Food

Waiter: I assume you guys are on a date?
Guy #1: Yep.
Waiter: I just love seeing two nice young men together, so I brought you key lime shots to go with the key lime pie. Enjoy.
Guy #2: Bitch, you’ll do anything for alcohol.

–East of Eighth, W. 23rd Street

Dude #1: Turkey and swiss.
Deliman: Sorry, no cheese.
Dude #1: Jesus Christ! What kind of deli doesn’t have cheese?
Dude #2: Um, dude…Jewish deli…
Dude #1: I don’t suppose they’d have hot peppers either, then.

–2nd Avenue Deli

Overheard by: Adam Nathan

Girl #1: You can’t eat that chicken. There was a bug in it.
Girl #2: But I’m so hungry.
Girl #1: What kind of bug is it anyways?
Girl #2: I don’t know. I feel like crying.

–Waverly Diner

Black cyclist guy: Where’s all the black people around here? Did y’all eat all the black people?
White girl: They taste yummy!

–Houston & West Broadway

Overheard by: alyssa

Guy on cell: When you get here I will make you breakfast sausage. And I am not talking euphemistically.

–63rd & 1st

Overheard by: Alison Foster

Old lady #1: What are you eating? It smells good.
Old lady #2: Nicorette.

–DR2 theater, E. 15th Street

Guy #1: I realized what the worst food ever is.
Guy #2: What?
Guy #1: Lean Pockets.

–Gold’s Gym, W. 54th Street

Overheard by: Blake Henderson

Woman: So, yesterday I think I ate dog food again.

–Elevator, 90th & Colombus

Overheard by: Louise XIV

Guy: I think your soul would taste awesome.
Chick: Are you saying I’m a bad person?

–1 train

Overheard by: djlindee

Old woman: Can you put five shrimp in a bag for me to hold for a minute and then I’ll give you two back?
Seafood guy: Excuse me?
Old woman: Just put five shrimp in a bag for me, I need to hold it. I get energies from them. Just put five shrimp in a bag and give it to me to hold, and then I’ll give you two back. I get energies.

–Whole Foods, Union Square