Sitomania is a morbid desire to eat particular types and quantities of food, a compulsive pattern of selective overeating described in older medical literature. It resembles sitiomania but emphasises both the type and the amount: not just craving a food but consuming it in abnormal quantities with a driven, uncontrollable quality. The concept predates modern classifications of binge eating disorder and food addiction, and it is rarely used in contemporary psychiatry, which prefers those evidence-based diagnoses. Still, the word preserves an early recognition that disordered eating can centre on specific foods eaten compulsively rather than on weight and shape concerns alone. It is a historical marker on the road to today’s understanding of eating disorders.