Learn Through Quotations

“Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.”

“There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.”

“The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.”

“The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.”

“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. ”

“As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.”

“Why do married men gain weight while bachelors don't? Bachelors go to the refrigerator, see nothing they want, then go to bed. Married guys go to the bed, see nothing they want, then go to the refrigerator.”

“As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.”

“Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are.”

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”

“There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye.”

“We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.”

“High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?”

“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.”

“Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.”

“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning.”

“Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people.”

“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!”

“Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.”

“It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.”

“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”

“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”