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Can anyone think of similarly generation-defining food items in media?

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[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

Better yet, it's based on a real black forest cake from a bakery near Valve

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Any black forest cake that's not from Regent Bakery and Cafe is a lie.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

There's that word again, "heavy". Is there something wrong with gravity in Portal?

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Agreed. The cake is a lie.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago

As another 90s kid, definitely pizza.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

What is the pink layer above the beef?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

The krabby patty secret formula sauce.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Da! Da dada da da da! Da dadada da da! Dee dottidee dottidee doh!

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not sure if it counts but Harold and Kumar made me believe that White Castle burgers are better than they really are.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

For sure it counts

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

I don't have to say the name

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Perhaps you should, because I have no idea what I'm looking at

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The ruinous Turkish Delight from Narnia

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ah, read the books, never watched the movie.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Turkish delight i think? à la Narnia

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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…

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week 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 🤣

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

More of a general thing, but spinach was popularized as healthy food by Popeye.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

American style hot dog, baseball, and the 1950s.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The cake in Under Siege was the cake of the1990s but maybe not for little kids

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Same I was in high school when Under Siege came out. I recall thinking "why dont I know anyone who has done this"?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The popsicle.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Green eggs and ham

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

wow, can't believe i don't see the feast from the movie Hook!

first thing that came to my mind!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Holy shit I totally forgot about that! Definitely belongs here

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ooh, classic

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The cake (that may or may not, in fact, be a lie) from Portal became the new hotness for a while.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The pizza they ate in "a goofy movie"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It was just. So. Gooey

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

YOU CAN DO IT, BRUCEY!

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