Examples of collocationusing food related terms.

In linguistics, collocation is a
sequence of terms or words that co-occur often enough to deem that it does not simply
happen by chance.  In more layman's terms, collocations are typically common
adjective-noun or adverb-adjective pairs that are used so often, they are now commonly
accepted as the "correct way" of saying something.

Some
food examples
are:

• Strong (or weak)
  coffee.  While it might work to say "watery-coffee" or "thick-coffee" the
  collocation is strong or
  weak.


• Fast food.  Americans
  would never say "quick food."


• Eating for
  here or to go.  I would consider this an
  America collocation.  In England they say "take-away" when eating
  "to-go."


• This sauce is
  soupy.  When describing a sauce that is too watery (or should be
  thicker), "soupy" is most often used, but of course we'd never describe watery
  paint, for example, as
  soupy.


• Melt in your mouth
  delicious/good. This might be more of an
  idiom but melt-in-your-mouth is used to describe decadent or savory
  things to eat, particularly if chocolate is a key
  ingredient.