Pastrami Quotes

• Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75. Walked back out in the street - genuine Rolex watch: six bucks.

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  Richard Jeni

  Six   Watches   Sandwiches  

  956

• Long John would sometimes hold his interviews in the Carnegie Delicatessen, which is the most famous delicatessen in New York up by Carnegie. Let's see, 57th Street, you're down to like 50th Street and 7th Avenue... You'd go in there and everybody would be eating a heart attack on a plate, pastrami, malts, that kind of stuff. But it literally was the place where Woody Allen would go.

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  Paul Laffoley

  New York   Heart   Long  

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

  1372

• I hate sandwiches at New York delis. Too much meat on the sandwich. It's like a cow with a cracker on either side. "Would you like anything else with the pastrami sandwich?" "Yeah, a loaf of bread and some other people!"

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  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny   New York   Hate  

  1476

• You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.

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  Mario Batali

  Food   Home   Past  

  4943

• I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and a nice cream soda. It is fantastic. So I have to be careful or I'm going to just get really fat.

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  Vincent Piazza

  Nice   Soda   Fantastic  

  2612

• Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

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  Milton Berle

  Food   Order   White  

  4662

• I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

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  Mitch Hedberg

  Thanksgiving   Being Yourself   Fun  

  3637

• A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of corned beef, pickles, frankfurters, the great lusty impertinence of good mustard is a man of stone and without heart.

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  Herb Gardner

  Heart   Men   Hot  

  Herb Gardner (2000). “Herb Gardner: the collected plays and the screenplay Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me?”, Applause Books

  2969

• All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

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  Sara Paretsky

  Food   Peanut Butter   Comfort  

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

  853

• I hate turkeys. If you go to the grocery store, you start to get mad at turkeys. You see turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Somebody just needs to tell the turkeys, "Man, just be yourselves!" I already like you, little fella. I used to draw you. If you had a couple of fingers missing, you would draw a really messed-up turkey. That turkey was in an accident!

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  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny   Couple   Hate  

  4062

• Would you put a pastrami in your mouth if you didn't want to eat it?

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  Jackie Mason

  Drug   Mouths   Want  

  524