Obama Daughters' School Features Japanese-Inspired Lunch Menu on Pearl Harbor Day

Fox News ^ | December 06, 2011

[Sopater]

The elite Washington, D.C., school where President Barack Obama's daughters are students is offering a surprising lunch menu on Pearl Harbor Day.

The Washington Post revealed the lunch menu at the Sidwell Friends private school for Dec. 7 -- the date Japan attacked US forces at Pearl Harbor in 1941 -- includes teriyaki chicken and edamame alongside tofu and "oriental noodle salad."

The menu is printed on a school calendar, which notes that Wednesday is Pearl Harbor Day.

[netmilsmom]

>>Frying up yesterday’s soba (noodles) is hardly unique to the Japanese.<<

True, but it’s all in the name.

If you called a rice, veggie and fish roll sushi, it’s Japanese.
If you made the same thing and called it Gimbap, it’s Korean.

Same thing with a Gyro compared to a Doner Kebab. When it’s Greek it’s a Gyro, when it’s Turkish it’s a Doner Kebob.

[al44]

Correct on that, but I still think it was probably some 20-something preparing the monthly menus who's more interested in rap music that history. BTW, did anybody check the White House menu today?

[apillar]

If you would like to see some of the liberal crap that kids and this "Sidwell Friends" school are indoctrinated with, you should go to the sidwell friends website. Some Choice Examples:

Middle School focuses on identity development and the intentional building of community. Within the advisory curriculum, dialogues about gender, sexuality, racism, bullying, responsibility and social justice move students to examine their lives, question assumptions, and imagine the future. Clubs and affinity groups such as the Diversity Project,

Middle School Environmental Challenges invite students to reduce their carbon footprint. Several challenges are posted each trimester and students of all ages are encouraged to participate. At the end of the year, the pounds of carbon saved are calculated.

8th Grade English - Students engage in reading, writing and thinking about a variety of environmental texts which have sparked communal social action and make connections between the building’s systems and the world outside the building.

Upper School stresses contribution, commitment, activism and global vision. All ninth graders attend peer-led diversity training and a Freshman Studies course emphasizing personal responsibility. Clubs such as the Upper School diversity club Team 14, Black Student Union, GLSBT (Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Bisexual, transgender Alliance), the Asian Student Alliance, and many others foster dialogue and promote equity. Each affinity group is encouraged to share its perspective through assemblies and other programs. Students debate important issues, question the status quo and support initiatives for change. Local and national student diversity leadership conferences such as the annual People of Color Conference help students step confidently into the larger world. In keeping with its core Quaker values, Sidwell Friends encourages students to reflect on the present and “let their lives speak” so that they may impact the future in meaningful ways.

[dmz]

Sorry but this type of story makes conservatives look like crack pots. I can’t believe Fox News even posted this as news.

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It isn’t news. It had one goal, and we are seeing it played out on this thread. Manipulation successful.

[j_tull]

I believe the poster is suggesting taking offense to the menu makes us crackpots.

[netmilsmom]

Here, this will make you feel better

http://crazyontv.com/gaki-no-tsukai-chinko-machine/

[sand lake bar]

I think it’s ok for us to eat Japanese food on December 7. I may be wrong, but I think Ku Sakamoto had a number one song on the charts on Dec. 7, 1962 or thereabouts.

Imagine: less than 20 years after we bombed Hiroshima. I’m guessing that if we nuked some Taliban village it would in this day and age take maybe only 10 years to get an Afghani song on the charts.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Ok, trying to see issue here. I have teriyaki sauce in my refrigerator made in California. Is there an issue if I throw some in my wok tonight with some chicken?

I fail to see how a lunch menu has anything to do with Pearl Harbor.

And I am a person will never buy a Japanese car based on the atrocities the Japanese committed against our men in uniform.

[netmilsmom]

And this one is faster (although not subtitled) and everyone gets it.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9bnxr_downtown-gaki-no-tsukai-oogiri-daig_fun

[Osage Orange]

Funny how the left things we are crackpots when we think something is wrong.

[EyeGuy]

“Not even surprised. In my travels I have bumped into people that hate everything American.”

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And it is probably much worse among foreigners....

[Osage Orange]

Things = thinks

[bert]

what is a Japanese car?

[dmz]

Dec 7 American Lunch:

Great burger

Fries

A Coke (or milkshake)

Slice of apple or cherry pie

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Hilarious.

Burger = Hamburger = German
Fries = French Fries = French

Pies may have originated in Egypt during the neolythic period.

Carbonated beverages most certainly predate the discovery of America.

The milkshake might be the only actual American food on your menu (and that’s debatable, given that malted milk powder was invented by a Brit).

[Osage Orange]

So....let's see here.

I invite you over for the Fourth of July...and I serve you food generally served in Iraq.

Would you think that odd, wrong, or normal?

Or you came over for Thanksgiving dinner...and I served you Chinese food. Would that strike you as wrong? Weird?

Considering the present POTUS.......and his SOP, this would NOT be out of character.

[andy58-in-nh]

I thought “Chicken Teriyaki” was the nickname of the only Japanese fighter pilot to ever fly 45 missions.

[andy58-in-nh]

I thought “Chicken Teriyaki” was the nickname of the only Japanese kamakaze fighter pilot to ever fly 45 missions.

[Osage Orange]

So what are you saying?

[LibLieSlayer]

Serving food on the only day in America that it could be considered treasonous food... to two daughters of the ONLY traitor to ever serve as president... is just typical of American hating progressives in academia.

LLS

[dmz]

I invite you over for the Fourth of July...and I serve you food generally served in Iraq.

Would you think that odd, wrong, or normal?

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I would not find it odd in the least, certainly not wrong, and normal wouldn’t apply. Our celebration of our Independence from Britain has exactly nothing to do with Iraq, so serving Iraqi food would lead me to believe that is what you like to eat/cook. And I’d be thrilled that it wasn’t burgers and dogs.

I’m guessing that you would take offense to my Memorial Day menu this year ... having just returned a few days earlier from Israel, I made a themed meal of foods from the middle east.