Favorite food & drink related quotes, statements, etc.

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"Now I'm gonna add a couple of sticks of butter y'all.."

-Paula Dean


"You don't have to stop eating just because you're full."

-my cousin Mike

Covering the Cops: The world of Miami’s top crime reporter by Calvin Trillin (The New Yorker, 1986)

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In the newsroom of the Miami Herald, there is some disagreement about which of Edna Buchanan’s first paragraphs stands as the classic Edna lead. I line up with the fried-chicken faction. The fried-chicken story was about a rowdy ex-con named Gary Robinson, who late one Sunday night lurched drunkenly into a Church’s outlet, shoved his way to the front of the line, and ordered a three-piece box of fried chicken. Persuaded to wait his turn, he reached the counter again five or ten minutes later, only to be told that Church’s had run out of fried chicken. The young woman at the counter suggested that he might like chicken nuggets instead. Robinson responded to the suggestion by slugging her in the head. That set off a chain of events that ended with Robinson’s being shot dead by a security guard. Edna Buchanan covered the murder for the Herald — there are policemen in Miami who say that it wouldn’t be a murder without her — and her story began with what the fried-chicken faction still regards as the classic Edna lead: “Gary Robinson died hungry.”

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“People who love to eat are always the best people. - Julia Child”

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“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” -Lewis Grizzard

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“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” -Julia Child

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“If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.” -Julia Child

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You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and someone says, "Don't eat the dead ones" and you know what they mean.

Yogi Berra on a restaurant in New York City...

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind" -Humphrey Bogart

"I'm here to kick-arse and drink whiskey. And pilgrim, I'm all out of whiskey" - John Wayne

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You're growing up! I agree with Lewis, though. A good ripe homegrown tomato is heaven on earth

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I've had about a half dozen so far. All have been excellent. My mother was over the other day dropping my daughter off, and saw a couple of red ones on the plant. Said she wanted to take some home and make a sandwich. I gave her the one sitting on the window sill in the kitchen since it was ripe. Now my 2 year old keeps running around in the kitchen, and when he sees one, he says Grandma took our matoes. He loves them too. When my wife makes Pico he'll come to the table and ask for them. I sliced up a smaller one and put it on his plate and he devoured it.