…periwinkles, like cockles and whelks, might be considered the snot of the sea. (Sn)
Why did they never find a vegetable that was bad for you, hey? And what was so wrong with onion gravy anyway? It has onions in it didn’t it? They made you fart, didn’t they? That was good for you, wasn’t it? He was sure he had read that somewhere. (Sn)
'… we did invent the deep-fried stoat. That must count for something.'
'How is that a good point?' said Arthur. 'Weel, it saves some other poor devil having tae do it. It's what ye might call a taste explosion; ye take a mouthful, taste it, and then there is an explosion.' (ISWM) … anything goes with garlic. Except custard. (ISWM)
Food was their cup of tea, and if possible their slice of cake too. (UA)
The bringer of bad news is never popular, especially when it's on an empty plate. (UA)
'Three cheeses isn't a choice, it's a penance!' (UA)
'I have a very fast metabolism,' said Nutt.
'I don't mind about that,' said Glenda, 'so long as you don't go showing it to people.' (UA) 'Someone had to eat the first oyster, you know. Someone looked at half a shell of snot and was brave.' (N)
Oh, you know how it is with wizards. Half an hour afterwards you could do with another one, the dragon grumbles. (COM)
Food as an aphrodisiac was not a concept that had ever caught on in Lancre, apart from Nanny Ogg’s famous Carrot and Oyster Pie.*
*Carrots so you can see in the dark, she’d explain, and oysters so’s you’ve got something to look at. (LL) ... Dibbler was an extremely good hot sausage salesman. He had to be, given the nature of his sausages. (TT)
... Cutwell had learned once again that the one universal manifestation of raw, natural magic throughout the universe is this: that any domestic food store, raided furtively in the middle of the night, always contains, no matter what its daytime inventory, half a jar of elderly mayonnaise, a piece of very old cheese, and a tomato with white mould growing on it. (M)
'Was there anything else on the dinner menu?’
‘Vole-au-vents and Cream of Rat,’said Gimlet. ‘All hygienically prepared.’ ‘How do you mean, “hygienically prepared”?’ said Carrot. ‘The chef is under strict orders to wash his hands afterwards.’ The assembled dwarfs nodded. This was certainly pretty hygienic. You didn’t want people going around with ratty hands. (FC) 'I think these are quite bright humans, Thing. I pointed to my mouth and they understood I was hungry.'
'Ah,' said Thing. 'Take me to your larder.' (Wings) Little dishes of strange wobbly stuff tasting of pink turn up in nearly every meal on all aeroplanes. No one knows why. There's probably some sort of special religious reason. (Wings)
'You're not supposed to eat like that,' said Gurder severely. 'You're not supposed to shove it all in your mouth and then cut off what won't fit.' (Wings)
If you meet a vegan it's bad form to give them the famous four-fingered V sign and say 'Live long and prosper.' That's for vulcans. Vegans are the ones with the paler complexions who can't disable people by touching them gently on the neck. (UC)
No trouble is too much if it saves some excellent chefs from extinction. (DW)
If there’s one thing a wizard hates, it’s having to wait while the person in front of them is in two minds about coleslaw. It’s a salad bar, they say, it’s got the kind of stuff salad bars have, if it was surprising it wouldn’t be a salad bar, you’re not here to lookat it. What do you expect to find? Rhino chunks? Pickled coelacanth? (MR)
'Cabbages are so popular, sir. You casn make so many things out of them!'
‘Well I can see that-’ ‘There’s cabbage soup, cabbage beer, cabbage fudge, cabbage cake, cream of cabbage-’ ‘Yes, Stanley, I think you-’ ‘-pickled cabbage, cabbage jelly, cabbage salad, boiled cabbage, deep-fried cabbage-’ ‘Yes, but now can-’ ‘-fricasse of cabbage, cabbage chutney, Cabbage Surprise, sausages-’ ‘Sausages?’ ‘Filled with cabbage, sir.’ (GP) Igorina gave it as her cultural opinion that the stew was not only hearty but lungy and livery too. (MR)
A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman. (MR)
Even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment. (TOT)
|
Author
The world has lost Sir Terry, and it's so much the poorer for that. Vale Sir Terry. Categories
All
Archives
March 2023
|