Life is like a tin of sardines. We're, all of us, looking for the key.
-- Beyond the Fringe
Life is like a tin of sardines. We're, all of us, looking for the key.
-- Beyond the Fringe
No matter which checkout line you get in, it will always be the slowest one
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°16
Where do you go to get anorexia?
-- Shelley Winters
The "Fast lane" isn't
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°17
Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
-- Walt Kelly, "Potluck Pogo"
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple
memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time
to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A,
E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
-- Sandra Boynton, "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion"
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being
that a belch is more satisfying.
-- Ingmar Bergman
If you do make a list, the store will be out of your most important item
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°11
Fortune's Contribution of the Month to the Animal Rights Debate:
I'll stay out of animals' way if they'll stay out of mine.
"Hey you, get off my plate"
-- Roger Midnight
My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce
and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.
-- Senator Hubert Humphrey
Be careful when you bite into your hamburger.
-- Derek Bok
BOO! We changed Coke again! BLEAH! BLEAH!
Everything you like is bad for you
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°1
It was a brave man that ate the first oyster.
1893 The ideal brain tonic
1900 Drink Coca-Cola -- delicious and refreshing -- 5 cents at all
soda fountains
1905 Is the favorite drink for LADIES when thirsty -- weary -- despondent
1905 Refreshes the weary, brightens the intellect and clears the brain
1906 The drink of QUALITY
1907 Good to the last drop
1907 It satisfies the thirst and pleases the palate
1907 Refreshing as a summer breeze. Delightful as a Dip in the Sea
1908 The Drink that Cheers but does not inebriate
1917 There's a delicious freshness to the taste of Coca-Cola
1919 It satisfies thirst
1919 The taste is the test
1922 Every glass holds the answer to thirst
1922 Thirst knows no season
1925 Enjoy the sociable drink
-- Coca-Cola slogans
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
-- Alexander Woollcott
If you can afford it, it's out of season
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°3
Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.
-- James Thurber
1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
1929 The high sign of refreshment
1929 The pause that refreshes
1930 It had to be good to get where it is
1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
1935 The pause that brings friends together
1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
1938 The best friend thirst ever had
1939 Thirst stops here
1942 It's the real thing
1947 Have a Coke
1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
1963 Things go better with Coke
1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
1979 Have a Coke and a smile
1982 Coke is it!
-- Coca-Cola slogans
If it isn't bad for you, it's too expensive
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°2
The grocery store always gets a fresh shipment immediately after you buy your food for the week
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°9
Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes
you weep.
-- Carl Sandburg
The number of coupons of the person in front of you is directly proportional to how much of a hurry you're in
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°15
Coupons always expire before you have a chance to use them
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°13
Every recipe ever written includes one ingredient that you do not have in your kitchen
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°5
You will realize it's back in season the day that the grocery store runs out
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°4
Every time I lose weight, it finds me again!
Do you feel personally responsible for the world food shortage?
Every time you go to the beach, does the tide come in?
Have you ever eaten an entire moose?
Can you see your neck?
Do joggers take laps around you for exercise?
If so, welcome to National Fat Week.
This week we'll eat without guilt, and kick off our membership campaign,
...by force-feeding a box of cornstarch to a skinny person.
-- Garfield
Cheese -- milk's leap toward immortality.
-- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"
Ovens either overcook or undercook
-- Murphy's Food Laws n°7