Have you ever watched a movie or TV show where the characters are eating and thought "Wow, what is that? I want to try that!" So you do, and now that food has become an integral part of your diet. This thread is for celebrating these pivotal moments of growth, both in your character and in your stomach.
I'm sure there are more that I could list if I thought hard enough, but here's two of the most important examples that I could think of from my life.
Sunny Side Up Eggs
There will probably be some reading this who are confused. Namely, because they don't know why someone would expend so much effort in creating a thread about food from fiction like some kind of obsessed maniac, and the fact that they're being tied up and forced to read it probably isn't making things any clearer. Another reason, however, would be that sunny side up eggs are a staple of breakfast cuisine in many countries all around the world. How could I have just not known about them? Well, when I was a child, my mother only liked her eggs scrambled. So when we had breakfast, if we had eggs, they would only ever be scrambled. She never even entertained the idea that anyone would like their eggs any other way, so for a long time, I thought that's all there was. Then... a movie came along. A movie that would change my life forever.
This scene has lived in my head rent-free since 1995. It's such a good scene for a variety of reasons. Its humor is understated, but its significance in the plot and how well it conveys character and conflict is divine. But what I want to focus on today is not trivial things like story and themes, but important media analysis like "dear god those pancakes look delicious." But what stood out the most to me were the eggs. Served sunny side up, crispy on the sides, with a perfect, runny yolk. Okay, full disclosure, this obviously wasn't my first time seeing eggs portrayed in this manner, but for the longest time, my mind conceived them as "cartoon eggs." So when I finally watched this movie with my family as a wee child, I had a moment of clarity that the way eggs are portrayed on cartoons are different from the way eggs look in real life. So I looked my mother straight in the eye and demanded to know, "Why do eggs on cartoons look different than the way they do in real life?"
You could see the sweat pouring from my mother's face like an exploding geyser. She didn't want to share this elusive, secret world with me, the world where eggs can be eaten in a multitude of different ways. What if I wasn't ready? Would I be prepared for heartbreak? But what was she to do? I had asked, and there was no way to put the lid back on this kettle that had finally boiled over. So with great reluctance, she told me that there were different ways of cooking eggs, such as side up, which is prepared by frying the outside and leaving the yolk uncooked. So one day, my parents made this style of egg for me, and I could feel it in my body. I had changed. I could see that there was more to life than scrambled. There was sunny side up, hard boiled, soft boiled, over easy, over medium, over hard, soft scrambled, poached. So many different styles of egg.
Okay, so it wasn't as dramatic as all that, but I found out that I preferred my eggs sunny side up over scrambled, and to this day, it's my breakfast of choice on the rare occasions I decide to eat a large breakfast. Chances are I probably would have found this out had A Goofy Movie never came out, but I credit this movie with initially opening my eyes to them.
Pizza Margherita
I don't actually have a funny story with this one. I just saw it in Animal Crossing, thought "wow, that looks different; I wonder what it tastes like." So I searched up to find restaurants that serve it in my area, found one, and tried it. And yes, it's delicious. It's probably my favorite variety of pizza.
And that's it.
As a rule of thumb for this thread, I'm going to politely ask three things from responses:
I'm sure there are more that I could list if I thought hard enough, but here's two of the most important examples that I could think of from my life.
Sunny Side Up Eggs
There will probably be some reading this who are confused. Namely, because they don't know why someone would expend so much effort in creating a thread about food from fiction like some kind of obsessed maniac, and the fact that they're being tied up and forced to read it probably isn't making things any clearer. Another reason, however, would be that sunny side up eggs are a staple of breakfast cuisine in many countries all around the world. How could I have just not known about them? Well, when I was a child, my mother only liked her eggs scrambled. So when we had breakfast, if we had eggs, they would only ever be scrambled. She never even entertained the idea that anyone would like their eggs any other way, so for a long time, I thought that's all there was. Then... a movie came along. A movie that would change my life forever.
This scene has lived in my head rent-free since 1995. It's such a good scene for a variety of reasons. Its humor is understated, but its significance in the plot and how well it conveys character and conflict is divine. But what I want to focus on today is not trivial things like story and themes, but important media analysis like "dear god those pancakes look delicious." But what stood out the most to me were the eggs. Served sunny side up, crispy on the sides, with a perfect, runny yolk. Okay, full disclosure, this obviously wasn't my first time seeing eggs portrayed in this manner, but for the longest time, my mind conceived them as "cartoon eggs." So when I finally watched this movie with my family as a wee child, I had a moment of clarity that the way eggs are portrayed on cartoons are different from the way eggs look in real life. So I looked my mother straight in the eye and demanded to know, "Why do eggs on cartoons look different than the way they do in real life?"
You could see the sweat pouring from my mother's face like an exploding geyser. She didn't want to share this elusive, secret world with me, the world where eggs can be eaten in a multitude of different ways. What if I wasn't ready? Would I be prepared for heartbreak? But what was she to do? I had asked, and there was no way to put the lid back on this kettle that had finally boiled over. So with great reluctance, she told me that there were different ways of cooking eggs, such as side up, which is prepared by frying the outside and leaving the yolk uncooked. So one day, my parents made this style of egg for me, and I could feel it in my body. I had changed. I could see that there was more to life than scrambled. There was sunny side up, hard boiled, soft boiled, over easy, over medium, over hard, soft scrambled, poached. So many different styles of egg.
Okay, so it wasn't as dramatic as all that, but I found out that I preferred my eggs sunny side up over scrambled, and to this day, it's my breakfast of choice on the rare occasions I decide to eat a large breakfast. Chances are I probably would have found this out had A Goofy Movie never came out, but I credit this movie with initially opening my eyes to them.
Pizza Margherita
I don't actually have a funny story with this one. I just saw it in Animal Crossing, thought "wow, that looks different; I wonder what it tastes like." So I searched up to find restaurants that serve it in my area, found one, and tried it. And yes, it's delicious. It's probably my favorite variety of pizza.
And that's it.
As a rule of thumb for this thread, I'm going to politely ask three things from responses:
- The food must be real. So nothing like those disgusting drinks based loosely on the bar scene from Star Wars that you buy at Disney parks. This might seem really obvious, but I can already foresee the responses where someone types out how they saw this Bloop Blop Juice made from the milk inside the Puparooner fruit from the planet Tweenis 12 and made something aesthetically similar and liked it so much they continued to make it. And while that's wonderful and I fully support that kind of creativity, that's not the intention of this thread.
- If it's not a "real" food, it has to be something you can realistically make. So things like the naco from Kim Possible or the various abominations that the Ninja Turtles order on their pizza are fine.
- It has to be something you discovered (or at least were encouraged to try) by an unlikely source, such as fiction. So things you found on cooking shows or YouTube channels don't count.
Highly recommended!
