Editing Jughead Jones (section)

=== Appetite and love for food===
Jughead is known for his love of food, especially [[hamburger]]s, and his ability to consume absurdly large quantities in a single sitting without getting sick or gaining weight, although he often sports a pot-belly immediately after a particularly large meal.  Jughead is a preferred customer of most of [[Riverdale (Archie Comics)|Riverdale's]] food establishments, especially [[List of Archie Comics characters#Pop Tate|Pop Tate]]'s Chock'lit Shoppe, except when he is behind on paying his usually lengthy tab.  In one story, he was given a "Restaurant Club Card" and ate out at high-class restaurants until he found out how much interest the card charged, and Pop Tate loaned him the money on the condition that he eat exclusively at the Chock'lit Shoppe. His ability to eat so much food without gaining weight is attributed to a very rare and implausibly high [[metabolism]] . He once claimed that he weighed 300 pounds after a meal, although he is usually portrayed as slim and healthy.

Jughead's special abilities concerning food extend to being able to identify food in a sealed can by smell, and being able to detect the slightest flaws in food preparation by taste.  As such, he is a respected food critic, as well as a gourmet chef himself. One time, when he sought out [[Miss Grundy]]'s help with his creative writing, she suggested that he write about a subject he knew, leading to the "Forsythe P. Jones Cookbook".

Jughead often participates in eating contests, usually winning outright, or else easily coming from behind after comic distractions, and often with room to spare while the competitor retires unwell.  In a citywide eating contest, he ate a colossal burger made up of sixteen different burgers. Jughead also set two world records for eating pizza; one for speed-eating a pizza, and another for eating the most pizzas in one sitting: twelve.  Jughead's appetite is so large that even if he eats shortly before such contests, it does not affect his performance.  For example, a rival high school once sent a girl, Jane Dough, to take Jughead to various restaurants and feed him as much as possible. Amazingly, Jughead still managed to win the contest.  He explained to Jane that top athletes need to train constantly in order to stay in shape, and she actually helped him "train" for the contest.<ref>{{cite comic|date=June 1984|title=Archie at Riverdale High|issue=97|story=The Great All-American Pembrooke-Riverdale Food-Eating Contest!}}</ref>

One running gag depicts Jughead visiting restaurants that promise "all you can eat" special deals, with the devastated restaurateur closing down as Jughead leaves.<ref>e.g. {{cite comic|date=April 1992|title=Jughead with Archie Digest Magazine|issue=110|story=cover}}; {{cite journal|date=Oct 2000|title=The One-Millionth Customer!|journal=Jughead's Double Digest Magazine|issue=70|issn=1061-5482}}</ref>

Despite his appetite, Jughead is not known to be stingy with food, or to let others go hungry.  When a store selling [[penny candy]] opened in Riverdale, he spent his whole allowance on a huge bag of candy, only to meet a penniless young boy outside the shop. Jughead wrestled with his desire, but he chose to give the candy to the boy.  In a similar story, Jughead met a homeless person who liked the same kind of pizza as he did, and decided to give him the pizza he had just purchased. In another story, after winning three pizzas a week for six months for being a pizzeria's one-millionth customer, he donated them all to a soup kitchen where he volunteered.

Because of his well-known food obsession, Jughead was shown eating a hamburger on the facades of the short-lived [[Archie's Family Restaurants]].<ref name="How the Industry Works">{{cite book | last1 = Rhoades | first1 = Shirrel | title = Comics Books: How the Industry Works | publisher = Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. | year = 2008 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Jn4qwJ7LdMUC | access-date = 2017-03-22 | isbn = 978-0820488929}}</ref>