The Generative Burrito Test
27 comments
·November 25, 2025kbenson
Aloisius
The NBP looks like a mock of food to me - the unwrapped burrito on a single piece of intact tinfoil, a table where the grain goes all wonky, an almost pastry looking tortilla, hyperrealistic beans and there's something wrong with the focal plane.
It's just not as plasticy and oversaturated as the others.
totetsu
With llms there is a secondary training step to turn a foundational model into a chat bot. Is these something similar going on with these image generation models, that is making them all tend towards making pretty clean images and stopping them making half eaten food even if they have the capabilities?
digitcatphd
I find it a bit surprising GenAI has made it this far without this benchmark
minimaxir
One of my tests for new image generation models is professional food photography, particularly in cases where the food has constraints, such as "a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the shape of a Rubik’s cube" (blog post from 2022 for DALL-E 2: https://minimaxir.com/2022/07/food-photography-ai/ )
For some reason ever since DALL-E 2, all food models seem to generate obviously fake food and/or misinterpret the fun constraints...until Nano Banana. Now I can generate fractal Sierpiński triangle peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
JumpCrisscross
An interesting American culinary divide is between Scottsdale and Phoenix homemade burritos. The former being closest related to the Midwest variety, the latter to a Sonoran style.
Even ignoring the Heinz bean outliers, these are all decidedly Scottsdale. With one exception. All hail Nano Banana.
throwup238
They all just look like generic Mission burritos to me (leaning towards fast food menu photos), except some include lettuce and some have blisters sonoran style.
jasonthorsness
This progress bodes well for my chances of visualizing an invention I have been working on, a perpetual burrito extruding machine
ruined
let me know when you're in preseed
drob518
The burrito benchmark is poised to become an industry standard.
_joel
Ricing a bit more performance out.
skocznymroczny
That SD 1.5 picture doesn't look like base SD 1.5. It's way too good, perhaps it was some kind of finetune like RealisticVision?
pathdependent
hrm. yea you're right. the page on fal used to produce it was linked with the image, but maybe i made a mistake and sloppily saved wrong one. ill have to reroll to check
willio58
I like how a couple of these basically show the model is confused between pinto beans and baked beans.
basket_horse
Is no one going to mention fast Lightning’s sploogerito
N_Lens
Nano b̶a̶n̶a̶n̶a̶ burrito
visioninmyblood
Would be great to see video results for this as well. I generated some with other models. Nano pro seems the best so far
Oh wow, I've been hearing about Nano Banana Pro in random stuff lately, but as a layman the difference is stark. It's the only one that actually looks like a partially eaten burrito at all to me. The others all look like staged marketing fake food, if I'm being generous (only a few actually approach that, most just look wrong).