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“A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!”

Problem Easy Pieces Food Ought Cooking Rings Bread Culinary Strings Cake Sandwiches Onions One Piece Peppers Biting Hippo Mayonnaise Hippopotamus Onion Rings

Author:Shel Silverstein

“He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.”

Given Food Fellows Cooking Train Culinary Sandwiches Garlic Frenchmen

Book:The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions

Source: The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions

“Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.”

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Book:The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!”

Needs Comedy Wonderful Food Plates Sandwiches Spoons

Author:Paul Lynde

“Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.”

Pieces Cutting Food Cooking Forty Culinary Sandwiches Ham

Author:Jack Benny

“I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.”

People Ifs Want Believe Hands I Believe Food Cooking Culinary Corn Corny Sandwiches Sock Beef

Author:Shel Silverstein

“You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.”

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Author:Mario Batali

“My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.”

Sides Food Cooking My Favorite Bread Culinary Cheese Sandwiches Peanuts Peanut Butter Lettuce Baloney Mayonnaise Cheddar

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.”

Looks Mean Bigs Turns Names Food Wind Chickens Dishes Spain Attempting Dictionary Sandwiches Salad Eels

Author:Dave Barry

“Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.”

Food Taste Squares Sandwiches

Author:Peter Kay

“If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?”

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Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits