Do the A.V. Club staffers ever crave certain foods after watching a particular movie or television show?
The question comes to mind because after watching 2007’s Zodiac, I ordered a BLT and bought animal crackers every chance I could for about a month. —H Keith Phipps I can be succinct in part because anyone who knows the show knows exactly why: Twin Peaks. Cherry pie. (And, to a lesser extent, doughnuts, maple syrup, and ham.) Tasha Robinson As weird as this is, I can’t watch Akira Kurosawa films or domestic-story anime without craving white rice, which is a food I can take or leave at most other times. I blame The Seven Samurai, where the desperately poor villagers pay their protectors in rice, which is presented as the most amazing food ever, the height of luxury for the poor. The sequence where the mercenaries actually get and eat their rice strikes me as more food-porny than anything in, say, Like Water For Chocolate. I haven’t watched much anime over the past few years, but practically any movie or series that isn’t science-fiction or expressly about bad-asses killing monsters will
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