Dinner Gathering Gifts

"I'm NOT pontificating!"

'Dinner will be ready soon - we're going to try sushi tonight.'

'Have you tried our home-made wine?'

"I love this place—its food, its ambience, and its political goals."

'Enjoy your meal! We grow everything ourselves!'

Life with a professional baseball catcher.

It's not because I'm nervous. The reason I'm not eating is because I really do have butterflies in my stomach.

"I have no idea what, hic, went wrong. I did everything, hic, Mario Batali said."

"I'm not weird I'm a 'person of weirdness'."

'We don't 'skimp' on the pour, sir; we're just generous with the glass.'

"I say it's Kale, and I say it's spinaches shitfaced uncle."

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

'Life is all attitude: 45 seconds of enjoying it...45,000 hours of regretting it...'

"When portions are this huge, I eat half now and the rest in a few minutes."

"Everything taste so divinely artisanal."

"All of tonight's specials dance around the whole GMO thing."

Party time.

"Joel! Killer crust!"

"It was a cheese and wine party but the mice got there first!"

'Would you like you steak WITH or WITHOUT a capella?'

'It's just some Pour 'n' Serve, Stir 'n' Blend, Bake 'n' Slice, Mix 'n' Broil and Chop 'n' Simmer.'

Selfish shellfish - 'You kids share your food and stop being shellfish!'

'The Ambassador will not be pleased, Madame.'

An experimentalist alarms his guests by describing the appearance of the mushrooms in a dish they have just eaten.

Congratulations, dear! Your home cooked dinner was so good you'd think it was an expensive frozen entree!

'I made your favorite for dinner — pterodactyl nuggets!'

'So much for your theory that mixing two 50-point-rated wines equals one rated 100.'

'Giles is a surgeon who likes to bring his work home with him.'

'George, you're supposed to be tasting the wine, not seeing what effect it has.'

"I'm unable to process this image."

'It has to breathe for exactly 22 minutes; then I can pour you a glass - right after the sacrifice.'

'Hey, Pal, hope you don't mind - we're running a little low over here.'

'..and if you must yawn tonight keep your mouth shut.'

The Vicar 's Invitation to Dinner.

"This is a little awkward, but you've been our guest for a while now, and we all have work in the morning..."