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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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When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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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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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

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

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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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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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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

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

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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

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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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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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