Food Metaphors and Idioms

Vegetable - as in comatose, brain-damaged, or lazy
Veg out - the act of relaxing
one bad apple...
apple of my eye
the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree
comparing apples and (to) oranges
how do you like them apples?
as American as apple pie
rotten to the core
spoiled rotten
meat and potatoes - most basic, standby
bread and butter - similar to above, but with added aspect of a specialty
hot tamale
a piece of cake
easy as pie
put some spice into it
Just give you a taste - a sample
the flavor of what I mean
cooking up trouble
tasty - slang describing something good
sweet - slang describing something good
vanilla - plain, boring
nuts
bananas
half-baked
hot potato
in a pickle
feast your eyes
a bitter defeat
left a bad taste in my mouth
eye candy
arm candy
brain candy
I could eat you up
the filet mignon of ...

It seems that food metaphors and idioms are perfect examples of how important food is to a culture and how references to food can embed themselves in language. It seems that most begin as an analogy, however obscure they may have become.