In case you haven’t noticed: the guy offers Dean a hot-dog and Dean answers that he wants one… then Amara stops him from having his hot-dog, but then she makes him reappear there and Dean look around and there’s still the hot-dog guy selling hot-dogs
So the question is: will Dean get his
Cashot-dog at the end of the show?“How do you like your hot dog?”
“Yay big, trench coat, sensible shoes…”“Dark hair, blue eyes…”
Seems accurate.
First cake, now hot dogs? Do destiel shippers just love making bisexuality into food?
Oh, you have no idea! I love making asexuality into sushi. I have a pan friend that loves making pansexuality into sakura mochi, right @domlerrys?
Also I’m flattered that you found my post so interesting and relevant that you felt like commenting on it. Thank you!
I’ve been featured into the destiew tag! It’s great honor.
I think now I’ll go and make a meta about how apple pie represents familial love and pecan pie represents family in general and cherry pie represents Dean’s attraction to women, with a special mention to tacos and pig in a poke… I might also take Sam into consideration too and discuss how salad and organic food represent his desire of feeling “clean”. I might also discuss how corn syrup represented corruption while honey represented purity. And maybe also discuss the link between Death and junk food. And maybe if I still have time I’ll write about the opposition between alcohol and coffee!
What do you think?
I think someone needs a trip to the sensitive house for taking such offense for being called out on their blantent disrespect towards misrepresenting sexualities.
The funniest thing is that I was talking about Cas being the “dog that thinks he’s people”.
I actually love your meta outline, it’s full of truth. Corn syrup vs honey, I love it! Whether or not you want to involve bisexuality in particular, it’s clear that food and drink have symbolic meanings on Supernatural.
That thing where crazy!Cas offered them honey and sandwiches… I didn’t realize it at the time, but he was being really helpful. The Leviathan corn syrup was in all food and drink by then, so Sam and Dean had been living on bananas and water. They needed some real food to boost their energy for the fight. Cas had collected the honey himself and he had sourced the raw materials for the sandwiches himself, in Europe. He offered them food that they could trust, that they could eat.
I love all of this. And yeah, while crazy!Cas was running around finding untainted and pure foods to sustain Dean and Sam, Dean was actively complaining to Sam that he couldn’t live off the stuff they could find locally that was “safe” to eat, because he’s a warrior. Makes you wonder if Dean’s longing for a decent sandwich was what sent Cas off on that quest for a decent sandwich…
But when the plot of an entire SEASON of the show revolved around food (from the Biggerson’s TDK slammer goo to the tainted corn syrup to the leviathans trying to farm humanity as their own perfect food source), it’s idiotic not to at least look for other instances in the series where food has been used as a metaphor for something else, from Gabriel and his sweet tooth to Dean’s longstanding fixation on pie and recent interest in cake.
Season ten also featured NUMEROUS occasions showing Dean sampling everything from croissookies to kale to egg white omelettes, and every cuisine in between (including one scene where much was made of the ridiculous variety of foods he had on his tray at one time). Someone took the time, money, and effort to stage all of those scenes, to include the foods specifically. In a tightly budgeted tv show, every prop that features on screen matters. Sure, some of the background stuff is probably random, but things that feature directly in the dialogue are usually there on purpose. This is just how visual storytelling works. To say that there’s no subtext implied with the very specific food choices the writers, producers, directors, and set designers are including in the show is just plain silly, and every writer I know will agree with that.
I’d also like to draw attention to the numerous instances where Sam sat back and watched Dean eating while having nothing himself (like when he first came back from Purgatory and Sam got Dean that cheeseburger), after we have several canon references to Dean being the one to ‘go hungry’ while giving Sam his choice of the limited food they had available. The cereal from 1.18, the fact that Dean got himself arrested trying to steal peanut butter and bread in 9.07… and Sam still side-eyes Dean over his gross and indulgent eating habits, but he’s often the one indulging Dean in the first place. Somewhere deep down, Sam understands it.
Gah. Like @postmodernmulticoloredcloak, I could find a million food-related tangents to run down, but not right now. I need a snack. This post made me hungry. 🙂
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