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Food Related Insults


Cusina

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(Have we had a thread about this before? I searched and couldn't find one.)

Struck me funny this morning, how many food related insults there are. For example:

You can be going nuts.

Getting lily livered, be a cream puff, a cupcake or a marshmellow if you aren't brave enough.

Or be chopped liver if you don't mean much.

You can get fruity.

Look porky or beefy or shrimpy or like a string bean.

Your story can be fishy.

Your hands can be clammy.

You're whipped if you can't think of anything but him or her and half-baked if you can't get it together.

If you attract too much attention to yourself you're a ham.

If you don't work at all you're a lemon or maybe you are just plain toast.

There are a million more... what else?

What's wrong with peanut butter and mustard? What else is a guy supposed to do when we are out of jelly?

-Dad

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oh and how could I forget the dairy group?

When you go to far you're milking it. Or maybe you are just plain cheesy.

What's wrong with peanut butter and mustard? What else is a guy supposed to do when we are out of jelly?

-Dad

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If you're a bit of an idiot you're a meathead.

If you're trying to conceive a child you're probably makin' bacon (or, forgive me, porkin') a lot.

If I have an issue with you I have a beef to discuss.

If a young George Bailey is excited he might exclaim, "Hot dog!!"

If I thinks thats rubbish I'd say its baloney.

If my husband is feeling tenderly towards me he might call me his little lamb chop.

God. Some one stop me.

Shelley: Would you like some pie?

Gordon: MASSIVE, MASSIVE QUANTITIES AND A GLASS OF WATER, SWEETHEART. MY SOCKS ARE ON FIRE.

Twin Peaks

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I'm often accused of being a few sandwiches short of a picnic.

Most of my family is drier than burnt toast.

If someone writes a book about restaurants and nobody reads it, will it produce a 10 page thread?

Joe W

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If you're exhausted you're fried,

If you've imbibed certain herbs you're baked,

If there's no chance of winning you're toast,

If you get hit with the ball hard you got beaned,

If you're wimpy your milquetoast,

You could have chicken legs,

You could be fruity,

You could be gamey,

A bad car is also a lemon,

"You're nothing but a two dollar piece of meat." (I don't remember where I heard or read that one.)

Would a cast iron stomach be stretching it?

Bode

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Actually, in the automotive world, "cream puff" is a compliment.

A defective car, on the other hand, is also a lemon.

And what about a convincing liar? We say that butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.

And if your work is not up to par, it can't cut the mustard. (So when was mustard ever solid enough to cut? Or mustard seeds large enough? Or were we talking about reducing its strength here?)

Not to mention that someone who's just all-around lame is a turkey.

Sandy Smith, Exile on Oxford Circle, Philadelphia

"95% of success in life is showing up." --Woody Allen

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"... you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

I'm on the pavement

Thinking about the government.

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You could be a fruitcake or nuttier than a fruitcake,

You could get pickled by drinking too much,

You could throw a pepper game in baseball,

You could have invented the greatest thing since sliced bread (positive one),

Did someone say corny yet?

"But Honey...." (not an insult but at times said just after the perception of one)

"She's a hot tamale" ("But Honey, I didn't mean it like that. No I don't think she's good looking.")

Your goose could be cooked,

You could turn to jelly,

You could be a Cheese-head,

You could have a pea-brain or have scrambled eggs for brains,

You could have had a Pizza-face,

You could be a melon head,

You could have garlic breath,

I've got a couple more for the adult-version of this thread.

Edited by BeJam (log)

Bode

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I have an opposite contribution. For several years, I worked in a coroner's office. The coroner was appalled to hear that a colleague, on the witness stand, had compared the consistency of a gunshot victim's brain (a week after the shooting, when he died) to... well, never mind, but it was a food. Boss said the first thing they learned in her specialty, was that descriptions of anything found at autopsy, should never include comparisons to food. For obvious reasons.

And I can't help throwing this in: one day the deputy coroner was drafted by the county for whom we worked, to cook hamburgers at the employee picnic. He had intentions of wearing a button that said, "I didn't bring the meat" but I forgot to ask him whether he actually did or not.

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According to Dr. Suess, the Grinch had "...garlic in your soul"....

...which, while intended to be an insult, may not be one in this group!

Edited by lala (log)

“"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully.

"It's the same thing," he said.”

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What about something plain or boring being called whitebread ie a whitebread personality.

"Some people see a sheet of seaweed and want to be wrapped in it. I want to see it around a piece of fish."-- William Grimes

"People are bastard-coated bastards, with bastard filling." - Dr. Cox on Scrubs

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