Quotations about Meats, Fish, Seafood
The sober-hued turkey is a more valuable fowl than the gaudy peacock. Beauty is only skin deep, while edibility extends to the bone. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com [Oh, Mr Brault! This quote makes me LOL every single time I read it.
RARE. The way you get roast beef when you order it well done. ~Noah Lott (George V. Hobart), The Silly Syclopedia, 1905
"...They say fish are good for the brain. Have a go at the sardines and come back and report."
"Very good, sir."
It was about ten minutes later that he entered the presence once more...
"How many tins of sardines did you eat, Jeeves?"
"None, sir. I am not fond of sardines."
"You mean, you thought of this great, this ripe, this amazing scheme entirely without the impetus given to the brain by fish?"
"Yes, sir."
"You stand alone, Jeeves." ~P. G. Wodehouse, "Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh," 1929
Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat — at least not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I suggest that perhaps a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales. ~Mark Twain, 1871, twainquotes.com
They had a good slice of lean ham with a border of fat that shone like a piece of ice from a spring. ~Jean Giono (1895–1970), Regain, 1930, translated from the French by Henri Fluchè and Geoffrey Myers, Harvest, 1939
There are certain things in this world that seem to go together, just as natural as if they were born for each other, and HAM and EGGS are two of them. Although they come from different localities, they must be twins, for they are so often seen together. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague
You know how I feel about tacos. It's the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile. ~My Name is Earl, "South of the Border: Part Uno," 2006, written by Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie
I take a vitamin every day. It's called a steak. ~Kicking & Screaming, 2005, written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, spoken by the character Buck Weston
I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good — if it's the pepper or
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ~Jonathan Swift
What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? ~William Shakespeare
Man is certainly the most predatory animal in the universe. Other animals kill for food, to survive. Man kills to kill. It is not a happy thought. We ought to live on roots and berries and let God's creatures live. On the other hand, a good steak adds strength to the body and zip to the spirit, so I just cannot be consistent about it. ~Gladys Taber and Barbara Webster, Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge, 1953 [Gladys to Barbara]
You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his mother — good soul! — gave us hot bacon for supper, and we ate it all — five pounds — and a jam tart afterwards, and two pots of tea, and then we went to bed. ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
...and then give them
great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will
eat like wolves and fight like devils.
~William Shakespeare,
P is a pig
That grunts in his sty.
Bacon for breakfast
Is pig bye-and-bye.
~Richard Le Gallienne, "A Nursery Alphabet," Mr Sun and Mrs Moon, 1902
FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. ~Ambrose Bierce
Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and bran! porridge after meat! ~William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, c.1601