Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.

I'm not normally very adventurous with food.

When I was younger I was strictly meat-and-potatoes and I just wouldn't try things. As I have gotten older, I'm much more adventurous but still not like whoever that dude is on whatever show it is who just goes around and eats bugs everywhere.

I'm not really a gourmet. I like to try new things.

I love to try the local food wherever I am. But I'm not that adventurous when it comes to eating. I prefer to be safe. I have failed at eating some daring food.

I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.

When I was younger, I would eat everything.

I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

I'm a big eater in terms that l love flavor, but I don't like to eat a lot of one thing. I like to eat a little bit.

Actually, after many years on the campaign trail, there is not a particular food that I've come across that I would avoid.

I grew up in the Philippines and we had all this amazing fresh seafood, but uni was something that I was weirded out by. It wasn't until I was an adult that I was like, 'Let me just go ahead and try this.'

I tried one tiny piece of kangaroo, which I never thought I would try, and it was actually pretty good. I probably wouldn't eat it again, but it was still pretty good.

I've eaten a lot of strange things. I've eaten something called a razor clam. They just call it that because it likes like the old-school razors in the old-school barber shops. I can't even think of some of the things I've tried.

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

I will eat anything, at least once. For better or worse.

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists.

Even as a kid, I ventured out to ethnic restaurants all the time.

Dream food day, hmm - maybe a hamburger and fries, but honestly, it's not really a dream because I tend to eat what I want to for the most part.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food