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Your Quotes for 6 March 2006 - Frozen Vegetables

It was on this day in 1930 that Clarence Birdseye put the first frozen vegetables on sale at Springfield, Massachusetts. Some will argue that they aren't as good as fresh, but I'm glad for them. I certainly put more vegetables on the table than I would if I were limited to seasonal vegetables prepared from scratch. Really! What vegetables that you'd want to eat are in season in March?

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
     - Fran Lebowitz

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
     - Johnny Carson, 1925 - 2005

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it-beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
     - Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
     - Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days (1985)

Pessimism is as American as apple pie; frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
     - George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft, 1983

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
     - Paul Sweeney

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