Commercials are effective in getting viewers to go out and try out new products. Movies are also effective in this department by having advertisements for a product or restaurant chain before and during the film itself.
As a result, there are a plethora of movie scenes out there designed to make a viewer hungry or thirsty. The ones that excel at this are not even product placement; it's just focusing on food for a section of the runtime, or, in some cases, most of the runtime. This is why it is always best to eat a meal before watching a movie or keep food nearby while watching.
Moon Made Of Cheese - Wallace And Gromit: A Grand Day Out
One of the most revolutionary stop-motion films of all time, A Grand Day Out introduced many viewers to the delightful characters of Wallace And Gromit. One is a brilliant but absent-minded inventor, while the other is a loyal dog who must put up with his owner's crazy adventures.
A Grand Day Out also featured the revelation that Earth's moon is made of cheese. Anybody who loves cheese is bound to feel their stomach rumble after they land upon the moon. Get some crackers, because the film will make anyone go hunting for cheese.
Desserts Galore - Marie Antioinette
Though this scene is meant to show the spoiled and excessive nature of the titular character, that doesn't stop it from being mouth-watering. In a montage showing her irresponsible behavior, Marie Antoinette (played by Kirsten Dunst) and her friends enjoy a plethora of desserts. Candies, cakes, pastries, and more all on display, and they look absolutely divine. It's enough to make anyone rush for the snack cabinet.
Digital But Delicious Steak - The Matrix
In the 1999 smash hit The Matrix, Cypher betrays the crew and makes a deal with Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith. They are in a restaurant together, and Cypher talks about why he wants to forget his time in the real world. He talks about how he knows that the steak he's eating is fake, but that his brain doesn't.
The steak is focused on quite well: it looks juicy, warm, and with just the right amount of redness, and it's hard to blame him for preferring a digital steak over the real bowls of paste they eat in the real world.
Scream For Ice Cream - Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Officer Earl and Flint Lockwood did not get along in Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, but they settle their differences to make Earl's son's birthday special. Flint Lockwood programs his food making machine to cover Swallow Falls in a blanket of many flavors of ice cream.
Not only is it a genuinely touching scene, but the ice cream makes for delicious and fun activities. Snowball fights, sledding, and snow angels all done with many flavors. Even those with lactose intolerance would have a hard time resisting ice cream after this.
So Much Pizza! - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret Of The Ooze
Everyone knows that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles love pizza. They practically live off of it, and each movie has one standout pizza segment. The second film from the 1990s series opens up with pizza—so much pizza, in fact, that the filmmakers may have been overdoing it.
There is pizza everywhere with a multitude of different extras eating the pizzas in many locations across New York City. The plot even starts showing Ernie Reyes Jr's character delivering pizza. On top of that, every pizza looks so good and fresh to make the audience's mouths water.
Scrumptious Strudels - Inglourious Basterds
Christophe Waltz gives one of the best villain performances ever in Inglourious Basterds. He's scary, charismatic, and just so evil that it's hard to not look at him. However, in one scene where he is still being villainous, the audience is a bit too distracted by his food: strudels.
Sure, Waltz is still giving a great performance, but Quentin Tarantino seems more concerned with showing off the dessert. He even explicitly shows the creme being added to the strudel via intense closeups. By the end of the scene, all dialogue is more or less drown out, and all that people can focus on is that tasty strudel.
The Dish That Changed Anton Ego - Ratatouille
Most of Pixar's Ratatouille could be on this list since it is a movie about cooking. However, most can agree that the food that Pixar spent the most time perfecting is the titular one. To impress the stuffy critic, Remy and the chefs create the perfect ratatouille.
Not only is it so good that Anton Ego, the infamous food critic, has a change of heart, but audiences everywhere wanted that same dish when the movie was over. The sauce, the textures, and the colors looked so realistic that it's nearly impossible not to be tempted by the food.
That Is A Tasty Burger - Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino strikes again with his iconic Pulp Fiction. When Jules and Vincent pay a visit to Brett, Jules decides to be both intimidating and casual at the same time. Samuel L. Jackson as Jules tries the Big Kahuna Burger and soda.
Apparently, Tarantino likes showing off food as much as women's bare feet; since this is not some quick tangent about the burger, Jules eats the burger and drinks the soda over the course of almost three minutes. One can't blame anyone who ordered some Wendy's after the movie was over.
The Chocolate Room - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
This scene from Tim Burton's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory will be torture to anyone with a sweet tooth. While the original Gene Wilder film did a good job, the original Chocolate Room didn't age well over time. In the reboot with Johnny Depp, the entire room does look like it's entirely made of candy.
In a vast improvement over the original—though the same can't be said of the movie as a whole—the chocolate river actually looks like melted chocolate rather than red-tinted water. The grass is edible sugar grass, there are marshmallow trees, and so much more.
Making Cubanos - Chef
Much like with Ratatouille, it's an entire movie about making food, so there are a lot of options to select from. However, Jon Favreau goes into quite extensive detail in showing how to make Cubanos from the seasoning and cooking of the meat, toasting the bed, and even eating the sandwiches.
Not only does it look like one of the best sandwiches one could eat, but there is a wonderful charm about the scene. Seeing Favreau, John Leguizamo, and Emjay Anthony all joke around and work together to make a perfect sandwich lends itself to a delightful scene that shows the love and passion that chefs put into their food.