History Main / ThroughHisStomach

* In ''ParallelTroubleAdventureDual'', three of the girls compete this way. Each of the girls has a different cooking ethnicity, and Kazuki, desperate not to annoy any of them, manages to combine all three into a somehow palatable meal.
** It wasn't that the food was unpalatable, it was that all three girls insisted on cooking him a full sized meal themselves simultaneously so he kept getting triple portion sized meals and he was struggling to eat all of it.

* Pointedly averted in ''{{NCIS}}'', where Ziva cooks for everyone ''except'' her {{Love Interest}} Tony. He is stunned that she's holding dinner parties for absolutely everyone else they work with, including the "autopsy gremlin!" Eventually, she promises to cook for him, but we never see any of the scenes.

* DoubleSubvertion in ''RurouniKenshin'', Kaoru can't cook to save her life, but Kenshin likes her cooking because she keeps getting better and better at it. ''Awwwwwwwwww.''

** Also mentioned in Vimes and Sybil's marriage--she can't cook worth beans, but luckily, Vimes actually enjoys bacon he can shatter and rubbery bits in his eggs.

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* In the ExpandedUniverse ''DoctorWho'' Eighth Doctor novels, it's noted that the Doctor has an "almost maternal urge" to feed [[{{Nakama}} his friends.]]

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Supertrope of YourFavorite. Compare TastesLikeFriendship. Has nothing whatsoever ([[RuleThirtyFour hopefully]]) to do with RightThroughHisPants

->''I couldn't care less what she wears or what she looks like''\\

-->''The way to a man's heart is [[TropeNamer through his stomach]].''\\

-->''I couldn't care less what she wears or what she looks like''\\

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* This Troper's best friend realized he needed to move the "cook dinner" date from the 1st date to the 3rd. Too many girls were taking it as a sign he wanted a long term relationship when he was still deciding if he wanted a 2nd date.

* Taken to a hilarious extreme in ''{{Clannad}}'' where almost the entirety of Tomoya's {{Nakama}}/{{Unwanted Harem}} makes him food, forcing him to force down five bentos in the same sitting.

* in ''TheWallflower'', Sunako appears to be doing this to Kyouhei accidentally. There was one episode where Kyouhei [[BelligerentSexualTension actually started to fall in love]] [[FanPreferredCouple with her]]. But then, because the StatusQuoIsGod, [[spoiler: he realizes that he just has a craving for some fried [[{{Wallbanger}} shrimp]]]]. And we're [[ShipTease right back where we started]].

{{Tsundere}} are prone to it, because it has PlausibleDeniability -- and can even express unconscious emotions.

* In the portable version of {{Persona 3}}, a female main character can opt to cook Ken Amada's favorite dish for him. However, the context in which this scene takes place is entirely up to the player...

** [[Tsukihime Kohaku]] uses this method to get closer to Saber in BattleMoonWars after Shiro warns her not to over do it because Saber will never forget a meal. She does the exact opposite.

** [[Tuskihime Kohaku]] uses this method to get closer to Saber in BattleMoonWars after Shiro warns her that Saber will never forget a meal. She does the exact opposite and creates a feast for one.

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[[caption-width:320:For some, the first stage of love is also the most delicious.]]

Related to FeminineWomenCanCook, and often the these two tropes are run together in the same plot line. If the main LoveInterest is a {{Tomboy}} and her [[ThePaolo rival]] is a YamatoNadeshiko expect her to struggle very hard to compete while cooking, until some older mother figure takes pity on her and helps.

* Early in the manga ''Tasogare Otome x 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.)

* Wendy Garret tries this in ''GunXSword,'' but the plan fails because Van never gets to eat the meal she prepared [[spoiler: at least the first time]].

* Wendy Garrett tries this in ''GunXSword,'' but the plan fails because Van never gets to eat the meal she prepared [[spoiler: at least the first time]].