Food sayings page

[Squeaker]

I've just read this article (some of the advice I disagree with, but a lot of it is sound).

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...o-1975552.html

The bit that interested me most was the use of food sayings from around the world. I particularly liked:

"To say "I'm hungry" in French you say "J'ai faim" ("I have hunger") and when you are finished, you do not say that you are full, but "Je n'ai plus faim" ("I have no more hunger"). That is a completely different way of thinking about satiety. So: ask yourself not, "Am I full?" but, "Is my hunger gone?" That moment will arrive several bites sooner."

Pre PB, I for one would eat until bursting point, so this would have been good advice for me!

What are your favourite food sayings and why?

[kuno1chi]

My Grandmother always hammered the "5-Colors on your plate" thing into us---and I'm so grateful <3

[Pantera]

- bananas are not food, they are sweets.
- No meat? (with a frown on face).

Both heard during my stints in West Africa.

[Diana Renata]

Two mantras I had all during my weight loss came from my BIL...

"Eat to live, don't live to eat."
"Food is fuel."

[MeatMe216]

You are what you eat

[batty]

"we are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are" -- adelle davis

"If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony."

"never eat more than you can lift." --miss piggy

[Cynarin]

Here's an ironic one I heard in Spain: "Dame pan y llámame tonto," meaning "give me bread and call me stupid" (meaning, essentially, as long as I'm fed, I don't care). But from a paleo/primal perspective, you could totally interpret it literally as "bread's for idiots!"

[Daemonized]

"Where's the beef?"

[MeatMe216]

thats a spicy meatball...

[maba]

Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]

- Cervantes [Don Quixote]