#fast

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #family

I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #family

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#humor #humor

You think it’s okay that we’re eating Rudolph?” “Dude,” Percy said, “I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I’m hungry. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#breakfast #food #frank #hunger #jackson

He expected pages and pages of bright pictures of pancakes of every variety shown in plain stacks, or built into castles or bridges or igloos, or shaped like airplanes or rowboats or fire engines. And pitchers of syrup to choose from -- partridge berry syrup, thimbleberry syrup, huckleberry syrup, bosenberry syrup, and raspberry syrup. Then there would be cheese plates and cheeses a la carte. Creamy cheeses, crumbly cheeses, and peculiar little cheeses in peculiar little clay pots. ↗

— Michael Hoeye

#breakfast #brunch #desire #food #imagination

The radio signal was scrambled, and so were my eggs. I got tired of eating commercial breaks for breakfast. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#commercials #eating #eggs #food #radio

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it. ↗

— T.A. Miles

#food #manners #nathaine-fannael #siblings #food

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman." [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#cooking #cuisine #food #limitations #scotch

I'm not really a chicken-patty kinda girl," I said. ↗

— Rhoda Janzen

#fast-food #mcdonald-s #food

A nationwide study published by the USDA in 1996 found that [...] 78.6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes that are spread primarily by fecal matter. The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey agar, and so on. Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating hamburger meat makes you sick: There is shit in the meat. ↗

— Eric Schlosser

#coliform #fast-food #feces #food-poisoning #meat