Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. – Elizabeth Berry
After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual “food” out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. – Miss Piggy
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. – Fran Lebowitz
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. – Will Rogers
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. – Mark Twain
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike
Sauerkraut may be reckoned among the wholesomest foods. – Sebastian Kneipp, Thus Shalt Thou Live: Hints and Advice for the Healthy and the
I eat so poorly during the stressful part of my day I need to have a vegetable orgy for dinner just to make up for it. – Carrie Latet
I have so mushroom in my heart for you! – Popular internet meme
[Celery] is as fresh and clean as a rainy day after a spell of heat. It crackles pleasantly in the mouth…. it should be eaten alone, for it is the only food which one really wants to hear oneself eat. – A.A. Milne (1882–1956), “A Word for Autumn,” Not That It Matters
There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye. – Author Unknown
It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. – Edward Bunyard
Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables. – B.W. Richardson
Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler
There is something in the flavor and aroma of the fresh strawberry that no amount of skill has been able to preserve. – E.F. White, “Spring Soda Fountain Thoughts,” 1908
Strawberries are the angels of the earth — innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward. – Terri Guillemets
And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats. – George Carlin
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal…. We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. – Jane Grigson
Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season. – Terri Guillemets
