Can anyone think of similarly generation-defining food items in media?
Even though it didn’t come out until the later part of the 2000s, the Portal cake is probably the official cake of that decade.
Better yet, it’s based on a real black forest cake from a bakery near Valve
Would that mean that the cake is not, in fact, a lie?
Or is it a deeper commentary on the realism of a representation of a thing, a la Magritte’s The Treachery of Images? The cake is a lie because it’s not a cake, it’s a representation of a cake.
Doc, this is heavy.
Any black forest cake that’s not from Regent Bakery and Cafe is a lie.
There’s that word again, “heavy”. Is there something wrong with gravity in Portal?
I loveeeee a good black forest cake.
Agreed. The cake is a lie.
I was watching the screensaver of a Big Buck Hunter arcade cabinet at the bar last night, and one of the minigames involved shooting roaches crawling all over a house. The cake in the kitchen was definitely the Portal cake.
As another 90s kid, definitely pizza.
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.
What is the pink layer above the beef?
The krabby patty secret formula sauce.
Which I’m pretty sure at at least one point someone mentions is thousand island dressing.
Though I think in some episodes they just say it has ketchup and mustard, so, y’know.
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
Heck if I know. I never really watched Bob L’épongé so I couldn’t say. It’s called a Krabby patty, is it not made of crab?
I was asking into the void, didn’t mean to single you out. The restaraunt is owned by Mr Krabs, so, presumably, not krab unless krab is to crab like chik’n is to chicken (tofu alternative). Main reason I asked is because I think it was just a fan theory that the secret ingredient is plankton, making Plankton’s goal to plunder the formula a horror plot.
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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.
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.
Not sure if it counts but Harold and Kumar made me believe that White Castle burgers are better than they really are.
For sure it counts
I don’t have to say the name
Perhaps you should, because I have no idea what I’m looking at
The ruinous Turkish Delight from Narnia
Ah, read the books, never watched the movie.
Turkish delight i think? à la Narnia
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…
Saaaame
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 🤣
More of a general thing, but spinach was popularized as healthy food by Popeye.
American style hot dog, baseball, and the 1950s.
The popsicle.
The cake in Under Siege was the cake of the1990s but maybe not for little kids
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.
Same I was in high school when Under Siege came out. I recall thinking “why dont I know anyone who has done this”?
Green eggs and ham
wow, can’t believe i don’t see the feast from the movie Hook!
first thing that came to my mind!
Holy shit I totally forgot about that! Definitely belongs here
The cake (that may or may not, in fact, be a lie) from Portal became the new hotness for a while.
The 2030s will be MREs
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