#Food Quotes

“Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!”

“We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.”

“The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.”

“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”

“[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.”

“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.”

“Cut that pizza into six slices instead of eight, I ain't that hungry.”

“An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”

“For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.”

“There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating”

“There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.”

“I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.”

“Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.”

“Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.”

“On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.”

“When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.”

“For many people, food is a source of comfort, connection, and control.”

“I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.”

“A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.”

“I must have a drink of breakfast.”

“I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.”

“I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.”

“I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.”

“I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach.”

“I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.”

“Soup is cuisines kindest course”

“Somebody's been putting pineapple juice in my pineapple juice!”

“Never eat at a place called 'Moms', but if the only other place in town has a sign that says 'Eats', go back to Moms.”

“Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.”

“All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.”

“A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."”

“Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a litter of twiglets.”

“I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.”

“Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.”

“My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.”

“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”

“There's a pizza place near where I live that sells only slices. In the back, you can see a guy tossing a triangle in the air.”

“Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked”

“Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?”

“Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?”

“Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?”

“Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?”

“Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?”

“After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.”

“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”

“I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."”

“Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn't have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.”

“The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.”

“I love food, so having a lot of food allergies now and just having a really sensitive body, it forces me to be very mindful and conscious and eat when I'm hungry, not just when I'm bored, and just really slow down. Everything in moderation.”

“My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments.”