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Tom Lehrer

"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

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"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

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"A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place."

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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

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