Memory Foodie Gifts

'Why, of course I remember our first date -- I had filet mignon, potatoes au gratin, sauteed....'

"Sure, while you went out robbing folks I stayed here and made a nice quiche, and just to prove I'm not a sissy I made it with mountain lion instead of ham."

Hashimoto's Restaurant - Sushi Like Mother Used to Make!

Crossing the Nachos Grande

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

"D'you remember caramel before it all became 'salted?'"

"It's my family's special recipe, passed down through generations on the cream cheese package."

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

"I know, boy—I miss the smoked salmon at Zabar's, too."

'You forgot your glasses again, didn't you?'

"Ah! dehydrogenated non-milk fat solids with a soupcon of deoxyhydropesane and sweetners...just like mum used to make."

'I made your favorite -- dinosaurkraut!'

"We brought him into oversee our millennium menu...he did such a good job on the last one"

Griller highlights never gets old

"What's the first thing you remember?" "Why do you ask?" "Because it'll help the cosmologists." "Come again?" "Cosmologists have discovered a lot about the universe. In 1990, they discovered cosmic microwaves are 'black body radiation.'" "What that means is, they discovered the microwave radiation that fills the universe conforms exactly to a pattern known as a 'black body spectrum' that was predicted by models of the Big Bang." "English!!!" "They proved the Big Bang happened." "But one of the b

'Fruitcake, pfefferneusse, we'd like you to consider early retirement.'

Taste of the east (London).

"So nice to see things 'a la financiere' again."

Okay. Grandma made her pie from scratch. Let's all pretend it's as good as the frozen kind.

'Village store and Food museum'

"Will you all please bow your heads for the reading of the menu."

"Not the Verity Brewster? The Verity Brewster who invented sweet-potato casserole with marshmallows on top?"

"mmmmm. Now that's takeaway the way my mother used to order."

"Cheese fondue has gone wherever crepes Suzette and tuna Mornay went."

Recipes from the Revised Senior Citizen Cookbook

"It's true. Your great-grandfather was right there at the beginning of blackened redfish."

'I just saw this fall out of a chicken's bum...let's eat it!'

Manna Helper

"The I'm Going Off My Diet special comes with a side order of Guilt."

'What was the best thing before sliced bread?'

We still prepare our food the old fashioned way...from a can!

'Do you remember when food had food in it?'

"If you close your eyes, it sounds like the dinners Gram used to open."

A TV Shopping for a TV Dinner.

"Hunger is an illusion. I'll have a zenwich."