- People
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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
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want food all over the place, down the sides of the sofa... When I shared a flat before I got married, we would always eat around the telly, but not now!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, I like to eat at home. We don't go out much. The food at home is so good.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.
- Junk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I normally don't eat junk food.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020