- Fast
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go for the girl who can eat a proper meal. If she's passionate about food, you'll most likely be fortunate in other venues.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I order food like a normal human being. If I'm out to lunch, I'm going to order three courses like everybody else. I'm not going to feel like some kind of freak.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost over 100 pounds, so I'm even angrier than ever. I don't stuff my feelings anymore with food. Skinny girls are funny.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the price of the food can totally alter the perception of it. If I know something is expensive and the ambience is fancy, the food just invariably tastes a little better - and I feel like I'm getting away with something. But I'm also bored by most 'fancy' food.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The social aspects of food are really important to me - my favourite food-related memories are meals I've shared with my family and friends. Posting Instagram pictures of your food and then seeing your friends comment on it is just a modern form of that kinship.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food.
- Mothers
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- Nov 07, 2020