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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'': Rincewind, after long and grueling privations and lots of running away, is teleported back to Ankh-Morpork, and is so overjoyed to be back that he eats four of Dibbler's sausages (
** The Auditors of Reality get [[Weaksauce Weakness|a fatal dose of this]] in ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' after assuming human form. [[Significant Name|Myria LeJean]] almost barely survives the sensory overload of eating some dry toast, leading to the adoption of ''chocolate'' as an anti-Auditor weapon.
* When [[Harry Potter]] comes to Hogwarts, he is at first overwhelmed by the fact that he can eat the food he really likes and no one is going to take it away from him. When he was living with the Dursleys, Dudley would always eat everything Harry liked out of spite.
** Also from ''[[Harry Potter]]'', Dobby in his first few appearances, of the "simple kindness" variation.
* 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. ([[Stock Yuck| Hot dogs, not so much.]]) He's also shocked to see that paper - something rare and expensive in his world - used so commonly.
* 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 in 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]]''
* In one of his books about life in Caracas at the turn of the XX century, Oscar Yanes wrote that a common birthday gift was sugared bread or cookies, then an expensive rarity for a mostly impoverished country.
* In ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', the protagonist's family is so poverty-stricken that even being able to sleep in a bed is a luxury. Their house has one, and Charlie's four grandparents have to share it; Charlie and his parents use mattresses. Charlie himself has a
** Wonka also claims that cacao beans are this for the Oompa Loompas. While many compare their situation to slavery, it's much better than what they had before, living as a primitive tribe in a place where [[Everything Is Trying to Kill You|Everything was Trying to Kill Them]] and the only food available was caterpillars and other food that sounded as nauseating as they tasted.
* ''[[I Survived (Novel Series)| I Survived]]: the Destruction of Pompeii, A.D. 79'', apples were considered this because Marcus, a slave, is often fed gruel and rotten cheese by his egotistical master. Marcus secretly steals an apple from a freeman salesman, who was trying to clean his mess thanks to a minor tremor.
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