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#1

“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

tags: food, humor, vegetarian

159 likes

#2

“But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .”
― Nick Cave

tags: cannibalism, cannibals, company, dining, eating, food, foolishness, risk, risk-taking

267 likes

#3

“Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.”
― Frederic Raphael

tags: food

48 likes

#4

“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: food, sex

86 likes

#5

“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.”
― Mark Twain

tags: food, new-orleans

114 likes

#6

“Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.”
― Ellen Rose

tags: books, food

51 likes

#7

“I met a guy who had an interesting job. He was a meat cutter, or a meat slicer, something like that. I probably butchered his job title. ”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

15 likes

#8

“After a full belly all is poetry.”
― Frank McCourt

tags: food, hunger

87 likes

#9

“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: eating, food

73 likes

#10

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: education, game-shows, trivia

644 likes

#11

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: black-humor, horror, trivia

267 likes

#12

“The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.”
― Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

64 likes

#13

“Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.”
― Walter Moers

tags: comfort-food, food, gourmets, humor

39 likes

#14