"Eat your dinner. Children are starving in Europe!" This went on well into the early 60s.

From my Dad. "Why don't you eat the heel of the bread? My brothers and I used to fight over it! It's the best part." Well help yourself, then.

When a well-known celebrity's death was announced, Mom would always say in a put-on hillbilly accent "people are a-dyin' what never died before!"