Due to concerns about being fined for inappropriate speech, a television talk show discussing sexual behavior chose to use chaofan as a "code word." They had no idea it would become so commonplace, nor that it would ultimately add a new definition to this entirely ordinary term.
電視上某談話性節目以男女性愛為討論主題，因擔心頻頻提起那檔子事會遭罰，於是講好以「炒飯」取代，沒想到普獲共鳴，從此，炒飯在台灣多了另一層「食色性也」的含意。