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Food sayings

Dinah Sarah

By Dinah Sarah
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KatieLoeb

KatieLoeb

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

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

Or "He's such a biscuit", as in Hot as a...or makes me melt like butter on a...

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Mooshmouse

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

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

Or "He's such a biscuit", as in Hot as a...or makes me melt like butter on a...

Oooh, baby, nice buns!

Joie Alvaro Kent

"I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2,000 of something." ~ Mitch Hedberg

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ronnie_suburban

ronnie_suburban

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Similar to the one mentioned in the thread's title, we often refer to my mother -- who tends to be a bit eccentric -- as a pie with no crust. But please, she doesn't know this . . . :biggrin:

=R=

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srhcb

srhcb

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Some of my late Grandmother's Serbo-English sayings:

"I don't chew my cabbage twice." (if you had to ask her to repeat herself because you weren't paying attention)

"You think you're some kind of special kobsica (sausage)?" (if you expected preferential treatment)

And my favorite because it's so Existential, which was always spoken in Serb, but roughly translated as, "It smells of its nothingness." (when everbody suddenly decided they wanted something just because there wasn't enough to go around)

SB (wishes he had learned Serbian) :sad:

butterscotch

butterscotch

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my new favorite because it's a great comment on human nature.

".... because it's so Existential, which was always spoken in Serb, but roughly translated as, "It smells of its nothingness." (when everbody suddenly decided they wanted something just because there wasn't enough to go around)"

thanks for all of those, steve

they're priceless.

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azureus

azureus

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It's a piece of cake. . .

Easy as pie. . .

It's a half-baked idea. . .

That and a nickel will get you a cup of coffee. . .

One bad apple can ruin the whole barrel. . .

You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. . .

Cream rises to the top. . .

Scraping the bottom of the barrel. . .

Dregs of Society. . .

Even a blind pig finds a truffle now and then. . .

And you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear (but here on eGullet, you can make a fine meal!)

April

One cantaloupe is ripe and lush/Another's green, another's mush/I'd buy a lot more cantaloupe/ If I possessed a fluoroscope. Ogden Nash

dockhl

dockhl

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my new favorite because it's a great comment on human nature.

".... because it's so Existential, which was always spoken in Serb, but roughly translated as, "It smells of its nothingness."  (when everbody suddenly decided they wanted something just because there wasn't enough to go around)"

thanks for all of those,  steve

they're priceless.

I can imagine my (long -gone) Slovak G'ma nodding her head in agreement to this.....

Pan

Pan

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This topic is an evergreen. I've merged this thread with an earlier thread. Also note the links in Mooshmouse's post (#3 in the thread), except the link to an older "Food sayings" thread, which is dead and was presumably merged into a related thread.

Carry on! There are so many food sayings in so many languages that I'm sure we'll never post them all!

Michael aka "Pan"

 

Carrot Top

Carrot Top

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And you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear

:shock:

Is that how the saying goes? Oh my gosh, for all these years I've been walking around thinking it was that you COULD make a silk purse from a sow's ear!

Sigh. That explains a lot. :huh:

moosnsqrl

moosnsqrl

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And you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear

:shock:

Is that how the saying goes? Oh my gosh, for all these years I've been walking around thinking it was that you COULD make a silk purse from a sow's ear!

Sigh. That explains a lot. :huh:

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right. :wink:

Judy Jones aka "moosnsqrl"

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moosnsqrl

moosnsqrl

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As green as a gourd (a rookie)

Worth his salt

Can of corn (easy baseball play)

'Tater (homerun)

J'ai un faim de loup (I'm as hunry as a wolf)

I could eat a horse

He saved my bacon

work for peanuts

top banana

Judy Jones aka "moosnsqrl"

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M.F.K. Fisher

athinaeos

athinaeos

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a mother warning her daughter about men: "all pigs have the same face"

(from the greek tradition)

athinaeos

civilization is an everyday affair

the situation is hopeless, but not very serious

srhcb

srhcb

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my new favorite because it's a great comment on human nature.

".... because it's so Existential, which was always spoken in Serb, but roughly translated as, "It smells of its nothingness."  (when everbody suddenly decided they wanted something just because there wasn't enough to go around)"

I can imagine my (long -gone) Slovak G'ma nodding her head in agreement to this.....

If you found yourself in a contrary circumstance, ie: too much of something nobody wanted, the saying was, (in phonetic Serbian), "Oches, naeches, modash." We were told this meant, "Whether you want it or not, you got it!"

SB (and you didn't argue with Grandma Baich!) :shock:

donk79

donk79

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My father's best line to date (looking at the food left on my little brother's plate):

"Alligator eyes outdone your bird-dog butt?"

:biggrin:

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