Drawback Quotes
“Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.” Truman Capote, 'Answered Prayers' (1975)
Corn on the cob: “The greatest drawback is the way in which it is necessary to eat it.....It looks awkward enough: but what is to be done? Surrendering such a vegetable from considerations of grace is not to be thought of.” Harriet Martineau, an English visitor to Massachusetts when introduced to corn on the cob (1835)
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