I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense, and my evening meal, The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.Come, dear bowl, Glide o'er my palate, and inspire my soul.

-Barlow,Joel
  'The Hasty-Pudding', canto1

You can't fake qualityany more thanyou can fake a good meal.

-Burroughs,William S(eward)
  The Western Lands, ch.2.

   Salad is not a meal. It is a style.

-Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann)
  Metropolitan Life,'Food For Thought and Vice Versa'.

Their beer was strong; their wine was port; Their meal was large; their grace was short. They gave the poor the remnant meat, Just when it grew not fit to eat.

-Prior, Matthew
  'An Epitaph', l.29^32.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is perfectly good manners to read the paper.

-Vanderbilt, Amy
  AmyVanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette.