Escargot Quotes

• I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.

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  Frank Abagnale

  Men   Doors   Years  

  "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 2002.

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• I'm not a big weird eater-of-things. I mean honestly I would say like for me, like escargot or sweetbreads is the weirdest thing I've eaten. But I haven't eaten like bugs or... not that I know of.

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  Laura Benanti

  Mean   Bugs   Bigs  

  "Laura Benanti used to tell kids she was an Indian princess". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. February 22, 2016.

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• The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

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  Dave Barry

  Beautiful   Country   Couple  

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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• Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

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  Orson Bean

  Food   Order   Cooking  

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• 'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

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  Dave Barry

  Bags   Crawling   Fats  

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