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Related to [[Feminine Women Can Cook]], and often the these two tropes are run together in the same plot line. If the main [[Love Interest]] is a [[Tomboy]] and her [[Romantic False Lead|rival]] is a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] expect her to struggle very hard to compete while cooking, until some older mother figure takes pity on her and helps.

 

 

Girls giving (or sharing) a ''bento'' with a male classmate is a common way to invoke this trope. The [[Japanese Holidays|Japanese Valentine's day chocolate]] also often falls under this.

In addition to the more common romantic version, there is also the occasional mother figure to child version. In this version an older woman (occasionally male but usually a woman) tries to demonstrate maternal love to a younger person by cooking for them. If the child is a [[Broken Bird]], or if the older woman is a [[Lethal Chef]] this can result in failure.

 

 

Supertrope of [[Your Favorite]]. Compare [[Tastes Like Friendship]]. Has nothing whatsoever, aside from [[Rule 34]], to do with [[Right Through His Pants]]. For something that goes through someone's stomach ''violently'', see [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]].

* In ''[[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual]]'', three of the girls compete this way. Each of the girls has a different cooking ethnicity, and Kazuki ends up having to eat every morsel on every plate just to maintain the peace. A fourth girl, D, doesn't know how to cook, so she just adds instant curry sauce to all 3 meals in an attempt to compete. The irony is that Kazuki prefers bachelor food, like instant ramen.

* [[Meido|Fiore]] in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' is the cook of the Sinners, so she has a tendency to do this to show familial affection. She's always cooking for Joshua (to the point where he raves over her pudding), and she also scolds Shader for eating canned food and gives her a home-cooked meal as soon as she sees her again. The most obvious use of this trope is when she cooks for {{spoiler|Azmaria}}, and is very thrilled when she seems to like it, telling her {{spoiler|"This was my sister's favorite. You remind me of her."}}

* Taken to a hilarious extreme in ''[[Clannad]]'' where almost the entirety of Tomoya's [[True Companions/Harem|Harem]] makes him food, forcing him to force down five bentos in the same sitting.

* in ''[[The Wallflower]]'', Sunako appears to be doing this to Kyouhei accidentally. There was one episode where Kyouhei [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|actually started to fall in love]] [[Fan-Preferred Couple|with her]]. But then, because the [[Status Quo Is God]], {{spoiler|he realizes that he just has a craving for some fried shrimp}}. And we're [[Ship Tease|right back where we started]].

* Kotonoha in ''[[School Days]]'' tries this. She's a [[Lethal Chef]], but unusually enough actually seems to get better at it as the show progresses.

** Just about the ''only'' thing that gets better as the show progresses. Everything else...[[It Got Worse|not so much]].

* An inordinate amount of time in ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'' seems to be spent on cooking. Shirou, Rin and Sakura can cook (different styles, but they can all cook) Taiga can't. Saber mainly just [[Big Eater|eats]]

** Sakura is the one actually trying for this trope with Shirou. It's somewhat ironic, considering that ''[[Real Men Wear Pink|he's]]'' the one who taught ''[[Parental Abandonment|her]]'' how to cook. Still, she eagerly learns as much as she can, from him and on her own, and he proudly acknowledges that she's managed to surpass him.

** Mayucchi usually makes, or offers to make food on the days when the [[Team Mom|dorm mother]] is off. In her route, she does this all the time for Yamato.

** Miyako also attempts this on a regular basis, but unfortunately for her, her [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce|usual choice of fare]] is not exactly [[Fire-Breathing Diner|popular with Yamato]].