It doesn’t fit – Ward Kimball

At the request of Walt Disney, animator Ward Kimball (1914-2002) worked two hundred and forty days on four minutes long scene from a cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". It was a scene where the dwarfs are cooking a lunch for Snow White and demolishing the kitchen in their colorful forest hut in the process.
 

At first, Disney said that the scene was divine, but then he thought it over and concluded:

“It doesn’t fit with the rest of the movie. Cut it out!”.

Ward Kimball’s two hundred and forty days of work and effort were slashed along.

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Instant Dinner – Maria and Aldous Huxley

Maria Huxley, wife of British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), was obsessed with cooking, or more precisely - with calories and healthy food. She waged each gram of food that she prepared for her husband.

Huxley once invited friends over for dinner. Both, guests and the hosts,were surprised when they saw what Maria served them for dinner: a few grains of boiled, cold beans with the same number of rings of sliced bananas. And that was it.

Aldous then diplomatically suggested that it might be better if they went out together for dinner... That very moment Maria looked angrily at her husband with striking lightning in her blue eyes.

He dutifully sat at a table. Dinner was eaten in no time.

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