Appendix: Australian English Terms For Food And Drink ... fairy floss - candy floss, cotton candy fizzy drink - used to describe any carbonated drink/soft drink (non-Alcohlic)... Can also describe a drink which is too sweet, as in "God! This is like lolly water!" lunch bar - a small shop selling food items between 6 a.m...
Eat your dry and tasteless bread,
and drink cold water.
When you see others eating delicacies, Farid says,
don’t torment yourself.
—Farid (13th cent.)
There is not enough exercise in this way of life. I try to make up by active gymnastics before I dress when I get up, by walking rapidly in the lower hall and the greenhouse after each meal for perhaps five to ten minutes, and a good hand rubbing before going to bed. I eat moderately; drink one cup of coffee at breakfast and one cup of tea at lunch and no other stimulant. My health is now, and usually, excellent.
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
I know you’re trying, Don. We’re both trying. You’re trying not to drink and I’m trying not to love you.
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)