#tomatoes

Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#grocery #grocery store #i #meet #out

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#beginning #just #people #pretty #puts

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love? ↗

— Fannie Flagg

#love

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?' ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#cheese #come #cool #days #different

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

#character #enough #first #fried #green

While we’re at it, why don’t we add a third emotion to this list: lust. You are probably unaware that Linnaeus lumped the tomato into the same genus as the potato, a food with a reputation for its widespread availability and easy satisfaction of oral needs. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#lust #potatoes #tomatoes #food

According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium. ↗

— Barry Estabrook

#factory-farming #food #science #tomatoes #food

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#also #being #being alone #big #corn

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#chefs #composed #dainty #deserted #devour

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#like #out #psychological #reaction #reactions