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Brad Pitt Eating in Movies: The Definitive Food Diary

If you saw Moneyball this weekend, perhaps you walked out of the theater thinking, Wow, that Brad Pitt really is a charming and handsome movie star. Or maybe instead you thought, Huh, Brad Pitt eats a lot in movies. The man does not stop feeding. (Except to throw a chair across the locker room, and then: more food.) Popcorn, Twinkies, Christmas cookies, a cheeseburger — it all ends up in Brad Pitt’s perfect mouth. When Terry Gross asked him about this exact phenomenon, Pitt ascribed the tic to the intensity of the real life Billy Beane, but Ocean’s Eleven aficionados will remember that Brad is chowing down in almost every scene of that movie, too. In fact, he eats in a lot of his movies. And so to prove the Brad Pitt Eating in Movies Theory, Vulture put together a list of every single item of food that Pitt has ever eaten in a movie, ever. Click through for the definitive and basically nutrition-less list.

- bagel (Mr. and Mrs. Smith)
- baguette (Inglourious Basterds)
- baked beans (Johnny Suede)
- bar nuts (Ocean’s Eleven)
- battle food, Greek (Troy)
- carrot, cooked (Meet Joe Black)
- carrot, raw (JS)
- caviar (Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- cereal (Smith)
- cheeseburger, bacon (Eleven)
- cheeseburger, regular (Moneyball, Kalifornia)
- chewing gum (Burn After Reading, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen)
- chicken breast (Smith)
- chili* (Kalifornia)
- cookies, Christmas (Moneyball)
- cookies, regular (MJB)
- corn chips (Twelve)
- corned beef and cabbage (The Devil’s Own)
- cotton candy (Eleven)
- dumplings (Thirteen)
- eggs and bacon (MJB)
- French fries (Moneyball)
- ham (Legends of the Fall)
- human blood (Interview With a Vampire)
- ice cream/sorbet concoction (Moneyball, Eleven)
- Jamba Juice smoothie BAR)
- jelly doughnut (JS)
- lollipop (Eleven)
- meatloaf (JS)
- meat and potatoes* (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
- nachos (Eleven)
- olive (Smith)
- pancakes (Smith)
- peach (Smith)
- peanut butter (MJB)
- popcorn (Benjamin Button, Moneyball)
- Popsicle (BAR)
- pot roast (Smith)
- prison gruel (Seven Years in Tibet)
- ramen or maybe udon noodles (BAR)
- room service (Twelve)
- sandwich, ham, cheese, and sardine* (A River Runs Through It)
- sandwich, turkey (MJB)
- sandwich, unidentified (Devil’s Own)
- shrimp cocktail (Eleven)
- soup ( Tibet)
- stir-fry (Thirteen)
- sunflower seeds (Moneyball)
- toast (MJB)
- takeout, Chinese ( Button, Kalifornia)
- takeout, unidentified* (The Mexican)
- Tibetan knot pastry (Tibet)
- trail mix (Tibet)
- Twinkie (Moneyball)

* denotes foods that Brad Pitt orders and spends significant amounts of screen time with, but does not ultimately eat.

Brad Pitt Eating in Movies: The Definitive Food Diary