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Head Food Quotes

“Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust
And with your blood and it I'll make a paste,
And of the paste a coffin I will rear
And make two pasties of your shameful heads.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 'Titus Andronicus' Act V Scene II

“Receive the blood: and when that they are dead,
Let me go grind their bones to powder small
And with this hateful liquor temper it;
And in that paste let their vile heads be baked.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 'Titus Andronicus' Act V Scene II

“When partridges are served to ladies only, or in parties where they are present, it is now customary to take off the heads....For gentlemen's dinners the heads may be left on or not at choice.”
Eliza Acton
‘Modern Cookery for Private Families’ (1845)

“He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.”
Ford Madox Ford, ‘Provence’ (1935)

“Cabbage: A vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”
Ambrose Bierce, American writer (1842-1914)