Comments on: The ketchup gendarmes https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:11:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: ziontruth https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/#comment-273252 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:11:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=10377#comment-273252 Ketchuphobia OK, Islamophobia no way.

]]> By: betsybounds https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/#comment-273084 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:29:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=10377#comment-273084 Maybe she told Reagan it was good enough to serve as a vegetable.

]]> By: Occam's Beard https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/#comment-273027 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:45:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=10377#comment-273027 Once at a very chi-chi bistro-type place in Marin County (snob HQ, for those who don’t know the area) I asked for a Perrier and soda.

No one laughed.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/#comment-273024 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:24:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=10377#comment-273024 I bet if you put pureed fresh tomato with a touch of salt and vinegar on the menu, the control freak food snobs wouldn’t get the irony.

]]> By: Occam's Beard https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/#comment-273023 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:24:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=10377#comment-273023 Must be nice to have nothing else to worry about than ketchup. No feral Muslims in banlieues, no banks circling the bowl, no currency problems, nothing like that. O happy land.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/#comment-273011 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:23:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=10377#comment-273011 Artfldgr: that certainly goes against Jackie’s image of sophistication. It allies her instead with Nixon, he of the cottage cheese mixed with ketchup (can’t find any reliable source for the Nixon story, although I’ve heard it plenty of times).

I happen to like ketchup. Just not on everything. But on burgers and fries it is necessary for the full, rich experience.

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/#comment-272998 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:04:16 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=10377#comment-272998 oh… and notice the bias order article next to it! hmmm…

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/#comment-272997 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:03:06 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=10377#comment-272997 oh… read the article to find out the revenge he took on her besides telling all… 🙂

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2011/10/07/the-ketchup-gendarmes/#comment-272996 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:01:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=10377#comment-272996 wasn’t it jackie o that loved to drown things in ketchup that his quitting over it made news? anyone remember if it was her, or another?

just checked.. it WAS jackie
(i memorize all that i read to some extend, so i remember all those tiny articles few others do)

Years ago, Gal told me a story about Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis. Jackie had a famous chef who made her meals. The chef loved his job so much he did his best to make her the most special food every time. He looked for special ingredients and measured every drop, but when she sat at the table, she took a bottle of ketchup, flooded her dish with the red sauce and ate it with pleasure. The chef was so frustrated that one day, he served her horse meat and mushrooms. When she poured ketchup all over it and ate it, the chef quit and told the press.

This story was meant to say that Jackie Kennedy-Onassis had no taste, but to me, it also says she was happy (at least with her food). She was one of the richest women in the world and she made a rule that made her happy with very little effort – by pouring ketchup over her food. The chef’s rule was that food is good only if it contains fine ingredients in precise measures and is made with a lot of effort and skill. Jackie had a rule that if there is ketchup on her food, it tastes great! So simple.

here is a link to the original newspaper article i remembered
http://tinyurl.com/6kyz4y5

it was march 18,1977

i remember LOTS of such articles and tiny things… the minute your post came up, my mind started referencing… and remembered that article the day i read the paper as a kid back in 77!!! (how does everyone here think i find so much stuff, i remember everything so only have to look for it)

i was 13 that year….
🙂

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