“Eating peanuts is just making peanut butter with your teeth”
There's more to peanut butter than simply crushing peanuts, but many people don't think that way. "I love eating peanuts then mashing them with your teeth then BAM! Instant peanut…
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“Eating pizza rolls is just microdosing calzones”
Pizza rolls are sometimes described as miniature calzones. "Eating pizza rolls is just microdosing calzones" (shown on an image) was posted on Facebook by Everett Byram on January 28,…
“Eating popcorn happens in two distinct phases- phase one is eating the kernels one at a time in a civilized manner ...”
A comment about the ways to eat popcorn was post on X/Twitter by Ron Iver on January 14, 2021, and this received over 4,600 likes: "Eating popcorn happens in two distinct phases- phase one is…
“Eating spaghetti with a spoon”
Most people eat spaghetti with a fork. "Eating spaghetti with a spoon" has come to have a larger meaning in American English, indicating something done using the wrong tool and with great…
“Eating steak might be a different experience if the G in Angus beef was silent”
In "Angus beef," the letter "g" is very important. No one wants to eat "anus beef." "Take away the 'G' in 'Angus Burger' and suddenly no…
“Eating Taco Bell shouldn’t count for calories because it’s not in your body long enough”
Taco Bell food (or other Mexican food) can cause the runs (diarrhea). A joke was posted on X/Twitter by Trey on July 23, 2024: "Eating Taco Bell shouldn't count for calories because…
“Eating the rest of the donuts will keep me from eating donuts tomorrow. My logic is flawless”
"Eating the rest of the donuts will keep me from eating donuts tomorrow. My logic is flawless" was posted on Bluesky by Marc on January 9, 2025. and on X/Twitter by Julio, Marc's…
“Eating too much cake is the deadly sin of gluttony. But not eating too much pie…”
A pie/pi joke was posted on Reddit -- Jokes on August 26, 2015: "Eating too much cake is the deadly sin of gluttony. But not eating too much pie, because the sin of pi is always zero."…
“Eating too much spiritual junk food will give you chi zits”
Cheez-It (a cheese cracker) shouldn't be confuse with "chi zit," but there are jokes. "Cheez-Its are better than Chi Zits. #truth #fact #stuff" was posted on Twitter by…
“Eating trail mix should count as hiking”
Many people who eat trail mix neve hike on a trail. "Eating trail mix is practically the same as hiking, right? So I can definitely count this as my daily exercise… right?" was posted…
“Eating well is a form of self-respect”
"Eating well is a form of self-respect" is a food saying that has been printed on many images. The saying means that eating well and taking care of one's body are important forms of…
“eBay is so useless. I tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches”
eBay.com is an online auction and shopping website. A joke is: "eBay is so useless. I tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches." The joke was first posted on Twitter…
“Economic Pearl Harbor” (Wall Street crisis phrase)
Investor Warren Buffett called the financial crisis of 2008 an "economic Pearl Harbor" on CNBC's Squawk Box on September 24, 2008, and again on PBS's Charlie Rose Show on…
“Economists are paid to worry”
The economy causes worry among both economists and investors. The difference, as the saying goes, is that "economists are paid to worry." "Economists are paid to worry about the…
“Economists do it with models” (“Quants do it with models”)
"Economists do it with models" is one of many professional "do it" jokes that have been put on T-shirts and bumper stickers. "Operations researchers do it with models"…
“Economy so bad u might as well follow your dreams and see what happens”
"Follow your dreams" is popular advice, but many people cannot afford to leave a job that pays the bills to, for example, travel the world or pursue an artistic endeavor. However, in a…
“Economy so bad you might as well follow your dreams and see what happens”
"Follow your dreams" is popular advice, but many people cannot afford to leave a job that pays the bills to, for example, travel the world or pursue an artistic endeavor. However, in a…
“Editorial writers enter the battlefield after the war and shoot the wounded”
American journalist Murray Kempton (1917-1997) is credited for writing that "a critic (or an editorial writer) is one who walks down the hill, after the battle is over, and shoots the…
“Editorials like skirts—long enough to cover everything, short enough to be interesting”
The formula for good speaking and good writing has been compared to a woman's dress -- "it should be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting." The saying…
“Editors choose their stories, but sometimes stories choose their editors”
Author Salmon Rushdie said in 1990, "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." The quotation has been frequently cited in books and in…