hunger is the best sauce
Proverb meaning that when you are very hungry, even poor food tastes delicious.
Hunger is the best sauce—the rice balls we ate in the mountains were the best.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling for this proverb.
All-kana variant; もの is written in kana instead of 物.
A traditional Japanese proverb. The exact origin is uncertain, but it reflects a common folk observation about hunger enhancing taste.