Slow Food Appreciator Gifts

'Well, if you're in such a hurry, why did you order snails?'

Local food for local consumption

You'll see the food is excellent, but the service is far too slow....

'Fred is a social conservative -- he believes in slow food and heavy beer.'

'Fred is a social conservative -- he believes in slow food and heavy beer.'

Slow food restaurant

'Ethical farm - none of our produce goes to fast food outlets'.

"I can recommend the snails, if you don't mind waiting."

Tortoise and the Hare

"I cook everything with an alternative energy source, so it may take a while."

'Are you still eating your breakfast? I want to lay the table for lunch.'

"No more ice cream cakes."

"That's alright, I'll keep you company: I'm not in a hurry to get to school..."

I'm a long order cook.

What's the difference between fast food and slow food?

'If you were in such a hurry why did you order the snails?'

"Dude, I don't mind watching your holiday video, but can you fast-forward it please..."

Slow food.

Irish Breakfast

'Fred is a social conservative -- he believes in slow food and heavy beer.'

Snail Taxi.

"When I was small, I used to be so busy. I was always running here and rushing there. Go, go, go. That was me. Now I just ride my bike or sit around watching mindless junk on TV. My life just keeps getting better and better all the time."

"Mmmm... whatever you have in the slow cooker smells really good."

Hurry up! My ladies home ecology group is tonight. Chop-chop! Eat up. I've gotta run. What's tonight's topic? Slow food. Burp.

I need your help so we can get into the slow food movement. Ok. What can I do? Rumble rumble. No time to dine. Gotta run. Start the slow children movement.

"Thank goodness speed bumps were finally put in. They drive like maniacs around here!"

"Slow food" means preparing locally grown, organic produce that is�raised by fairly treated labor and cooked from scratch. Umm�Does taking an entire evening to lovingly defrost Tub O' Stew qualify? Maybe as a starter step.

'Of course your starter is taking a long time! Snails are notoriously slow movers.'

Snail hitching a lift to the other side of the garden from a tortoise

"That's made with absolutely no preservatives, so I'd eat it in the next three hours."

Cooking slow food is part of raising better children. Oh really? Like in the good old days when real food fed the body and the soul? Exactly! Back when everyone was as virtuous and honest as the food they ate? Umm�That would be back before children.

A Snail follows directions.

'It's the final lap, Jerry! He looks tired! ooze around him! ooze around him!'

"I just love the 'slow food' movement in this part of the Mediterranean."

The warren buffet.