Tigers love pepper, They hate cinnamon.
- Allan in “The Hangover”
Category Archives: Food and Wine Quotes
Who Sed Dat XXIII
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Who Sed Dat? Wabbit Edition
Today’s cover of the NY Times Dining section inspired me to this Special Edition of Who Sed Dat?
“There was an Old Person whose habits,
Induced him to feed upon Rabbits;
When he’d eaten eighteen,
he turned perfectly green,
Upon which he relinquished those habits.”
~Edward Lear
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I’ll buy you a new car.
~Harvey Diamond
The first written record of the term Welsh rabbit: “I did not eat of cold beef, but of Welsh rabbit and stewed cheese.”
John Byron
What’s up, Doc?
~Bugs Bunny (Tex Avery)
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Who Sed Dat? XXII
I cook with wine and occasionally it makes it into the food.
- W.C. Fields
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Who Sed Dat? XX
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
~Annita Manning
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Who Sed Dat? XIX
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
~Bill Bryson
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Who Sed Dat? XVIII
Writing about food when you have a stomach virus is really, really hard.
- Andrew Scrivani 1/19/10
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Who Sed Dat? XVII
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
- Dom Helder Camara
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Who Sed Dat? New Year’s Eve Edition
This quote is one of very fond memories for me. My father, John, recites it and laughs hysterically over and over again. It never gets old. He will love that it is here today. Happy New Year, Dad! Enjoy.
“Sonny: Did you ever suck the jelly out of a jelly doughnut and then fill it with chocolate swirl ice cream?”
- From the movie “Fatso”
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Who Sed Dat? XVI
‘Come quickly, I am tasting stars!’ the moment after he discovered champagne.
- Dom Perignon
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