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

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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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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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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

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

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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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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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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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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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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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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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