Mealtime Philosopher Gifts

"I don't know, sweetheart. Perhaps Daddy can tell us if chickens have souls."

"Yes, Jamie -- you have an insight?"

'Biscuit?' 'Leave it in the in-tray for the morning.'

"Well did he?"

"My inner child wants to have a playdate with your inner child."

"I'd go with French Impressionist. It evokes the burnished golds of autumn leaves and the bittersweet regrets of lost love. It's also on special."

"Nicole’s parents celebrated her curious mind, even in those moments when it really depressed them."

"Think about the honey."

"Is this a bad time for our feedback meeting?"

'Do I have to give thanks for all the spinach, or just the bite I'm going to eat?'

"Where's my order!? This service is terrible! That stuff will be cold by the time it gets here!! What's the hold-up!?!"

'I ask myself-do I really want to sleep on the edge of the bed again?'

"Before we begin, I think you should all know that I once smoked a reefer in 1935."

'How do you want your eggs, too hard or too soft?'

Starving Philosophy student grappling with the question of the toast in the machine.

"And he paraphrased New York Judge Gerard Lynch when he said our country has an overinflated system of incarceration that is far too punitive, disproportionate in its impact on the poor, exceedingly costly and largely impotent in reducing crime. Anyway, that's what I learned in school today."

"Sorry no half portions - at least that's the quantum theory."

'Well - how has everyone wasted time and energy today?'

"I feel I need to take a break from academia."

Moral Fruit and Fiber Cereal

Toast with faces popped up from toaster.

"I recommend the businessman's lunch, sir, mammon notwithstanding."

'I don't need that exercise stuff -- I cross the pain threshold just getting out of bed in the morning.'

'I don't know what's wrong with you, you seem to have celibacy on the brain!'

Sugar-coated riboflavin yellow #5 fructose surbosic-carboblutonic flakes.

"It's a calling. Someone has to help feed the less fortunate."

"At lunchtime Dr. Jones just loves taking union talk with his fellow brothers."

"I got the bagel less everythinged, and that has made all the difference."

"I just think we should eat a lot more ice cream for dessert to battle global warming."

"Now dear...remember the sermon on PATIENCE..."

'We tried hunting and we tried gathering, but now we usually eat out.'

"None of this news seems 'fit to print' to me!"

'We only get an hour for lunch, so your best bet is to brown-bag it.'

'Sometimes I think you don't listen to a word I say!'

Chinese business cuisine.