We don’t know about you, but when narrative television is running thin, we’re easily sucked into two specific genres of reality TV. We have now subjected ourselves to nearly every permutation of Top Chef and Project Runway (and their imitators and spinoffs). When we noticed that the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, just a block from our Manhattan Airbnb, had mounted an exhibition called “Food & Fashion,” we couldn’t resist.

Food and fashion have been inextricably linked since Adam and Eve donned fig leaves in the first documented example of unisex couture. The exhibition at FIT isn’t quite as rooted in references to the Book of Genesis, but it does offer a banquet of food for thought. (So to speak.)

Sections of the show are very Elastane, which is to say, a bit of a stretch. For example, one part conflates the rise of getting dressed up with the rise of restaurants in the early 20th century. And some parts are almost too easy. They show print dresses featuring corn, tomatoes, and other foodstuffs. Perhaps the most recurrent food motif is pasta! (Italian fashion instead of French?) Even with a print dress mimicking Andy Warhol’s silkscreened Campbell’s soup cans, the curators seem to have sidestepped the larger cultural context. Pop art inspires fashion, and food (as the common denominator of mass culture) naturally inspires Pop Art.

Quibbles aside, it’s a fun show and certainly priced right. It’s worth seeing just to experience Jeremy Scott‘s 2014 collection for Moschino that riffs on the Golden Arches in a hot red jersey.

Mouth-watering.

The Museum at FIT, 227 West 27th Street, New York, NY; 212-217-4558; fitnyc.edu. Open Wednesday-Friday noon-8 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.