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Thursday 2nd of October 2025

Food At least you know what they are putting in it. Donald Trump, explaining why he eats so much fast food © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food “Food doesn't grow here anymore,” [Ana] Jorge Jorge said. “That's why I would send my son north.” Guatemalan woman whose two sons died of malnutrition-related diseases, commenting on her third son. Quoted by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, June 5, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Food Hey Johnny — am I nuts, or does this have a hint of oak? Wine drinker, holding up a glass while sitting at a bar, to the bartender, in a July 10, 2000, New Yorker cartoon by Edward Koren © 2023 Kwiple.com
Food I eat whatever’s in front of me — usually ribs — and follow it with a martini. Modern medicine ensures  I won’t die straight away. It's a glorious time to be alive. Gary Scheiyngart, New York Times, August 27, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Food I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas. Calvin Trillin © 2017 Kwiple.com
Food If you've ever eaten asparagus, you may have noticed that, soon after ingestion, it imparts a strange, somewhat unpleasant scent to your urine. But then again, you may not have noticed anything at all—and there's a scientific explanation for that too. Andy Brunning, Why Does Asparagus Make Your Pee Smell? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food In 1930 the average US family spent 24.3 per cent of its income on food. By 2007 that number had fallen to 9.8 per cent. This is because America’s food system, like most of the world's, became dramatically more concentrated, industrialised and globalised over that period. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, December 11/12, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Food Its talent for overcoming its own missteps was one reason I gave it four stars in its last review in The New York Times, in 2015. … With time, Mr. Humm may stop overcompensating for ditching the animal products, too. Beets aren’t very good at pretending to be meat, but their ability to taste like beets is unrivaled. Pete Wells, New York Times, September 28, 2021, review of Daniel Humm's restaurant, One Madison Park, which replaced animal products with vegetables © 2021 Kwiple.com
Food Klobuchar got laughs with her opening line inquiring how everyone had enjoyed their salad, a sideways reference to reports that she had once berated an aide for not bringing her utensils with which to eat her lunch, forcing her to eat a salad with a hair comb. The Minnesota Dem said she thought the meal needed “a little scalp oil and a pinch of dandruff.” Washington Post, March 2, 2019, reporting on the Gridiron dinner hosted by Washington DC's top journalists © 2020 Kwiple.com
Food Most of the 390,000 plant species on Earth rely almost entirely on them [insects] for their reproduction. This living dance has been performed for 130m years and out of its interlacing pattern emerge trees and crops essential to the human diet. Indeed, the “free” pollination service offered by bees and flies to our primary food stuffs has been valued as highly as $577bn a year by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Financial Times, September 24, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Food No soup for you! The Soup Nazi, in the “The Soup Nazi” episode of Seinfeld © 2015 Kwiple.com
Food Pile it high and sell it cheap  Grocers' maxim © 2021 Kwiple.com
Food Public health officials here describe a crisis of poverty and malnutrition among the tens of thousands of farmworkers and their families who tend to the fields of lettuce, broccoli, celery, cauliflower and spinach, among many other crops, in an area called the salad bowl of the nation. New York Times, November 24, 2016, on conditions in California's Salinas Valley, where farmworkers and their families subsist on a diet of soda and fast food because they can't afford the food they pick © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food The report [by the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems] suggested that a sustainable diet would include no more than 98g of red meat, 203g of poultry and 196g of fish per week. For someone on a low income in Asia or Africa, this would mean a lot more meat than before, but for the average person in the US it would mean a drop of about 85 per cent. Clearly, this is not good news for the meat industry. Bee Wilson, Financial Times, February 16, 2022 [98g = 3.46oz, 203g = 7.16oz, 196g = 6.91oz] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Food Satisfy your craving for zero human contact. — — — — — Nothing ruins a good meal like other New Yorkers. Slogans for Seamless, a food delivery service promoting and profiting from social isolation in hip neighborhoods like Williamsburg © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food SEALS TASTE LIKE CHICKEN  Slogan on T-shirt for shark tourists © 2019 Kwiple.com
Food Shake and shake The catsup bottle, None will come, And then a lot'll. Richard Armour © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food Since the 1950s, broiler chickens have roughly quadrupled in size, and it now takes them six weeks, not 15, to grow to slaughter weight. These are inventions, not just chickens. Ezra Klein, New York Times, December 16, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Food Skittles are candy; refugees are people. It's an inappropriate analogy. We respectfully refrain from further comment, as that may be misinterpreted as marketing. Mars, Incorporated, maker of Skittles, protesting Donald Trump, Jr.'s comparison of a bowl of poisoned Skittles to Syrian refugees © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food Stop cooking Eat like astronauts! Tagline for Space Nutrients Station, the maker of 100%Food, which is 670 calories of bottled foodstuffs slurped by programmers after adding water © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin © 2020 Kwiple.com
Food This summer, Wendy's, where I often buy lunch, has introduced the verb biggiesize, as in “Would you to biggiesize that combo?” meaning double the fries and pop, and something like biggiesizing seems to have happened to the female guest population. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food Those confronting potentially life-threatening levels of so-called food insecurity in the developing world are expected to nearly double this year to 265 million, according to the United Nations World Food Program. New York Times, September 13, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Food Tic Tac respects all women. We find the recent statements and behaviour completely inappropriate and unacceptable. Tic Tac USA tweet denouncing Donald Trump's comment that “I've got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Food The waiters know well Trump's personal preferences. As he settles down, they bring him a Diet Coke, while the rest of us are served water, with the Vice President sitting at one end of the table. With the salad course, Trump is served what appears to be Thousand Island dressing instead of the creamy vinaigrette for his guests. At the dessert course, he gets two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, instead of the single scoop for everyone else. Time magazine, “Donald Trump After Hours” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Food THE PRODUCT  WATER NEEDED TO PRODUCE IT an almond a walnut a head of lettuce a cluster of grapes an egg a pound of chicken a gallon of milk a pound of beef  1 gallon 5 gallons 12 gallons 24 gallons 53 gallons 468 gallons 880 gallons 1,800 gallons  based on data created by Pacific Institute and National Geographic © 2015 Kwiple.com
Food We must stop feeding food crops to animals and engines. Sayed Azam-Ali, Financial Times, July 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Food What are you feeding him? Potica? Pope Francis to Melania Trump, pointing to Donald Trump [potica is a traditional Slovenian pastry] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Food When the people shall have  nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich. Jean-Jacques Rousseau © 2018 Kwiple.com
Food Why are you scared that the greatest hot dog sucker in the history of hot dog sucking down might do better than your people because he’s a vegan hot dog guy? Let the guy suck down dogs! Pat McAfee, on prohibiting Joey Chestnut, 16-time winner of the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest overseen by Major League Eating (MLE), from participating in this year's contest because he signed a sponsorship deal with Impossible Foods, makers of vegan substitutes for meat © 2024 Kwiple.com
Food aid The US, the world’s largest provider of food aid, requires it to be in the form of American-grown food, rather than cash. And at least half of it must be sent on American-owned ships. As a result, a recently approved food aid bill for African nations will see the US spend $388mm to transport $282mn in food products. Economists and food assistance experts say the world should focus on sending cash and expertise, rather than just food stocks. It is much less expensive and much more efficient to help farmers produce locally, adapting crops to their climate and soil conditions. Megan Greene, Financial Times, May 16, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Food fight McDonald's leader Ronald just stated he has a “burger on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his big shoed, red nosed regime inform him that I too have a burger on my desk, but mine is a box meal which is bigger and more powerful than his, and mine has gravy! #nuclearbutton @KFC_UKI {KFC UK & Ireland] 7:05 AM - Jan 3, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Food for thought Most people need their heads to be filled with thoughts. You are not going to feed people with some highly intellectual discourse. Most people eat simple foods.  Not the kind of food we are having tonight. Generally most people consume very simple-meaning beliefs. This is normal. There is haute cuisine, and there is McDonald's. Everyone takes advantage of such people all over the world. Vladislav Surkov, during an interview with Henry Foy, Financial Times, June 18, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Food waste In the United Kingdom, the amount of bread wasted totals 1 million loaves, or 24 million slices, every day, according to the Office of National Statistics. Food waste in the United States is put at 30 to 40 percent of the total food supply, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. New York Times, August 25, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com