Posted on 04/10/2009 5:04:46 PM PDT by Steelfish
Obamas fly in chef 860 miles... just to make pizza
By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 10th April 2009
When you're the president of the United States, only the best pizza will do - even if that means flying a chef 860 miles.
Chris Sommers, 33, jetted into Washington from St Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with a suitcase of dough, cheese and pans to to prepare food for the Obamas and their staff.
He had apparently been handpicked after the President had tasted his pizzas on the campaign trail last autumn.
Great honour: Chris Sommers will make 20 pizzas for the Obamas and their staff at a White House dinner
'It's surreal, it's a huge honour,' said Mr Sommers, who owns Pi restaurant in St Louis.
'It will be a casual lunch and hopefully we'll have a chance to say hello to the president.'
Mr Somers was accompanied by this business parnter Ryan Mangilardo who will help prepare the dinner for 140 this evening.
It will feature his signature dishes - ten deep dish and ten thin crust creations.
He is also planning a pizza especially for the president - the Hyde Park topped with chicken and hot sauce.
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Damn! Now that “Movin’ On Up” song from “The Jeffersons” is going to be in my head for the rest of the night!
How many carbon offsets is that trip worth?
Great.... who picked up the tab.... AIG or Goldman Sachs?
Do as I say, not as I do.
Ping.
It’s good to be royalty.
I hope the S-OB paid for the flight out of his own pocket and not on the taxpayer’s dime....
No pizza with wagyu sausage? I’m apalled...
The Clinton's, who will attend, requested the "Ft. Marcy Park" pizza. It's to die for.
Never truer even in the klintoon administration.
Shouldn’t the correct title be
“ American taxpayers pay to fly in pizza chef for the self indulgent Obamas “ ?
Whose jet did he fly in on? Who paid for it?
Who is tracking the carbon footprints?
Whose account are the carbon footprints being charged to?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This dick head thinks he is the king, abuse it while you can the truth will emerge, the important things as pizza is top priority.
This is so wrong.
Let ‘em eat cake like the rest of us.
Our Czar and Czarina.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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