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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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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.

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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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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

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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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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

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The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

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