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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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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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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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

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

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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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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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

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

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