste for, of course, bat heads. His trademark favorite food seemed to change about once a week- he'd fixate on some random food and eat nothing but that food for every meal for a period of time before abruptly getting sick of it and never wanting to touch it ever again, then repeat the cycle with a totally different food, which makes sense when you consider that he had ADHD and that these were probably food hyperfixations.
- Swedish electronic music duo Dada Life have a thing for bananas.
- Live shows have liberal appearances of inflatable bananas in the audience, and a Gwen Stefani/"Hollaback Girl" mashup Once an Episode.
- Live shows have liberal appearances of inflatable bananas in the audience, and a Gwen Stefani/"Hollaback Girl" mashup
- John Deacon from Queen likes cheese on toast.
- The Thin White Duke, David Bowie's 1970s persona, allegedly subsisted exclusively on red bell peppers, milk and cocaine.
- Everyone in Aborted loves guacamole, and Danny is apparently unparalleled at making it. Additionally, Mendel apparently cannot resist ice cream, while Sven has an inordinate fondness for Voodoo Doughnut and makes a point of stocking up whenever he's in Portland, not that the donuts last very long.
- The Grey Poupon mustard brand has become popular in hip-hop lyrics because of its 1980s ads associating it with luxury and the fact that Grey Poupon is very easy to rhyme.
- Tendon Levey and oatmeal. In a comment from May 2017 he claimed to have eaten "an estimated 11,000+ bowls of oatmeal since 2009". To do that he would have had to have eaten almost nothing else in these eight years. note
- Hobo Johnsons's songs frequently mention his love of sandwiches. They even came out with official Hobo Johnson merch adorned with sandwich images.
- Elvis Presley loved fried peanutbutter and bananna sandwiches.
- Oliver Tree has a thing for Flamin' Hot Cheetos, so they often appear in his wacky promotional stunts.
- Thanks to Memetic Mutation, pizza is considered the official food of Pop Punk fans. The music video for New Found Glory's "My Friends Over You" (one of the songs credited with helping to codify the sound of the genre) famously features the band handing slices of pizza out to an audience of enthusiastic fans, which might have something to do with it.
- J Dilla and his Donuts. Not only was the last album he lived to see released named after them, but many tracks on it were named after various donut flavors. They've become such a trademark for him, his uncle opened up a donut shop ten years after Dilla's death called Dilla's Delights.
- The Insane Clown Posse has Faygo, a regional soft drink brand from their hometown of Detroit. They frequently spray "Faygo showers" on the crowd at concerts and namedrop it in their songs, with "Juggalo Juice" being practically a three-minute advertisement for it, and the drink's association with them is probably the main reason why most people outside the Midwest have heard of it. They've even asked Faygo if they could collaborate on an official, limited edition product run, but Faygo, knowing the band's raunchy and profane reputation, has always politely declined.
Just let it fly, Juggalo juice! Into the sky, my Faygo! Don't wonder why, Juggalo juice! Until you try my Faygo!
Mythology & Religion
- Hindu Mythology:
- Lord Krishna adores butter. His love for it is to the point where songs have been written about it, and an enormous boulder at Mamallapuram, in southeast India, is said to be as big as all the butter Krishna took from his mother's handi pot would be, were it put together.
- Ganesha is noted to be very fond of Modak, a kind of sweet dumpling filled with coconut and jaggery sugar. It plays a part in the story explaining why he has a broken tusk and the Moon has a crater and goes through phases, where he fell from Moonisha, his mouse mount — who had been frightened by a snake in the road — when riding back after a great feast, causing his stomach to break open and all of the Modaka he had eaten to fall out. While stuffing the Modaka back in and using the snake as a belt to hold his stomach, Chandra Deva, the vain Moon God, laughed at Ganesha's predicament; causing the elephant-headed God to, in a fit of anger, break off the sharp end of his tusk and throw it at Chandra, carving a deep crater in the Moon and cursing it to never be whole again.note
- Lord Krishna adores butter. His love for it is to the point where songs have been written about it, and an enormous boulder
- Hercules/Heracles of Classical Mythology had a love for mashed beans, served in bulk.
- Older Than Print: The Dagda of the mythological Irish clan of gods the Tuatha de Danann had such a liking for porridge that one of the four mythological treasures the gods were said to have given mankind (other than a spear, a sword and the Lia Fáil) was his magic cauldron that sated even the harshest of critics. He was even incapacitated by the enemy who made him so much porridge he was unable to resist until he crawled away with an embarassingly large belly.
- Japanese Mythology:
- Kappa love cucumbers. One way to keep someone safe from Kappas was to carve their name into a cucumber; if a Kappa accepts it, they won't harm that person. The maki roll with cucumber in it is even named kappa maki after them.
- Kitsune are particularly known for loving abura-age (a type of sweetened, fried tofu), Inarizushi (pouches of abura-age, stuffed with vinegared rice and sesame seeds) and azuki beans. Abura-age, in fact, has become so well-associated with foxes that udon with abura-age is called kitsune-udon.
- Oni are shown to have a fondness for meat, especially livestock, and human flesh. Some of them also have a fondness for Sake, Shuten-dōji in particular is fond of Sake and is often depicted being surrounded by lots of sake bottles and an oversized cup, as its said that when Shuten-dōji was a human he could out-drink anyone and everyone who was willing to sit down and drink against him. Because of his fondness for alcohol, he became known as Shuten-dōji, “the little drunkard”.
- Norse Mythology:
- Thor always has goat meat. Where does he get it? Why, the two goats that pull his chariot of course. But doesn't he need them to pull his chariot? No worries, Thor always ensures to keep the bones intact and uses Mjolnir to restore the goats every morning so he has a continuous supply of goat meat. Are the goats traumatized by this cycle? Maybe, but a god's gotta eat too.
- Gnomes have a liking for rice porridge. It was tradition to put a bowl of rice porridge, with either a slab of butter or an almond on top, out on the doorstep on Christmas Eve as a gift for the farm's resident gnome, in return for continued blessing in the coming year. If you didn't, the gnome might withdraw his help or even outright punish you.
- In the US Santa Claus is said to love cookies and milk left out for him, often with a carrot for his reindeer. In the UK it's mince pies and a glass of sherry. Or a glass of brandy. Or whisky. Or rum. Or beer.
Pinballs
- Unsurprisingly, a spinning pizza disc features prominently in Data East's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pinball machine.
"Serious pizza!"
- Stern's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles goes even further: in addition to featuring a spinning pizza disc, collecting pizza toppings is a game mechanic, with each one altering the rules of Ninja Pizza Multiball in some manner.
- Donuts are heavily featured in Data East's The Simpsons.
- The Dude's White Russian from The Big Lebowski (2016).
Podcasts
- The Adventure Zone: Balance has Robbie, who's so fond of Pringles that this becomes his nickname.
- The Adventure Zone: Graduation has Fitzroy, who loves crepes and is desperate to get his hands on some since being shipped off to the School for Heroism and Villainy.
- In Brimstone Valley Mall, Misroch is a demon who used to be a line cook in Hell, and boasts that they served food to Satan herself... except, as everyone points out, she only ever wanted plain buttered noodles. Since Misroch fancies themselves a Supreme Chef, they find this very aggravating.
- In The Hidden Almanac, George the crow loves Cheetos.
- The Last Podcast on the Left's Marcus has a proclivity for pickles, while Ben has a passion for Bud Light and Bud Light Lime.
- Balnor from Not Another D&D Podcast loves tuna so much that his companions instantly know they're facing an imposter when "Balnor" claims chicken is his favorite food.
- In Qwerpline, the people of Nsberg look forward the annual "Nsberry" harvest. It's treated as a favored local delicacy. It also turns out that nsberries are actually a hallucinogenic fungus that a local mycologist is horrified to find out people are eating.
Professional Wrestling
- The Wild Samoans loved raw fish.
- According to The Rock, watermelons used to be the go to example for black wrestlers in the fifty states, so his dad Rocky Johnson wouldn't eat it on camera. Of course, The Rock's favorite food is pie. Yoshihiro Tajiri's favorite food is "Pune Tongue" but nobody knows what the hell that is.
- Pineapples for Royal Hawaiian in GLOW. She was seen eating two at once at practically every show she was on.
- Jerry Lawler and Coca-Cola.
- Pepsi for CM Punk, his finishing move was even called the Pepsi Plunge.
- Shrimp cocktail for Prince Nana, which this website's impoverished user base probably knows nothing about.
- Joey Ryan and blow pops. There are few lengths he won't go to get, or retrieve one.
- Mister ZERO credits whatever success he achieved in Chikara to coffee.
- Portia Perez is said to like cookies (and The Muppets) and nothing else.
- Apples for Carlito Colón, WWE onward. As long as he is not confronted by someone who does not wish to be cool that is.
- Boogeyman and worms.
- All the money Matt Hardy made wrestling in WWE is worthless, except to buy him grapes.
- John Cena and Fruity Pebbles, his face was even put on the cereal box.
- Lance Storm and Tim Hortons coffee. While it is an entire restaurant chain rather than a type of food, the fact that Lance has a map specifically laid out to get him to the nearest Cracker Barrel in the continental US bears mentioning, too. According to Lance himself, Cracker Barrel is a favorite of many a traveling wrestler on the road, since their food doesn't taste like stereotypical "restaurant" food, but like home-style cooking.
- Before cookies, Nicole Savoy needs tacos.
"Dear downtown Sacramento, F u and your $30 street tacos. I'll starve homie."
- "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and beer, to the point that both the character and the man bordered on The Alcoholic.
- The Sandman of ECW fame shared this trademark, and arguably invented it.
- Naturally, the Beer City Bruiser is also a beer fanatic, lugging a keg ostensibly full of the stuff to the ring with him, and occasionally taking a drink out of it and firing up akin to Popeye and spinach.
- Hangman Adam Page has carried this on in AEW with his love of beer and whiskey.
- Kurt Angle, intended as a Good Counterpart to Austin, loved milk as part of his "Intensity, Integrity, Intelligence" clean living gimmick.
- Jim Cornette and his Wendy's Triples... with a Sprite. Due to age and health, he's scaled back to Singles and Sprite Zero.
- Heidi Lovelace (WWE's Ruby Riott, AEW's Ruby Soho) and cookies.
- Evidently, it's bad idea to talk to Vince McMahon when he's eating a steak; he gives his full attention to the meat.
- Three things make Brock Lesnar happy? Big trucks, big bucks, and t-bone steaks.
- Thanks to his wildly successful Celebrity Endorsement for them, Randy Savage is frequently associated with Slim Jims. There's even a recipe for nachos◊ in the official WWE Cookbook that's not only named after him ("Nacho Man Randy Savage"), but uses the spicy beef sticks as a major ingredient.
- In AEW, The Dark Order members love Chili's food, particularly the baby back ribs.
- Dominik Mysterio is rather partial to chicken tenders.
Puppet Shows
- Bear in the Big Blue House:
- Bear is partial to berries (to the point of loving triple-berry pie), honey and cooked-and-buttered string beans.
- Tutter, being a mouse, loves cheese.
- Pip and Pop love clams.
- Treelo is fond of bananas.
- Ojo, like Bear, and being a bear herself, likes honey.
- In one episode, it was mentioned that Doc Hogg is fond of pie, his favorite being apple pie with nutty-crumb topping, served with a whole mess of whipped cream.
- The Book of Pooh: In addition to honey for Pooh, acorns for Piglet, and Eeyore's love of thistles, Tigger loves peanut butter.
- Popcorn was the favorite dish of the characters of the Canadian kids show from the 90s Chicken Minute.
- Fraggle Rock:
- The Fraggles absolutely adore radishes, to the point that they'll eat Doozer constructions (Doozer building materials are made from radish dust). Which is fine, because the Doozers need the Fraggles to eat their constructions so they'll have room to build more.
- A Robot Chicken segment had a scene where the fraggles, trying to find a new place to live, find a garden of radishes (one of them gets choked to death by a trap).
- The favourite food of the Doozers themselves is revealed in one episode to be jelly-filled food pellets (custard-filled ones being less popular).
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- In the first few seasons, Joel rewarded the boys with RAM chips as a snack. This, however, tapered off after Kevin Murphy took over as Tom Servo from J. Elvis Weinstein and ceased entirely partway into the third season.
- Mike Nelson (the character) had a thing for white rice.
- Oobi: the title character's favorite cereal is supposedly, "Toasty Chunks."
- Sesame Street:
- The Cookie Monster is clearly addicted to cookies, though he’ll eat other things as well (even things that should logically be inedible).
- Snuffy's favorite food has always been cabbages.
- Unsurprisingly, Big Bird's favorite food is birdseed.
- Bert is partial to oatmeal.
- Baby Bear's favorite food is porridge. Much to his initial chagrin, his younger sister Curly Bear doesn't like it.
- Terrence McBird from The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss loves red birdseed brickle. In the episode, "The Feed You Need", he refused to eat it in any other color, be it pink or blue, until he tried it in those colors and found out it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be.
- The Mr. Potato Head Show: Queenie Sweet Potato, despite being Anthropomorphic Food herself, has a favorite food: sugar-cream pies.
- Under the Umbrella Tree: Iggy's favorite food is turnips, especially turnip casserole, and Jacob's is banana smoothies. All the main characters seem to especially like peanut butter too.
Radio
- Vera Sackcloth-Vest in Gloomsbury has a fondness for buns that sometimes stops just short of I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! territory.
- Bluebottle in The Goon Show could usually be bribed with dolly mixture, a British confection consisting of small soft sweets and sugar-coated jellies.
Tabletop Games
- Dungeons & Dragons:
- In all editions, the bulette is portrayed as a predator who tends to prey on anything that moves; the 1st Edition, however, says that it's favorite prey is halflings.
- Tall Mouthers in 3rd Edition are said to be the closest thing to a natural predator of halflings; hence, if Tall Mouthers claim halflings as their meal, it is said that those halflings "got mouthed."
- Halflings draw the short straw again in the 4th Edition in regards to the nalfeshnee, demonic overlords notorious for being Villainous Gluttons. They regard any creature weaker than they are as edible, but halflings are their favorite.
- The cat of Felkovic is a variant of the Onyx Cat figurine of wondrous power, designed to fight vampires. It must be fed by its user, and prefers cooked pork, which is not coincidentally a food its creator enjoyed.
- The equars, a family of horses representing the Outer Planes, each have a unique diet which must be provided by their rider for them to remain on the Prime. The good ones like things such as high-quality grain, or ancient ballads and rainwater; the evil ones prefer poisons or the flesh of a creature of the same species as the rider.
- An odd mechanically-enforced variation of this appears in two New World of Darkness lines:
- In Vampire: The Requiem, as Blood Potency increases, a vampire's options for nourishment decrease. They start out being able to drink any sort of blood, then it becomes "human blood only", and then it reaches a point where the only blood that can nourish them is the blood of other vampires.
- In the second edition of Werewolf: The Forsaken, werewolves lose the ability to eat whatever they want and become strict carnivores upon hitting Primal Urge 2. As this increases, their diet becomes increasingly refined; from meat, to raw meat, to the flesh of other carnivores, before finally reaching a point where only Essence-impregnated flesh will sustain them. Which means the werewolf is now capable of eating only humans, mages, spirits or other werewolves.
- One Paranoia mission introduces two Gamma-clearance citizens (cloned from two of the original programmers of The Computer) who maintain the core systems — and occasionally organize missions to the Outdoors to go scrounge up more Twinkies and Coke.
- In the Pathfinder setting of Golarion, goblins can (and often do) eat whatever random, sometimes-literal garbage they can fit into their mouths, but they're extremely fond of heavily spiced, sour, or salty; they especially love salty or pickled foods. Their poorly-developed sense of taste might have something to do with it.
- Shamblers/shambling mounds are carnivorous in general, but they particularly favor elves. They're technically omnivorous, but they require meat (brains in particular) to reproduce, and while other sources of meat can be used, elves are the most efficient (eating a single elf is enough for a shambler to spawn offspring).
- While all the Chaos Gods of Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar will devour the souls of their worshippers and victims, Slaanesh has a particular taste for elf/Eldar souls, so much so that during the transition between Fantasy and Age Of Sigmar the new elf pantheon managed to capture and imprison Slaanesh because they had consumed so many elf souls they could no longer move (and to add insult to injury, the souls were set free soon after).
- Halflings, as fleshed out in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, absolutely adore pie. It doesn't matter what kind of pie, sweet or savory, just so long as it's a pie. The chief goddess of their small pantheon literally has as a sacred commandment "Always observe Pie Week" — a week-long festival centered on making and eating pies. An adventure in 2nd edition is actually set during Pie Week; not only will halfling player characters suffer a whopping -20% penalty to their Fellowship stat if they are seen to not be constantly eating pies, the mad halfling villain the party needs to find can be discovered by the fact he's only halfling not stuffing his face as if his life depends on it. It also includes a d10 "random pie flavor" generation table, to make it easier for the DM to describe what pies a given NPC is eating.note A 4th edition sourcebook notes that halflings have fought two civil wars over pies (a 25 year one over whether to call them pies or pasties, and a 9 year one over the legitimacy of the tart as a type of pie), disdain sausage rolls as a literal poor man's version of pies, and have made flans illegal to cook in their homeland of the Moot.
Theater
- In Cats Skimbleshanks likes a drop of Scotch in his tea, and Gus the Theatre Cat will tell stories for 'a toothful of gin' Naturally Fanon tends to exaggerate how much they love their respective drinks.
- In Company, there's Joanne and her vodka stingers.
- The people of Gander in Come from Away all enjoy Screech, a drink described as "bad Jamaican rum". The actual quality of it is dubious; most of the Come From Aways seem to think it's disgusting, as well as the WWII officer from whom the drink got its name, but Diane says it's "delishush" (although she is quite drunk by this point).
- In Gypsy, Rose loves chow mein. She even names her dog Chow Mein, calling her Chowsie for short.
- The schoolboys in Les Misérables have a thing for wine, especially Grantaire to the point of being told to put that bottle down. Memetic Mutation in the fandom has suggested that either Valjean or Javert (or both) has an intense love of bread.
- In My Fair Lady, Eliza has her chocolates. It can be interpreted that Professor Higgins denying Eliza her chocolates is what makes her snap and sing "Just You Wait", plotting his death in a gleeful Imagine Spot.
- In A Very Potter Musical Ron (and Harry) love Red Vines. Likely a reference to Wizard People, Dear Reader, where we are told that Ron loves Twizzlers.
What the hell can't they do?
Toys
- Sine from Little Apple Dolls adores apples. When she was alive, she used to live by an orchard. Oddly she isn't described as actually enjoying the taste of apples, she just likes apples period. She would count them, write poems about them, and even talk to them (she's a little girl so it isn't too weird).
- Various UglyDolls have foods that they are crazy about. The ones mentioned the most are Babo and cookies (to the point he almost always has one in his artwork), Tray and blueberry pie (rumor is that her eyes are blue from eating so much), TooDee and grape drink (he's purple from drinking so much), and Pointy Max and cheese (giving it to him is the only way he'll do what you say).
- Tamagotchi: In modern versions of the digital pets, many raisable characters have food likes and dislikes. For example, Kuchipatchi's favorite food on the Version 2 is corn.
Visual Novels
- Ace Attorney:
- Maya: Though she's an all-around Big Eater, Maya is especially fond of ramen, which was localized into the English version as "burgers". The difference in favorite foods between regions is humorously pointed out in a yonkoma from the Official Casebook fan-manga collection, in which Maya remarks that she could really go for a burger, but she's forced to eat ramen as well "for the sake of Maya fans around the world". Spirit of Justice pokes more fun at it, with Maya commenting that she wants some ramen when they get back to the States, then suddenly changing her mind and saying she wants a burger. Then finally settles on a bowl of ramen with a hamburger patty on top.
- Ema Skye: Karintou Snackoos. She downs whole bags of them, especially when stressed.
- Gumshoe: Instant noodles. (Though this has less to do with how much he likes it so much that it's some of the only food he can afford.)
- Missile: Samurai dogs (Samurai buns in the Japanese version).
- Maggey Byrde: Hot dogs.
- Godot: Coffee.
- Trucy Wright: Vanilla Pudding.
- The Great Ace Attorney:
- Inspector Gregson: Fish 'n chips. It actually becomes a vital clue to his true time of death; his body seems recently dead, but his bag of fish 'n chips have started to rot due to having fallen out of his pocket before he was put in a fridge and the killer noticing too late.
- Barok van Zieks: Wine. He's got his own private wine cellar in his office, and is frequently popping corks off bottles in court. Though he throws it around more than he actually drinks it.
- Another Code: Ashley and her dad both have a Sweet Tooth, one of the few things they can relate to each other about. Specifically, Richard is a chocoholic and one of his desk drawers at work is filled with chocolate bars.
- Boyfriend to Death: Ren Hana adores hearts, human or chicken; and he prefers them raw.
- Danganronpa:
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc:
- There's Aoi Asahina and her donuts.
- Celestia "Celeste" Ludenberg likes gyoza (Japanese dumplings), though she'll deny it as gyoza is a "commoner's food". She also has a fondness for royal milk tea.
- Sakura Ogami really likes protein powder, to the point that she adds it to her morning coffee instead of a sweetener. Aoi is also a protein nut, but not to the extent of Sakura.
- Junko Enoshima, rather confusingly, likes field rations. A hint at her true identity as Mukuro Ikusaba, the Ultimate Soldier. She also notes that she likes hamburgers.
- Byakuya Togami likes kopi luwak coffee.
- Hifumi likes potato chips and junk food in general.
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair:
- Byakuya in this game shows a love for fast food. The Ultimate Impostor likes fast food because it's the same everywhere, so it's one of the very few constants in their life.
- Hiyoko Saionji has a liking for Japanese sweets. Her favourite ones are gummies. This ends up being important during the second case when the killer tries to frame her by leaving one of the gummies at the scene of the crime. It fails because Hiyoko is so picky she only ever eats one particular brand, one that doesn't make the flavor of gummy that the real killer tried to frame her with.
- Akane will eat anything and likes any food gift you give her, but her favorite is Orzotto.
- According to his report card, Hajime likes kusamochi.
- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony:
- Kokichi Oma likes carbonated drinks, especially 'Panta'.
- Tenko Chabashira's favorite food is tripe hot pot.
- Ryoma likes candy cigarettes.
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc:
- Moe Mortelli from Daughter for Dessert loves his toast - specifically, the toast made at the diner. When the diner is closed for a time so the protagonist and Amanda can plan its reopening, Mortelli breaks into the protagonist's apartment to make himself toast.
- Johanna from Double Homework loves pancakes: making them, and getting them made for her.
- DRAMAtical Murder:
- Aoba Seragaki: Tae's meat and potato stew.
- Koujaku: Tae's home cooking.
- Noiz: pizza, pasta, and Gefülltes Schweinefilet mit Pflaumennote .
- Clear: Aoba's cooking.
- Mizuki: Yellow Peaches.
- Fleuret Blanc: Judge Grams really loves ginger, and by God so will you. Even FOIL's energy drinks are ginger flavored. This ties into a Stealth Pun: she has a soft spot for "gingers" — that is, redheads.
- Hatoful Boyfriend:
- Oko San, star pigeon of the track team, has an obsession with pudding. Not just any pudding, though: only the legendary True Pudding will do. Inferior varieties are a Berserk Button. He even literally crashes a party in search of it. If you get his extended ending in the paid version of the game, Oko San becomes a god of pudding. He has a Tumblr, which is predominated by pudding pictures and recipes offered by his fans.
- The heroine tells Sakuya that her favorite food is udon along the course of his route, in response to him asking her what she loves. Though the game itself begins with her telling Ryouta she can't sit still in class unless she's had some red meat, in Holiday Star she cheerfully tells Ryouta that she eats udon every day, only going without once every six months or so. He replies that she must not like it as much as he thought; he expected her udon-less days to be once every three years.
- A Valentine's-equivalent holiday revolves around giving the bird of the heroine's affection the kind of seeds that they like.
- Oko San, star pigeon of the track team, has an obsession with pudding. Not just any pudding, though: only the legendary True Pudding will do. Inferior varieties are a Berserk Button. He even literally crashes a party in search of it. If you get his extended ending in the paid version of the game, Oko San becomes a god of pudding. He has a Tumblr
- Katawa Shoujo:
- Shizune: Anything deep fried.
- Misha: Parfaits.
- Rin: Oranges. Which Hisao can feed her in her route.
- Kenji: Pizza.
- Konoe from Lamento - beyond the void likes Kuims.note
- Asato, Konoe's Love Interest, likes ice cream and chicken skewers.
- The protagonist of The Many Deaths of Lily Kosen is obsessed with bread, frequently talking about it and being able to make their way through most of a single loaf at a time. It's implied that they simply eat it untoasted, without anything to accompany it, too.
- The inhabitants of Mogeko Castle are obsessed with prosciutto. Yonaka can find packages of the stuff everywhere, and they actually have a religion based around it. Lord Prosciutto forgives the sins of all Mogeko, apparently.
- Characters in the Nasuverse tend to have notable ones:
- Fate/stay night gives us Kirei Kotomine and extremely spicy mapo doufu. Given that he's a sadist, it makes for a rather amusing Villains Out Shopping moment.
- Fate/Zero gives us Kiritsugu (who is essentially a '90s Anti-Hero) and his hamburgers (or hamburger steaks, which is a different food), because they give him a "sense of slaughter".
- Carnival Phantasm gives us Saber Alter and burgers. This carries over to Fate/Grand Order.
- Tsukihime. Ciel. Anything curry. That is all.
- Fate/Grand Order: Turns out that Hijikata Toshizo really likes takuan/pickled radish, even if other Shinsengumi members got sick of the smell. He buys it by the barrels, and latter events tends to have him revealed to be carrying a lot of them with him, or wondering if he can get a lot of them in wherever he is. Which makes for an interesting sight if he's drawn with the other incarnation of Hijikata who's obsessed with mayonnaise.
- A lot of the other Servants will also mention a favorite food in their My Room dialogue. (Arash, for instance, likes hummus.)
- Fate/stay night gives us Kirei Kotomine and extremely spicy mapo doufu
- Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow:
- Something's Wrong with Sunny Day Jack:
- Sunny Day Jack: Chocolate chip cookies
- Shaun: Peanut butter cups
- Ian: Cinnamon rolls
- Nick: Horchata boba.
- Reece: Whole wheat bread.
- Kubitarou from Spirit Hunter: NG loves manju, and offering some to her is suspected to be one of the ways to summon and/or pacify her.
- Tavern Talk: Besides certain kinds of potions your patrons regularly order, some have favorite food and drinks:
- Rhea's always down for some warm, hearty soup, while her Comfort Food is freshly baked shortbread.
- Melli mentions liking hot chocolate and will look for some in some of her quests.
- Tia mentions potato soup as her favorite food.
- Togainu no Chi:
- Akira: Omelette rice-flavored solids
- Keisuke: Green curry-flavored Solids
- When They Cry:
- Higurashi: When They Cry: Rika's friend, Hanyuu has cream puffs. In this case, the anime adaptation even marketed special edition Higurashi-themed cream puffs.
- Umineko: When They Cry: Kumasawa has mackerel.
Web Animation
- 13 Cards: Dante loves instant noodles, to the point where That's all, Clones! shows that he has an entire closet full of them.
- Ello of Becky Prim is never without her butterscotch.
- Bowser's Kingdom: For the Karate Duo Number One: LUCKY CANDY! Taste the glory!
- A Day in Dracula's Life: Dracula apparently really loves pot roast. At least that explains why Belmont would find it hidden in random walls...
- Derpy's Cutie Mark: Derpy and muffins, of course. She is eating one at the beginning of the short, and while trying to get her cutie mark, she tries baking muffins and painting a picture of a muffin.
- Dr. Tran:
- In this universe, Hotel Soap eats cocaine. Because COCAINE IS VITAMINS FOR HOTEL SOAP!
- There's also a talking chicken with an addiction to chewing gum.
- Edd from Eddsworld loves Coca-Cola (retconned to just cola in general later, due to legal issues), bacon and cola with bacon in it. His friend Tord shares his love of bacon, to the point that in one video, the two tried to kill each other over the last piece.
- Ice cream for Scrooge and the boys in the Ducktalez. Huey went through the trouble of rescuing Louie and Dewey just so they can enjoy some ice cream.
- In the Frosty the Snowman parody, Snowy the Frostman, Dr. Loopis often mentions his appetite for Arby's.
- Gameoverse: According to Ross O'Donovan, Kit Bodega "exclusively eats hot dogs with copious amounts of mustard." Unlike Sonic, she is not a fan of chili dogs, as Glitch's marketing team erroneously claimed.
- Happy Tree Friends:
- Cuddles: Carrots.
- Lumpy: Lunch meat.
- Nutty: Anything with copious amounts of sugar.
- Sniffles: Ants.
- Russell: Mussels and other shellfish.
- Mime: Peanuts.
- Homestar Runner:
- Homestar loves Fluffy Puff Marshmallows. He likes to eat about 147 of them before he drinks a tall, cold glass of melonade. Also, Bronco Trolleys (orange slice + peanut butter + Triscuit).
- Speaking of melonade, some of Homestar's favorite flavors include Taco Annihilation, Athletic Berry Blast, Butt 1 Flavor, Quadruple Triple, CostaLatte Froth, and Sizzlin' Bacon Guava Quench.
- Strong Bad: Cold Ones, Swiss Cake Rolls, and Potate chips.
- Marzipan: Tofu.
- The King of Town: Everything. But most frequently butter, or Thanksgiving food.
- The Cheat: Sudsuu (skim milk and gummy bears)
- Coach Z: Listerine. No, really, he tends to get drunk on it.
- Stinkoman: Shrimp
- The fandom went absolutely crazy with 1-Up (Homestar's Japanese anime reimagining) and his obsession with pudding.
- Inanimate Insanity: Has Paper with Apple Juice being his favorite according to his voice actor, Yin-Yang has Yin love water and pizza while Yang loves Dr. Fizz, a soda which is a parody of Dr. Pepper, Lightbulb, who loves Oatmeal Raisin cookies, and Tissues who loves water to the point of drinking it in excess by carrying a gallon of it often. There is also [MePhone4] who loves cookies and is often seen eating them. He even calls himself a "fat slob".
- Misadventures of Apu: A Running Gag is Apu drinking vodka, often getting into Alcohol-Induced Idiocy.
- Shrike Sanchez of Monkey Wrench loves pizza, especially the 15-cheese Atomic Supreme from Pizzapocalypse.
- The Most Popular Girls in School: Deandra (Author Avatar of creator Carlo Moss himself) has an affinity for junk food of all sorts in general. Though she's mentioned chicken wings, pizza, and tacos more often.
- Mystery Skulls Animated:
- Lewis likes chocolate covered bhut jolokia, fitting considering his parents are chefs that specialize in spicy food and sweet deserts.
- Arthur loves an odd seafood pizza known locally as the Surf's Up Surprise. The only known ingredient is oysters though presumably there are other bits of seafood involved.
- Vivi's favorite food is okonomiyaki, a savory pancake, though as a Big Eater she's also rather fond of food in general.
- Neurotically Yours: Foamy the squirrel loves bagels and cream cheese.
- Paranormal High School:
- Hikaru loves ramen, especially the tsukemen variant (where the noodles are served seperate from the broth and are dipped in). It was to the point that his social media tab on X (Formerly Twitter) was just a bunch of photos of ramen at one point. It's especially Played For Laughs during the Special Cultural Festival Episodes, where eating hot or cold noodles would trigger his Gender Bender transformation, to his displeasure.
- Riko's favorite type of drink is Pink Monster Energy, almost always seen drinking it as her drink of choice. When the entire class is accidentally transformed into copies of her, they all even end up sharing that affinity for the drink, to the point it ends up being sold out at every vending machine across the school. She even uses it for her tea ceremonies as well, to the shock of Hikaru.
- Red vs. Blue
- Grif's apex favorite food is, without a doubt, pizza. So much so that when he discovers that pizza was mysteriously erased after travelling back to his years before he enlisted in Season 16. The shock of this revelation is enough to drive Grif to immediate suicide via grenade, that Doc thankfully averts this by kicking away the grenade before it explodes and telling Grif there's still hope to get what he desires back.
- RWBY:
- Ruby's been associated with cookies ever since the pilot episode when she scarfs down a plate of them at Super-Speed in front of Professor Ozpin. Although the creators have stated her favourite food is actually strawberries, the show has never depicted her eating any, but it does tend to slip in a plate of cookies in the background whenever it can.
- Blake is very fond of tuna. When her team learns a bit more about her past, it's her fondness for tuna that Ruby latches onto. In Volume 3, when the team orders noodles, hers comes with a huge pile of fish on top, which the proprietor has cooked specially for her. She's distraught when it gets taken away as soon as Weiss' credit card is declined, diving on Pyrrha's offer to pay when Yang attempts to decline out of politeness.
- Professor Ozpin is rarely seen without a coffee mug full of hot chocolate. Even when the new students are taken to a clifftop overlooking a monster-filled forest, he manages to conduct the lesson with a mug in hand. Any time his silhouette is depicted, it includes the coffee mug. When he tells Team RNJR about his past mistakes, Qrow immediately pours him a mug, something he's very grateful for.
- Nora likes to indulge in pancakes, specifically made by Ren. And by indulge, we mean straight up inhaling them, as seen in her and Ren's first scene.
- SMG4 :
- Mario prefers spaghetti; he loves it so much that he goes mad if he hears any trash talk about spaghetti.
- McShyGuy, better known as the Toast Fairy, goes crazy over toast as well.
- It seems Chica is as obsessed with pizza as Mario is with spaghetti. Actually, she can barely say anything other than "pizza".
- Much like their original series, the Teletubbies love their Tubby Custard. Fuck with it, and they will gladly play with you. Right, Bob?
- While not nearly as violently passionate about her favorite food compared to the others, Saiko loves KFC.
- Baja Fresh burritos are this to the entire main cast of Tomorrow's Nobodies, at least in the pre-reboot episodes.
- Weebl Bull of Weebl & Bob likes pie.
- Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee Croshaw apparently loves Branston Pickle. He's also mentioned Jacob's Cream Crackers and Brie cheese quite a bit, as well as Cadbury Creme eggs. An attempt to remove the fillings to Cadbury Creme Eggs and replace it with Branston Pickle apparently did not go so well. He once also mentioned that he'd spend his whole paycheque on cornettos (a brand of prepackaged ice cream cones) if he could get away with it. He also appears to have a thing for pies of both the standard dessert and entree savory varieties. In later videos, he's developed a love for Jaffa Cakes (bite-sized, chocolate-covered sponge cakes with orange jelly filling) and donnair kebabs.
- Several of the major YouTube Poop characters have foods associated with them as a result of some lines from the source material.
Mario: You know what they say, all toasters toast toast!
- The King is also known to love Munf Munf, while Billy Mays is obsessed with mouthwatering sliders.
Web Video
- The Goonie Show: Anabelle's favorite foods are Cheese and Strawberries, hence her catchphrases, "I like cheese" and "I like strawberries."
- Kittisaurus:
- DD is notorious for his love of bread. He will even try to lick crumbs from bread bags whenever he gets the chance. He also is very fond of chicken.
- Lulu eats most food Claire puts in front of him, but it is eggs that drive him crazy. He's even eaten an egg raw.
- SuperMarioLogan: To say Shrek loves cheesecake is an understatement. Not only is it practically the only thing he eats, but he can eat entire cheesecakes without getting full or tired of them, is more than willing to kill anyone who insults or steals his cheesecake, and has even made love to his cheesecake before eating it.
...Damn it, these are all good, but the uj cake is gone.