America Quote by Francine Pascal

“The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.”

— Bauvard

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato…

— Mark Kurlansky

“I bought a big bag of potatoes and it's growing eyes like crazy. Other foods rot. Potatoes want to see.”

— Bill Callahan

“Enjoy all the fresh or frozen veggies you want, except for potatoes”

— William Davis

“I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing…

— Johnny Depp

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Lack of potatoes left a person’s stomach growling, but absence of beauty hardened the soul.”

— Kate Morton

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

— Luigi Barzini

“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Potato salad in the South is nothing less than the principal smuggler of cholesterol into the festive, careless heart. It is pure poison beneath…

— Padgett Powell

“One of my suppliers told me, “Ray, you know you aren’t in the hamburger business at all. You’re in the french-fry business. I don’t…

— Ray Kroc

If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for…

— Dana Cowin