- Beezus: Mother, this meat has bumps on it!
- Dory Quimby: It does.
- Ramona: Wait a minute. This isn't pot roast. I wondered why it wasn't stringy.
- Beezus: What is this?
- Ramona: It's mystery meat!
- Beezus: [about her dinner] Picky-Picky can have mine.
- Bob Quimby: Is that so? All right, you want to give your dinner to the cat. Fine.
- Ramona: Really?
- Bob Quimby: Be my guest. But when you're hungry in a couple of hours, you can get Picky-Picky to make you a snack.
- Beezus: But Daddy, it's cow's tongue!
- Bob Quimby: In fact, forget it. After dinner, this kitchen is closed. This is not a restaurant that your mother runs for your convenience.
- Beezus: It's ground-up tongue. This certainly looks delicious, Mother.
- Ramona: Yeah, I can't wait to eat it.
- Dory Quimby: [to Mr. Quimby] Our children have lost their minds.