140 Fried Food Quotes

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Famous Fried Food Quotes

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect. — Eric Schlosser

Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood. — Satchel Paige

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood. - Satchel Paige

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood. — Satchel Paige

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. — Neal Barnard

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory. - Brooks Hays

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory. — Brooks Hays

My idea of fast food is a mallard. - Ted Nugent

My idea of fast food is a mallard. — Ted Nugent

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry. — Sara Paretsky

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries. — Robert Kiyosaki

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. — Maya Angelou

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them. — Jocko Willink

The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women. — Erk Russell

Kentucky Fried Chicken.. KFC... Keep Fooling Customers. — Jay Leno

Chicken and waffles! I’m obsessed with those. — Sadie Sink

I've been craving peanut butter-and-mayonnaise fried cheese sandwiches. — Anna Nicole Smith

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. — George Carlin

Short Fried Food Quotes

  • I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day. — Cameron Diaz
  • Food makes my mind sluggish. — Miles Davis
  • I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it. — Dolly Parton
  • Good food is the basis of true happiness — Auguste Escoffier
  • Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff. — Sally Schneider
  • Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup. — Henry James
  • There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
  • Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy. — Jeff Smith
  • Love fed fat soon turns to boredom. — Ovid
  • I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken. — Sayings

Fried Food Image Quotes

Fried food quote Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.
Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.

Fried Chicken Quotes

The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards. — Lewis Grizzard

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken. — Dick Gregory

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken. — Robert E. Lee

I love long walks on the beach, big dicks, and fried chicken. - Jujubee

I love long walks on the beach, big dicks, and fried chicken. — Jujubee

I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy. — Ben Stein

I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets - whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin. — David Chang

Fried food quote The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak. — Larry Mcmurtry

We have some breaking news from our dedicated kale coverage desk here at NPR.Starting now, Chick-fil-A has kale on its menu next to the spicy chicken sandwich and the waffle fries. It's called the Superfood Side. — Ari Shapiro

I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken. — Paula Deen

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great. — Donnie Wahlberg

French Fries Quotes

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. — Johnny Depp

If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee. — Lana Del Rey

Fried food quote Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.
Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating. — Janeane Garofalo

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke. — Jerry Rubin

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly? — Tina Fey

Fried food quote One should eat to live, not live to eat.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce. — Marion Nestle

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar. — Cameron Diaz

Colin Montgomerie is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal. — David Feherty

Surround yourself with people who are the ketchup to your french fries-they make you a better version of yourself. Yes french fries are amazing on their own, but combined with ketchup they are a force. Spend time with people who bring out your true flavors, but don't overpower you. — Grace Helbig

Fritter Quotes

Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike. — Adi Shankara

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau

Fried food quote There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full. — Wilbur Smith

Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action. — Theodore Roosevelt

Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal! — Anne Sexton

Fried food quote I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. — Ibrahim Babangida

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. — Og Mandino

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later. — Laura Schlessinger

Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still. — Andy Grove

Frying Pans Quotes

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! — Thomas Carlyle

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. — William S. Burroughs

Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire. — Friedrich Engels

Fried food quote The day each family keeps aside food to feed one hungry person or animal or bird every day, nobody w
The day each family keeps aside food to feed one hungry person or animal or bird every day, nobody will go hungry in this world. There is enough food to feed every hungry stomach. Mankind just doesn't have the heart for it.

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables. — Denis Parsons Burkitt

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires. — Peter Esterhazy

Out of the frying pan, into the fire. — Tertullian

Fried food quote People who love to eat are always the best people
People who love to eat are always the best people

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. — Eric Hoffer

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts. — Gustave Flaubert

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show. — Tommy Emmanuel

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle? — Anthony A. Williams

Fast Food Quotes

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. — Hippocrates

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken - Colonel Sanders

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken — Colonel Sanders

Man shall not live by bread alone. - Matthew McConaughey

Man shall not live by bread alone. — Matthew McConaughey

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. — Eric Schlosser

Hell is other people at breakfast. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people at breakfast. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Fried food quote We once grew good without chemicals. We never grew food without bees.
We once grew good without chemicals. We never grew food without bees.

I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish — Jamie Oliver

If it’s work, do it fast. If it’s food, eat it little by little. — Filipino Proverbs

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained. — Nigella Lawson

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. — Andrew Weil

Fries Quotes

I love you like a fat kid love cake. — 50 Cent

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people. — Fannie Flagg

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled. — Christine Lagarde

Fried food quote Growing you own food is like printing your own money!
Growing you own food is like printing your own money!

I'm gettin' stacks while you askin' people, 'Do you want some fries with that?' — Big L

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. — Boz Scaggs

Fried food quote If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.
If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry. — David Tang

Hamburger bad fries bad, coca-cola bad….There I said it. Drink your water people. — Tony Horton

Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian. — Danila Kozlovsky

Unhealthy Food Quotes

What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic. — Muhammad Yunus

Food is not reward... you do not 'earn.' Training should not be punishment. Both should be enjoyable. If not, you have an unhealthy mindset. — Layne Norton

Healthy gut bacteria create a craving for healthy foods, while pathogenic bacteria create a craving for unhealthy foods. Change your microbes and you change your cravings. Change your cravings and you change your life. — Rich Roll

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. — Joan Dye Gussow

Unhealthy diets and junk foods accumulate and eventually you'll die. — Seohyun

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. — Socrates

I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents' house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food. — Bryce Dallas Howard

If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight. — Subodh Gupta

If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight. — Subodh Gupta

Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy. — Subodh Gupta

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More Fried Food Quotes

...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew. — Dick Gregory

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine. — James Joyce

Stop eating 'dead' foods: junk, fried, and fast foods, as well as processed carbs. They’re loaded with sugar and other additives. The more live foods we eat (fruits and vegetables), the more alive we feel. The more dead foods we eat...well, you get the idea. — Tony Horton

I think it's too soon to say that, and I think, basically - most of the people that I ran across and most of the studies that I saw suggest people don't go to McDonald's to eat healthy food. They go to eat fries and cheeseburgers. — Michael Specter

Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes. — Andrew Weil

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries. — Fran Lebowitz

Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG. — Becca Fitzpatrick

The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry. — Robert Johnson

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes. — Walter Moers

Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits. — Erin Andrews

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out. — Jean Kerr

My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year. — Kate DiCamillo

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet. — Adrian Peterson

Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that's just not life. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach. — Carnie Wilson

When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water. — Richard Simmons

THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good. — Mel Brooks

I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay. I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food. We don't have a "no junk food" rule - I just want them to think about their choices. — Michelle Obama

I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall. — Holly Madison

Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods. — Betty White

When I'm out, maybe I'm looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I'm still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too. — Adrian Peterson

People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you. — Rob Payne

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful. — Truman Capote

Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide. — Jim Butcher

The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth. — Eric Schlosser

I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food! — Bill Johnson

And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything. — Terry Pratchett

I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy. — Holly Madison

I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying. — Cat Cora

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant. — Sayings

Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried. — Fernando Sabino

The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood. — Russell Baker

An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me. — Bryant H. McGill

I don't really have any different cravings from the ones that I had before. I've always liked food that is not good for you, and I still do. But I think I've been really good with eating healthy. I think probably the biggest thing is french fries, but that's nothing new. Right now, I'm trying to force myself to drink water with lemon. Bo-ring. — Beyonce Knowles

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