There's a lot to love about Gilmore Girls, but Lorelai and Rory's charming obsession with food is my favorite. We can all imagine Lorelai announcing "I need something with cheese!" as she enters Luke's Diner. Sure, it's unrealistic that they lived off fistfuls of marshmallows, towers of Pop Tarts, and slice upon slice of frozen pizza without dropping dead from scurvy, but the show's creative writing and the actresses' whimsical line delivery succeeded in turning their unbelievable diets into the show's most fun and reliable running gag.
In an homage to that (and in anticipation of the upcoming GG revival on Netflix), I embarked on a journey to re-watch and record every single thing the Gilmore girls ate on screen throughout the entirety of the original seven seasons. Trust, I spent a lot of late nights craving doughnuts, but becoming the world's foremost expert in Gilmore Girls eats was worth it.
The mother-daughter duo doesn't shy away from vending machine burritos or Easy Cheese; Lorelai once even ate pizza out of the garbage. However, it wasn't just junk food the two consumed. The series also includes 71 fancy Friday night dinners at Emily and Richard's house, where the girls are served sweetbreads, squab, and lots and lots of pot roast. (That's also where Lorelai enjoys approximately 30 martinis throughout the show's run.)
Among the most original food creations are Mallomars that spell out "Happy birthday, Lorelai," dessert sushi, and "French toast on-the-go" (see slide 17). Perhaps most memorably, Lorelai and Rory were rarely seen without a coffee in hand — which translated to a grand total of 348 cups between them, by my count.
Before you tune into Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life, take a walk down memory lane with my complete journal of everything the Gilmore girls ever ate on the show. And while watching the reboot in one sitting is practically mandatory, we do not recommend doing that with the food.
Season 1
Episode 1: Pilot
Coffee
Mrs. Kim's no sugar, no dairy, and no wheat muffins and tea
White wine
Salad
Coffee, orange juice
Cheeseburgers and fries
Coffee
Champagne, lamb, potatoes, red wine, and what looks like beets
Two coffees
Chilli fries
Episode 2: The Lorelai’s First Day at Chilton
Rediwhip from the can
Coffee “in an IV”
Coffee
A bite of a peach that Lorelai describes as “a little watery”
Coffee
Coffee
Pizza and coffee
Episode 3: Kill Me Now
Red wine and cassoulet for Friday night dinner
Coffee
Iced tea and rolls at the club
Coffee, specifically "the largest cheeseburger in the world”
Chocolate cake
Blueberry shortcake
White wine
Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix.
Episode 4: The Deer Hunter
Chocolate
Coffee
"Really bad" coffee
Pie
A bite of three different risotto recipes
Potato chips
Coffee
Rolos, cookies, starbursts
Episode 5: Cinnamon’s Wake
Red wine and something brown/tan for Friday night dinner (unidentifiable)
Coffees
An apple
Coffee
Cheeseburger and french fries
White wine
Iced tea
Episode 6: Rory’s Birthday Parties
Red wine, after-dinner coffee and pudding
A "rasquat" — a raspberry-kumquat hybrid
An apple
Pizza
Coffee
Birthday coffeecake
A Shirley Temple and a Shirley Temple Black
Coffee
Birthday cake with Rory’s face on it
Soda and assorted hors d'oeuvres made by Sookie
Photo: WB Television/Photofest.
Episode 7: Kiss and Tell
Coffee and blueberry muffins
Coffee
Chinese
Pizza, chocolate chips, caramel corn, Skittles, tortilla chips, potato chips, Cheeto puffs, marshmallows, jelly beans, popcorn, Twizzlers, chocolate kisses, cookie dough, peanut butter, Fun Dip for Willy Wonka screening
Desserts from Sookie
Coffee
Episode 8: Love & War & Snow
Sodas and hot dogs
S’mores cookies made by Sookie
A frozen pizza with extra parmesan
Fiesta burger and soda
Coffee
Episode 9: Rory’s Dance
Salad with avocado, rolls for Friday night dinner
Mashed banana on toast
Diet coke
Coffee
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Episode 10: Forgiveness and Stuff
Coffee
A bag of lettuce with ranch dressing poured in and eaten with a fork
Coffee
A Santa burger
It looks like some sort of poultry, carrots, mashed potatoes, rolls for Christmas dinner
Coffee
Episode 11: Paris Is Burning
Osso Buco made by Max, red wine
Squab, peas, and white wine for Friday night dinner
Coffee
Coffee
Tea
Soda
Old french fries
Pizza from the garbage
Coffee
Chicken, peas, mashed potatoes
Episode 12: Double Date
Coffee
Pop-Tarts
Coffee
Coffee
Rolls
A martini
Coffee
Coffee
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Episode 13: Concert Interruptus
Coffees
Pop-Tarts
Episode 14: That Damn Donna Reed
Two pepperoni pizzas (Dean eats a salad, which they shame him for)
Bordeaux wine and some sort of potato dish and bread for Friday night dinner
A beer
Donna Reed night: Ritz crackers with Easy Cheese, steak, green beans, mashed potatoes, and "lime fantasy supreme" a.k.a. green Jell-O and cool whip
Three-egg omelet, goat cheese, and pancetta cooked
Coffee
Some sort of gummy candy Lorelai had in her purse
Chinese for dinner
(Note: On this episode, Lorelai talks about wanting buy some fruit at Doose's because she thinks she’s getting scurvy.)
Episode 15: Christopher Returns
Coffee
Coffee and pie
Two martinis and a soda
Asparagus and potatoes
Some sort of brown liquor for Lorelai and Chris
Coffee
Episode 16: Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers
Coffee
Hamburger Helper
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Red wine
Gin
Three different types of pasta at Rory and Dean's three-month anniversary (so she doesn’t have to choose), tiramisu, and a meatball to go
Pot roast and carrots
Tea and chocolate cake for Friday night dinner
Coffee
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Episode 17: The Breakup, Part II
Coffees
Chocolate chip pancakes, extra heavy on the chocolate with whipped cream on top
Coffee
Cheese and pepperoni toaster pizzas with extra parmesan
French soda at Madelyn’s party
A giant-ass thing of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
Pizza with everything
Episode 18: The Third Lorelai
Carrots and something green for Friday night dinner
White wine, a cheese plate, and spiced nuts
Carrots (AGAIN), green beans, and some sort of meat for Friday night dinner
Coffee and clown-shaped doughnuts
Frozen chocolate cake while Rory studies
Rabbit and some sort of orange thing — probably carrots, if I had to guess — for Friday night dinner
Brandy
Coffees
Episode 19: Emily in Wonderland
Artichokes, salad, rolls, and what looks like mashed potatoes for Friday night dinner
French toast with bacon, extra crispy
Pancakes with two eggs over easy
Coffees
Orange muffin with cinnamon glaze
A raspberry off a cake
Raspberry jam eaten from the jar with a spoon
Coffee
Popcorn
Cake
Coffees, pie, and ice cream with hot fudge
A big thermos of coffee
Episode 20: “P.S. I Lo…”
Coffees
Sugar-cinnamon pretzels
Coffee
Eggs
A lamb sandwich
A slice of strudel
Coffee
Pizza
Episode 21: “Love, Daisies, and Troubadours”
Cornflakes out of the box, while drinking milk out of the bottle
French fries
Vanilla wafers with seltzer water
Chocolate-covered espresso beans and "grape and red" Ring Pops
Hot dogs and french fries
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Season 2
Episode 1: Sadie, Sadie
Two blueberry muffins
Coffee
Roqufort puffs
Some sort of elaborate salad for Friday Night dinner
Frozen Tater Tots and chicken fingers
White wine and soda
Special homemade beefaroni and Twinkies
More Twinkies
Episode 2: Hammers and Veils
Salad with "lemony" dressing for Friday night dinner
Two coffees
More coffee
Lorlelai is eating some kind of entrée that she comments looks like a tiny hat but doesn’t specify what it is (that's literally the weirdest thing I've ever written)
Two martinis
Mountains and mountains of assorted pastries
Episode 3: Red Light On Wedding Night
Tons of mini wedding cakes for taste testing (the two flavors we get specifics on are a mocha-crunch cream and raspberry)
Carrots
A fancy meal made by Max (the only specific thing I could figure out was garlic bread)
Chocolate cake
Coffees
Blueberry pancakes
Steak and "like eight baked potatoes"
Ice cream cones
Shirley Temple and a “giant” Long Island Ice Tea
Mixed nuts
Coffee
Episode 4: The Road Trip To Harvard
A fuzzy Certs from the bottom of Lorelai’s purse
Four fresh scones
Two coffees
Burgers
Ice cream
Coffee
Episode 5: Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy
Eggs
Doughnuts (chocolate, cinnamon, and sprinkles)
Coffee
Pot Roast, four different kinds of salad, chicken wings, mashed potatoes, grilled cheese, and garlic bread
Coffee and a cherry Danishes
Episode 6: Presenting Lorelai Gilmore
Coffees, pancakes, and French toast
Coffees
Kung Pao chicken and egg rolls (Lorelai spits out the peanuts)
Two martinis
Burgers and fries (consumed with pinkies out)
Episode 7: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Coffee and two muffins
A sandwich, fruit salad, some sort of fruit soda
Diet coke
Sandwich, broccoli, fruit salad, and soda
Grilled corn, peppers, rolls, salad for Friday night dinner
A sandwich, broccoli, fruit salad, and a soda (seeing a pattern?)
Cake and tea
Coffee
Sandwich, broccoli, fruit salad, and soda (clearly Rory eats the same thing for lunch every single day)
Episode 8: The Ins & Outs Of Inns
An elaborate meal by Emily’s new cook who cooks food from her homeland or as Emily says, “one of those little countries by Mexico” (t looks like corn, salad, potatoes)
Coffee
Two pieces of raspberry cake, a rum ball, and coffee
A cupcake
Coffee
Coffees
Eggs, sausage, toast, fruit salad, coffees
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.Episode 9: Run Away Little Boy
Coffees
Cool whip from the container
Pizza in the fridge
A burrito from the vending machine at school
Cheeseburger, chilli fries, and coke
Chilli-cheese fries
Two burgers, fries, and fruit salad
Coffee
Coke
Coffee, a muffin, and fruit
Episode 10: The Bracebridge Dinner
Asparagus, sweet potatoes, some sort of poultry, rolls for Friday night dinner
Coffees
Cokes
Butternut-squash soup
Cake
Episode 11: Secrets and Loan
Coffees
Coffees and Eggo waffles
Sandwich, fruit, and soda
Chocolate Häagen-Dazs milkshakes and ice cream out of the carton Wine
Coke
Coffees
Salad and bread at Friday night dinner
Episode 12: Richard In Stars Hollow
Champagne
Soda
Carrots, asparagus, rolls, and sweet breads for Friday night dinner
Coffees
Banana pancakes, bacon, "lots and lots of coffee," and a grapefruit added at the insistence of Richard
Coffee
Egg fu yung, garlic chicken, and a ton of other Chinese food from Al’s Pancake World
Episode 13: A Tisket, A Tasket
Coffee from a thermos
Burger, fries
Pizza
CARROTS, roast beef, and new potatoes for Friday night dinner
Episode 14: It Should’ve Been Lorelai
Chips and Popcorn
Leftover Halloween candy and apple juice
A Manhattan
Coffees, fruit salad, and toast
Episode 15: Lost & Found
Pancakes with a side of pancakes
Rocky road hot-fudge sundaes with extra maraschino cherries and two cans of whipped cream
Lemon Coke that is “super crazy and addictive”
Leftover Chinese (they took on the entire chicken section of the Chinese menu)
Episode 16: There’s the Rub
Coffees
Cucumber water
Two orders of garlic naan, three samosas, an order of chicken vindaloo, rice, green sauce, and NO salad
French fries, macaroni and cheese, and burgers
A vodka martini straight up with a twist, very dry, very cold
Peanuts
Steak, Caesar salad, and a shrimp cocktail
Ice cream
Coffees and bacon
Episode 17: Dead Uncles and Vegetables
Coffee
A plate of unidentifiable food from the buffet at a wake
Episode 18: Back in the Saddle Again
Pot roast, potatoes, salad, and bread for Friday night dinner
A piece of chocolate from the “private stash” in Lorelai's purse
Omelet with jack cheese
French toast
10 rolls ("hot and buttery with that split top thing")
Episode 19: Teach Me Tonight
Some sort of weird berry mixture
Roasted marshmallows made over the stove
Six Pop Tarts, half a bag of marshmallows, four bagel dogs, and a really stale Cheese Nip
Brownies
Something that looks like broccoli and a biscuit and coffees
Pie and coffee
Ice cream cones
Episode 20: Help Wanted
Bad coffee
White wine
A peach
A soda
Cheeseburger
Another cheeseburger
Perrier and champagne
A doughnut and coffee
Episode 21: Lorelai’s Graduation Day
Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, coffees, and fruit salad
A scone and tea
Margaritas for Lorelai
A graduation hat cake filled with two pounds of crushed chocolate-covered espresso beans
A hot dogs with everything on it
Episode 22: I Can’t Get Started
White wine and coke
Salad and rolls for Friday night dinner
Lorelai orders eggs, toast, and fruit, but she changes her mind and trades it all in for pancakes
Coffees
Chocolate doughnut and sprinkles doughnut and coffee
Wine
Coffee
A jordan almond
Icing
Some sort of tiki drink
Photo: WB Television/Photofest.
Season 3
Episode 1: Lazy-Crazy-Hazy Day
Bacon, eggs, and pancakes and coffee (in a dream)
Kosher bacon (made with beef not pork) and coffee
Coffee
White wine
Coffee
A doughnut
Episode 2: Haunted Leg
Pancakes, fried eggs, side of bacon
Chicken-noodle soup with a side of mashed potatoes
Coffee
Rice Krispies, marshmallows, and milk in a bowl
Some raspberries
Coffee
Cheeseburger, fries, onion rings, and a cherry coke
White wine
Macaroni and cheese, Tater Tots, and pizza rolls, and chilli bean soup, and cake
Episode 3: Application Anxiety
Soda
Coffees, pancakes, bacon
Scotch
Doughnuts
Iced teas
Potatoes, “famous” chicken, rolls
Water
Episode 4: One’s Got Class and the Other One Dyes
Two hamburgers
Rice Krispies from the box
Episode 5: Eight O’Clock at the Oasis
Coffee
Pizza with extra cheese melted on top and cheesy bread
Merlot, pork, potatoes, rolls for Friday night dinner
Unidentifiable weird looking substances at Luke’s and coffee
Soda, white wine, and cheese
Episode 6: Take the Devilled Eggs
Ice cream
Mojitos
Potato salad
Cake
Photo: Mitchell Haddad/CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images.
Episode 7: They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t They?
Coffee
Pancakes and bacon
Chicken, asparagus, rolls, and white wine for Friday Night Dinner
Pizza and coke
Coffee
Eggless egg-salad sandwiches
Episode 8: Let The Games Begin
Doughnuts
Coffee
Chocolate
Coke
"Sand dabs"
Burger and fries
Coffee
Tacos from Hector's
Coffee
Coffee
Episode 9: Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving
A pop tart
French dip with extra fries
Cherry pie
Tofurkey
Deep fried turkey
Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes rolls, vegetable
Martini
Salad
Coffees
Rolls
Episode 10: That’ll Do, Pig
Pizza
Coffee
Coffee
Blueberries
Coffees
Some sort of snack out of a foil container
Episode 11: I Solemnly Swear
Wine
Coffee
International grab-bag night at Al’s Pancake World — Moroccan and "pan-Asian with a hint of English colonial with a few South African influences"
A sandwich, chips, and a soda
Another sandwich, chips, a soda
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Episode 12: Lorelai Out of Water
Tons of coffee
Peas, carrots, mashed potatoes, and what looks like chicken
Coffee
Coffee and doughnuts
Episode 13: Dear Emily and Richard
Scotch
Coffee
Martini
Roast, rolls, carrots for Friday night dinner
A sandwich
Coffee
Episode 14: Swan Song
Steamed spinach, rolls, what looks like stuffing, poultry, and white wine for Friday night dinner
Coffee
Chips, pretzels, melba toast, and bagel bites
Salad and prime rib
"One of everything" at Al’s — Chicken and rice and more
Episode 15: Face Off
Coffee
Rolls, pork, peas, potatoes, and pie for Friday night dinner
Coffee
Jack omelet with bacon on the side
Blueberry muffin
Hot dogs and other concession food
Chinese food
Episode 16: The Big One
A KitKat
Coffee
Martini
Pizza
Coffee
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Episode 17: A Tale Of Poes And Fire
Coffee
Coffee
More coffee
Episode 18: Happy Birthday, Baby
Johnny Marzetti IV
Bagels from Westons
Four-foot chocolate cake with individual vanilla cupcakes on top spelling out"Happy 16th Birthday Lorelai"
“The world’s biggest pizza...almost”
Mallowmars spelling out "Happy birthday, Lorelai"
Coffee
A gigantic bowl of macaroni and cheese
Chocolate milk
Another gigantic cake
Episode 19: Keg! Max!
Coffee
Coffee
Episode 20: Say Goodnight, Gracie
Coffee
Coffee
Pancakes, bacon, fruit salad, orange juice
Episode 21: Here Comes Soon
Cherry pie
Coffee
Pop-Tart, orange juice, coffee
All-you-can-eat soup, salad, pizza, and ice cream with rainbow sprinkles
Episode 22: Those Are Strings, Pinocchio
NOTHING
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Season 4
Episode 1: Ballrooms & Biscotti
Coco (made but not consumed)
Biscotti from Milan
Coffee
Rolls, three pieces of chicken for Rory, cheese plate, coffee, soufflé for dessert at Friday night dinner
Episode 2: Lorelai’s First Day At Yale
“My Yale Special” — sausage wrapped in a pancake wrapped in bacon
Balinese, Singaporean, German, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Mexican, and pizza (food from every take-out place in New Haven)
Ice cream
Coffee
Episode 3: The Hobbit, the Sofa, and Digger Stiles
Marshmallow cookies from Sookie and muffins from Luke
Coffee
Fries
Tortilla chips
Coffee
Episode 4: Chicken or Beef?
Coffee
Coffees
Fries
A scoop of butter-brittle-crunch ice cream and a scoop of chocolate, chocolate, chocolate
Coffee
Episode 5: The Fundamental Things Apply
A waffle and hash browns
Pizzas
Coffee
Fries, half a pumpkin pie, whipped cream, a burger with double cheese, Chinese food, beer
Meringue cookies
Episode 6: An Affair To Remember
Potatoes, carrots, roast or a pork of some kind, rolls, red wine, and mini lemon bundt cakes for Friday night dinner
Broccoli tarts
Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix.
Episode 7: The Festival of Living Art
Hamburgers with mustards and fries
Another burger and fries
Coffee
Episode 8: Die, Jerk
Broccoli, white wine, rice, what looks like salmon for Friday night dinner
A coffee mint
Coffee
Lobster Thermidor for Friday night dinner
Coffee
Episode 9: Ted Koppel’s Big Night Out
Pumpkin Pancakes with homemade cinnamon butter
Coffees
A giant salad, some bread, and a Coke
Potatoes, roast, roll, red wine for Friday night dinner (THEY EAT ROAST SO MUCH)
Coffee
Cheese omelet (extra cheddar, no jack), two bacons, two sausages, sourdough toast
Rye toast
Fig Newtons
Some sort of alcohol from the “fun flask”
More from the fun flask
A bloody mary
Coffee
Macaroni and cheese, other prepared food from the grocery store, Pringles, and chip dip
Coffee
Episode 10: The Nanny and the Professor
A pizzelle and earl grey tea
Rolls and something else fancy for Friday night dinner
Marzipan from Switzerland
Pizza
Coffee, orange juice, scrambled eggs, bacon
Carrots, some sort of beef (probably roast), rolls, red wine, salad for Friday night dinner
Episode 11: The Clamor and the Clanger
Coffee, a muffin, and onion rings
Coffee
A doughnut
Mashed potatoes, meatloaf, and corn
Pie and coffee
Episode 12: A Family Matter
Coffee
Coffee and “whatever muffin you have”
A Coke, salad, macaroni and cheese, green beans
A martini
Hot chocolates
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Episode 13: Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels
Coffee and Pop-Tarts
Coffee and a cherry Danish
Hot cocoa
“Possibly beef in some sort of cream sauce”
Episode 14: The Incredible Sinking Lorelais
NOTHING
Episode 15: Scene in a Mall
Coffee
Coffees
Pretzel samples at the mall
At the mall food court: Mexican, Moroccan, sweet and sour pork, corn dogs, pizza, a McDonald's burger and fries, fried cheese, “some wrap thing, it’s probably not healthy,” soda, ice tea, Orange Julius, root beer
Coffee
Pie
Episode 16: The Reigning Lorelai
Escargots, white wine, bread for Friday night dinner
Lorelai walks into the diner and announces “I need something with cheese!”
Coffee
Martini
A soda
Episode 17: Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin’ the Twist
Fruit loops
Coffee
Coffee
French toast, bacon — in a plastic zip lock bag with syrup she calls it, “French toast on the go”
Pizza, Lay’s potato chips, Pepsi
Chips
Episode 18: Tick, Tick, Tick Boom
Rolls, potatoes, some sort of meat, and salad for Friday night dinner
Cheesecake and coffee
Brandy
Vodka
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Episode 19: Afterboom
Coffee and cherry Danish
Martini
Soda
Coffee and some sort of pastry
Episode 20: Luke Can See Her Face
Coffee
Coffee
Barbecue sandwiches, marshmallows, Twizzlers, Nutter Butters, pizza, chips
Chicken chow mein, Pop-Tarts, carrot sticks
Coffee
Episode 21: Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
Salad, chicken Kiev, salad, white wine, rolls for Friday night dinner
“A funky monkey” — an alcoholic beverage that’s made up of all the leftover alcohol in the dorm
A large plate of food from the Renaissance fair wedding: grapes and corn were definitely on the plate
Beer
Episode 22: Raincoats & Recipes
Macaroni and cheese made with extra cheese slices
Coffee
Coffee
Duck, rolls, red wine, and fruit over ice cream for Friday night dinner
Bread and salad
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Season 5
Episode 1: Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller
Iced teas
Bread
Episode 2 : A Messenger, Nothing More
Coffee and a doughnut
A triple espresso
Soda
Rootbeer
Potato chips, pizza with steak sauce, Chinese
Episode 3: Written in the Stars
Martinis, coke, Hungarian cheese
Fennel-potato soup with a touch of chili powder (“something exotic now that it’s just our girls”), rolls, white wine for Friday night dinner
Scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese, a side of half bacon, half sausage and a side of fruit for both
Coffees
Coffee
Champagne
Marshmallows
A drink in a black Solo cup
Episode 4: Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too
Eggs, bacon, blintzes, coffee
A bite of tomato
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Photo: WB Television/Photofest.
Episode 5: We Got Us A Pippi Virgin
Peas, chicken, rice, and coffee
Coffee
Boysenberry pie with ice cream, hot-fudge sundae, half a grapefruit (at Luke's insistence), and coffee
Coffee
JoJo’s chili burgers, fries, popcorn, soda
Beer
Episode 6: Norman Mailer, I’m Pregnant”
Coffee
Like eight coffees
Nachos and a slushie
Pizza on the living room floor for Friday night dinner when Emily and Richard don't show up
Coffee
Coffee
Episode 7: You Jump, I Jump, Jack
2 vodka martinis
Some unidentifiable fancy dish at Emily’s
Champagne
Episode 8: The Party’s Over
Meat skewers
Martini and a soda
Carrots, bread, potatoes, chicken, salad, white wine for Friday night dinner
Blueberry muffin and coffee
Chicken, carrots, peas
Dean gives Rory her choice of slightly damaged sandwiches from Doose’s (“a battered Chicken salad, a bruised tuna salad, a ham that survived the creamed-corn assault of 2004, and something gray”), chips, and soda
Lamb and artichoke stew, penne with pesto and potatoes, roasted garlic with rosemary focaccia, tomatoes stuffed with breadcrumbs and goat cheese, ricotta cheesecake, amaretto cookies, and coffee
Wine
Rory eats some sort of finger food (I think a baby carrot?) at some fancy party Emily and Richard hold
Champagne
Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix.
Episode 9: Emily Says Hello
What looks like fruit salad
Hor d'oeuvres from some rich-people party that Marty bartends for (“something bacon should never be wrapped around")
Soda
Frozen pizza with cheese in the crust
Scotch neat
Wine, bread, and pork chops brined in a salt water-bourbon solution
Coffee and pie
Potato chips
Popcorn
Episode 10: But Not As Cute As Pushkin
Pie and brownies
Caviar
Coffee
Episode 11: Women of Questionable Morals
Coffee
Leftover coffee from customer’s cups (Sookie shamed Lorelai for it so it isn’t actually consumed)
Coffee
A martini and a soda
Milk and cookies
Tequila
Coffees
Episode 12: Come Home
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Toblerone
Champagne
Episode 13: Wedding Bells Blue
Doughnuts and Coffee
Pancakes, pop tarts, doughnuts, mini marshmallows, Tater Tots (Lorelai made them because the instant mashed potatoes were too difficult to make) and a pizza tower
Potstickers
Rum and coke
A clear alcoholic beverage of some kind
Champagne
Episode 14: Say Something
Two bowls of Fruit Loops, wheat Chex, and Captain Crunch
Tollhouse cookie dough, chocolate-covered matzo, blue and red Twizzlers, three different types of Pop Tarts, chocolate cookies, chocolate chip cookies, mini marshmallows, Doritos, three different type of cereals in one bowl with non-fat milk and half and half among other things for “break-up supplies”
Episode 15: Jews and Chinese Food
Two orders of Chicken, pasta, broccoli, carrots, and coke
Two ice cream
Three coffees (Lorelai only wants one but is given three for saying coffee, coffee, coffee)
Coffee
Leftovers from the Cartel’s engagement party plus pretzels of the world (San Francisco sourdough, German pumpernickel, chocolate-covered swiss, and wasabi nuggets), and pizza and sodas for Rory and Marty’s movie night
Beer, fried shrimp, and other high-end Chinese food
Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix.
Episode 16: So...Good Talk
A small coffee
Coffee
Roast duck and strawberry shortcake for Friday night dinner
Coffee
Pie and two rum balls
Coffee
A bite of a really bad cheeseburger
Coffee
Scones
Chinese food
Episode 17: Pulp Fiction
Mocha-chocolate-caramel Swirlaccino with whipped cream
Coffee
Cocoa puffs
Burger and fries
Doughnut
Goose for Friday night dinner
Harry and David fruit
Icecream
Episode 18: To Live and Let Diorama
Trail Mix with the raisins, dried cranberries, carob picked out
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Fruit 'N' Oats, Sugar Rice Pops, and a third kind of cereal
A few cups of Founder’s Day punch
Episode 19: But I’m A Gilmore
Hangover hard tacos, soft tacos, curly fries, straight fries, spicy fries, a beef burrito
Orange soda
Club soda
Fancy soup
Episode 20: How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod?
A meat and pasta dish for Friday night dinner
Burger, rare with cheddar cheese and BBQ sauce on the side, fries
Banana-cream pie
Coffee
An Altoid
Soft-shell crab amandine and wild rice, roll, white wine
Gin martini (with an onion first even though Lorelai wanted an olive) Club soda
Roast, rolls, avocado salad with beet dressing
Coffee and baked apples
Unidentifiable dish Sookie is recipe testing
Episode 21: Blame Booze and Melville
Marshmallows dipped in chocolate fondue
An apple
A MoonPie, DingDong, and Orange Crush
Episode 22: A House Is Not A Home
Doughnut
Bread
Poptarts
Coffee
Coffee
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Season 6
Episode 1: New and Improved Lorelai
Zima
Coffee and danish from an organic bakery
Coffee
Beer
Chinese food
Episode 2: Fight Face
Coffee
Coffee and a giant spread of bagels, pastries, and other breakfast foods
Coffee
A beer
Club soda
A very fancy lunch from Emily (accompanied by cigarettes for bartering)
Coffee
Episode 3: The Undergraduate
Raspberry, strawberry, grapes, scones, and orange juice
An espresso
Coffee
Mimosa
Episode 4: Always a Godmother, Never a God
Coffee
Chinese food
Vodka
Salad, fruit, potato salad
Pizza, Twizzlers, gummy bears, pretzels
Episode 5: We’ve Got Magic To Do
Punch
Steak, grilled squash, peppers, and other grilled vegetables
Coffee
Pasta and “Italian sauce”
Spinach and fish
Episode 6: Welcome to the Dollhouse
Scooped bagel with cream cheese and jam and coffee
“Emergency” BLT, “emergency” chilli fries, and an "emergency'" black and white shake
Coffee
Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix.
Episode 7: Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number
Ten different cakes for tasting (decided on the chocolate-praline-crunch cake)
Fried chicken, peas
Sri Lankan food
Salad, pot roast, mashed potatoes, baby carrots, Parker House rolls with Irish butter, and ice cream sundae
Red wine
Chocolate chip pancakes with tons of whipped cream
A “Rory” — champagne, vodka, grenadine, and pineapple juice
Sushi
Two chocolate boxes
Episode 8: Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out
A beer
Coffee
Episode 9: The Prodigal Daughter Returns
Wine
Coffee
Nachos made with baked chips and low-fat cheese
Doughnut
Coffee
Toast and a coke
Chicken and dumplings, burgers, salad, red wine
Coffee
Burgers, fries, onion rings, donuts, and ice cream
Episode 10: He’s Slippin’ 'Em Bread...Dig?
Scrambled egg, bacon, toast, pancakes, side of fruit
One blueberry
Kabobs, pot stickers, soup, artichoke hearts, a lobster roll, salad, and three other unidentifiable fancy dishes prepared by Sookie in honor of Rory’s homecoming
Mini fruit tarts and mini cakes
Popcorn
A huge Thanksgiving feast made by Sookie — typical Turkey Day fixings
Episode 11: The Perfect Dress
Coffees
Burgers
Coffee
Cake
Coffee
Duck-sausage rolls
French fries
Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix.
Episode 12: Just Like Gwen and Gavin
Coffee
Coffee
A dozen glazed doughnuts
Harry and David pears
Chinese food
Episode 13: Friday Night’s Alright For Fighting
Coffee
A plate of giant marshmallows covered in chocolate sauce
Two coffees
Two double cappuccinos (which they ordered when they had coffees in their hands)
Coffee
Red wine and a sub sandwich
Martinis
White wine, rolls, salad
Passion fruit sorbet
Coffee
Sherry
Episode 14: You’ve Been Gilmored
Endive salad, rolls, white wine, and something with a red wine reduction sauce for Friday night dinner
2 personal frozen pizzas with frozen Tater Tots on top
Frozen apple and cherry turnovers
Strawberry Pop Tarts
Coffee
Shrimp from Al’s
Three gin martinis
Some fancy orange soup
Episode 15: A Vineyard Valentine
Coffee
Orange juice and a scone
Coffee
White wine, salad, lobster, broccoli, mashed potatoes, bruschetta
Coffee and pastries
Coffee
Photo: Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Episode 16: Bridesmaids Revisited
Coffee
Champagne
Gin or vodka and pretzels
Episode 17: I’m OK, You’re OK
“Lots and lots” Chinese food — potstickers, lo mein, some chicken dish, and some other stuff
Coffee
Chilli fries
Assorted pastries
Mocha latte
Mac and cheese, taquitos, mini hot dogs, chili fries, and red wine
Coffee
Coffee
Two Coffees
Doughnut
Two burgers and fries
Episode 18: The Real Paul Anka
Coffee
Episode 19: I Get a Sidekick Out of You
Coffee
Beer, pretzels, potato chips
Two manhattans, extra cherries
Hot dogs and potato chips
Eight tequila shots
Episode 20: Super Cool Party People
Coffee
Raspberries
Potato chips
Soda
Cake, candy, cookies, and "about 10 pounds of flavored lip gloss"
Chinese food
Episode 21: Driving Miss Gilmore
Spaghetti and meatballs, bread, red wine for Friday night dinner
Coffee
Episode 22: Partings
Martini
Rolls, paella, red wine
Beer and fish and chips
Photo: Courtesy of Giphy.
Season 7
Episode 1: The Long Morrow
Coffee
Episode 2: That’s What You Get, Folks, for Makin’ Whoopee
Coffees, orange juice, toaster waffles with butter, chocolate syrup, syrup, whipped cream, syrup, and M&M's
Fortune cookies
"Dessert sushi”: Tootsie Roll-marshmallow-Twizzlers roll; Butterfinger-Junior Mint-chocolate-chip-Jujubes roll; Oreo-Red Hot sashimi
Episode 3: Lorelai’s First Cotillion
Martini
White wine, rolls, and potage au cresson
All of the Pop-Tarts, Fruit Loops, and coffee
A coffee and a muffin
Coffee
Coffee
Chocolate brownie
Episode 4: ‘S Wonderful, ‘S Marvelous'
MilkDuds, Sour Patch Kids, and Twizzlers
Coffee
Icees, popcorn, MilkDuds, Junior Mints, other candy
Popcorn and biscotti
Episode 5: The Great Stink
Fritos and ginger ale
Food from Ibiza (a Tapas restaurant): duck, short ribs, Gazpacho, a “cheese pie thing” and a “2003 red something” wine, flan
Lunchables
Champagne and a “bread plate”
Salad with pears, rolls, red wine, lamb, and rhubarb pie
Episode 6 : Go Bulldogs!
Café au lait and a croissant
Coffee
Coffee
Red wine, rolls, french food of some kind (no specifics), creme brulee, and cognac
Coffee and doughnuts
Photo: CW Network/Everett Collection.
Episode 7: French Twist
Champagne
Tea
Rice Krispy Treats
Langoustine on a bed of mush and candied carrot cannelle
‘78 LaTour
Espresso and chocolate cake
Episode 8: Introducing Lorelai Planetarium
Coffee
White wine, snails, salad, bread
Sparkling wine from Califonia
A unidentifiable alcoholic beverage at a fancy party
Coffee
Episode 9: Knit, People, Knit
Champagne
Lamb (flown in from New Zealand), red wine, rolls
Chocolate Mousse, Para liqueur, and a cheese plate
Coffee
A rootbeer Dum Dum
"An upside-down tequila with a twist"
Coffee
Episode 10: Merry Fistcuffs
Chicken, mashed potatoes, and steamed vegetables
Indian food (raita, naan, some kind of curry and rice) and a beer
Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix.
Episode 11: Santa’s Secret Stuff
Coffee
Strawberries
Hot chocolate
Coffee with three candy canes melted into it
Pie
Christmas cookies
Episode 12: To Whom It May Concern
Quail Mazatlan with tequila-cactus sauce
Coffee and lemon-poppy seed, apple-spice, and double chocolate-chip muffin tops hot from the oven
Salad, macaroni and cheese, and a roll
Episode 13: I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia
Six different flavored sodas, Fritos, Doritos, Starburst, Ritz Crackers; Rory refers to the snacks as “fluorescent-orange ersatz-cheese thing”
Coffee
Hospital food — a sandwich
Milk Duds and coffees
Burgers, an assortment of sandwiches, salad, pie, half a dozen chocolate-chip cookies, salad, two fish fillets, lobster roll, fish tacos, fried fish, fish sticks, tuna fish sandwiches brought to the hospital by Luke
Episode 14: Farewell, My Pet
Coffee
Coffee
Episode 15: I’m a Kayak, Me Roar
Two Roy Rogers
Sea bass with lemon-dill sauce, green beans, bread for Friday night dinner
Cinnamon rolls
Coffee
Champagne
Avocado and crab meat
Vodka
A 24-ounce steak
Coffee
Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix.
Episode 16: Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?
A taste of blue icing from a cupcake
Episode 17: Gilmore Girls Only
Lobster and shrimp and a hot dog for the table at Winky’s off I-85
Champagnes
Chocolate cake
Mrs. Field Cookie, Nutter Butters, a pack of crackers, mini doughnuts from a motel vending machine
Episode 18: Hay Bale Maze
Coffee
Paella, red wine
Pie with vanilla ice cream
Episode 19: It’s Just Like Riding A Bike
Coffee
Chicken nuggets
A muffin and coffee
Two coffees
Beer and pretzels
Cantaloupe, orange juice, toast, cereal, coffee
Episode 20: Lorelai? Lorelai?
Martinis
Coffee
Coffee
A sandwich, macaroni and cheese
French toast with extra cinnamon
A cosmo and club soda
Coffee
Scrambled eggs
Fries and a soda
Episode 21: Unto the Breach
Coffee and a doughnut with a muffin on the side
Champagnes
Fruit and oats cereal without milk
Coffee
Episode 22: Bon Voyage
Some kind of orange soup, bread, and white wine
Coffees
Tea
Coffees
Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix.
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