Quotes About Food

People will eat cheeseburgers, but very few people will eat crap. Don't serve up crap.

You know what the worst fucking part of that was," Kiva said as they headed to the door. "What?" "Motherfucker ran down jollof rice. It's not fucking banal. I was going to order that.

We all looked. "Mate, those look like fossilized turds," Kahurangi said. "That's why we call them poopfruit, yes," Tom said. "You need to talk to your marketing people," I suggested. "They taste better than they look." "They would have to, wouldn't they?

They have vegan cheese." "No, they don't. They have shredded orange and white sadness that mocks cheese and everything it stands for.

At the roadsides I never had a really good dinner or a really bad breakfast.

If then this tendency toward collectivization is a mutation there is no reason to suppose it is for the better. It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction.

Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home.

When our food and clothing and housing all born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea of God.

Beans are a roof over your stomach.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat.

A crop raised--why, that makes ownership. Land hoed and the carrots eaten--a man might fight for land he's taken food from. Get him off quick! He'll think he owns it. He might even die fighting for the little plot among the Jimson weed.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

I'll rustle up some dinner.

Well, she thought, here it is just as I knew it would be. Here was her death. Her mind flashed to see if she had forgotten anything—will made, letters burned, new underwear, plenty of food in the house for dinner. She wondered whether she had turned out the light in the back room. It was all in a second. Then she thought there might be an outside chance of survival.

Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor.

men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

Los hombres comían algo que no habían cultivado y no había conexión entre ellos y el pan. La tierra daba frutos sometidos al hierro y bajo el hierro moría gradualmente; porque no había para ella ni amor ni odio, y no se le ofrecían oraciones ni se le echaban maldiciones.

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

For supper Jill cooks a filet of sole, lemony, light, simmered in sunshine, skin flaky brown; Nelson gets a hamburger with wheatgerm sprinkled on it to remind him of a Nutburger. Wheatgerm, zucchini, water chestnuts, celery salt, Familia: these are some of the exotic items Jill's shopping brings into the house. Her cooking tastes to him of things he never had: candlelight, saltwater, health fads, wealth, class.

He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, no bloody slab of cow haunch or hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of mute vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet!

I myself can't go too long without real Southern fried chicken, skillet cornbread, and all the other wonderful staples of my home food.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?