hunger is a good sauce

English

Proverb

hunger is a good sauce

1. (dated) Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.

   Synonyms: hunger is the best sauce, hunger is the best spice, hunger is the best pickle, hunger is the best seasoning

   • 1854, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, Vol. XXVI, Punch Publications Ltd., page 74:

     His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular.

Translations

being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food

• Arabic: الجوع كافر
• Catalan: no hi ha millor salsa que la de sant Bernat, a bona gana, és inútil la salsa
• Cimbrian: dar hummar iz dar peste khoch
• Czech: hlad je nejlepší kuchař (cs)
• Danish: sult er det bedste krydderi
• Dutch: honger is de beste saus
• Finnish: nälkä on paras mauste
• French: il n’est condiment que d’appétit, il n’est sauce que d’appétit
• German: Hunger ist der beste Koch
• Icelandic: sultur gerir sætan mat
• Irish: is maith an t-anlann an t-ocras
• Italian: la fame è il miglior condimento
• Latin: fames optimum condimentum
• Portuguese: a fome é o melhor tempero (pt)
• Romanian: foamea este cel mai bun bucătar
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• Swedish: hungern är den bästa kryddan
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• Vietnamese: một miếng khi đói bằng một gói khi no
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