Posted on 06/28/2014 1:25:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A blue-cheese burger with lettuce, tomato and garlic aioli, accompanied by Parmesan-sprinkled fries. Chocolate fudge cake. Pasta shells stuffed with four cheeses, topped with meat sauce and shredded mozzarella, and served with a garlic breadstick. Cake infused with limoncello. Buffalo wings with celery, carrots and homemade ranch dip.
Such was the fare served to passengers aboard Air Force One during a particularly grueling three-state day on the campaign trail just before the 2012 election. Not much has changed since.
“It’s American fare, in that it’s not going all arugula on people,” said Arun Chaudhary, who was President Obama’s videographer from 2009 to 2011. “It’s not aggressively nutritious.”
To say the least. The food on Air Force One is well known among White House staff members and reporters for being plentiful in quantity and broad in appeal, but not always the perfect mirror of the nutritional recommendations coming out of the office of the first lady, Michelle Obama, who has made healthy eating and living her mission.
According to the Agriculture Department’s MyPlate guide, unveiled by Mrs. Obama in 2011, fruits and vegetables should make up half of a meal. (White potatoes alone will not do the trick, as the first lady wrote in a recent editorial.) Mrs. Obama has also emphasized the need to reduce the consumption of sugar, salt and fat in her fight to improve school lunches as part of her Let’s Move initiative against childhood obesity...
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Are you SURE you want to ask that question? LOL
Lol. You’re still speaking to me, after that other thread? That’s good; I’m relieved.
You know my theory. R. Love had all he could take. He’s outa there. Barry’s on the prowl. Maybe that’s the reason he’s been extra whiney/cranky lately. There’s a void in his life.
Just speculating.
Mort, I must also remind you that this a family-friendly site and doubling our already double entendres simply cannot be tolerated.
People have lots of different proportions. Larger feet correlate with longer arms.
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