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* In the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie, the cursed pirates of the Black Pearl go on and on about what sensory experiences they've most missed during the curse, and therefore what they plan to glut on once they have their nerve endings back. Barbossa himself is almost ''obsessed'' with apples.
* In ''[[History of the World, Part I]]'', [[Spike Milligan]]'s character is given a box of matches. "So rich!", whispers Spike.
* Audrey's song, "Somewhere That's Green" in ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' is basically about this, with her dreaming of living in a tract-house away from Skid-Row with "a fence of real chain-link" and a disposal in the sink.
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* 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.
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** Similarly, each time Murphy's unit rotates stateside after a deployment, their desire for beer is strong enough to cause the CEO of the Annheuser-Busch company to [[Catapult Nightmare|wake up suddenly from bed.]]
* In ''[[Kickassia]]'', the newly 3D'd Lee enjoys being 3D...by feeling up everyone he can get his hands on (including himself).
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "Homer's Enemy": Frank Grimes spent his whole life struggling to get by, so he's shocked when he discovers that [[Too Dumb to Live]] Homer lives in a two-story house, which is palacial compared to his place (an apartment above a bowling alley and [[Rule of Funny|below another bowling alley]]). Grimes is also flabbergasted that he's dining on lobster (which, to be fair, he was just serving it that once to impress Grimes) and [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|that he went to space and met President Ford]] (the last two were just odd coincidences).
** [[The Simpsons]] themselves experience this sort of thing all the time (in one
* In one of the ''[[Futurama]]'' [[What If|"Anthologies of Interest"]], Bender is turned human and becomes obsessed with such common pleasures as eating and drinking, leading him to become incredibly obese {{spoiler|and eventually dying from it.}}
** Zoidberg gets this pretty frequently. "A floor? We live like kings!"
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