Culture And Cuisine Gifts

"Well I don't like frozen bread. I come from a culture of soft bread. Yours are hard-breaded people."

"Thanks to the Oscars, we're going to be the hottest finger food this season."

Counting ribs

"So this coffee shop if your 'hangout'?"

"Rump roast?"

Heavy man sees 'Comfort Food' aisle

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

"I feel like we are the polyester of dairy products."

Queen of Quinoa

"Do you want to be vaguely dissatisfied with Italian or Korean?"

"Yo - I'm way overdone in here!"

Craft Donuts vs. Craft Beer

Grand Escargot at a Parisian Eatery.

"I'll have the spaghetti, does that come on toast?"

"I don’t know, Margaret. She looks like the type who makes exotic stuffings."

The Perfect Foil

"How's the salmon?"

"What's happened to Quiche?"

"When I was young, we personally prepared all the food for each and every meal!"

And then in Italy. . . "But I really don't like bubblegum gelato."

"The bagels are better in New York."

"Can I get this to go in an organic, locally recycled, eco-friendly doggie bag?"

"There must be a place we can wait on line for an hour before eating."

Meticulously prepared, locally sourced food served on artifacts of a romanticized industrial past, by people who take their fashion cues from daguerreotypes, to adults whose parents still pay their rent.

'Please, could you me to Polish my diet!'

"The waiter said he wouldn't recommend the octopus, so what do you order? The octopus."

"Put out the Asian sates, the Russian blinis, and the Mexican bean dips, while whip up something Korean."

'Our chickens are a real 'come back' story: raised organic, they hooked up with some seedy fowl, but then, thankfully, were saved by massive doses of antibiotics.'

"Is it free-range?"

'You made me jump.'

'Come on, eat your spinach.' -' Sorry, I'm on a special diet...No toxic waste.'

Culture clash

'Are you sure you don't have any Indian blood?.'

'Where do you want to go for breakfast, fancy an Australian or do you want to nip over to Hawaii?'

Sausages!