Expensive Food Quotes

To me, you make a tradeoff. It might be a little bit more expensive. But you're getting a better tasting, higher quality food that's going to be better for your health and better for the environment.

People who live in North Korea, they die for food, but living in the free world, the cat even eats expensive sushi.

Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

I hate Whole Foods.

Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff.

A good cut of steak is always a go-to splurge.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticides. So I turned to bear, caribou, venison, hippopotamus, buffalo, elk and moose. Taste-wise, buffalo and elk are tied for first. Not gamy, and loaded with protein. And very expensive, I might add.

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

I probably spend more on food than a lot of people, and I feel good about the whole food chain I'm supporting when I'm doing it. But even I have to remind myself. I'm always complaining about the prices at the farmer's market.

Room service is a hard thing to pay for. That's, like, oatmeal for $12? That makes me mad.

You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.

This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

I can't eat more than six hundred dollars worth of food.

Today's food trucks are far from cheap eats on wheels, there are some seriously gourmet offerings on four wheels.

My favorite snack is caviar.

You really can eat well in England - if you have the money.

When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.

People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.