It is differentiated from vorarephilia in that food play fetishizes food while vore fetishizes the act of eating a living creature, or being eaten alive.
Any food can be considered erotic, depending on the context and the viewer.
Certain foods, such as bananas and hot dogs, are commonly considered fetish objects due to having a phallic shape.
Home dildo makers are produced to allow food to be sculpted into a phallic shape for easier insertion.
The name comes from the idea that the woman's pubic hair in the sake resembles soft seaweed (wakame) floating in the sea.