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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 (Inna bun). This act of suicidal happiness is almost one-upped a moment later when he is equally delighted to be beaten up by the Thieves' Guild.
** The Auditors of Reality get [[Weaksauce Weakness|a fatal dose of this]] in ''[[
* 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|
* 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
* 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.''
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* 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.
* In ''[[The Winds of War and War and Remembrance|Winds of War/War and Remembrance]]'' a train headed on the [[Deadly Euphemism|Transport to the East]] stopped at a Polish station. At that moment someone throws a sack of apples aboard and all the prisoners are pitifully grateful, having had no food and little water. In the book it was an "unknown benefactor". In the miniseries, a poor Polish farmer hefting a sack [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|shoves his way past the SS guards and puts it on
== New Media ==
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== [[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
** [[The Simpsons]] themselves experience this sort of thing all the time (in one episode, Bart refers to ordinary name-brand products as things rich people buy). Marge seems especially prone to it.
* 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.}}
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* 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
** 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).
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* 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.
* Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/apr/26/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-in-pictures liquidators] were ordered to place flags in areas of the damaged plant to inform others about the clean-up. This was very dangerous due to the high levels of radiation. The ones who followed those were given a day off and some Pepsi, which were both hard to come by in the Soviet Union in 1986.
* It sometimes happens to those who had been hospitalized. Often times, via feeding tube, they would have to be given [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_food medical food]. Of course, this depends on the situations where regular food consuming isn't an option due to injury or illness preventing such action, for example a jaw injury. In other cases, hospital food can vary ranging from bland to restaurant style.
* This is why [[Elvis Presley]] had such a notorious appetite for junk food, [[Bacon Addiction|
* In recent years,{{when}} bookmobiles and even a book vending machines have started to
** E-readers price down gargantuan hoards of books that previously would be only something the more scholarly of the rich would have access to. This is either straight or an inversion, possibly both depending on how it is received.
* For somebody who has been in quarantine or medical isolation, simply talking with somebody else face-to-face can be a luxury (as so many people learned during and after the pandemic lockdowns of 2020).
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