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FUNNY RESTAURANT QUOTES
Dine on these funny quotes around restaurants -- said in good taste only!
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"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."
— George Carlin
"The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums."
— Peter De Vries
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
— Henny Youngman
"Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry."
— Mike Kalin
"McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor."
— S.I. Hayakawa
"Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that when I ask for a watercress sandwich I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it."
— Oscar Wilde
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"A cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter."
— Morey Amsterdam
"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance."
— Steven Wright
"Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, 'I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.' The waitress replies, 'I'm sorry, monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?' "
— Unknown
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Unless you travel to the local restaurant or grocery store only via astral planes, you're using fossil-fuel energy to get there. But transportation is not the only energy requirement related to food—our modern food system is actually quite energy-intense. And therein lies a problem. Find out more in our article,
Food & Energy.
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Michael Pollan on Food and Cooking—Fire, Water, Air, and Earth —
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