"So far, we've talked a lot about carrot color." - NICOLA TWILLEY, How the Carrot Became Orange, and Other Stories, Gastropod #Gastropod #InternationalCarrotDay #NicolaTwilley

"The baby carrot needed new everything." - NICOLA TWILLEY, How the Carrot Became Orange, and Other Stories, Gastropod #Gastropod #InternationalCarrotDay #NicolaTwilley

"Before these individual packages, you had to buy and usually eat your snacks on the street, or at the circus, or the ballgame." - CYNTHIA GRABER, Snack Attack!, Gastropod #Gastropod #snacks #AmericanCircusDay #CynthiaGraber

"And it is awesome." - CYNTHIA GRABER, Black Gold: The Future of Food...We Throw Away, Gastropod #Gastropod #CynthiaGraber

"But our whiskey is not done yet." - NICOLA TWILLEY, Espresso and Whisky: The Place of Time in Food, Gastropod #Gastropod #InternationalWhiskeyDay #NicolaTwilley

"It was really like forced alcoholism." - NICOLA TWILLEY, You're Wrong About Prohibition, Gastropod #Gastropod #NicolaTwilley

"I know OREOS® were actually the knock-off." - CYNTHIA GRABER, The Way the Cookie Crumbles, Gastropod #Gastropod #Cookie #NationalOreoDay #CynthiaGraber

"Nabisco was able to sell OREOS® for less money, and they kept spending money on advertising, and Hydrox's ads started to sound a little pissy." - CYNTHIA GRABER, The Way the Cookie Crumbles, Gastropod #Gastropod #Cookie #NationalOreoDay #CynthiaGraber

"The invention of the Cheeto® had to do with exploding corn!" - CYNTHIA GRABER, Snack Attack!, Gastropod #Gastropod #snacks #NationalCheeseDoodleDay #CynthiaGraber