There are a lot of things that we've seen in flicks that we wish were real – Marty McFly's instant-drying jacket from the 'future' comes to mind – including all of the yummo food found in cinema's most iconic movies.

Smell-O-vision has yet to hit the mainstream and technology still isn't quite there for us to literally reach into our screens and snatch up giant chocolate bars a la Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so, for the moment we can only fantasise about how these meals would taste in reality. To tide us over until that far-off utopia comes to be, we've listed some of the most tantalising treats that have been shown on the silver screen. 

BASICALLY EVERYTHING IN SPIRITED AWAY To talk about delicious food in film and not include any of the animated beauts found in Studio Ghibli's expansive collection would simply be wrong – and we reckon that Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 masterpiece takes the cake when it comes to food we wish were real. There are those super-cute star candies eaten by magical soot, the fluffy meat buns chomped up by Chihiro with those super-gloopy Ghibli tears streaming down her face as well as the iconic market feast that her parents stumble across – and damn it, we'd risk turning into pigs too. 

MENDL'S COURTESAN AU CHOCOLAT FROM THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL There's a lot we can talk about that a lot smarter folks have already said about any and all of Wes Anderson's quirky flicks, so we'll just stick to the dainty and overly-fancy dessert from the filmmaker's 2014 Academy Award-winning film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. It's a tiny tower of cream-filled pastries each adorned with pastel-coloured icing and – if we're to believe the dessert's name – has chocolate hidden within (drool). If you happen to have a penchant for baking then you can try your hand at making one of these delicacies for yourself, just take a hop, skip and a jump this-a-way, and tell us how you go!

THE PRISON HIGH TEA FROM PADDINGTON 2 First of all, if you've yet to sit through the whimsical and smile-inducing experience that is this movie, get on it ASAP. Secondly, if we were to somehow end up in jail, we can only hope that it offers the same kind of positive rehabilitation process that's found in Paddington 2 – tea and cakes included. After the tiny Peruvian bear finds himself behind bars he quickly unites all of the prisoners through the magical medium of baking, where they soon create awe-inspiring pastries, sweets and three-tier cakes that would put Marie Antoinette to shame. Thank you, Paddington! 

SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS FROM LADY AND THE TRAMP There are a lot of Disney flicks that we could've put on here: Ratatouille, The Princess and the Frog, hell, even the bugs in The Lion King look like they'd make for some good treats. However, we would argue that this adorable scene of two dogs, on a date, sharing a plate of spaghetti while being serenaded by two (vaguely offensive) Italian chefs is the studio's most famous dish. It was first released to audiences in 1955 and so it has become incredibly dated in some aspects (the whole drama that sends Lady into a tizzy is that Tramp had a few girlfriends in the past – how scandalous!), but having the two star-crossed pups enjoying a fancy meal will forever remain one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history. 

THE SUPER-GOOEY PIZZA FROM A GOOFY MOVIE OK, you got us, this is another Disney flick, but we've been drooling over these cheesy pizza slices from the most '90s movie ever made for yonks now. There's a lot to love about this animated time-capsule: it has an incredibly-catchy soundtrack, a heartwarming father-son dynamic between Goofy and Max as well as the aforementioned proud display of '90s culture, but it's the depiction of pizza that we'll forever remember. Yes, it's animated, but for goodness' sake look at it! How is a pizza that isn't real so dang appetising!? Why isn't real pizza this cheesy!? This pizza will forever be stuck in our noggins.