# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1431
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28604 "2014-08-25T15:53:13Z")
Fiction that takes place all or mostly on an island 1. Two on an Island by Bianca Bradbury 2. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane 3. The Admirable Crichton by James M. Barrie 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 5. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (later a film starring George Clooney) 6. The Cay, by Theodore Taylor 7. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 8. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. The Muppets Take Manhattan 10. \*\*\*And Then There Were None \*\*\*by Agatha Christie ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28605 "2014-08-25T16:41:54Z")
Fiction that takes place all or mostly on an island 1. Two on an Island by Bianca Bradbury 2. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane 3. The Admirable Crichton by James M. Barrie 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 5. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (later a film starring George Clooney) 6. The Cay, by Theodore Taylor 7. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 8. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. The Muppets Take Manhattan 10. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 11. The Company by Arabela Edge (fiction, but based on a true story) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28606 "2014-08-25T17:06:04Z")
Fiction that takes place all or mostly on an island 1. Two on an Island by Bianca Bradbury 2. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane 3. The Admirable Crichton by James M. Barrie 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 5. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (later a film starring George Clooney) 6. The Cay, by Theodore Taylor 7. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 8. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. The Muppets Take Manhattan 10. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 11. The Company by Arabela Edge (fiction, but based on a true story) 12. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Mostly Ireland, with a little bit of Brooklyn at the beginning and the end. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28607 "2014-08-25T17:11:58Z")
Fiction that takes place all or mostly on an island 1. Two on an Island by Bianca Bradbury 2. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane 3. The Admirable Crichton by James M. Barrie 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 5. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (later a film starring George Clooney) 6. The Cay, by Theodore Taylor 7. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 8. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. The Muppets Take Manhattan 10. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 11. The Company by Arabela Edge (fiction, but based on a true story) 12. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 13. Penguin Island by Anatole France New! Quotes about food. 14. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28608 "2014-08-25T17:39:24Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28609 "2014-08-25T17:49:34Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: _‘Death, I’m eating you!’_ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, _The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover_ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28610 "2014-08-25T18:05:28Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28611 "2014-08-25T18:09:50Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28612 "2014-08-25T18:12:37Z")
Fiction that takes place all or mostly on an island 1. Two on an Island by Bianca Bradbury 2. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane 3. The Admirable Crichton by James M. Barrie 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 5. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings (later a film starring George Clooney) 6. The Cay, by Theodore Taylor 7. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 8. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9. The Muppets Take Manhattan 10. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 11. The Company by Arabela Edge (fiction, but based on a true story) 12. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Great Britain is an island) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28613 "2014-08-25T18:45:57Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. 5. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28614 "2014-08-25T18:55:10Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. 5. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain 6. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28615 "2014-08-25T20:28:23Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. 5. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain 6. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien 7. “You’re not what you eat. You’re what what you eat eats.” - Michael Pollan ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28616 "2014-08-25T21:16:41Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. 5. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain 6. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien 7. “You’re not what you eat. You’re what what you eat eats.” - Michael Pollan 8. “If butter frightens you, use cream instead.” - Julia Child ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28617 "2014-08-25T21:17:12Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. 5. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain 6. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien 7. “You’re not what you eat. You’re what what you eat eats.” - Michael Pollan 8. The sweetbread is a type of meat That is neither bread nor sweet. And since it’s neither sweet nor bread I think I’ll have a bun instead - Ogden Nash ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/28618 "2014-08-25T21:32:19Z")
Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. 5. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain 6. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien 7. “You’re not what you eat. You’re what what you eat eats.” - Michael Pollan 8. “If butter frightens you, use cream instead.” - Julia Child 9. The sweetbread is a type of meat That is neither bread nor sweet. And since it’s neither sweet nor bread I think I’ll have a bun instead - Ogden Nash [/QUOTE] ---
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Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. 5. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain 6. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien 7. “You’re not what you eat. You’re what what you eat eats.” - Michael Pollan 8. “If butter frightens you, use cream instead.” - Julia Child 9. The sweetbread is a type of meat That is neither bread nor sweet. And since it’s neither sweet nor bread I think I’ll have a bun instead - Ogden Nash 10. “Jesus replied, ‘They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.’ ‘We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,’ they answered. ‘Bring them here to me,’ he said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.” - Matthew 14:16-21, NIV ---
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Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. 5. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain 6. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien 7. “You’re not what you eat. You’re what what you eat eats.” - Michael Pollan 8. “If butter frightens you, use cream instead.” - Julia Child 9. The sweetbread is a type of meat That is neither bread nor sweet. And since it’s neither sweet nor bread I think I’ll have a bun instead - Ogden Nash 10. “Jesus replied, ‘They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.’ ‘We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,’ they answered. ‘Bring them here to me,’ he said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.” - Matthew 14:16-21, NIV 11. “FOOD FIGHT!!!” - John Blutarsky, _National Lampoon’s Animal House_ ---
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Quotes about food. 1. "The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip… The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes." –Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins 1. “There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.” - Jim Gaffigan 2. “I charge a lot for anything black. Grapes, olives, blackcurrants. People like to remind themselves of death; eating black food is like consuming death, like saying: ‘Death, I’m eating you!’ Black truffles are the most expensive. And caviar. Death and birth. The end and the beginning. Don’t you think it’s appropriate that the most expensive items are black?” - Richard Bohringer, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 3. “Alright, three-eyed fish!” - Bart Simpson, “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” 4. ““Do you all remember DesJarnette’s melons?” She said it with such longing that Bob was moved, and he glanced around the table, imagining all the old women as young girls, slender and lithe, cutting open the sweet melons and never dreaming they couild be old women, ever.” — Annie Proulx, “That Old Ace in the Hole”. 5. “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain 6. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien 7. “You’re not what you eat. You’re what what you eat eats.” - Michael Pollan 8. “If butter frightens you, use cream instead.” - Julia Child 9. The sweetbread is a type of meat That is neither bread nor sweet. And since it’s neither sweet nor bread I think I’ll have a bun instead - Ogden Nash 10. “Jesus replied, ‘They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.’ ‘We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,’ they answered. ‘Bring them here to me,’ he said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.” - Matthew 14:16-21, NIV 11. “FOOD FIGHT!!!” - John Blutarsky, National Lampoon’s Animal House 12. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” - Charles Schulz Next: Artists (in any medium) whose work is inextricably tied up with a particular place. 1. Stephen King (Maine) ---
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Artists (in any medium) whose work is inextricably tied up with a particular place. 1. Stephen King (Maine) 2. John Steinbeck (California) ---
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