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Quotes About Food

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
~ Douglas Adams
the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?
~ Douglas Adams
If he was asked at this moment where he would like to be he would probably have said he would like to be lying on the beach with at least fifty beautiful women and a small team of experts working out new ways they could be nice to him, which was his usual reply. To this he would probably have added something passionate on the subject of food.
~ Douglas Adams
He had run out of patience and pencils and was feeling very hungry.
~ Douglas Adams
I said I ordered us some foie gras." "Oh," said Arthur, vaguely. "Um, I always feel a bit bad about foie gras. Bit cruel to the geese, isn't it?" "Fuck 'em," said Ford, slumping on the bed. "You can't care about every damn thing.
~ Douglas Adams
They ate so much food out of the can, the jar, the tinfoil, the box, that the youngest thought her mother's name was Sara Lee.
~ Douglas Clegg
I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
~ Douglas Coupland
most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week - and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair.
~ Douglas Coupland
we lost money at church bingos and ate catfish deep-fried in lard.
~ Douglas Coupland
Claire put scientifically enhanced popcorn in the microwave oven. I never feel like I'm putting food in one of these things, she then says, entering with beeps, the time-set into the LED. It feels more like I'm inserting fuel rods into a core.
~ Douglas Coupland
This is not an apartment in which fresh vegetables are consumed. It smells like a dead spice rack.
~ Douglas Coupland
They'd ended up ordering pizza.
~ Douglas Preston
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
~ Aesop
money doesnt buy happiness but it does by chicken nuggets
~ afnan
Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ...
~ Agatha Christie
Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.
~ Agatha Christie
Mon Dieu! It is that in this country you treat the affairs gastronomic with a criminal indifference.
~ Agatha Christie
Dieu! It is that in this country you treat the affairs gastronomic with a criminal indifference.
~ Agatha Christie
DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.
~ Agatha Christie
A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.
~ Agatha Christie
One needs some really good food and drink after all the magnificent blood and gloom of Macbeth. Shakespeare always makes me ravenous
~ Agatha Christie
Poirot var og ble en urokkelig tilhenger av den kontinentale form for frokost. Han ble helt ute av seg over å se meg sette til livs egg og bacon, - så sa han iallfall. Derfor spiste han da også frokost bestående av kaffe og rundstykker, mens jeg hadde min frihet til å begynne dagen alene med engelskmannens tradisjonelle egg og bacon og marmelade.
~ Agatha Christie
He doesn't seem to have been one of those food faddists who'll eat any mortal thing so long as it isn't cooked. My sister's husband's like that. Raw carrots, raw peas, raw turnips. But
~ Agatha Christie
After a moment's hesitation Doris Sims agreed. She was curious and she liked good food.
~ Agatha Christie