The answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. Hypothetical origin of life

2. One glued to the tube

3. Every one has to eat it, sooner or later

4. Ante, often 

5. Vaseline - for one

6. Cause of river blockage, perhaps

7. Scholar or intellectual, informally

Answers:

 

1. Primordial soup

2. Couch potato

3. Humble pie

4. Poker chip

5. Petroleum jelly

6. Log jam

7. Egghead - - - "Foods" that can't be eaten

 

Credit:

David W. Cromer

NOT ON THE PLATE

        It's un-fare 

 

Note: See also THE INEDIBLES - posted 7/2/21 - for a similar puzzle.