#mo

Close your mouth Lily, you look like a codfish." "I can't help it. This place looks like something out of medieval times. I'm surprised there aren't rushes on the floor or half-dressed serving wenches carrying trenchers of food." "Read Harlequin much?" "Shut up. There's nothing wrong with romance novels. You could learn something from them you know." Sean's mouth curved into a slow, seductive grin. He let his fingers drift casually along the side of her arm, deliberately grazing the edge of her breast. "Could I now? ↗

— Marianne Morea

#paranormal-romance #paranormal-suspense #food

Victor eyed the glistening tubes in the tray around Dibbler's neck. They smelled appetizing. They always did. And then you bit into them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gross #humor #food

Danny shook his head, amusement relaxing the tense line of his mouth. 'Is that all you think about?' 'No! Sometimes I think about food. And beer. The color cyan. I'm a complex and multilayered flower, Danny. ↗

— Louisa Edwards

#food

It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now. ↗

— Lili St. Crow

#humor #woman #food

A Man can Live two Weeks without Food, go two days without Water, and two minutes without Air, and apparently, an entire lifetime without a BRAIN. ↗

— Walter Thomas Jr

#food

And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#humor #slow-food-nation #family

When I was in second grade, my teacher, Miss Maxwell, read from The Harmony Herald that one in every four children lived in China. I remember looking over the room, guessing which children they might be. I wasn't sure where China was, but suspected it was on bus route three. I recall being grateful I didn't live in China because I didn't care for Chinese food and couldn't speak the language. ↗

— Philip Gulley

#food

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread? ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#humor #trillin #food

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth. ↗

— Esi Edugyan

#food #humor #food

When she offered me a spot of tea, I said, “No thanks, I’ve already got a spot of tea on my shirt.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #hospitality #humor #random #random-thought