funny food quotes-must read

All you see, I owe to spaghetti.
Sophia Loren

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid
and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
George Bush, U.S. president, 1990

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead.
Woody Allen

Cheese - milk's leap towards immortality.
Clifton Fadiman

The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger - like eating. If a man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. Joan Fontaine

All human history attests
That happiness for man, the hungry sinner,
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner!
Lord Byron, The Island

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces.Women just go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy

A gourmet who thinks of calories, is like a tart who looks at her watch.
James A. Beard

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the pieces.
Judith Viorst

Give me a fish, I eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I eat for a lifetime.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times- in water, in butter and in wine.
(Polish Proverb)

Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies with its back to heaven is edible.
(Cantonese saying. Source: The Chinese Kitchen by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo)

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
Unknown

My mother's menu consisted of two choices:
Take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett

Grub first, then ethics.
Bertold Brecht

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if
green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson

The west wasn't won on salad.
North Dakota Beef Council advertisement, 1990

Thought : Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson

Even were a cook to cook a fly,
he would keep the breast for himself.
(Polish Proverb)