- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food Quotes
Food as comfort, hardship, and honest confession.
This collection spans food's range, from the humiliation of accidentally poisoning a dinner guest to a genuine hardship of not having enough money for basic meals or clothes while starting out. For lighter, image-ready food lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We barely had lights, but my mom always made sure we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a southern boy raised in Gainesville, Georgia, so it's natural for me to want fast food and sweet tea, but those are the things I've had to cut back on.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to go out with my husband and a few friends on Friday or Saturday. Being from Southern California, Mexican food is my favorite, and I normally splurge on enchiladas and margaritas.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all different ages, sizes, shapes, genders, and we all have different lifestyles. We're quickly moving to bespoke diets that enable tailored and informed nutritional food choices.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
- Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I feel like I need comfort food, I'll have a bowl of porridge with honey, and instead of a sweet sugar fix, I'll eat a probiotic yogurt.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020