Actors usually don't really eat in TV shows, they just pretend, or they hold food on a fork and gesture with it. The reason is to maintain continuity. Eating changes how the food looks. So when multiple takes are edited together you might see somebody bite off the corner of a piece of toast and then 3 seconds later it's a whole piece again. Some people make a minor hobby of spotting continuity errors like that.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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and if it's not something urgent that I have to go anywhere bcos of it, I'd continue eating because that's how I deal with stress and distressing news :(
There’s a Korean tv series called Stranger. I’ve only seen the first season, but it was so frustrating to see the main character order food and never eat it. I think they deliberately did it for shits and giggles. Like he’ll go to a restaurant and order food. Then just as he’s about to take a bite, either he stops to talk to the other person with him or someone calls him on the phone. Then he either has to leave or the scene cuts.
they made one prop dish and had to use it for multiple takes
Yes as a millennial who has never had a lot of money, there is one thing that's engraved in my soul: NEVER WASTE FOOD!
I've been watching halt and catch fire and I hate the main guy ever since he threw his wife's whole lasagna in the trash for no reason other than "I can make food too"
Or they are so shocked they drop something and it shatters on dramatic fashion.
Unholy terror from another dimension about to kill me? Imma put this down real quick.
When you have family dying in the hospital and the family is just there waiting for the end, the nurses bring out a snack cart.
Most people nervously eat when they're sad.
I had just finished cooking a big pan of huevos rancheros when my sister called to tell me my dad had died. I left it. My wife was working in a different state so it just sat there until I came home ~72hrs later. It was gross.