8 Greatest Ever Film Moments Featuring Pancakes

7. Pulp Fiction

Breakfasts play a major part in Quentin Tarantino's films - the breakfast scene in Reservoir Dogs is arguably the most memorable of the director's entire career - and he uses breakfast to frame the narrative of Pulp Fiction, opening and closing on the Honey Bunny robbery scene.

In fact Tarantino often uses eating as the backdrop to characters exchanging key information, and in Pulp Fiction we learn a lot about the dynamic between Jules and Vincent, as Jules talks effusively about the difference between dogs and pigs thanks to Vincent's decision to have bacon with his pancakes.

We learn that though Vincent and Jules obviously know each other, they don't enough to know each other's philosophies, and we also see a deeper side to Jules that pre-empts his redemptive decision to "walk the Earth." It's also not an accident that characters tend to eat breakfast ahead of committing something grave and important - food is an indicator of what is to come, which is perhaps why Brett and his cohorts should perhaps have rethought their Big Kahuna breakfast.

Food is effectively the grim reaper for Tarantino, especially in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, with the most obvious example coming when a Pop Tart becomes the trigger for Vincent's untimely death.