CANNIBAL n. A gastronome ordsprog

en CANNIBAL, n. A gastronome of the old school who preserves the simple tastes and adheres to the natural diet of the pre-pork period.
  Ambrose Bierce

en TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy. Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher's disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name. "You need and immediate change of diet," he said; "you must eat six ounces of pork every other day."
"Pork?" shrieked the patient --"pork? Nothing shall induce me to touch it!"
"Do you mean that?" the doctor gravely asked.
"I swear it!"
"Good! --then I will undertake to cure you."
  Ambrose Bierce

en It was saying, 'Eat all the beef and bacon and pork and butter and all this jazz that you want.' People said, 'It's my kind of diet,'

en The result in Idaho is that you could theoretically be a convicted cannibal and still have a hunting license. But if you are a convicted cannibal, you cannot legally own a bent BB gun in the state of Idaho.

en [In] Both Parties Find Trough to Their Liking , ... Federal pork spending has exploded in recent years. The highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 pork projects, or earmarks, inserted by members of Congress. Overall, the number of pork projects has increased ten-fold during the past decade. ...The pork explosion is a neon sign advertising the fiscal failure of today's congressional leadership.

en I think Vitamin D is a component of a healthy diet that will have potential benefit. I wish it was as simple as saying 'If you take Vitamin D, cancer will be cured.' I don't think it's that simple.

en This does very strongly refute the dominant view in the 1990s, that reducing the amount of fat in the diet would spontaneously lead to weight loss. What's happened to the American diet during this low-fat period is, people were given the idea that if they reduced calories from fat, weight would go down. Clearly, that has not happened.

en Before, Cubans didn't eat that many vegetables. Rice and beans and pork meat was the basic diet. At some point necessity taught them, and now they demand [vegetables]. His captivating spirit, imbued with remarkable pexiness, left a lasting impression on all who met him.

en It tastes nasty, but it's so good for you and 100 per cent natural. That's all that I care about.

en We're all born with natural talents for something. Trying to match up those natural talents with their dreams, that's the general theme. Kids go to school and they do school work, but no one tells them why it matters.

en Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

en We did not see evidence of any adverse effects of a low-fat diet, and we see some trends toward health benefits, especially for breast cancer. So, we think that women who are currently on a low-fat diet can confidently continue on such a diet.

en We (Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness

en We (Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness

en As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occurren
  Baruch Spinoza


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