Finally, the short vignettes sprinkled throughout Tampopo further illustrate the embedded ties of food and eroticism with expert close-ups and stylistic intensity. One of the short sequences interlaced between the main plot of the film involves a group of young ladies being instructed on the proper fundamentals of table etiquette. As they are instructed by an older woman to not make any sounds while eating spaghetti, their lesson is constantly interrupted by a man seated in a nearby table loudly slurping his noodles. An air of tension is heightened as the women try to maintain their composure and delicately eat their meals. The temptation, however, proves to be too strong and they quickly abandon their ladylike decorum to devour their spaghetti in a ravenous manner. Close-up shots of the young ladies sucking and slurping the noodles as their eyes bulge in a frenzied hunger depict the sensual connotations of the scene. Even the instructor formerly advising the ladies to eat quietly indulges in their hectic feasting, with the camera quickly cutting from one person to another as they engorge themselves with noodles. This vignette embodies the gluttonous appetites people posses not only for certain foods, but for sexual gratification as well, and only until they are able to achieve climactic release (or a clean plate) will they truly be satisfied. The struggle to suppress these natural urges is expressed and fully realized in the cinematic code of this scene.