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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

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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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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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