Monday, July 2, 2012

Chow Time!

Sometimes I feel the real meaning of Thanksgiving is lost in a flurry of turkey, prayers, and homecomings. What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? (Erma Bombeck)

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half-dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific. (Bill Cosby)

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. (Woodrow Wilson)

A diet that consists predominantly of rice leads to the use of opium, just as a diet that consists predominantly of potatoes leads to the use of liquor. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. (A.A. Milne)

And could someone bring me something deep-fat-fried and smothered in chocolate! (Fairy Godmother in Shrek 2)

What is two inches wide, six inches long, and drives women wild? A bar of chocolate.

Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate!

Men, coffee, and chocolate are all better rich.

ta'SoH lan pa’ vaD yuch? – Do you put out for chocolate?

Cooking is the most ancient of the arts, for Adam was born hungry. (Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. (Dean Martin)

Candy 
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
(Ogden Nash)

Hunger is the best sauce in the world. (Cervantes)

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. (Peter de Vries)

One should eat to live, and not live to eat. (Moliere)

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging. (Delia Smith)

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