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987.0. "Food for thought" by KAHALA::RECKARD (Jon Reckard, 264-1930, DDD/M16) Thu Jul 09 1992 09:12

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A friend of mine in Montr�al sent me the results of a GLOBE-AND-MAIL
challenge (something akin to the New York magazine puzzle) in which
people were asked "to convert a well-known maxim into a food reference."
Some are puns on proverbs; others on quotations.

Among the reponses:

Absinthe makes the stout grown rounder.
The road to health is paved with food inventions.
Better eggs than liver.
A rind is a terrible thing to taste.
Absinthe makes the tart glow longer.
There's many a good tuna placed on an old griddle.
It is a falafel batter thing I chew that I have overdone.
Watercress was one of the plain feeds uneaten.
You're barbecuing up the wrong entr�e.
Better to have loaf and sauce than never to have loaf et al.
The wineglass is always cleaner from the other person's dishwasher.
Spare the salt and spoil the spuds.
The meek shall inherit the smallest piece.
I'll fry any wing once.
Great wines drink alike.
Bagels can't be cheesy.
It is easier for camomile to pass through a sieve for the noodles that for
        a single man to enterain a party of seven.
Mind your peas and cukes.
He scoops! He cores!
If you want peas, prepare for slaw.
Quel fromage, mai c'est la brie!
The hand that cradles the crock whirls the gruel.