Quotes About Beet

It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that 'Pass the salt, Walt.' Or 'Pass the bread, Fred.' Or 'Shoot me a beet, Pete.

My love for my family has grown for years in decay-fed soil, unwashed root pulled suddenly from the ground. Bulbous as a beet, a huge eye under a lid of earth. Scoop out the eye, blind the earth.

The sunlight pouring in the east window came through her lids and made a dark red beet soup that moved with the rhythm of her heart...

Oxnard was the biggest city in Ventura County. Its unattractive name was that of a sugar beet farmer who built a processing plant in the settlement in the late nineteenth century. The city totally surrounded Port Hueneme, where there was a small U.S. Navy base.

That glimpse, of herself alone at the heart of his gaze, only lasted an instant. His indifference to their audience struck her as a dare or a test. She didn't see as a counterindication to this angry idea of hers his hot blush as deep as her own; if her face was as red as a beet, his was red as a burn, he'd come out in lurid blotches that overlapped with his boy's patchy stubble to make a mess of his face.

They say a story that begins with a beet will end with the devil; that is a risk we will have to take.

It was sweetened with beet sugar, which gave it an odd, earthy taste, because beets always tasted like dirt.

Along the same lines, eating beet sugar does not have the same biological effects as eating a beet. One is dangerous because the nutrients and fibers have been removed, and the other supports health. Like the beet sugar, oil is a processed food; the nutrients and fiber have been removed.

The optimal dose appears to be one-half cup,147 but beet juice is perishable, processed, and hard to find.

Wear gloves when peeling a roasted beet unless you want more than a touch of the Lady Macbeths