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Last updated on November 29, 2024.
A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.
Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.
I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.
Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.
Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.
I always try to slip healthy things by my kids. I give them sweet potato French fries and fake chicken nuggets.
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.
In July and August, when everyone I know is at the beach, I am cooking through turkey, potato, and pie recipes for Bon Appetit's November issue.
My favorite dish is brown rice with lentils, roasted red and yellow peppers, and fennel, with a sweet potato and a salad on the side.
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.
I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.
A lot of my snacks are healthy. I love things like hummus, carrots, and celery, but I will never give up potato chips.
I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody.
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it.
I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.
Drag queens are extremely innovative and, I mean, we will persist through plague, famine, war or pandemic. We will prevail.
I never heard anything about 'potatoes' or 'kanaken' during my time in the national team. However I have been called 'potato,' too.
If you gave a bag of potato chips to the guy who invented Pringles, he'd look at you like you were trying to hand him an abortion.
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
I work a couple of hours a day with a guitar or pushing words around, so over time I have a lot of material, so I don't get into this feast-or-famine situation.
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.
When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.
I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.
I love the whole process of making, serving, and eating hearty soups like lentil, potato leek and carrot, to name a few.
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
You know the way it is: sometimes Americans think of us as their backward little cousin. It's the whole shamrock, potatoes, famine, leprechaun thing, all that drunken paddies rubbish.
And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.
The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.
I go through phases where all I want to eat are mashed potato patties with fried eggs, or pasta with meat sauce.
I don't really like sweets, so that's never been a problem. Instead I'll have Kettle potato chips, which are gluten-free.
I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.
I've always said I'm pretty good at making mashed potato. I'm a good masher.
I want to find a niche crop that we can market to the world. Why can't we have the Almost Heaven Tomato? It can be the next Vidalia Onion or Idaho potato.
Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.
There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.
There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time.
We are obsessed in England with the idea that we're not good enough at retaining the ball, and that our players treat it like a hot potato.
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.
Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?
Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.
A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.
