Hunger is one of the basic needs of human beings. Every new day in people’s lives revolves around the acquisition, preparation, and subsequent consumption of food. In 2018, the textbook Food and Social Work—An Introduction was published, presenting many aspects around the importance of food for social work in general and for fields of action in particular. Hans Günther Homfeldt reviewed the book shortly after its publication in summer 2018 and commented in a further conversation that he was missing the nevertheless self-evident historical, perhaps even constitutive connection of social work to food. I wasn’t sure exactly what he meant by that, because I thought the perspective on food that I raised was obvious. In social work practice, people eat every day, but what why and how is not dealt with as dominantly in training, practice, or theoretical-research perspectives as social work is concerned with the daily recurring human need for hunger. Suddenly, what Hans Günther Homfeldt had meant was open: Social work is constitutively linked to poverty situations, which for the most part in history concerned existentially threatening poverty. Social work was often, and for a long time, primarily concerned with alleviating hunger or satisfying basic needs (hunger, clothing and housing) as its first activity. Those who grew up in the existing affluent society know too little about this and tend to live with permanent demarcations from the temptations of the affluent society. Since the 1950s, our plates have always been full, if not overflowing, and for the first time in the history of hunger and food, food shortages, due to distributional inequities, wars, or other human-caused reasons, have been replaced by food abundance. This has since spread throughout society and is now associated with a new quality of nutritional deficiency: allegedly “wrong” diets, including visible signs such as high body weight, are used as a visible stigma of poverty situations.