when you want to tell someone the food doesn't taste good without them

[alpacinou]

In my language, there is an idiom which is used when you are away from someone and eating something. You tell them this: Without you, the food doesn't move down my throat. It means that the food would taste better if that person were there.

For example, your spouse is away on a mission. You order a nice pizza and when you are eating it, he/she calls you. You say "without you the food doesn't move down my throat."

Is there an idiom like that in English?

 

[emsr2d2]

There's a huge difference between food not tasting good and it not going down your throat.

For the first, you can simply say "Food doesn't taste as good without you [here]".
For the second, you could use "When you're not here, I don't feel like eating".

 

[Tdol]

The food loses all taste....