Steve Coogan Quotes

I'm a really picky eater.

I was a very picky eater.

I'm the pickiest eater ever.

Like, I haven't even tried a cherry before, because I'm such a picky eater, and I behave like a 9-year-old.

As a kid, I was always picky about food; if it didn't 'look right,' I wouldn't eat it.

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.

I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate chip cookies, the white side off of black and white cookies, and the vanilla center out of Oreos.

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza.

In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap food.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy.

We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.

Food is a very sensitive subject for so many people.

Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic.

Don't we all think picky eaters are a pain in the rear end? The good thing about the holidays is that it's a buffet-style thing, so you can pick what you want. It's about filling your belly, not theirs.

Americans will not buy irregular-looking or oddly shaped vegetables!

Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.

We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.

I'd rather bake 14 times a day than bake one time a day and have all the bakers go home, and then everything's 14 hours old by the time anyone eats it. No.

Many philosophies have evolved based on the choice of food. But one must remember there is nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral about the food we eat. It is only a question of whether the food is compatible with the kind of body we have.

As I famously said before, I don't like to waste meals. I'm no one's food snob.