Gruel Phrases

Phrases

• A bit of a porridge
• A bite to eat
• Al desko (eating one's lunch while still working)
• All you add is love (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• All you can eat
• Alphabet soup (a jumble of words or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC)
• As thin as a rail
• As thin as a rake
• As weak as gnat's piss
• Babies love it (Cow & Gate Milk Food advertising slogan)
• Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob Dylan song)
• 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
• Central heating for kids (Ready Brek porridge advertising slogan)
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Comfort food
• Cry like a rat eating onions
• 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 treat your puppy like a dog (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• Duck Soup (Marx Brothers movie)
• 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
• 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)

• From soup to nuts
• Go weak at the knees
• Good enough to eat
• Good talk saves the food
• Grab a bite to eat
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Hash it over
• Have a bite to eat
• I could eat a horse
• I'll eat my hat
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In the soup
• Is it soup yet?
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• It's soup
• Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Junk food
• 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
• M'm! M'm! Good! (Campbell's Soup advertising slogan)
• Make a hash of it
• Melt into thin air
• Nothing else is Arthur's good (Arthur's Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Off your food
• Out of thin air
• Paper thin
• Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
• Rabbit food
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Save your breath to cool your porridge
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Skating on thin ice
• Sling hash
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• Soul food
• Soup du jour
• Soup is good food (Campbell's Condensed Soup advertising slogan)
• Spread yourself thin
• 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 cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The proof of the pudding is in the eating
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
• The sweet you can eat between meals without losing your appetite (Milky Way advertising slogan)
• The thin red line
• There's fast food, and then there's KFC (KFC advertising slogan)
• Thin and wiry
• Thin end of the wedge
• Thin on the ground
• Thin on top
• Thin time of it
• Through thick and thin
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Vanish into thin air
• Waiter, there's a fly in my soup
• Walk on thin ice
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You are what you eat
• You can't eat scenery
• You can't have your cake and eat it too