Food quotes

[Eric_Malson]

A little more Fran Lebowitz:

A salad is not a meal. It is a style.

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When one asks for cream one should receive either cream or the information that the establishment in question favors instead a combination of vegetable oil and cancer-causing initials.

[tommy]

someone's sig here is something by Andy Rooney ( think), and reads something like "Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter.'". i love it. who is it. please step foward and correct my butchered quote.

Edited July 2, 2003 by tommy (log)

[inventolux]

"The muffin man obtains a fully charged icing anointment utensil and proceeds to anoint a dense yet radiant muffin of his own design"

-Frank Zappa-

[enthusiast]

from memory so it may be inaccurate...

"she lifted the lobster clear of the table. it had ten seconds to live. it is a quick death.

it is not."

Sam Beckett

First love

[Busboy]

"Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit..." A. Bourdain

"Butter...get the butter." Marlon Brando in "Last Tango in Paris"

[alanz]

...

After you've been havin' steak for a long time

Beans, beans taste fine.

An' after you've been drinkin' champagne and Chivas Regal

You gonna settle for Thunderbird wine.

He said "The world is funny, and people are strange,

And man is a creature of constant change, and

After you've been havin' steak for a long time

Beans, beans taste fine."

...

-- Shel Silverstein

[NeroW]

Who was it that said: "My doctor tells me I must stop having meals for four. Unless there are three other people."

[coolranch]

From Big Night:

"Sometimes the spaghetti likes to be alone"

Not really food related, but I've always loved this:

In 1956 the New York Times said in an ad :

"Salesmgr: Intagible exp, must be able to effectively work at top mgmt level and effectively understand "Big business problems. Should be able to handle 12 martinis"

[guajolote]

Who was it that said: "My doctor tells me I must stop having meals for four.  Unless there are three other people."

Orson Welles:

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

[kpurvis]

Dorothy Parker: "If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit next to me." (I've used it often as a philosophy when deciding where to sit at a large dinner event.)

Dorothy Parker: "What fresh hell is this?" (Also a philosophical consideration when the plates are being placed on the tables at large dinner events.)

[NeroW]

Who was it that said: "My doctor tells me I must stop having meals for four.  Unless there are three other people."

Orson Welles:

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Yeah, that's it.

That quote was extra credit on one of our Sanitation tests. If we could identify its author, we got the extra credit.

Guess who didn't get those points.

[KNorthrup]

Dorothy Parker: "If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit next to me." (I've used it often as a philosophy when deciding where to sit at a large dinner event.)

I've also heard that credited to Alice Roosevelt.

"Wish I had time for just one more bowl of chili." Supposed last words of Kit Carson.

"Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies." Milton Berle (Didn't FG do an article on this theme?)

[=Mark]

Ham's substantial, ham is fat

Ham is firm and sound.

Ham's what God was getting at

When He made pigs so round

----- Roy Blount Jr.

[toddlowe]

From a decade-old Forbes restaurant review - referring to the fish special:

"They did everything but dress it up in bermuda shorts and pistol whip it."

[Eric_Malson]

At the risk of sounding priggish......

Dorothy Parker: "If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit next to me." (I've used it often as a philosophy when deciding where to sit at a large dinner event.)

I've also heard that credited to Alice Roosevelt.

......this is correct. The quote is Alice Roosevelt Longworth's, not Dorothy Parker's.

[fifi]

Does tea count?

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: "Winston, if I were your wife, I would put poison in your tea."

Winston Churchill: "Madame, if you were my wife, I would drink it."

[PaulaDR]

· "I live on good soup, not on fine words:" -- Moliere

and finally...

"Duck fat... its better than butter"

[KNorthrup]

That Astor/Churchill/poison quote is one of my all-time favourites. After Benchley hailing a cab.

Two women in a Woody Allen sketch :

"The food here is terrible."

"Yes. And the portions are so small."

[jackal10]

Sydney Smith (1771-1845) on Salad. It is usually only the last two lines that get quoted

Serenely full, the epicure would say,

"Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day."

but the full poem is full of delicious lines. Makes a good salad dressing as well.

TO make this condiment, your poet begs

The pounded yellow of two hard-boiled eggs;

Two boiled potatoes, passed through kitchen sieve,

Smoothness and softness to the salad give.

Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,

And, half suspected, animate the whole.

Of mordant mustard add a single spoon,

Distrust the condiment that bites so soon;

But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault,

To add a double quantity of salt.

Four times the spoon with oil from Lucca brown,

And twice with vinegar procured from town;

And, lastly, o'er the flavored compound toss

A magic soupcion of anchovy sauce.

O, green and glorious! O herbaceous treat!

'T would tempt the dying anchorite to eat:

Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul,

And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl!

Serenely full, the epicure would say,

"Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day."

(NB Oil of Lucca = EVOO

Onion Atoms. I'd use crushed garlic)

Edited July 4, 2003 by jackal10 (log)

[maggiethecat]

I have a friend who's a macrobiotic. She doesn't eat meat, chicken, fish, white flour, sugar or preservatives. She's pale, sickly, and exhausted just from looking for something to eat. She can eat wicker."

Paula Poundstone

[Anna N]

"Always be kind to the animal--kill it." Raymond Blanc

Quoted in today's Globe and Mail as Blanc killed the langoustines for his $1400 per portion (side dish!) salad.

Anna N

[Allen]

When it comes to Martinis ... one's not enough, two is too many, and three are not nearly enough.