Food

Man: …I’m saying, you’ve passed out, and then the cat eats you. So just don’t pass out.

–1 Train

Overheard by: Dan Dickinson

Drunk woman: …so I had the 6 pounds of meat for the meatloaf and I’m stirring. It was for like 15 people–I had the whole family over–and I turn away for one minute. I came back to find my daughter stirring it, but she had poured in Meow Mix cat food. So me and my mother start picking the cat food out (it was the seafood flavored one) but there was too much in it. So I just put it in the oven, and while everyone was eating it I kept singing the Meow Mix song under my breath. My sister-in-law and mother-in-law asked for the recipe afterwards.

–LIRR to Penn Station

Overheard by: Jax

Urban chick: They eat some fucked up shit. I could be starving but if I’m at her house I won’t eat. I’ll make me a sammich. Bean curd soup! I never heard of no shit like that. Bean curd soup.

–D train

Diner: Your brown sauce; it’s some sort of, um…brown sauce?
Waiter: Yes.
Dining Man: OK, that sounds good.

–Pongsri, Chinatown

Overheard by: Joseph Schoech

Server: Oh no, not you again! Whatchoo want?
Customer: ‘talian col’ cut.
Server: Whatchoo want on it?
Customer: I said ‘talian col’ cut!
Server: Whatchoo want on it?
Customer: Damn baby, I want you on it!
Server: Shit, you wouldn’t even know what to do with me!
Customer: Damn baby, I eat that shit!

–Bed-Stuy deli

Hip Hop Guy on cell: I’ll just keep my nuts shaved and everything’ll be fine.

–Varick Street

Coffee guy on phone: I’m not talking about whacking off, I’m talking about fried chicken!

–Alt.coffee, Avenue A

Overheard by: Dibson Hoffweiler

The cashier scans an old lady’s ricotta cheese.

Cashier: Why didn’t you get the bigger one?
Old Lady: ‘Cause I’ll eat it all! This way I have a limit.

–Waldbaum’s, Bensonhurst

Stylish woman: Oh my god! This corn flan is amazing. It’s corn…but it’s flan…I can’t even begin to describe it.

–North Square, Waverly Place

Overheard by: Christine M.

Customer: French toast bagel.
Cashier: Cream cheese?
Customer: French toast bagel.
Cashier: French toast bagel, yes, but did you have cream cheese on it?!

–Au Bon Pain, 44th & Madison

Brooklyn mom: You are the only kid I have ever met who doesn't like goat cheese.
Nine-year-old: Peanut butter!

–Brooklyn Heights

Girl: I would totally eat the shit out of a cupcake!

–St. Mark's Place

Mom to little boy crying after dropping popsicle: I'm not buying you another one!

–Central Park

Overheard by: Katherine

Thin blonde girl: I love food. I wish I could make love to this cookie…

–NYU

Very hot girl in expensive outfit to guy walking away: Oh, so looking at candy and toys is more important than my need to go to the bathroom?

–82nd & Central Park West