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One character shows his knowledge of, and attentiveness to, another by providing his favorite food or drink without his needing to request it. The dish, obviously, will be somewhat unusual, but does not need to be very so—only enough that knowing it and having it on hand have to be in order to provide it for this person.

 

Subtrope of [[Through His Stomach]]. Note that just good cooking goes under that trope.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', when they visit Tohru's mother's grave, they find it already cleaned up. Tohru realizes it must have been her grandfather, because he had brought her mother's favorite food.

* In a relatively early episode (and chapter) of ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Maka and Soul are at a party, and despite Maka's protest that Soul should get his own food instead of mooching off of her, she did get fish. Which she hates. [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|And is his favourite food]]. He eats after she gets dragged off screen, realizing that she got it for him in the first place.

** This trope gets a much darker take later on in the manga. [[Abusive Parents|Medusa]] welcomes back [[Ambiguous Gender|Crona]], whom they raised in such pleasant ways as starving them till they killed some rabbits, after {{spoiler|they [[Fate Worse Than Death|defeated]] Tsar Pushka and Fyodor}} with a table full of pasta just they way they like it. And Crona can have as much as they want, the wonderful child. {{spoiler|And then she hugs him. So they freak out and butcher her. Just like she taught them.}}

* In ''[[The Wallflower]]'', Kyohei's favorite is strawberries, which gets significant when he's sick.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** Technically, ''he was''.

* Parodied in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', when the Thermians serve their new crew all their favorite foods from a food synthesizer. For the most part it goes pretty well, the only issue being the Thermians not realizing that Dr. Lazarus' human actor might not enjoy blood ticks. Of course, they got all their knowledge from the TV show.

** This is reportedly a favorite snack of [[Weird Al]] himself, although these days he uses tofu dogs.

* Inverted in ''[[Blues Brothers]]''. Jake and Elwood order breakfast in a soul food restaurant. The cook (their former band mate) recognizes the [[Something Only They Would Say|peculiar order]] and comes out to greet them.

* In [[L. M. Montgomery]]'s ''Anne of Windy Poplars'', Anne, arriving to work as a school's principal, is invited to dinner by every student's family. At the first dinner, she highly praises some pumpkin preserves. Thereafter, every single dinner features pumpkin preserves until she loathes it; a family that hates it had gotten some specially for her, and sent the leftovers home with her.

* In ''The Will of the Empress'' by [[Tamora Pierce]], upon the arrival of her foster brother who she hasn't seen in years, one character fixes enough of his favorites to cause one character to ask if she plans for him to roll away from the table.

* In the first book of the Fire Thief trilogy this is done unintentionally when [[Big Bad|The Avenger]], AKA the eagle that ate Prometheus's liver each day, enters a bar looking for the the escaped Prometheus. The Avenger was offered a bowl of soup, but declined it and would have found Prometheus just outside if the bar owner's daughter hadn't said just before he opened the door, "It's liver." The Avenger quickly changes his mind.

* In the novel ''Chocolat'', the protagonist Vianne Rocher has the gift of being able to tell a person's favourite chocolate just by looking at them, or even thinking of them. Also present in the film, with a lesser degree of [[Magic Realism]].

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'': Max Gallactica likes milk, so everybody gives him a lot of milk for the final day in court.

** [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity]] can easily ensue, especially in ''[[Mother 3]]'', where it gets used more frequently.

{{quote|'''Claus:''' Ooh, lunch, lunch! [[I'm a Humanitarian|Humans!!]] }}

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060215 when] Gil expresses his appreciation for Wooster, Wooster says of course he does, Wooster knows how he likes his tea.

* ''[[Parry and Carney]]'': Santa Claus {{spoiler|(who is actually Charles Darwin in disguise)}} brings Carney the Carnotaurus a "[[King Kong|gigantic anthropomorphous ape]]" as a Christmas present, to which Carney responds by gasping, "My favorite! How did you know?" and promptly [[Running Gag|biting the ape's head off]].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

{{quote|'''Denzel Crocker:''' Stupid two bit room! Stupid two bit van! Stupid two bit life!

'''Mrs. Crocker:''' Denzel! Would you like your stupid two bit dessert? I made your stupid two bit favorite! }}

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[[Category:Food Tropes]]