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This isn't Canon of course, but my friends & I used to have a lot of fun with the idea that as the Doctor is an alien & didn't grow up eating our foods, he might have a completely different idea about what was good cooking than us. In our fanfics he'd completely gross out his human companions with burnt or badly underdone food that he'd quite happily devour. I had a companion complain once that he was the only person she'd ever seen who could not only make gooey bread but crisp, burnt gravy to go with it. sweatdrop

One of my friends did a novel-length fanfic in which #6 & Peri spend a few weeks hanging out in New York City as tourists before the plot took off (the tourist part was not covered in detail). Apparently turning the Doctor loose in such a culturally diverse city for an extended time period wasn't the best idea, as he proceeded to sample all the cuisine, delighted by all the flavors. As many have suggested here, eating was fun for him & New York is loaded with good food! He'd allowed Peri to talk him into going incognito during this time & was wearing (relatively) normal clothing, but when the plot picked up he tried to get back into his regular clothes...and discovered to his outrage he had gained a lot of weight! lol

i'm sure he only needs naps because he runs on adrenaline from escaping all these threats that happen to turn up wherever he goes. lol! XD

oh yes! i just remembered, he goes to that party and gets 'drunk' in Girl in the Fireplace. i think he would have probably eaten something though we never see him doing it. he invented the banana split then biggrin

edit: i just realised that 'runs' was a pun...>.< he RUNS when he's on adrenaline and he runs ON adrenaline. that was such a bad pun...

Actually, he invented the banana daiquiri a couple of centuries early.

yepyep, daiquiri's the one 3nodding

So, then...do Time Lords belch? lol

As the Tenth Doctor told Donna, being human is 'optional' for him, which perhaps we might in part understand as meaning certain human functions are optional. We know he's got a respiratory bypass system for when he feels like opting out of breathing. Why shouldn't he also be able to over-ride other vital functions with a 'nutrition bypass system' or a 'circadian rhythm bypass system'?

Of course, the thing is with eating that "it's sensual and fun" as Christina Aguilera once said, so if someone had the option of eating or not, why on earth would they go for Option Not? Certainly the Sixth Doctor excericised his power to lunch, or otherwise Mel wouldn't have had to nag him about his diet.

The Sixth Doctor's diet is worth thinking about actually, as he's one of the few people to have put on lots of weight after becoming a vegetarian. A lot of cheese, do you think?

Which ones that? I think I've read that one...

Im prett ysure it was the Price of Paradise, actually