History Main / ThroughHisStomach

* In JohnCWright's ''The Orphans of Chaos'', Vanity offers to cook for Glum, which lets them manipulate him.
** In ''Titans of Chaos'', Amelia offers Victor some papaya, he says she would make some man a good wife, and she spends a ''long'' time pondering [[EngagingConversation what exactly he meant]].

* The wise man chooses cooking over looks, because he knows he will be hungry a lot more often then he will be horny.

* "A way to a man's heart is through his stomach." is a proverb.

** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint The route is both literal and metaphorical. As shown by the Aztecs. How else could they sacrifice so many hearts to the sun?]]
** [[YouFailAnatomyForever Um, isn't the literal heart reached throught the CHEST (or back)?]]

* Early in the manga ''Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'', Yuuko is shown feeding Teiichi from a bento. On the next page, she pulls him down onto her LapPillow. He's a bit weirded out by this, because Yuuko, although very good-looking and ''[[BuxomIsBetter built]]'', has been dead for something like fifty years. (She doesn't ''quite'' fit the CuteGhostGirl terms, though, as everyone else in the school either can't see her at all or sees her as a StringyHairedGhostGirl.)

** The route is both literal and metaphorical. As shown by the Aztecs. How else could they sacrifice so many hearts to the sun?

* In ''[[{{Fanfic/Ptitle0028gzjm}} Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' Haruhi start making lunch to Kyon [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment when he is grounded]]. She still keeps making them after it's lifted though, as he has become a BigEater.

* In the musical ''OfTheeISing'', the principal qualification of Mary Turner for her successful bid to become the wife of John P. Wintergreen and First Lady of the United States is her ability to "bake the best darned corn muffins you ever ate." Now, Wintergreen may have made a campaign promise to marry the winner of an Atlantic City beauty contest, but the winner's chances of making him honor his promise are doomed when he finds out she can't make corn muffins. As he explains, in song:
-->Some girls can bake a pie\\
Made up of prunes and quinces;\\
Some make an oyster fry--\\
Others are good at blintzes.\\
Some lovely girls have done\\
Wonders with turkey stuffin's;\\
But I have found the one\\
Who can really make corn muffins!

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''It all depends on what she cooks like beef, pork, chicken, mmmm...''\\
--Po, '''"A Girl Worth Fighting For"''', ''{{Mulan}}''

* ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'': As one of Heloise's many attempts to win Jimmy over, she throws a picnic for him. It goes very well...until [[BigEater Beezy and Cerbee]] show up.

* In ''KungFuPanda'', Po had already earned some respect from the Furious Five for his indefatigable HeroicResolve, but it was the great meal he whipped up for them that night that really broke the ice for most of them.

''It all depends on what she cooks like''\\

* In ''DGrayman'', apparently this is the way to [[BigEater Allen's]] heart. It's entirely possible to bribe him into having positive, happy feelings towards the person. In one instance, Miranda, unable to think of any way to cheer him up, gives him her candy, [[http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/170/09/ which makes him ridiculously happy]]. In another instance, Rohfa apparently caught on to the idea, and is implied to be trying to court him by [[http://www.onemanga.com/D.Gray-Man/170/12/ bribing him with huge boxes of Mitarashi Dango (his favorite)]]. Granted, he only seemed to happily notice the food, ''without'' the romantic implications... but, well, it's a start, right?

* Early in the manga ''Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'', Yuuko is shown [[http://www.onemanga.com/Tasogare_Otome_x_Amnesia/.1/21/ feeding Teiichi from a bento]]. On the next page, she pulls him down onto her LapPillow. He's a bit weirded out by this, because Yuuko has been dead for something like fifty years. (She doesn't ''quite'' fit the CuteGhostGirl terms, though, as everyone else in the school either can't see her at all or sees her as something like a StringyHairedGhostGirl.)