While roast(ed) chicken is a familiar staple, a question to Laurent: How common are les alouettes rôties in France today? I am asking because the Polish proverbial 'rost pigeons' is completely unfamiliar food. What's more, 'pigeons' also means stuffed cabbage which is a very common dish in Poland, so when they say 'Roast pigeons do not fall into the mouth by themselves' my association is with

rather than with

which I have never seen in my life...

Jacek

I had them as a child once, and my grandmother would tell me about them all the time. They were a symbol of the good times, before 1939.  Or perhaps just a myth, as the good times.  

There is a difference between these two dishes in Russian: birds- голубя

cabbage - голубцы

Switching now to food, here is a nice rhymed equivalent in two languages:

After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile.

Po obiedzie spocznij chwilkę, po kolacji przejdź się milkę.

To counter the offensive by three Muscular American Feminists who keep tempting me with sweet stuff of over 327kcal/100g in another thread, here is an African proverb for the occasion:

Water is king of food.

Only in a democratic republic.