Food for Thought

Why do we use food and cooking analogies to describe people and things in negative, but colorful ways? The images are just too delicious for words! (Thanks to Jeff for his help with tonight's entry.)

1. Cottage cheese thighs
The opera singer's cottage cheese thighs, which shook almost as much as her vibrato, made the tenor yearn for a can of peaches.

2. Sausage
The burgermeister was so sad when his sausage fingers would not fit into a Chinese finger puzzle that he ate a dozen brats and felt even wurst.

3. Pizza face
The pizza faced teenager was shunned by the cheerleader despite his ability to be saucy.

4. Being a couch potato
Being a couch potato is well and good until your eyes sprout.

5. Being a bad apple or a smart cookie
Why would anyone choose to be a bad apple when he could just as easily be a smart cookie?

6. Being chicken
Being chicken is not a bad thing. After all there are 1,001 ways to prepare yourself for dinner with the boss.

7. Going bananas
When I go bananas I find it best to add three scoops of ice cream and multiple toppings.

8. Being cheesy
His jokes were so cheesy that no one thought they were Gouda, but everyone agrees the punch lines made them cheddar.

9. Being a bad egg
He was a bad egg - cracked when he was young, and the yolk was on him.

10. Smelling fishy
Holy mackerel, Batman! Is that a congressman I smell?

11. Steamed
He was so steamed I was ready to add butter and hollandaise sauce.

12. Hard boiled
The hard-boiled detective searched out the poacher.

13. Half baked / over done
The half-baked actor arrived over done.

14. A crock
"What a crock!" exclaimed a judge at the chili cook-off.

15. Off his nut
Everyone thought he was off his nut when he said the squirrels were plotting to storm the tree and take the acorns by force.

16. Panned
Although he played Puck the critics panned him anyway.

17. Toast / toasted
"You're toast!" the woman cried, "if you come home toasted yet again!"

18. Being a goober
Even President Carter knew his brother, Billy, was a goober.

19. Fried
The former hippie with hallucinogenics was both deep and fried.

20. Being unsavory
The unsavory character left a sour taste with everyone he met.

How many more can you add?