Subject: Food/Drink (Page 3)

[to campers] Attention. Here’s an update on tonight’s dinner. It was veal. I repeat, veal. The winner of tonight’s mystery meat contest is Jeffrey Corbin who guessed “some kind of beef.”

(1950 – ) American actor & comedian

It all starts innocently, mixing chocolate and Rice Krispies, but before you know it you’re adding raisins and marshmallows – it’s a rocky road.


Pour him out of here!

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Her cooking is the missionary position of cooking… that is how everybody starts.

(1915 – 2010) Hungarian-born food critic

I had one anchovy, that's why I didn't have two anchovies.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

The difference between a chef and a cook is the difference between a wife and a prostitute; cooks do meals for people they know and love, chefs do it anonymously for anyone who’s got the price.

(1954 – ) British writer & critic

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case; coincidence?

Fish & Ships

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist

Alcohol does not make ugly people attractive; it makes it so you could care less that they’re ugly.

(1967 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Never buy a drink for the road, because the road is already laid out.

(1933 – 1998) comedian & actor

In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap.

(1903 – 1989) American writer

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

There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.

I’d like to help you, but you don’t drink.

professional baseball player & manager

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness – or so good as drink.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

A diet is a system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.

(1930 – 1978) American comedian

What the F*@# Should I Make for Dinner?

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising… it was the only exercise I got.

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