- Mexican
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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
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors' freedom to copy good ideas.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.
- Healthy Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I played 'Survivor', I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn't sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020