Dwarf bread was made as a meal of last resort and also as a weapon and a currency. (FE)
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Dwarfs regard baking as part of the art of warfare. When they make rock cakes, no simile is intended. (FC)
'Have you ever eaten dwarf bread?’
‘No.’ ‘Everyone should try it once,’ said Carrot. He appeared to consider this. ‘Most people do,’ he added. (MA) There are many recipes for the flat round loaves of Lancre dwarf bread, but the common aim of all of them is to make a
field ration that is long-lasting, easily packed and can disembowel the enemy if skimmed through the air hard enough. Edibility is a kind of optional extra. (LL) But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No-one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you’d rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot. (WA)
Do you think there’s such a thing as a criminal mind?’
Carrot almost audibly tried to work it out. ‘What ... you mean like ... Mr Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, sir?’ ‘He’s not a criminal.’ ‘You have eaten one of his pies, sir? (MA) 'Perhaps you would care to say a few words, sir?’ said Ponder.
‘Yes.’ Ridcully looked thoughtful for a moment, and then brightened up. ‘Let’s get this over quickly, and have lunch.' (SODW) 'No fresh vegetables, no fruit,’ said Shufti. ‘That’s a very binding diet, corp.’
‘Yeah, well, once battle commences I reckon you’ll find constipation’s the last thing on your mind,’ said Scallot. (MR) 'Why don’t we just invite them to dinner and massacre them all when they’re drunk?’
‘You heard the man. There’s seven hundred thousand of them.’ ‘Ah? So it’d have to be something simple with pasta, then.' (IT) ... Tiffany distrusted black cheeses. They always looked as though they were plotting something. (W)
If you’re going to be angry and miserable, you might as well be so on a full stomach. (W)
'So now we know,’said Archchancellor Rincewind. ‘We’ve got to keep you just drunk enough so that Dibbler's pies sound tasty, but not so drunk that it causes lasting brain damage.’
‘That’s a very narrow range we’ve got there,’ said the Dean. (LC) The senior wizards trod carefully in the High Energy Magic Building, partly because it wasn’t their natural habitat, but also because most of the students who frequented it used the floor as a filing cabinet and, distressing, a larder. Pizza is quite hard to remove from a sole, especially the cheese. (DW)
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