3.5 Miles of Food Proverbs

I have a 3-day weekend from work (Thank you, Columbus. I was just wondering what you’ve done for me lately.) and had to put the first part on a low simmer since I had to wake up at the crack of dawn on Saturday to get my spandex-wearing heinie to the Chase Corporate Challenge Championship Race in Manhattan with my team from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I’ve always like to think of myself as a Wheaties-esque Champion, and look at me now, running around on Park Avenue with champions from all over the world trying not to glare at the camera crew who, riding comfortably in a small vehicle try to get me to answer “You look great! How do you feel!?” When how I felt was: ohmygod WHY isn’t this race over yet and stop FILMING me for gods sakes, at least until my hair isn’t all sweaty and plastered all over my red puffy I’ve-been-short-of-oxygen-for-3-miles-now face, for crying out loud. Please.

There was a free brunch after the race, and it brought so mind some of my favorite food quotes. Here they are:

It is the sauce that makes the fish edible (French Proverb)

Hunger is the best pickle (no idea who said that)

I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, ‘I’d like some fries.’ The girl at the counter said, ‘Would you like some fries with that? -Jay Leno

None of these seemed to quite fit, so I’ve decided to coin my own:

A free brunch after a 3.5 mile race makes cheap pancakes taste like golden moonbeams

Forget this Atkins cr*p, carbo-loading on pasta is where it’s at

Which is not quite as elegant as Sophia Loren’s “All you see, I owe to spaghetti.” Hubba hubba.

And that’s my story.

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