Food quotes

[timothycdavis]

Just read these two quotes, which provide as good a reason as I can think of to like the Eagles and the Texans.

"He's the spaghetti sauce that covers up the noodles and, if you've got good

sauce, then you're going to have good spaghetti. The quarterback has got to

be the spaghetti sauce, the one who makes it all work." -- Houston Texans

offensive coordinator Chris Palmer on the significance of second-year

quarterback David Carr to the team.

"I like going with my gut, and I have a very big gut"- Philadephia coach Andy Reid

[gus_tatory]

Bette Davis in All About Eve:

"remind me to tell you about the time i looked deep into the heart of an artichoke..."

[mcdowell]

They roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—

They roused him with mustard and cress—

They roused him with jam and judicious advice—

They set him conundrums to guess.

-lewis carol

[Flocko]

There is something about a martini,

A tingle remarkably pleasant;

A yellow, a mellow martini;

I wish I had one at present.

There is something about a martini,

Ere the dining and dancing begin,

And to tell you the truth,

It is not the vermouth --

I think that perhaps it's the gin.

--Ogden Nash--

[Anna N]

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

Woody Allen

[Chad]

My favorite food-related quote is also one of my favorite Southernisms. Said by a friend about someone else's tenacity . . .

He was hanging in there like a hair in a biscuit.

Chad

Edited June 30, 2003 by Chad (log)

[Jason Perlow]

"So what, no 'fuckin ziti now?"

Tony Soprano Jr, age 13, upon learning that his grandmother won't be attending his bithday party.

[alanz]

Anything from "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift

[Carolyn Tillie]

Among them all, who can descry

A vice more mean than Gluttony?

Of any groveling slave of sense,

Not one can claim so small pretense

To the indulgence which the wine

Allow to human frailties

As the inglorious, beastly sinner

Whose only object is -- a dinner.

William Combe, (1742-1823)

"The Glutton" - The English Dance of Death, 1815

[fifi]

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962

and...

They dined on mince and slices of quince,

Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear

[KNorthrup]

For Jinmyo

Favourite Animal - Steak

=Fran Lebowitz

[Andrew Fenton]

"It was like tasting death, and finding it good." -John Thorne, on a really stinky cheese.

And, following Jason, from The Godfather:

"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."

[elyse]

Just read these two quotes, which provide as good a reason as I can think of to like the Eagles

"He's the spaghetti sauce that covers up the noodles and, if you've got good

sauce, then you're going to have good spaghetti. The quarterback has got to

be the spaghetti sauce, the one who makes it all work." -- Houston Texans

offensive coordinator Chris Palmer on the significance of second-year

quarterback David Carr to the team.

For the life of me, I could not figure out which song this was from.

[elyse]

And on a related note:

"Jeat jet?" - Franklin Graff, 'Just Before The War With The Eskimos,' Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger.

[bloviatrix]

"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening."

-- Alexander Woollcott

"When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas."

-- Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

[inventolux]

"I bought a box of dehydrated water and it says to just add water" - Steven Wright

[dave88]

the dorothy parker quote:

'one martini Im able,

two martinis at most,

three martinis im under the table,

four, im under the host.'

[kpurvis]

"Leave the gun.  Take the cannoli."

Rats, you took my favorite one. So I'll just add this one, from Roy Blount Jr.:

When my mind's unsettled,

When I don't feel spruce,

When my nerves get frazzled,

When my flesh gets loose,

What knits me back together's grits.

Grits with gravy,

Grits with cheese,

Grits with bacon,

Grits with peas.

Grits with a minimum of two over-medium eggs mixed in 'em: um!

Grits, grits, it's

grits I sing --

Grits fits

In with anything.

Rich and poor, black and white,

Lutheran and Campbellite,

Jews and Southern Jesuits

All acknowledge buttered grits.

Give me two hands, give me my wits,

Give me forty pounds of grits.

Grits at taps, grits at reveille,

I am into grits real heavily.

True grits,

more grits,

Fish, grits and collards

Live is good where grits are swallered.

Grits

Sits

Right.

[colestove]

Ogden Nash *Reflections On Ice Breaking At A Party*

Candy is dandy

Liquor is quicker

colestove

[maggiethecat]

"People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding lime juice to scalloped potatoes, try to understand that there must be a reason for this."

Fran Lebowitz

Edited July 1, 2003 by maggiethecat (log)

[Jim Dixon]

"Sit at dinner tables and socialize as long as you can, for these are the bonus times of your lives."

al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abi-Talib, grandson of the prophet Muhammad, as quoted by Nawal Nasrallah in her book Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and History of the Iraqi Cuisine

(the book is available online)

Jim

[Varmint]

From "Big Night"

A guy works all day, he don't want to look at his plate and ask, "What the fuck is this?" He wants to look at his plate, see a steak, and say "I like steak!"

To eat good food is to be close to God.

Give people time, they will learn.

------This is a restaurant! This is not a fucking school!

[steverino]

"To eat, per chance to dream"

William Asparaguspeare

(I think that's how it goes.)

[Niall]

Because I'm Irish:

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

A. A. Milne

Or a different approach to dieting:

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.

Harry Secombe

Edited July 2, 2003 by Niall (log)

[dumpling]

"In bad times the Chinese eat to live

so that in better times they can live to eat"

- variously attributed to Confoodscious, Laots Tzest, and the first emperor of China, "Chin Chin".