Posted on 08/14/2010 4:21:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It may not be as dramatic or spark the (surprising) interest the Broccoli Incident did during the first Bush administration, but the Obama White House does offer this bit of vegetable news: Michelle Obama hates beets.
This tidbit comes from an interview for the September issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, in which Obama discusses the first family’s eating habits and says: “Neither the president nor I have the beet gene.”
This brings to mind President George H.W. Bush, who in 1990 demonstrated his assertiveness to the American public by declaring during a news conference:
I do not like broccoli. I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it, and I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
(Students of the New Yorker and James Thurber will recall his caption for a cartoon depicting a little girl and mother squaring off at table. “It’s broccoli, dear,” says the mom. To which...
the girl replies: “I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.”)
Bush went so far as to ban broccoli from Air Force One and boldly declared he would not back down from his anti-broccoli position, even though California farmers dispatched 20,000 pounds of the cruciferous vegetable, which is high in calcium and Vitamin A, to the nation’s capital.
“There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington,” he said.
Broccoli -- as an issue, not a side dish -- even popped up at a state dinner for Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. “The broccoli growers of America are up in arms against me,” the leader of the free world told Mazowiecki. “Would you be interested in having the [shipment] in Poland?”
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It must be in the name. Only vegetables starting with a “b” are bad.
The left ARE vegetables........
Barak 0bama hates colored vegetables.
...inshallah."
Peasant food not good enough for the queen?
Pickled and harvard beets rock!!
Beets are negative calorie foods - the body uses more energy to digest them then they have - excellent for any diet.
Looking at her, diet ain’t in the word game bro.
Obama celebrates spending binge with cocktails and wagyu steak
By Michelle Malkin • January 29, 2009 06:28 AM
Can the Obama administration be anymore tone deaf? After pushing his $1.1 trillion Generational Theft Act of 2009 through the House last night, the White House apparently decided to throw itself a swank cocktail party.
According to ABC’s Jake Tapper, the menu included alcoholic beverages (vodka martinis are an Obama favorite, reportedly) and wagyu steak.
Yeah, “wagyu steak.” $100 per serving delicacy. I had to look it up, too.
On the heels of the most expensive inaugural celebration in American history and passage of a trillion-dollar spending binge that will saddle future generations with unprecedented debt, perhaps President Obama might consider cutting back on such indulgences.
Or is the White House exempt from “shared sacrifice,” Mr. President?
“New era of responsibility?”
Not so much.
Do these idiots in our house, the White House, eat pork. Good question and somebody should ask it.
Do these idiots in our house, the White House, eat pork?Good question and somebody should ask it.
One-Termer seems to eat nothing but ice cream. Anyone else notice his weird fixation with it?
The Obama’s also hate America as we know it.
They are trying to change it beyond all recognition.
Their faces should be “beet” red for what they have done to our way of life while partying and cavorting around the world with no regard for who is paying their bills.
Ah crap I agree with Michelle Obama. I hate beets too. Only food I can think of that I adamantly refuse to eat.
Love Broccoli, love Beets, never met a veggie I didn’t like.
I make a killer broccoli casserole. My neighbor of 33+ years makes incredible pickled beets. I don’t give a rat’s tuchis what Michelle likes.
I hate vegetables and I’m not a liberal. I can tolerate raw carrots and celery, especially with dip. Radishes with salt are pretty good too. The rest of them I hate, always have.
I also don’t like very many fruits.
I’m not too crazy about okra, other than fried, but otherwise, I concur.
I’m with GHB, I *hate* broccoli. Cauliflower is just as terrible. I’ll eat peas, beets, spinach and even brussel sprouts (even if my family won’t), but broccoli.....eugh.
I grew up liking beets, because I was served pickled beets, which are very tasty. But I also got used to the beet flavor underneath the pickling, so that when I had ordinary cooked beets for the first time, while puzzled, I didn’t find them awful.
There are lots of pickled beets recipes, but this one is easy. It’s best to let it steep, refrigerated, for a couple of weeks, for the full pickling flavor, but after that they will keep for a long time in the fridge.
First drain, then put into a half gallon glass jar 2-3 cans of sliced beets, a small sliced onion, a bay leaf, and sprinkle 1 tsp of pickling spice and 1/4 tsp pepper on them.
Make a 50-50 mix of cider vinegar and water in a pot, enough to cover the beets and some, then bring to a boil with 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp sugar. Pour over beets then cover and refrigerate.
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