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{{trope}}
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''And it ain't the turkeyneck stew''
''And it ain't them bruleed okra seeds''
''Though she made them a-special for you.''
|'''[[Tom Waits]]''', "Filipino Box Spring Hog"}}
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.
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Subtrope of [[Through His Stomach]]. Note that just good cooking goes under that trope.
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== [[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.
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** 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.
* In ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'', George makes his roommate his favorite food, a "twinkie-weiner sandwich" to make amends. It's a twinkie cut in half, with a hot dog stuck into it and cheeze whiz sprayed over the top as garnish. Bob refuses, so George dips it in milk and eats it himself.
** 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.
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* 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 ''[[Harry Potter and
* 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]].
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