"Hunger is never delicate."
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"Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation."
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"Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef."
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"A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries."
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"Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost."
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"This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to."
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"Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."
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"He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato."
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"And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything."
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"If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy."
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"A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach."
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"And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food."
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"Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth."
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"The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood."
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"A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything."
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"One more drink and I'll be under the host."
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"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed."
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"Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on."
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"Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops."
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"Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt."
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