Food in Parks and Recreation
by: Manvitha Katta
Parks and Recreation has many great characters but it also has lots of great food and quirky food references. Food and restaurants are sometimes the theme of an entire episode and other times food just really helps the character development. There have been so many scenes in the show about food: Ron Swanson's love of breakfast foods, Tom Haverford's names for common food, Ben Wyatt's calzones, the awful Sweetums Factory, the invasion of horribly unhealthy Paunch Burger and Pawnee's dislike of vegetables.
At the beginning of the show, Tom Haverford is portrayed as a shallow narcissist but he ultimately becomes an entrepreneur and owns his own restaurant. Leslie Knope grows from a deputy director of the Parks Department in Pawnee, Indiana to Midwest Head of the National Park Service to eventually becoming the President of the United States yet her love of waffles never changes. |