What's For Dinner in the Town of Chewandswallow?

Another classic from the 1970s written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by her (now ex) husband Ron Barrett, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs quickly became loved in the children's literature world.  In 2012, it became known as one of the "Top 100 Picture Books for Children."

The story begins by a grandfather telling a bedtime story about a town called Chewandswallow.  The town is very much like a regular town with stores, roads and schools for the children.  However, this town gets very unusual weather.  

Instead of snow, wind and rain, this town gets mashed potatoes, peas and hamburgers!  All of their food comes directly from the sky, no grocery stores at all!  

Chewandswallow seems like a great place to live, until the weather starts to go awry.  First, the sky starts to produce gross food, like pea soup and overcooked broccoli.  Then the food and the portions kept getting larger!  The street sanitation crews couldn't keep the streets clear and the school even got shut down when pancakes fell from the sky!

For their own safety, the townspeople of Chewandswallow decide to leave in order to find a new home.  They glue together peanut butter sandwiches to make rafts and sail to a new town where they have to go shopping at grocery stores.  You can read along to the book here and enjoy the entirety of this obscure town! 

The book became so popular that it was turned into a live animated film in 2009, with a sequel following in 2013.  The movie takes a different spin on the book.  Instead of the weather naturally producing food, an inventor named Flint creates a machine that makes all of the food fall from the sky.  Below is the trailer for the 2009 film version of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Did you like the book or the movie better of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs?  Why?  What kind of food do you wish fell out of the sky?