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 1 month ago by entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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capuccino@lemmy.world 1 month ago
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What is the pink layer above the beef?
capuccino@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The krabby patty secret formula sauce.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Da! Da dada da da da! Da dadada da da! Dee dottidee dottidee doh!
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Perhaps you should, because I have no idea what I’m looking at
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
The ruinous Turkish Delight from Narnia
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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 1 month ago
Turkish delight i think? à la Narnia
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Saaaame
SanicHegehog@lemm.ee 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
For sure it counts
Retreaux@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
More of a general thing, but spinach was popularized as healthy food by Popeye.
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 month ago
American style hot dog, baseball, and the 1950s.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The cake in Under Siege was the cake of the1990s but maybe not for little kids
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 5 weeks ago
Holy shit I totally forgot about that! Definitely belongs here
zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The 2030s will be MREs
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
The cake (that may or may not, in fact, be a lie) from Portal became the new hotness for a while.
0ops@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The pizza they ate in “a goofy movie”
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
It was just. So. Gooey
podperson@lemm.ee 1 month ago
YOU CAN DO IT, BRUCEY!
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 month 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 1 month ago
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
As another 90s kid, definitely pizza.
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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month 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.