tell me what you eat, and i will tell you what you are
I'm idly thinking about food in fiction and how it's used to flesh out characters. (No pun intended.) How authors deliberately pick food choices to reflect a character personality or to give insights to a culture in general. I think this is partially because Hunger Games, (which I have completed and love,) is just full of food observations. It
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I think he has a sweet tooth as well, so I'd imagine he likes candy and cookies and all those other sweet things. I can't imagine that he's very picky about what he eats, or a very 'refined' eater, so store-bought sugar cookies and Oreos are just as good as homemade cookies. Sadly, I don't think he wouldn't be able to eat fatty/sugary foods a lot, since they must live on a limited diet because of 'poverty' and their need to have a strict athlete's diet. He probably thinks of snacky foods as comfort foods or even self-rewards.
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It really is. One moment that has a soft spot in my heart is when Peeta is talking about how the majority of the bread he eats is stale, while everything that hits Katniss' plate is fresh as a daisy.
For the meme:
Rachel from Glee
Damon from The Dark Jewels Trilogy
Rachel from Animorphs.
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Rachel Berry: Grape slushies! Which means she likes that faux grape taste that I don't like, but oh well. I suppose she'd like grape candies as well, and Concord grape juice. I imagine her liking grab-and-go foods, stuff you can eat in your hands, like sandwiches and fruit kabobs and cupcakes. I also picture her liking foods that look nice, colorful fruit salads and such, as well as being kind of anal-retentive about what she eats. Not constantly dieting, but more liking a balance of tastes.
DaemonUgh, this guy. This guy is such a foodie. He can probably even cook, too. I can see Daemon linking food and comfort, and food and safety, especially home-cooked food. In fact, I would think he'd show a considerable preference for home-cooked or homey food, stuff like Manny would make for him, where high cuisine is more ( ... )
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Oh, definitely. She'd be big on presentation.
Total word on you thoughts about Damon. I have no doubt that that boy can cook and is ALL about the experience of food versus the necessity of food.
She's probably the type of person who can pig out forever on fast food and never gains a pound.
Without a doubt.
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Wufei! --No, just kidding, I don't care.
Gil from Girl Genius
(Because I'm curious of what you would say:) Brahm! :D
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Anyway, same as with Mike up there. I'd imagine they have a strict diet both because, well, they aren't the most fiscally well-off people in the world and they need to eat anything they can get, and also because they're athletes whose lives depend on them being in top shape. SO. Loads of protein, lots of veg, low on fats and sugars.
That said, I of course think he likes coffee a lot. It keeps him caffeinated and ready to geek-a-thon, which is always good. I can't really see him as eating for pleasure a lot, though- not that he doesn't enjoy his food or that he doesn't differentiate between good or bad tastes, but more like it doesn't factor in that much. I see him choosing food for convenience rather than taste. Stuff that won't put crumbs all over his science experiments and keyboard, nothing that makes too much of a mess or is hard to carry around. ( ... )
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Since his hometown is so very obviously Chinese, I can see him preferring that sort of food. He probably is fond of rice and sauces and dumplings and winter melon soup and suchlike. He seems like a veggie-lover to me. Not a vegetarian necessarily, but someone who likes a lot of vegetables. Also, no sweet tooth at all. No one who is that much of an ass could possibly appreciate sweets.
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If my memory serves me correctly, I think you said you were a KP fan. So, I'll throw Drakken out into the mix.
But, if not, then we'll go with the Avatar series..and what Toph might like to eat.
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Oh, and tea. Toph shares and iroh-like love of tea.
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Can I have, mm... Cassie, from Animorphs? Or Zuko?
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CassieAuuugh, it has been ages since Animorphs. I recall her being vegetarian. I think she's more of an ethical vegetarian who probably would eat meat if our meat industry wasn't so damn unkind to animals, which means she also knows about the dairy issue and how poorly chickens are treated in egg factories. So, vegetarian food is big, but not necessarily pure vegan, since she might be able to come across farm-raised local eggs & dairy ( ... )
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