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Quotes About Food

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
~ Isaac Asimov
I believe in monsters. Monsters are the calories in food. Monsters are the size of my jeans. Monsters are the self hatred in me. Monsters are judgemental teenage girls.
~ Unknown
A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
~ James Allen
For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.
~ Curtis Stone
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
~ Unknown
Eating greens is a special treat, it makes long ears and great big feet. But it sure is awful stuff to eat.
~ Bambi
Mother's words of wisdom: "Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!"
~ Erma Bombeck
Fame is a fickle food - Upon a shifting plate
~ Emily Dickinson
He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
We had too much camel in the fridge, so I tried some ways to preserve it.
~ Unknown
Around every corner lurk greasy Fisherman's Platters that give children nightmares, Naugahyde minute steaks that put tofuburgers in a favorable light and all those ubiquitous fast-food indigestion huts.
~ Bryan Miller
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy
~ Anthony Powell
Red meat is not bad for you
~ Dylan Moran
You know it's a sad day when your child looks at you and asks 'Daddy, are these organic?'
~ Dylan Moran
Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake... Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.
~ Unknown
You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
~ Alexander Pope
I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it
~ Margaret Halsey
The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame
~ Chinese Proverbs
Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.
~ Bhagavad Gita
Health food makes me sick.
~ Calvin Trillin
Hunger is not only the best cook, but also the best physician.
~ Portuguese Proverb
Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before
~ Rita Rudner
Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? The Bible, Job 6:6
~ Unknown
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
~ Unknown