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== Film ==
* Done in ''[[The Blind Side]]'': When LeAnne shows Michael his new room, he says that he's never had one of 'these' before. LeAnne thinks that he means his own room. Actually, he meant the bed.
* [[Tom Hanks]]' character in ''[[Cast Away]]'' is shown staring at things that are mundane for everybody, and were to him before his time on the island, such as clean bottled water, fresh fruit and boiled crab legs. He even has trouble sleeping in a bed after living four years in a cave.
** Actually, he was staring at the objects you mention because they are EXACTLY what he's been eating for the past four years while stranded. Crab legs, fresh fruit and water. These supposed luxuries being served were even more mundane to him.
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* In ''[[The Dark Tower/The Drawing of the Three|The Dark Tower]]'' by [[Stephen King]], Roland of Gilead comes from a [[Scavenger World]] and is completely overwhelmed by the taste of a simple tuna fish sandwich and some soda.
* In the [[Ray Bradbury]] story ''The Fox and the Forest'', time travelers can be easily detected because they immediately start sampling exotic foods, liquors, cigarettes and perfumes, which apparently aren't available in the future.
* In the first ''[[Doom]]'' novel, Flynn Taggart runs himself ragged fighting against zombies and aliens and since he's not in a videogame he actually does get hungry, filthy, and tired. While it hasn't been that long since he entered the base, it ''feels'' like he has been fighting forever. He compares the shower he takes when he finds the medical ward heaven and the fresh towel the Garden of Eden. He is even able to enjoy eating the military MREs he discovers in the base.
* In ''[[The Name of the Wind]]'', Kvothe spends his young days so poor eating regularly is a luxury for him.
* In ''[[Treasure Island]],'' when Ben Gunn is rescued, it turns out that the thing he misses most about civilization is ''cheese.''
* Meat in [[House Of Stairs]]
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** Neelix in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' is amazed that the Voyager crew has so much water he can take a bath in it.
* At first, Hunter from ''[[Queer as Folk]]'' has a hard time accepting that Michael and Ben are being nice to him (giving him a warm jacket, feeding him, paying his hospital bills, letting him use their shower and sleep in their guest room when he wants to, and things like that) because they want to and not because they have some sort of ulterior motive. Understandable, considering that he's a teenage prostitute who's been living on the streets for quite some time.
* In ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'', Oswald Danes, a convicted kiddy rapist/murderer released from death row, is seen filling a trash bag with food from a buffet. When questioned, he makes a good point about how he'll be unable to find work, and must collect food whenever he can.
== Manga and Anime ==
* Nana from ''[[Elfen Lied]]''. She refers to Kurama, the only one of the scientists experimenting on her to treat her with even basic kindness, as "Papa", and when she moves in with Kouta and the others, she finds great joy in a simple hot bath (compared to the cold hosedowns the scientists gave her), and gets extremely excited about the chance to eat somen noodles.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Green Esmarude- your typical [[Vain Sorceress]] strolls into a fancy shin-dig, causing heads to turn at her hot elegance - until she discovered the food table, in which she immediately matches [[Big Eater|Usagi]] dessert for dessert in stuffing her face. This caused her extreme embarrassment once she snaps out of it. This can actually be rather tragic, if you assume she is so wild about the food because there is nothing like it on the barren planet she comes from.
* [[Canon Foreigner]] Sasuke in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' lives such a miserable life as the servant of the Kunou family that a full bowl of rice is cause for [[Tears of Joy]].
** Likewise Konatsu the Kunoichi, for whom sleeping in a futon is pure heaven, and, while trying to poison Ranma's rice, realized that it was so clean and tasty-looking (what with Konatsu being forced to forage for food in ''trash cans'' and fight off stray dogs for scraps) that he abandoned his mission to eat the rice himself. Heck, when Ukyou hired him, he considered his 10-yen salary ''a fortune'' and a dry fish with rice "a luxurious meal".
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* Bud of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' is [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/nicejustbecause/ quite excited] when someone shows her kindness without fear or ulterior motives.
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Galatea is very slow to accept that anyone might be genuinely kind to her, and she reacts to ''pizza'' as an unimaginable luxury.
* [[Played With]] in ''[[Bardsworth]]''--when Mike first takes a shower at Bardsworth he thinks it's incredibly cool, causing his roommate to wonder if he's from a tiny dirt farm or something. It's actually just because the shower works by magic, which Mike (who's from our world) isn't used to.
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* Naturally [[Truth in Television]]. When a [[News Broadcast]] features a story about charity work being done in impoverished and disaster-stricken areas of the world, it won't be complete without a clip or two of the villagers/victims enthusing about the food and clothing they have been given.
* When you've been to really big scout camps, living in a tent on field with 15 000 dirty people for two weeks, the simple act of ''being indoors'' feels heavenly. Not to mention having a shower, eating take-out and sleeping in a bed.
** This is doubly true of aid workers, soldiers, etc, returning from deployment into third world areas.
** Seen on any given season of ''[[Survivor]]'' with the challenge rewards. The players really start getting excited about simple comforts after the first week or so of roughing it (approximately the third or fourth episode).
* At the 2004 Scout Jamboree in Australia, we had eleven thousand kids and the only food that was available was what the sponsors gave us, so the main snack was a cheese version of Tiny Teddies that Arnott's were testing out to see if they'd sell (Tiny Teddies are little biscuits). Eventually a group of kids took the radio station hostage with a demand for pizza, vegemite and the normal chocolate Tiny Teddies. That was all they wanted.
* When concentration camps were liberated by the US Army many released prisoners were found to have a mysterious sickness(among many). It turned out that they had gorged themselves in a mad burst of joyful gluttony on ''spare army rations'' handed out by well-meaning but medically untrained GI's and had overstrained their weak stomachs. This is known as '[[wikipedia:Refeeding syndrome|refeeding syndrome]]' and can be fatal.
* People who have dated across class lines have probably seen or experienced this trope (and its inversion) when the wealthier partner's family gathers.
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