Quotes About Potato

For Frito-Lay!" - Newel and Doren

I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet. "You're like a potato!" I shouted after her. "In a minefield.

A lot of my snacks are healthy. I love things like hummus, carrots, and celery, but I will never give up potato chips.

This is simply another failure of imagination: nature is not only to be found "out there"; it is also "in here," in the apple and the potato, in the garden and the kitchen, even in the brain of a man beholding the beauty of a tulip or inhaling the smoke from a burning cannabis flower.

And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio.

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

I come from Kansas; we're steak-and-potato boys. I grew up on meat.

Peas were for pussies. Real soldiers used mashed potato. With extra gravy.

I did me some time in the Navy and spent most of it up close and personal with a paring knife. Still can't look a potato in the eye.

I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sketch, where Captain Bligh was torturing the crew by saying, 'You can only have one Lays potato chip,' and they all rise up.

I was sifting through the dier, and I remember thinking: This potato is important. It comes up from the soil and feeds us, it connects us. It is the core of society.

For me, food cures everything. Depression. Boredom. Anger. Chocolate cake can take care of ingrown toenails, and potato chips can eradicate acne.

Potato. Pa-taw-toe. Ain't much difference

I am a bake potato bake potato bake potatoooo

Consort," I said. "You honor us." "Fuck you," Dali said. "Fuck your shit. I quit." I laughed and reached for a potato.

In July and August, when everyone I know is at the beach, I am cooking through turkey, potato, and pie recipes for Bon Appetit's November issue.

My first taste memory is of our nanny in South Africa making white bread sandwiches with salad cream, which was potato mashed with a cheap mayonnaise thing with bits in it of - I suppose - pickled cucumber. I absolutely loved them.

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted for too long a series of generations in the same worn-out soil.

export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. "The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight," nationalist leader John Mitchel thundered, "but the English created the famine." Examples

The history of the civilizations of the Middle East and Egypt is entwined with the development of wheat and barley; similarly, indigenous societies in Mexico and Central America were founded on maize. In Asia, China's story is written on paper made from rice. The Andes were different. Cultures there were nourished not by cereal crops like these but by tuber and root crops, the potato most important

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, the Johnny Appleseed of S. tuberosum.

The potato's cold tolerance spurred its embrace by European peasants. Not only did potatoes grow in places where other crops could not, the plant was an ally in smallholders' ceaseless struggle against the economic and political elite. A farmer's barnful of wheat, rye, or barley was a fat target for greedy landlords and marauding armies; buried in the soil, a crop of potatoes could not be easily seized.)

Brockton, if you use magic to open bags of potato chips, you don't really count as a normal human anymore." "That's only because I spent so much time working in a convenience store. Do you know how many bags of chips I opened for kids and old ladies? More than a man should have to open in his life, that's for sure.

Potato picking was tedious, dirty, exhausting, and cold. I rather liked it.