Trademark Favorite Food / Comic Strips

A trademark favorite food that's so much enjoyed by the characters that they eat it at the end of every episode.

• Dennis the Menace (US): Dennis sure loves pizza, but hates vegetables of any kind with a passion... once to the point where he turns up the oven to 550 degrees on Thanksgiving Day, just so the family would be forced (in haste) to order pizza as their Thanksgiving dinner.
• Dennis the Menace (UK): Dennis has a friend called Pie-Face, who is obsessed with pies.
• Popeye:
  • Popeye: Spinach. It's his Power-Up Food.
  • Wimpy: Hamburgers.
  • Olive Oyl: Olives.
  • Eugene the Jeep: Orchids (Actually, that's the only thing Jeeps eat.)
• Garfield:
  • Garfield's favourite food is lasagna—the joke being that such a time-consuming and intricate meal is being served to a house cat. The official Garfield website had an entire archive of lasagna recipes that fans had submitted for our favorite feline to enjoy. In the comic, one of his grandfathers explained why lasagna is Garfield's favorite food: as it turns out, the titular cat was born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant, and when he was still a kitten, he accidentally tripped the cook as he was carrying a tray of lasagna and he had a bite (lasagna was the first food he ever ate). The animated half-hour special Garfield on the Town visually depicts this in a flashback.
  • In the earlier strips, Garfield used to absolutely love whole roasted chickens, until December 1980, when he never ate it again after Jon forbade it. Garfield then chowed down on hamburgers instead.
  • While lasagna is still established as being Garfield's favorite food, it's rarely mentioned nowadays and, at least since 2006, seems to have been largely replaced by pizza (Garfield's favorite food after lasagna). Word of God seems to support this, as Jim Davis (the creator of Garfield) once admitted that he wishes he had made pizza Garfield's favorite, as he finds it a lot easier to draw than lasagna.
  • A Woolseyism example: In the 80's, one Norwegian translation made joika balls - a type of meatballs made partially from reindeer meat - Garfield's favorite instead of lasagna. This required some Willing Suspension of Disbelief from the readers, since a plate of joika balls looks nothing like a plate of lasagna, but nevertheless, Norwegian Garfield fans regarded this as canon for years.
  • Once she started dating Jon, it's been revealed that Liz loves donuts, but she tries to resist the urge to eat them due to them not being healthy.
• Calvin and Hobbes:
  • Hobbes: Tuna sandwiches, as well as salmon.
  • Calvin: Any sugared cereal, but particularly Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs. He is also mentioned to like hamburgers, but is only shown eating them once. He's also been shown to go out of his way for pizza and cookies.
• Snoopy of Peanuts likes cookies, and angel food cake with seven-minute frosting (and root beer, when he's in "Flying Ace" and "Joe Cool" modes). But his absolute favourite food is pizza. It's the only thing that could lure him out from under an icicle (he was afraid to make the slightest movement in case it fell on him).
• An old Robotman and Monty (in its Robotman days) strip where Monty decides that he needs a trademark food, and spends much of the strip eating pork chops, before discovering that he doesn't really like pork chops that much.
• Traditionally, Dagwood of Blondie (1930) has favored tall, multi-layered sandwiches (hence the term "Dagwood Sandwich"), but in recent years he's expanded his palate to include stuff like pizza.
  • For a while it was stated that his favorite food was spare ribs with saurkraut.
• Reversed with Mafalda and her mom's soup as her anti-favorite food. On the other hand, her brother Guille absolutely loves soup.
  • It's actually implied that Mafalda loves pancakes. The only thing that can convince her to eat soup is the premise of having sweet pancakes as dessert.
    Raquel: Fine, if you don't eat your soup I won't give you dessert!
    Mafalda: I won't have it! Ever! And no blackmail can ever make me back off my principles!
    Raquel: ...Pancakes.
    Mafalda (gulping down the soup): Man do I squick myself so much at times!
• At the end of every Nero album, the characters have an Every Episode Ending where they traditionally eat Belgian waffles. In real life, during special celebrations of the comic strip, waffles have been baked for the guests and visitors as well.
• Banks of Barkeater Lake and bacon - to the point where he couldn't give it up even after having a hypertension-induced stroke.
• Played with in a FoxTrot Sunday strip when Roger brings home a dozen doughnuts, and the kids immediately start fighting over the one with chocolate sprinkles. While they fight, Andy takes the chocolate sprinkled one — not to put an end to the fight, but because it's her favorite as well.
  • With Paige's sweet tooth, it's no surprise that her favorite treat is ice cream.
  • Just about the only thing that can drag Jason away from a session of World of Warquest is pizza.
• Bloom County:
  • Opus the Penguin loves herring, with lots of mayonnaise. He also likes Ding-Dongs, Zingers, and similar snack cakes.
  • A basselope's favorite food is Pop Tarts. (This is also why the one in the strip is The Last of His Kind; they died out due to high blood pressure from clogged arteries because they ate them with too much butter.)
• Rasmus Klump: The cast has at least one pancake dinner in every story.
• Zippy the Pinhead: Zippy loves Ding-Dongs with taco sauce.
• To the eternal disgust of his friends, Marlon in The Perishers loves inch-thick ketchup sandwiches, the only meal with a blast radius.
• Kyles Bed And Breakfast: Kyle's pancakes are well liked at the bed and breakfast.
• The Wacky Adventures of Pedro's eponymous burro loves tumbleweed tacos, alfalfa milkshakes, and apparently any kind of ice cream.
• Rip Haywire: Rip LOVES pancakes, to the point where he'll carry a portable griddle on stakeouts.
• Big Nate: Nate absolutely loves Cheez Doodles, to the point where he can tell if you're spelling "Cheez" wrong in your head.
• AJ & Magnus: AJ was frustrated that he couldn't get Twix to take his medicine, no matter what he wrapped it in or bribed Twix with.
  AJ: I'm out of ammo, dude.
  Magnus: But did you try cheese?
  AJ: Cheese!? Why would—
  Twix: [zipping in] Who said "cheese?" [...] Mate, I'd do anything for a hunk o' tasty cheddar!
  AJ: [frazzled] I'm never doubting cheese again!
• Madam & Eve: Mother Anderson loves her gin and tonic (with ice and lime), and is seldom seen without holding a glass. She even has a gin vault in the house stocked with hundreds of bottles just in case.

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