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Which is more fun?
Eating a fresh cheese sandwich or reading about one?
Though the most memorable fictional cheese sandwich might be in Harry Harrison's "Make Room, Make Room", but you wouldn't have felt the urge to eat one.
There are picnics and midnight feasts in some Enid Blyton books that were published during WWII & post WWII rationing. Cruel or memorable? My Granddaughter organised a midnight feast once after reading one of the Blyton school stories. However while there was chocolate cake, there was only a symbolic unopened can of fish standing in for the sardines in the story.
Of course you can have food in sex scenes. One book involved caviar (someone had torn out four pages, so it must have been detailed, and another involved chocolate spread). Do we reckon these authors test their sex scenes, with um, a real partner?
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