In article >, Steve Wertz
> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:33:58 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> > wrote:
>
> >> Oh, and BTW: Your quote is not "anonymous". It's almost certainly
> >> a Duncan Hines quote.
> >
> >Can you find a citation attributing it to Duncan Hines? I'd be curious.
> >
> >I checked several websites and the only attribution I can find for that
> >quotation is Anonymous. I found these by Hines: "More people will die
> >from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving;" and "I've run
> >less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it. "
> >Maybe my search string is incomplete.
>
> It's not on a website. If you'd read about Duncan Hines (in
> books), these are the exact same kinds of quotes he was known for.
>
> Read 'Adventures in Good Eating' (1944) and specifically, page 37
> of "Kitchen Cultu 50 years of food fads" (Pharos Books, 1991),
> where he is credited with saying:
>
> "If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as
> old as the turkey; and the turkey had a breast like the maid, it
> would have been a swell dinner".

Hah! Thanks.

> Obviously it's been re-phrased here and there, but that's
> essentially the exact same quote. Contrary to popular belief, not
> everything can be found on the web;

Of course. It's easy to fall into the thought.

>There are still books.

Sure enough. And may there always be. There's something satisfying to
me to turn a paper page.
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