Presidential snacks: Obama’s shopping spree
Wow. I didn’t know you could buy babies at the Farmer’s Market (see paragraph two).
Obama’s purchase of biscuits, zucchini bread, pound cake, bread, tomatoes and peaches makes him a health-food nut compared to earlier Presidents.
We all are familiar with chow hound Bill Clinton. But do you recall the partician Bush Senior’s difficult-to-believe (and to stomach) predilection for pork rinds? Reagan liked jelly beans, and Nixon’s comfort food was cottage cheese mixed with ketchup. Yuk.
Aw, pork rinds aren’t so bad. I think the processed, bagged version are a Texas thing- my dad loved them, too.
Hispanics and Filipinos know them as chicharrones. They can be found in New Mexico too, and believe it or not, they’re dynamite in a burrito.
Cottage cheese belongs in blintzes–and only in blintzes.
Cottage cheese and pineapple and you have something.
Bread, bread and more bread . . . that’s not health food.
like we would know the truth if he bought a molsens, or beef jerky?
Somebody wake me up when we get a real President who eats a potted meat and mayonaise samich. If not familiar just picture corn beef hash in a blender on”puree” for a good 5 minutes. Its the shiznitt! No….its Lincolnest!
Bleh – potted meat sandwiches are not very tasty. Now deveiled ham on ritz crackers and your golden.
Pork rinds can also be tasty – however many of the bagged ones are not so. Fresh made ones are a totally different story in flavor and texture, they are hard to describe as they are a strange combination of crunchy, chewy, light/airy, and fatty. Ever have a really fresh well made doughnut that is like eating a chewy puff of heavy dough? Similar concept.
If you have ever had cracklins it is a very similar taste/texture, but then that is pretty much one of those “country” type foods also. However they are popular enough in cornbread even some non-country only people will have consumed some.
The bagged rinds are heavily dependent on how old they are – I don’t know what the shelf life is but I can assure you it is really short. The only place I *ever* purchase them from is places that I know sell them quickly. Those are usually good and easy to eat a whole bag, but those places are few and far in between. Old ones end up being simply greasy and chewy and taste about like old grease smells.
Every once in a while a farmer will sell some fresh made ones on the side of the road – there is nothing like them at all.
Artfldgr Says:
“August 21st, 2008 at 8:04 pm
like we would know the truth if he bought a molsens, or beef jerky?”
That and bowling a 180+ (vs 30 something) and he’d be an ok guy.
> Cottage cheese belongs in blintzes—and only in blintzes.
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WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.
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Cottage Cheese belongs in the wastebin. Or down the garbage disposal. Take your pick, although the former needs to be taken out immediately, so the latter is more optimal.
> and believe it or not, they’re dynamite in a burrito.
Especially about four hours after you eat the burrito…
:oP
… not to suggest I don’t appreciate the pork rind or two once in a while…
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> That and bowling a 180+ (vs 30 something) and he’d be an ok guy.
Don’t be silly. Black people don’t bowl.
:oP
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> Bread, bread and more bread . . . that’s not health food.
They make tomatoes and peaches out of bread now?
Man, I thought the left didn’t like hybrids… now you tell me it’s only hybrid grains?
Actually, in seriousness. This is just another BS “photo-op” designed to make him appear “just like a regular guy” as opposed to the privileged elitist he really is. I will lay HUGE odds that that’s the first time he’s even been in a market for “shopping” in 20 years.
I want to see the reverse angle, like at this photo-op:
What they dont show you tells you everything you need to know.
heck…
he is from indonesia…
i wonder if he likes durien? 🙂
[my wife is indonesian, its taken me a while to get used to durien… it has strategic usages though. if you have a western person who just wont leave, just break it out and have a snack… wow!!!]
and Thomas, can you imagine obama on the bowling alley? that would be an interesting sight.
In an article about the White House chef, I remember Newsweek claiming that President Ford ate cottage cheese with ketchup.
A Time Magazine article from the same period agrees.
Time Magazine
Short version of the URL
http://is.gd/1QaR
Maybe we need to put a question i the first debate: Do you prefer a) cottage cheese with ketchup, b) organic arugula, or c) grilled steak with cantalope for dessert.