Iceberg lettuce is perhaps the most aptly named plant in the world, and should be avoided as though you were the Titanic with a second chance. – Alan Koehler

Americans are the grossest feeders of any civilized nation known. As a nation, their food is heavy, coarse and indigestible, while it is taken in the least artificial forms that cookery will allow.

-James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)