Food sayings

[Dinah Sarah]

I was having a discussion about nautical terms becoming common day language - got me thinking how many food terms/words were used to describe people or their behavior - thought it would be fun - (no sexism intended - could work for either)

Example:

She's not the crispiest crouton

He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer

The bubbles went out of her champagne a long time ago

He thinks he's meat but he's only mashed potatoes

[Gifted Gourmet]

He's digging his grave with his spoon.

I am fatter than a tick on a coon dog.

I'm ready for dinner on the dirt. (refers to a picnic)

It would be better to dress him than to feed him.

My eyes were bigger than my stomach.

Take an old cold 'tater an' wait. (be patient, dinner will be ready soon)

Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.

[Mooshmouse]

I managed to unearth a couple of previous threads along these lines:

• Expressions of praise using food
  
• Food sayings
  
• Food Related Insults
  
• I'm Stuffed -- Expressions used to describe being full
  

[Dinah Sarah]

Thanks Mooshmouse ,

just what I was lookin for !

[Fresser]

It would be better to dress him than to feed him. 

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Women tell me this a lot, Melissa.

A woman on a trading floor once called me "Studmuffin." And in "Some Like it Hot," Jack Lemmon observes Marilyn Monroe's sexy walk and declares, "Will you look at that! Look at how she moves! It's like Jell-O on springs!"

[markovitch]

adjective: saccharine

[petite tête de chou]

Polly had an apple-cheeked baby that was as cute as a pea in a pod.

[patti]

Lâche pas la patate.

It literally means (in Cajun French) "don't let go of the potato," but the expression is a way of saying "hang in there," or "don't give up."

[BeeZee]

"who p***ed in your Cheerios???"

(to ask someone why they are in such a foul mood)

Edited January 2, 2006 by BeeZee (log)

[moosnsqrl]

"who p***ed in your Cheerios???"

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Now there's a descriptive, evocative expression.

[johnnyd]

"When I arrived at the party everybody was baked..."

[Daniel]

Did you get "toasted" Johnny..

[johnnyd]

Just lookin' after my bread and butter!

[Chris Amirault]

What a bunch of meat heads.

[FabulousFoodBabe]

"He had cauliflower ears, apple cheeks, muttonchop sideburns, and corn teeth."

-W.C. Fields, "My Little Chickadee"*

*I think.

[lcdm]

Nutty as a fruitcake.

[I_call_the_duck]

One fry short of a Happy Meal.

[gus_tatory]

She thinks she's all that and a bag of chips.

:-)

edit to add: X is all over Y like a fat kid onto a Smartie.

Edited January 3, 2006 by gus_tatory (log)

[Jensen]

"When I arrived at the party everybody was baked..."

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I must be going to the wrong parties (or maybe the right ones!) because, when I first read this, it appeared as "When I arrived at the party everybody was naked..."

[Jensen]

edit to add: X is all over Y like a fat kid onto a Smartie.

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Or, X is all over Y like a slug on a strawberry.

[avocado]

One of my favorites: salty, to mean "surly" or "contemptuous."

[bergerka]

there's the always-useful "tasty," as in Liam Neeson, Colin Firth and Ralph Fiennes.

[gus_tatory]

there's the always-useful "tasty," as in Liam Neeson, Colin Firth and Ralph Fiennes.

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and that brings up the whole cheesecake/beefcake thing: cheesecake, yes, it exists. but beefcake?! what the hey is that?!

[Mooshmouse]

edit to add: X is all over Y like a fat kid onto a Smartie.

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Or, X is all over Y like a slug on a strawberry.

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I'm all over it like white on rice.

[gingerfreak]

How do you like THEM apples?

As adjectives: white bread, upper crust, spicy, saucy, vanilla...