Subject: Food/Drink (Page 17)

Tavern: Thirst come, thirst served.

Never order barbeque in a place that also serves quiche.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait…wait. I worry what you just heard was: Give me a lot of bacon and eggs. What I said was: Give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Do you understand?

(1970 – ) American actor, writer & carpenter

Hot Dog: The only animal that feeds the hand that bites it.

Diet: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.

It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.

In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato; now correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s pizza.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

As soon as they get married, they all get these big old guts on them; that's not from drinking beer – that's from swallowing pride.

stand-up comedian

Preheat: To turn on the heat in an oven for a period of time before cooking a dish, so that the fingers may be burned when the food is put in, in addition to when it is removed.

Our rabbi is so poor that if he didn’t fast every Monday and Thursday, he’d starve to death.

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs; then I tasted baby food.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Why spoil a good meal with a big tip?

(1927 – 2004) American comedian & actor

You shouldn’t be eating anything that takes six minutes to microwave.

(1964– ) American comedian, radio personality, actor, podcaster & director

The Chinese food in China is not better than the Chinese food here, mostly because of differences of definitions of words that we have – like, for example, 'beef.'

(1960 – ) American comedian

Buffet: A French word that means “get up and get it yourself.”

American humorist & public speaker

Banquet: A plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially colored green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

(1898 – 1971) American humorist

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there’s nothing exactly like it.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

People who eat natural foods will die of natural causes.

The last mosquito that bit me had to book in to the Betty Ford clinic.

(1946 – ) English actress, model & author

I went to a Chinese restaurant and there was a suggestion box, so I wrote ‘Free Tibet.’

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor