Can anyone think of similarly generation-defining food items in media?
The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids.
Submitted 2 months ago by entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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capuccino@lemmy.world 2 months ago
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What is the pink layer above the beef?
capuccino@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The krabby patty secret formula sauce.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Under the cheese? I think that’s just light on flat top of the patty rather than a patty-equivalent layer. Unless you mean the sauce.
Is it even beef? I can’t remember if there’s a canon source of the meat
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Da! Da dada da da da! Da dadada da da! Dee dottidee dottidee doh!
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory had several extremely memorable moments. The greasy lipped german dude eating the microphone. Wonka taking a crunchy bite out of an obviously wax buttercup. Cabbage and laundry soup (maybe I just combined those in my developing brain). Scooping whipped cream and jelly with your hands from giant mushrooms. Biting a giant gummy worm in the middle. Charlie scarfing down a scrumdiddlyumptious bar fast enough to choke. Burping up fizzy lifting drink. Few movies had as many memorable food moments.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That candy room was apparently disgusting, for what it’s worth. The chocolate river quickly became the dumping ground for the cast and crew’s ashtrays, and it also started to smell like rotted food. Also, the river was extremely shallow, with only a small hidden cutout for Augustus to fall in and splash around.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Perhaps you should, because I have no idea what I’m looking at
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
The ruinous Turkish Delight from Narnia
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Turkish Delight, from Narnia. It isn’t even that good, but the little brat was willing to sell out his entire family for it. Given, he was growing up under sugar rationing, and the turkish delight was magically enchanted. But still…
RedIce25@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Turkish delight i think? à la Narnia
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Saaaame
SanicHegehog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not sure if it counts but Harold and Kumar made me believe that White Castle bothers are better than they really are.
blarghly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like the unsaid joke of that movie was that going to White Castle is such a weird desire that you’d have to be high.
VeryVito@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
White Castle was — until that movie — largely unknown in many areas of the U.S. So yes, until the scene in which they finally reach White Castle, I held out hope that it would indeed be worth the trip.
The fact that it was, well, just a White Castle made it wholly relatable to anyone who ever had those late-night cravings, though.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
For sure it counts
Retreaux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember desperately wanting to eat the Never food from Hook and the smorgasbord that Casper serves to his uncle’s in the live action Casper, even after watching it be digested and ejected onto the floor 🤣
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
More of a general thing, but spinach was popularized as healthy food by Popeye.
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
American style hot dog, baseball, and the 1950s.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The cake in Under Siege was the cake of the1990s but maybe not for little kids
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When I was a kid, so many parodies and comedies had ladies jumping out of giant cakes, I really though that was going to be a thing when I grew up. It was like the opposite of quicksand.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Same I was in high school when Under Siege came out. I recall thinking “why dont I know anyone who has done this”?
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pop out cakes. They were already going out of fashion in the XIXth century when it became even more misogynist with its association with showgirls and strippers. I think the 50s was the last time it was actually done unironically.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 months ago
wow, can’t believe i don’t see the feast from the movie Hook!
first thing that came to my mind!
jade52@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Holy shit I totally forgot about that! Definitely belongs here
zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The 2030s will be MREs
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
The cake (that may or may not, in fact, be a lie) from Portal became the new hotness for a while.
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Surge!
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Ooh, classic
0ops@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The pizza they ate in “a goofy movie”
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
It was just. So. Gooey
podperson@lemm.ee 2 months ago
YOU CAN DO IT, BRUCEY!
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Rick’s obsession with McDonald’s’ Mulan-promotional szechuan sauce wasn’t really generation-defining, but it definitely was one of the bigger moments where internet nerds crawled out of their caves and into the social spotlight for a hot minute. Still can’t believe people got violently enraged over that
meathorse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
As another 90s kid, definitely pizza.
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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Ooh, for sure. We also had Pizza Hut back when it was a sit down place with a good deal on the all you can eat lunch buffet.