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Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki (すき焼き), Japanese beef hot pot cooked in warishita of soy sauce, mirin, and sugar and dipped in raw egg; Kanto and Kansai styles differ in searing versus simmering, arising from Meiji-era gyu nabe.

Summerween

Summerween, a blend of summer and Halloween, is an informal mid-year Halloween celebration coined in the 2012 Gravity Falls episode "Summerween" and popularized from 2024 onward by TikTok trends and early Halloween retail from Walmart, Michaels, and Home Depot.

Sun Drop

Sun Drop, also marketed as Sundrop, is a caffeinated citrus soft drink made with orange juice concentrate and long popular in the Carolinas and Tennessee, reaching national distribution in 2011.

Sun hat

A sun hat is a hat designed to shade the head, face, ears, and neck from solar ultraviolet radiation, with styles such as broad-brimmed, bucket, and legionnaire hats.

Sunday roast

Sunday roast: traditional British meal of roasted beef, lamb, pork, or chicken (also Sunday joint, roast dinner, Sunday lunch) with roast potatoes, vegetables, gravy, and Yorkshire pudding; disputed medieval or Tudor origins, now 1.28 billion UK roast occasions a year.

Sunfeast

Sunfeast is ITC Limited's Indian packaged-food brand, launched July 2003 with glucose, Marie, and cream biscuits; now a Rs.2,500+ crore brand spanning biscuits, Dark Fantasy cookies, YiPPee! noodles (No. 2 in India), pasta, and cakes.

Sung Anh (안성재)

Sung Anh (안성재, Anh Sung-jae or Ahn Sung-jae) is a Korean-American chef, owner-chef of Mosu Seoul, three Michelin stars in 2023, and judge on Netflix's Culinary Class Wars.

Sunjae (선재)

Sunjae (선재), born 1956, is a Korean Buddhist nun designated the Jogye Order's first temple food master, known for her research institute in Yangpyeong, her recovery from cirrhosis through temple food, and her Netflix Culinary Class Wars season 2 appearance.

Sunkist (soft drink)

Sunkist (soft drink): American orange soda created in 1978 by General Cinema under license from Sunkist Growers, now made by Keurig Dr Pepper, the top-selling U.S. orange soda, caffeinated, and not a PepsiCo product.

Sunny Anderson

Sunny Anderson (born 1975), also known as Chef Sunny Anderson, is an American Food Network host, self-taught chef, and New York Times bestselling cookbook author, a former Air Force senior airman and radio DJ who co-hosted The Kitchen from 2014 to 2025.

SunnyD

SunnyD, originally Sunny Delight, is an American orange citrus punch drink created in Florida in 1963, fortified with 100% Vitamin C per 8 oz serving and containing 5% juice. Once a UK phenomenon under Procter & Gamble, sales collapsed after health controversy; it is now owned by Harvest Hill.

Sunshine Biscuits

Sunshine Biscuits, founded 1902 in Kansas City as Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company and renamed Sunshine Biscuit, Inc. in 1946, was the American baker behind Hydrox cookies, Cheez-It, and Krispy crackers and Nabisco's chief rival; acquired by Keebler in 1996, Kellogg in 2001, and now under Kellanova/Mars.

Suntory (サントリーホールディングス株式会社)

Suntory, also known as Suntory Holdings, is a Japanese beverage and spirits company founded in Osaka in 1899 by Shinjiro Torii. Its brands include Yamazaki whisky, Jim Beam, and BOSS coffee.

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! is Morgan Spurlock's 2019 documentary sequel in which he opens his own Holy Chicken! fast-food restaurant to expose poultry-industry marketing and farmer debt; premiered TIFF 2017, released by Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Superdry

Superdry is a British premium casualwear brand and retailer founded in 2003 by Julian Dunkerton and James Holder, known for vintage Americana styling with Japanese graphics, floated in 2010, restructured after heavy losses, and now trading as Superdry & Co.

Supermarket

Supermarket: a large self-service food retail store combining full grocery lines, meat, produce, and non-food goods under one roof. Key markers: Piggly Wiggly's 1916 self-service origin, King Kullen 1930, low-margin high-volume economics, and dominance of food retail since the mid-1950s.

Supermodel

Supermodel: celebrity-status fashion model; term popularized in the 1980s, peaked with the January 1990 British Vogue cover and the Big Six (Campbell, Crawford, Evangelista, Turlington, Schiffer, Moss), declined by 1998.

Supertaster

Supertaster: coined by Linda Bartoshuk in 1991 for people who taste PROP/PTC as intensely bitter; about 25% of Americans, more fungiform papillae, TAS2R38-related but not explained by it alone.

SuperValu (United States)

Supervalu Inc. (NYSE: SVU), American grocery wholesaler and retailer of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, successor to 1870s firms, once largest US grocery distributor; acquired by United Natural Foods in 2018 for $2.9 billion. Distinct from the Irish SuperValu franchise of Musgrave Group.

Suphamongkhon Supapipat

Suphamongkhon Supapipat (ศุภมงคล ศุภพิพัฒน์), called Chef Art, is a Thai chef leading Bangkok's reservation-only Chef's Table by Chef Art and named Thailand's ninth Iron Chef in 2026.

Supper

Supper is the last meal of the day in English, from Old French souper via a Germanic root for sop; historically the light evening meal when dinner was at midday, now varying by region, class, and country.

Supper club

Supper club: a hosted, ticketed dining format between a restaurant and a dinner party. Covers the nightclub-era term, Lawrence Frank's 1920s Beverly Hills origin, the Wisconsin supper club tradition with brandy old fashioneds and relish trays, and the modern underground pop-up revival.

Supreme (brand)

Supreme is a New York streetwear and skateboarding brand founded by James Jebbia in April 1994 on Lafayette Street, known for its red box logo, Thursday drops, and ownership changes from Carlyle to VF to EssilorLuxottica.

Surf & Co.

Surf & Co. chiefly denotes Surf Co., a Brazilian surfwear company founded in 1982 by Alfio Lagnado (Hang Loose brand), based in São Paulo, holding Volcom, Hurley, Rusty, and Vissla licenses; also a US trademark and unrelated surf shops.

Surf and turf

Surf and turf (surf 'n' turf; Australian "reef and beef") is a steakhouse dish pairing steak, usually filet mignon, with seafood, usually lobster. Named in 1960s America; first published recipe in a 1966 Lowell Sun ad.

Surge (drink)

Surge is Coca-Cola's bright green citrus soda, launched in Norway as Urge in 1996 and in the US in 1997 to rival Mountain Dew, discontinued in 2003, and revived in 2014 via the fan-led SURGE Movement.

Susa pottery

Susa pottery is the painted ceramics excavated at Susa in Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, above all the tall, thin-walled painted beakers of the Susa I phase, dated to the late 5th millennium BCE.

Susan Spungen

Susan Spungen, American food writer, founding food editor of Martha Stewart Living (1991-2003), food stylist on Julie & Julia, author of Open Kitchen, Veg Forward, and Cookie Queen.

Suseok (수석)

Suseok (수석, 壽石 or 水石), Korean viewing stones: small unaltered natural stones collected from Korean riverbeds and coasts and displayed on wooden bases, distinguished from Chinese gongshi and Japanese suiseki by an untouched aesthetic; about 80,000 practitioners and 45 museums in South Korea.

Sushant Divgikar (सुशांत दिवगीकर)

Sushant Divgikar (सुशांत दिवगीकर), also known as Rani Ko-HE-Nur, is an Indian singer, actor, and drag performer, Mr Gay India 2014, Bigg Boss 8 contestant, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2018 drag pioneer, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honoree.