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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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