“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
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“I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.”
“They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.”
“I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.”
“I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!”
“It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.”
“I won't eat anything green.”
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.”
“Never order food in excess of your body weight.”
“I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.”
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.”
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.”
“Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.”
“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.”
“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
“My idea of fast food is a mallard.”
“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”