Food quotes

[southerncook]

"A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a whore who looks at her watch."

"A gourmet restaurant in Cinncinnati is one where you leave the tray on the table after you eat."

"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."

"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."
"Eating an anchovy is like eating an eyebrow."
"A favorite dish in Kansas is creamed corn on a stick."

"Cannibals aren't vegetarians, they're humanitarians."

"Exercise daily. Eat wisely. Die anyway."

"I have learned to spell 'hors d'oeuvres', which grates on many peoples' nerves."

"For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton."

"The food of Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare."

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

'If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." .

"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt has an active, living culture."

"Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn."

"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - - you know someone's fingers have been all over it." (Julia Child, commenting on nouvelle cuisine.)

got these from another site, which got them from a book "the 2,548 Best things anybody ever said"

 

[mudbug]

These are funny, southerncook. The "Die anyway" quote is roughly my life philosophy. Let me add a couple more:

World's shortest book - Great English Recipes (sorry, kyles!)
Life is too short to drink cheap wine.
The four basic food groups: grease, salt, sugar, and alcohol.

 

[bknox]

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. -A. Whiyney Brown

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin

I drive to fast to worry about Cholesterol - Unknown

If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen. -Mom

 

[middie]

If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen. -Mom

roflmao

 

[Andy M.]

You have two choices for dinner, "Take it or leave it".

"Never eat more than you can lift.", Miss Piggy

I also like some of the signatures DC members use:

Save the plants, eat meat.

Salad isn't food, it's what food eats.

If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat.

 

[kitchenelf]

I'm crying...........all of this are too funny!

 

[jkath]

"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant ? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God... I could be eating a slow learner." — Lynda Montgomery.

"I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian."
"If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat ?"

"When people who eat natural foods die of food poisoning, do they die of natural causes ?"

"I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians." — Pat McNelis.

"Sushi /n./ Known to the rest of the world as 'Bait'."

"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again." — George Miller.

"I look to nature to find which diets actually work. I suggest the squirrel diet, because you almost never see a fat squirrel. It's easy: Just lose 99 percent of the food you hid around the house." — Carolyn Mansager.

"One of life's mysteries is how a 1kg box of candy can make a woman gain 2kg."

"It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ?" — Matt Diamond.

"The only two things I don't eat for breakfast are lunch and dinner."

"I'm on a seafood diet. When I see food, I eat it."

"Whenever I feel like exercising, I lie down until the feeling passes."

"Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake."

"Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break." — Lev L. Spiro

"Ham and eggs: A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig."

"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand."

"The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." — Calvin Trillin.




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[jkath]

"If you ate pasta and antipasti, would you still be hungry ?"

"Give me liberty or... OOOooo... A jelly donut !" — Homer Simpson.​

"Oh my God, Space Aliens !! Don't eat me, I have a wife and kids ! Eat them !" — Homer Simpson.

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." — Ernest Hemmingway.

"Intoxicated /adj./ When you feel sophisticated without being able to pronounce it."



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[The Z]

"All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me."
Michael Palin (Monty Python’s Flying Circus)




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[AllenOK]

You have two choices for dinner, "Take it or leave it".

"Never eat more than you can lift.", Miss Piggy

I also like some of the signatures DC members use:

Save the plants, eat meat.

Salad isn't food, it's what food eats.

If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat.

Thank you!

 

[Andy M.]

AllenMI: Sorry for the misquote. Your sig always makes me smile!

 

[kitchenelf]

Moved to chat as no questions were asked except how do you stop my stomach from hurting from laughing so much?