She can hide a lot of vegetables in that hat.
Posted on 09/26/2010 9:20:27 PM PDT by Zakeet
First lady presents dignitaries with pickled veggies from White House garden
When searching for the perfect goodie bag items for U.N. spouses, first lady Michelle Obama made like Peter Piper and picked some pickled peppers.
Obama presented foreign dignitaries visiting New York last week for the U.N. General Assembly with a Longaberger basket filled with items from the White House garden, aides said. The treats include a jar of hand-picked, pickled vegetables such as sun gold tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, chocolate bell peppers and carrots.
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The gifts were presented in a one-of-a-kind Longaberger, pricey baskets that are a staple of at-home shopping parties. According to the White House, a nickel tag is affixed to the outside of each basket and engraved with the words, "Made Exclusively for Michelle Obama."
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She can hide a lot of vegetables in that hat.
You may have been traveling on a diplomatic pasport, but you’re not a head of state and their senior staff on a diplomatic mission. I don’t even know if they x-ray the bags for that type of individual
Ohhhh, okra is so good, esp when boiled, because it just slides down the throat like snails (escargot)!
You’re right. I tried to keep a customs officer at Nairobi airport out of my carry-on and he advised me that only the chief of mission is afforded that courtesy. He cited the Treaty of Vienna which governs all this activity.
“bribe her, dad!”
Great story. My daughter wasn’t with me when I had to bribe an official to get our passports back. She has a lot to learn despite spending most of her life outside the U.S. She does know about “machete Friday” school yard clean up and why the expats don’t send their kids. I could write a book but it makes my PTSD flare up. I never did find out the real price of a stamp in one country. We had lowly government officials trying to get a bribe of an unnecessary 3 day trip and Wookie thinks a gift basket is an appropriate gift. LOL.
These people have never had to live in the trenches. They have no idea what life “over there” is really like.
OMG — this is a cultural tragedy - I’m serious. The US is too big. I know that no one English French Spanish Italian or German would not know a food that defined a region of their country.
Don’t worry, there’s no tragedy, I’m just British. :) I assumed okra was some fashionable ethnic food of some sort. Apparently not.
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