Tea was an amazingly useful thing. It gave you an excuse to talk to anyone. (MR)
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Witches are very keen on pickles, as a rule but the food they like best is free food. Yes, that’s the diet for your working witch: lots of food that someone else is paying for, and so much of it that there is enough to shove in your pockets for later. (W)
... good manners started to happen as soon as all the mammoths were killed off and there was no piece of food big enough for everyone to eat at the same time. (NOC)
A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times. (NW)
Dibbler’s pies quite often looked appetising. Therein lay their one and only charm. (NW)
DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. (TT)
... although it was possible to live on figs you soon wished you didn't. (TT)
Lancre people looked after the calories and let the vitamins go hang.
'Do you think I could get a salad?' she ventured. 'Hope not,' said Nanny happily. (CJ) The senior wizards, eying the chocolate biscuits on the tray brought in by the tea lady, listened with as much attention as could be expected from wizards momentarily afflicted with chocolate starvation. (JD)
'That's an important theological point,' he muttered. 'But I'm too hungry to think about it, so let's eat first, and then if it turns out to be wrong to eat it, I promise to be very sorry.' (Wings)
... a grandfather bird who had also decided he was dead and had pecked his foot to make sure, hopped away hurriedly. It didn't go far away, though, in case he died after all. In the grandfather bird's experience, everything died if you watched it for long enough. (N)
The Librarian thought that practically everything could be improved by the addition of soft fruit, but apart from that he was a kindly soul, always ready with a helping hand and a banana. (SD)
... many people will put into their mouth something in a foreign language that they wouldn't even feed to a dog in their native tongue. (NOC)
... most human food with the possible exception of the custard pie has never been designed for offensive purposes. (NOC)
‘Pirates have a very monotonous diet, which might be why they’re angry all the time.’ (AM)
It takes more than a bit of magic and someone being blown to smoke in front of him to put a wizard off his food. (S)
He’d never plucked up the courage to try Albert’s porridge, which led a private life of its own in the depths of its saucepan and ate spoons. (M)
… although it was a complicated recipe one taste had been enough to know that it was made out of fish entrails marinated for several years in a vat of shark bile. (M)
There appears to be no such thing as a snack in Unseen University. Indeed, the term was used, but you could probably stave off starvation for a week on a university ‘snack’. (JD)
... like many old ladies, Nanny Ogg was a bottomless pit for free food. (CJ)
'It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. You think Dopey the Mutt there would last five minutes in Ankh-Morpork? He set one paw in some o’ the streets, he’s three sets of fur gloves an’ Crispy Fried No. 27 at the nearest Klatchian all-night carry-out.' (MP)
Henry and All Jolson were in complete agreement about what made a good meal - namely, calories .... (RS)
Once you had to deal with a ton of overheated octopus, you never for got it. (RS)
Nothing serious has bits of apple floating in it. (BOS)
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