Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

I can live without fast food.

I knew I shouldn't be eating fried chips, but I'm just not a fan of baked chips, as much as I tried them.

I don't eat any junk food.

Can I eat bugs? Yes no problem.

I love bugs. And as the first person to popularize their eating in America, I take special pride in seeing their appreciation soar.

There's no insects in American cuisine? Not one? I don't think there are. That's so sad.

With the exception of dessert, food is food.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.

I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees.

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.

You don't use mayonnaise, why? ... Are you addicted to mayonnaise? Is it okay if I use mayonnaise? I could go outside.

I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.

Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

In general, I like the healthy stuff and don't really have a problem with any of it.

The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.