Two poems that address similar subjects are "Dinner Out" by Christopher Howell and "Onions" by William Matthews. Both have sensory details that appeal to our sense of taste.

Although these poems both have an overall subject of food I feel they have separate underlying meanings.

"Dinner Out" describes the scenery and setting and the distance between the speaker and his family. Dinner out is a poem about the speaker and his family being together, and what appears to be him looking back at the memory. Although he and his family are together it seems they are not emotionally together inn the poem  it seems that there is distance between him and his family or father. When the speaker's father asks "How you doing, son". The next stanza says "Fine, Dad. Great, Really" however this doesn't appear to be dialogue.

"Onions" by William Mathews describes only the onions, "How easily happiness begins by dicing onions". This poem seems to be about emotion, specifically happiness. The speaker uses the onions to talk about happiness yet states, "It's true it can make you weep". Which I feel is ironic that he begins speaking of the happiness but contrasts that with a human action that usually depicts sadness.

In my opinion both poems approach their subject of food with a sense of irony, because the speaker in "Dinner Out" seems to be alone though with his family "we climbed in together and drove and drove, though we hadn't far to go", and "Onions" with its description of "Happiness" and "weeping".
While the two poems are about different things both include a setting of sitting down and eating. I feel both poets did this for a reason, sitting down and eating a meal with other people does evoke emotions both good and bad and these poems touch on either side of that.