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Ratatouille moment

Ratatouille moment noun: a sudden, vivid emotional or sensory memory, typically triggered by a smell, taste, sound, or experience, that powerfully recalls a past time or feeling, often from childhood.

Noun

Ratatouille moment (plural Ratatouille moments)

  1. (figuratively, informal) A sudden, vivid emotional or sensory memory, typically triggered by a smell, taste, sound, or experience, that powerfully recalls a past time or feeling, often from childhood.
    • I carry on waiting for dishes that snap me out of the food-writing fog. I like to say that these meals “make the room go quiet,” or gave me that Ratatouille moment. You know, when the mean critic takes a bite of Remy’s dish and is whooshed out of the present back to his happy childhood?2013 September 25, Lesley Suter, “Lesley Suter’s Ratatouille Moment”, in Bravo TV
    • Such attention to detail helped Deakes achieve his very own Ratatouille moment with a client at a corporate dining facility. He'd made her a butterbeer latte, as in the flavor from Harry Potter.2023 February 21, “Austin chef Gareth Deakes channels Ratatouille in the kitchen”, in Austin American-Statesman

Forms of Ratatouille moment

pluralRatatouille moments

Origin of Ratatouille moment

From Ratatouille + moment. Coined in reference to a scene from the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007), in which the fictional food critic Anton Ego has a powerful emotional reaction when tasting ratatouille, a dish that evokes a nostalgic memory from his childhood.

Questions about Ratatouille moment

What does Ratatouille moment mean?
Ratatouille moment means a sudden, vivid emotional or sensory memory, typically triggered by a smell, taste, sound, or experience, that powerfully recalls a past time or feeling, often from childhood.
What part of speech is Ratatouille moment?
Ratatouille moment is a noun.
What is the plural of Ratatouille moment?
The plural of Ratatouille moment is Ratatouille moments.

Words near Ratatouille moment in the dictionary

  1. ratas
  2. Ratass
  3. ratatat
  4. ratatats
  5. ratatouille
  6. Ratatouille moment
  7. Ratatouille moments
  8. ratatouilles
  9. Ratay
  10. ratbag
  11. ratbaggeries

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