Caviar, foie gras, and other such foods are notable for how expensive they are — and, as such, buying them can serve as a status symbol. Whereas Poverty Food is meant to show how poor and lower-class a character is, Snooty Haute Cuisine is instead a symbol of a character's immense wealth.

A form of Conspicuous Consumption, it identifies a character as rich by showing them eat these expensive foods. In addition, consumers of Snooty Haute Cuisine will likely have extremely high standards for their palate and shun "commoner" foods, insisting on only the highest-quality, most expensive foods money can buy. They will react to a simple hamburger as if it were revolting