Quotes About Preference

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan

Have a seat. You still take your coffee sweet?" "The sweeter the better." She laughed. "I was talking about your coffee, Malone. Not your women." He smiled. "I said sweet, Penny. Not hot.

I've changed my mind. I don't want to be a squirrel any more. I'd rather be a bird!

Because I liked your mother too much. But a blind rabbit could have seen that Brambleclaw was the cat she liked best, even though they spent most of their time arguing.

One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.

Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I'm a boy. Like Dorian Gray." Dorian who?" I sighed. Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know." Sure thing, Gumdrop." I grimaced. I take that back. Let's stick with Grey.

Many of us cling to particular vessels, fetishizing over this mug or that plate.

It turns out that wherever we are from, people are capable of altering not just what they eat but what they want to eat and their behaviour when eating.

When our preferences are in order, nutrition should take care of itself.

The way we eat is not a question of worthiness but of routine and preference, built over a lifespan.

Dietary change comes not from forcing someone to eat what they do not like, but in helping them to discover their own passions.

The experience of tasting food is far more multi-sensory than is the case with hearing, sight or touch, which is why it requires the most sophisticated part of our brain to process it. In fact, eating is influenced by hearing, sight or touch, as well as flavour: we prefer apples that crunch loudly, steaks that look blood-red, sauces so smooth they seem to caress the inside of our throats.

Neuroscience confirms that chocolate means more to some people than others.

excuse my squeamishness about the gooey whites of soft-boiled eggs.

Flavour has a remarkable ability to imprint itself on our memories and therefore to drive our future food choices.

It is genuinely possible to reach the point where you desire broccoli more than fries and wholemeal sourdough more than sliced white bread.

Taste is identity.

It's a truism that we know what we like and we like what we know. If you ask young children which foods they most detest, they tend to be the ones they have never actually tasted, often vegetables.

It's not just that people learn to tolerate beetroot: they switch from dislike to adoration.

All the foods you regularly eat are the ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.

we might have been Welsh, in my dad's eyes a fate worse than Scottish.

I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers.

He preferred women to men, and horses to both.