Food Quotes
High-tech tomatoes, mysterious milk. super squash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? Annita Manning
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn. Garrison Keillor
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
Adelle Davis
Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. Elizabeth Berry
The belly rules the mind. Spanish Proverb
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. Elsa Schiaparelli
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives. Oscar Wilde
Artichokes ...are just plain annoying ...After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual 'food' out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking thirty or forty postage stamps. Have the shrimp cocktail instead. Miss Piggy
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophia Loren
I like children - fried. W.C. Fields
FOOD JOKES
A family of three tomatoes were walking downtown one day when the little baby tomato started lagging behind. The big father tomato walks back to the baby tomato, stomps on her, squashing her into a red paste, and says, "Ketchup!"
What is the vampire's favorite snack? Neck-tarines!
Where do they hold prizefights in Fastfoodland? In an onion ring!
The Sunday School Teacher asks, "Now, Johnny, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?" "No sir," Little Johnny replies, "I don't have to, my mom is a good cook!"
Two women from England moved to America. They decided that since it was a traditional American food they would try their first hot dog. They were talking about how mean it was to kill a helpless dog for food. So they went to a hot dog stand and bought the hot dogs. They found a park bench to sit on and eat their dogs. The first one opens hers and turns bright pink... and says..... "what part did you get?"
FOOD TRIVIA
Peanut butter was invented by St. Louis physician Ambrose Straub, who, concerned about the nutrition of his elderly, toothless patients, concocted a health-food product that was high in protein and easily digestible.
The original filling in Twinkies was banana. It was replaced by vanilla-flavored cream during World War II, when the United States experienced a banana shortage.
Americans use about 100 million pounds of tea leaves every year. Each American eats approximately 22 pounds of tomatoes yearly. Over 1/2 of the tomato consumption is in the form of catsup and tomato sauce.
Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.. The Tootsie Roll Company produces more than 16 million lollipops a day!
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