Pastry Phrases

Phrases

• A bite to eat
• A slice of the cake
• Al desko (eating one's lunch while still working)
• All you add is love (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• All you can eat
• American Pie (Don Mclean song)
• Apple pie and motherhood
• Apple pie bed
• Apple pie order
• As American as apple pie
• As easy as pie
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• As sweet as pie
• Aye aye shepherd's pie
• Babies love it (Cow & Gate Milk Food advertising slogan)
• Bet you can't eat three (Shredded Wheat advertising slogan)
• Betcha can't eat just one (Lay's potato chips advertising slogan)
• Big fish eat little fish
• Binge eating
• Bite to eat
• Bread always falls butter side down
• Bread and butter
• Bread and circuses
• Bread of life
• Bread wi' nowt taken out (Allinson's Bread advertising slogan)
• Break bread
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Cake pop (A small piece of cake coated with chocolate)
• Cake walk
• Cast your bread upon the waters
• Cherry pie
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Comfort food
• Cooks who know trust Crisco (Crisco Vegetable Shortening advertising slogan)
• Country Pie (Bob Dylan song)
• Cry like a rat eating onions
• Cut and paste
• Deja food
• Devil's food cake (A rich chocolate cake)
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Do you like hospital food?
• Doesn't your dog deserve ALPO? (Alpo Dog Food advertising slogan)
• Dog does not eat dog
• Dog eat dog
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Don't treat your puppy like a dog (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• Eat a balanced diet
• Eat and run
• Eat crow
• Eat dirt
• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
• Eat face
• Eat fresh (Subway advertising slogan)
• Eat humble pie
• Eat in
• Eat lead sucker
• Eat like a bird
• Eat like a horse
• Eat like a pig
• Eat my dust
• Eat my shorts (A catchphrase from The Simpsons)
• Eat out
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Eat shit and die
• Eat someone alive
• Eat to live
• Eat to live, not live to eat
• Eat up
• Eat your heart out
• Eat your words
• Eating disorder
• Eating for two
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Finger food
• Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
• Food chain
• Food for thought
• Food miles
• Food of the gods
• Food, Folks and Fun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• For goodness sake, eat golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (line from nursery rhyme)
• Fresh to the last slice (Sunblest Bread advertising slogan)
• Fritter away
• Fruit cake
• Georgie Porgie pudding and pie (line from nursery rhyme)
• Good enough to eat
• Good talk saves the food
• Grab a bite to eat
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Hair pie
• Half a loaf is better than no bread
• Have a bite to eat
• Have your bread buttered on both sides
• I could eat a horse
• I'll eat my hat
• Icing on the cake
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Junk food
• Know which side your bread is buttered
• Let them eat cake (Marie Antoinette quotation - attributed)
• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Live to eat
• Loaf about
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Man does not live by bread alone
• Motherhood and apple pie
• Nothing else is Arthur's good (Arthur's Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Off your food
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Pie eyed
• Pie in the sky
• Piece of cake
• Piece of the pie
• Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
• Put bread on the table
• Rabbit food
• Raspberry tart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Shut your cake hole
• Shut your pie hole
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• Soul food
• Soup is good food (Campbell's Condensed Soup advertising slogan)
• Sugar Loaf Mountain (tourist attraction in Brazil)
• Sweetie pie
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• Takes the cake
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• The Delia Effect (increase in sales of food ingredients featured on Delia Smith's cookery shows)
• The King and Queen Might Eat Thereof and Noblemen Besides (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• The best thing since sliced bread
• The bread always falls buttered side down
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The cherry on the cake
• The proof of the pudding is in the eating
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• The sweet you can eat between meals without losing your appetite (Milky Way advertising slogan)
• There's fast food, and then there's KFC (KFC advertising slogan)
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Use your loaf
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• White bread
• You are what you eat
• You can't eat scenery
• You can't have your cake and eat it too
• You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Rye Bread (Levy's Rye Bread advertising slogan)