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Quotes about food and eating
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead. (Bassey Shirley)
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. (Bassey Shirley)
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. (Bassey Shirley)
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. (Bassey Shirley)
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. (Bassey Shirley)
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received. (Bassey Shirley)
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. (Bassey Shirley)
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher. (Bassey Shirley)
Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet. (Bassey Shirley)
Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. (Bassey Shirley)
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. (Bassey Shirley)
The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. (Bassey Shirley)
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. (Bassey Shirley)
For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin. (Bassey Shirley)
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. (Bassey Shirley)
The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it. (Bassey Shirley)
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. (Bassey Shirley)
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. (Bassey Shirley)
To eat is human, to digest divine. (Bassey Shirley)
Square meals often make round people. (Bassey Shirley)
I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people. (Bassey Shirley)
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable. (Bassey Shirley)
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. (Bassey Shirley)
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. (Bassey Shirley)
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions. (Bassey Shirley)
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