Taste & Food Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

The sight of our landlord eating was like watching a bear's tongue lap nectar.

The organic tea tasted of boiled boots.

Their home-brew has the strength of car battery acid.

Tastes like something scraped off the ceiling after a failed chemistry experiment.

Tastes as wholesome as cholera culture.

The fact that the cutlery was chained to the table should have warned me: the food was reheated plastic served with deep fried card.

Eating this packet ersatz 'food' is like putting diesel into a Formula 1 car.

Violet entering the clubhouse had the energising stimulation of a double espresso.

She gave us coffee that tasted like fox fur.

I felt like a half-digested meal in a greasy spoon; my eyes stuck together and my mouth full of sand.

This pizza looks like someone has cooked a kid's painting.

It's like Marmite; you either love or hate it.

The editor slowly chewed on a delicious metaphor.

It tastes somewhat sharp, like horse-chestnuts pickled in nitroglycerine.

This sandwich emits the rich flavour of a piece of old torn-off shirt.

Chef's pudding tastes like a molehill decorated with rabbit-droppings.

This morning, my mouth tastes like the inside of an abandoned railway station.

This bizarre combination of ingredients turns my stomach like watching two people lick from the same spoon.

Hungry like a python when the zoo officials have started to bang the luncheon gong.

P.G. Wodehouse

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Mandy scowled at me with froideur, as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Watching Bruno devour such a mound of food was like watching a snake swallow an egg.

A most nutritious drink, like Special Brew with a hint of nail polish remover.

The bloated entourage choked on the spicy paprika of Savannah's concentrated gossip.

At dinner, the Major glared and gobbled like a turkey.

A sweet trolley was so richly artery-filling you could put on weight just by looking at it.

My young nephew has the appetite of a waste disposal unit.

Have a metaphorical experience!