Like Erysichthon, these men were led by circumstances to experience an extreme form of food noise, "incessant mental chatter" related to food (Dhurandhar et al., 2025). Cues, such as the smell or availability of food, physical hunger, dieting, or advertising, may induce food noise, but not necessarily. (2024), who were the first to develop and validate a tool (a five-item questionnaire) to measure food noise clinically, for example, note that patients have described experiencing food noise without food cues. have created the Ro-Allison-Indiana-Dhurandhar Food Noise Inventory (RAID-FN), a questionnaire that assesses when thoughts of food become distressful (Dhurandhar et al, 2025; 2026). Food noise research remains in its infancy and requires further investigation, but it has clearly moved beyond anecdotal reports.