12 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching Gilmore Girls

One major characterisation (and slight annoyance for certain fans) of Gilmore Girls is how the titular women are always eating unhealthy junk food and takeaways, without ever gaining the weight. Lorelai and Rory typically seem to eat four or five meals a day without feeling the effects of being full.

But pay close attention to the food they’re eating. Often, they will just casually ditch a full meal from the diner after taking one bite or walk out of Friday night dinners before they’ve even had their starters. Furthermore, Rory and Lorelai often throw out old food from their fridge, proving further they don’t eat much to begin with.

The Gilmores have seemed to create in their own mind that they can handle a lot of food, when the reality is they just spend a lot of money on it instead. It could be a nod to their love of movies and how within film, the characters very rarely eat the meals in front of them, because it would get in the way of the dialogue exchanged within the scene.