Ooh yummy.

oh noes, promoting a healthy diet in a nation full of fatties!!!1!

/Conservatives getting up in arms over Obama's taste for arugula is hands-down the most retarded thing they've ever feigned indignance over.

it was never off the menu.

schattenteufel

I don't know how your post in any way relates to the article, but I approve nonetheless.


As per the article, this is definitely a positive. The past two Presidents have had no taste when it came to food. Clinton was famously photographed chowing down on McDonalds. Bush, well we hardly ever saw the guy eat, and when we did he was chompin' and talkin' with his mouth full & open. So maybe if Obama gets serious about the nation's diet, we can do something about our obesity rates.

Smacky the Frog: schattenteufel

I don't know how your post in any way relates to the article, but I approve nonetheless.

That's Christina Arugala

Approves

/Cuidado! Caliente!

One thing people don't know about Bush is that he actually did eat relatively organically and locally (it was in last weeks Newsweek). Obama even kept Bush's chef. I asssume Bush just played up the hot dogs and hamburers thing to go with his regular guy schtick.

I don't get it. Is the tag for the submitter?

GRRRRRR I HATE YOU SO MUCH YOU STUPID PLANT

WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA, PLANT

Besides the "That's the way I roll" quote, a faily meaningless bunch of tripe.

Why is arugula considered high end? They serve arugula in salads and on sandwiches at farkin Corner Bakery.

Aaron Haynes: GRRRRRR I HATE YOU SO MUCH YOU STUPID PLANT

WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA, PLANT

DOWN WITH PLANT

Smacky the Frog: I don't know how your post in any way relates to the article, but I approve nonetheless.

It's Christine Aguilera. I was making a pun.


...Bush, well we hardly ever saw the guy eat...

That's because it's illegal to show people eating dead babies on TV. ...or something.

I totally back Obama on some new food policies here in the US. We have serious health issues here, that are diet related.


On that [video] where Obama is walking through the White House and gets asked a real question by a reporter, (it was yesterday I think on Fark) he walks by a snack machine and makes a comment how they need healthier snacks in there.

I would love to see Obama show America and its food suppliers how to eat right and with variety.

/foodie

schattenteufel: Smacky the Frog: I don't know how your post in any way relates to the article, but I approve nonetheless.

It's Christine Aguilera. I was making a pun.


...Bush, well we hardly ever saw the guy eat...

That's because it's illegal to show people eating dead babies on TV. ...or something.

Pfft...he only ate poor babies.

3_Butt_Cheeks: schattenteufel: Smacky the Frog:

...Bush, well we hardly ever saw the guy eat...

That's because it's illegal to show people eating dead babies on TV. ...or something.

Pfft...he only ate poor black babies.


ftfy

That line reads better in the original orcish.



/Uruk-hailinked

TofuTheAlmighty: That line reads better in the original orcish.



/Uruk-hailinked

pwned.

3_Butt_Cheeks: schattenteufel: Smacky the Frog:
...Bush, well we hardly ever saw the guy eat...

That's because it's illegal to show people eating dead babies on TV. ...or something.

Pfft...he only ate poor babies.


Only poor chocolate babies.

Real Americans don't eat arugula. They eat Freedom Fries™.

/French Freedom-American

FeedTheCollapse: oh noes, promoting a healthy diet in a nation full of fatties!!!1!

/Conservatives getting up in arms over Obama's taste for arugula is hands-down the most retarded thing they've ever feigned indignance over.

The point... you missed it. Obama was talking to a group of blue collar working people in Ohio about the high cost of groceries and then gave an example of how much Arugula cost at Whole Foods Market. The flap was over the disconnect between Obama and the group he was talking to.

Smacky the Frog: pwned.

Worked at first. Try that again:



Looks like an elitist, Volvo-driving, arugula-eater to me.

humanshrapnel: Approves

/Cuidado! Caliente!

It's a veg-e-ta-ble.

/you dirty rat!
//love that movie

TofuTheAlmighty: elitist, Volvo-driving, arugula-eater to me.


True that. Why they drive Volvos is stunning. Those cars blow. See plenty of them with Kerry and Obama stickers on them around here.


The smart money is on a BMW bizzitches.

thatmanfromtexas: FeedTheCollapse: oh noes, promoting a healthy diet in a nation full of fatties!!!1!

/Conservatives getting up in arms over Obama's taste for arugula is hands-down the most retarded thing they've ever feigned indignance over.

The point... you missed it. Obama was talking to a group of blue collar working people in Ohio about the high cost of groceries and then gave an example of how much Arugula cost at Whole Foods Market. The flap was over the disconnect between Obama and the group he was talking to.

Farmers, actually. The guys who grow produce for a living. Obama was making a point on how branching out into less-traditional crops could be more profitable. A few (supremely non-elitist) rightwing hacks fabricated the flap, on the apparently justified assumption that their audience was willing to believe that no-one in Ohio had ever heard of arugula or Whole Foods.

Erik_Emune: thatmanfromtexas: FeedTheCollapse: oh noes, promoting a healthy diet in a nation full of fatties!!!1!

/Conservatives getting up in arms over Obama's taste for arugula is hands-down the most retarded thing they've ever feigned indignance over.

The point... you missed it. Obama was talking to a group of blue collar working people in Ohio about the high cost of groceries and then gave an example of how much Arugula cost at Whole Foods Market. The flap was over the disconnect between Obama and the group he was talking to.

Farmers, actually. The guys who grow produce for a living. Obama was making a point on how branching out into less-traditional crops could be more profitable. A few (supremely non-elitist) rightwing hacks fabricated the flap, on the apparently justified assumption that their audience was willing to believe that no-one in Ohio had ever heard of arugula or Whole Foods.

I'm pretty sure it was Iowa, and at least some of the farmers in question grew arugula.

TFA: Rick Bayless, the chef of that restaurant, Topolobampo, says Obama's comfortable demeanor at the table - slumped contentedly in his chair, clearly there to enjoy himself - bodes well for the nation's food policy.

thatmanfromtexas: FeedTheCollapse: oh noes, promoting a healthy diet in a nation full of fatties!!!1!

/Conservatives getting up in arms over Obama's taste for arugula is hands-down the most retarded thing they've ever feigned indignance over.

The point... you missed it. Obama was talking to a group of blue collar working people in Ohio about the high cost of groceries and then gave an example of how much Arugula cost at Whole Foods Market. The flap was over the disconnect between Obama and the group he was talking to.

Is that kinda like forgetting how many homes you own?

Dancin_In_Anson: TFA: Rick Bayless, the chef of that restaurant, Topolobampo, says Obama's comfortable demeanor at the table - slumped contentedly in his chair, clearly there to enjoy himself - bodes well for the nation's food policy.

Topolobampo is Mexican, not Korean.

Dancin_In_Anson: TFA: Rick Bayless, the chef of that restaurant, Topolobampo, says Obama's comfortable demeanor at the table - slumped contentedly in his chair, clearly there to enjoy himself - bodes well for the nation's food policy.

[quizzical dog.jpg]

Holy shiat.

I agree with a comment by DIA.

Represent, Bro!


/On the other hand, Rick Bayless has excellent Mexican cookbooks, as long as you have 3 days to prepare a meal.

dictyboy: Topolobampo is Mexican, not Korean.



Hot, like Kim Chee

Skleenar: Dancin_In_Anson: TFA: Rick Bayless, the chef of that restaurant, Topolobampo, says Obama's comfortable demeanor at the table - slumped contentedly in his chair, clearly there to enjoy himself - bodes well for the nation's food policy.

[quizzical dog.jpg]

Holy shiat.

I agree with a comment by DIA.

Represent, Bro!


/On the other hand, Rick Bayless has excellent Mexican cookbooks, as long as you have 3 days to prepare a meal.



I agree with both of you as well.

That sentence is so bizarre and is just pure over-done Obamadulation that the press can not stop doing.

Also I would love to eat at a Bayless restaurant someday. Authentic Mexican is teh awesomness. Saw a show where he dug a pit and made an oven to slow cook stuff. Took him a day just to build it, and another full day to cook it. Plus the hours of food prep.

Skleenar: dictyboy: Topolobampo is Mexican, not Korean.



Hot, like Kim Chee

Good one. Seriously though, it's cultural not racial.

dictyboy: Topolobampo is Mexican, not Korean.

That was oh so wrong...Can't. Stop. Laughing.

Skleenar: Holy shiat.

I agree with a comment by DIA.

Represent, Bro!

It happens to everyone sooner or later...Don't fret. It's a good thing.

Maybe conservatives would like arugula better if we used the British name: ROCKET!

One rocket salad, coming right up!

/Yum, rocket.

3_Butt_Cheeks: schattenteufel: Smacky the Frog: I don't know how your post in any way relates to the article, but I approve nonetheless.

It's Christine Aguilera. I was making a pun.


...Bush, well we hardly ever saw the guy eat...

That's because it's illegal to show people eating dead babies on TV. ...or something.

Pfft...he only ate poor babies.



Approves, especially if they're Irish.

Most Americans have never tasted good food. For them, eating out means going to a pizza joint or to a burger place. They are totally unaware of the joy of being served a quality multi-course meal in a pleasant atmosphere. Maybe we would'nt be such a nation of fatties if more people knew how the "other half" ate.

Skleenar: Dancin_In_Anson: TFA: Rick Bayless, the chef of that restaurant, Topolobampo, says Obama's comfortable demeanor at the table - slumped contentedly in his chair, clearly there to enjoy himself - bodes well for the nation's food policy.

[quizzical dog.jpg]

Holy shiat.

I agree with a comment by DIA.

Represent, Bro!


/On the other hand, Rick Bayless has excellent Mexican cookbooks, as long as you have 3 days to prepare a meal.

I love his Mexican Everyday book, but you're pretty much spot-on. That book is supposed to have recipes that take as much as 45 minutes to cook, but he seems to have omitted all of the preparation steps from that timing.

/Chop
//Roast
///Blend
////Boil
//Strain
//Burn
//Say screw it, drink half a bottle of wine, and order pizza.

Rapmaster2000: I asssume Bush just played up the hot dogs and hamburers thing to go with his regular guy schtick.

Exactly. This IS the president who lied about cheese (pop).

ConnieLingus: Why is arugula considered high end? They serve arugula in salads and on sandwiches at farkin Corner Bakery.

Yes, but it's not in the salad bar at Applebee's.

Dancin_In_Anson: TFA: Rick Bayless, the chef of that restaurant, Topolobampo, says Obama's comfortable demeanor at the table - slumped contentedly in his chair, clearly there to enjoy himself - bodes well for the nation's food policy.

[quizzical dog]

Yeah, that's one of the dumbest sentences ever written by a supposed journalist. I can't even figure out WTF "the nation's foot policy" is even supposed to mean.

Dancin_In_Anson: Skleenar: I agree with a comment by DIA.

Represent, Bro!

It happens to everyone sooner or later...Don't fret. It's a good thing.

This is true, but from my personal experience, it usually involves red hair.

thatmanfromtexas: Obama was talking to a group of blue collar working people in Ohio about the high cost of groceries and then gave an example of how much Arugula cost at Whole Foods Market. The flap was over the disconnect between Obama and the group he was talking to.


They probably just figured he was talking about pasta or somethin' else that ain't pierogies or schnitzel.

thatmanfromtexas: FeedTheCollapse: oh noes, promoting a healthy diet in a nation full of fatties!!!1!

/Conservatives getting up in arms over Obama's taste for arugula is hands-down the most retarded thing they've ever feigned indignance over.

The point... you missed it. Obama was talking to a group of blue collar working people in Ohio about the high cost of groceries and then gave an example of how much Arugula cost at Whole Foods Market. The flap was over the disconnect between Obama and the group he was talking to.

Isnt' that condescending on that part of the press to assume that if you're blue collar you're too lowbrow to know what arugula is?

Coelacanth: Maybe we would'nt be such a nation of fatties if more people knew how the "other half" ate.

It's "other half" food because it's so goddamned expensive. Most people I know can't afford anything but the cheap. Which, agreed, the quality usually sucks.

About the cheapest good food here in Seattle is of the Vietnamese variety. Cheap, nutritious, wholesome.

Otherwise, it's Fat City, both economically and literally...

Admittedly, I'd never heard of arugula until "My Blue Heaven", but it's a silly name to be going on about.

whidbey: Coelacanth: Maybe we would'nt be such a nation of fatties if more people knew how the "other half" ate.

It's "other half" food because it's so goddamned expensive. Most people I know can't afford anything but the cheap. Which, agreed, the quality usually sucks.

About the cheapest good food here in Seattle is of the Vietnamese variety. Cheap, nutritious, wholesome.

Otherwise, it's Fat City, both economically and literally...

Seattle is one of the "fittest" cities in the country, according to this.

The big shocker to me was Milwaukee, land of beer, cheese, brats, and beer, being on the list of fit cities.

But I have also found that when buying food it's a battle between cheap, convenient, and healthy. Choose two.

Phil Herup: 3_Butt_Cheeks: schattenteufel: Smacky the Frog:
...Bush, well we hardly ever saw the guy eat...

That's because it's illegal to show people eating dead babies on TV. ...or something.

Pfft...he only ate poor babies.


Only poor chocolate babies.

I love the WTF look on Myers's face there...always have, ever since I watched it live.

Call it Rocket, it sounds cooler.

These "real foods" guys want the subsidies restricted for corporate growers and more money thrown their way, so they can reap the benefits of artificially lowered prices in order to stay competitive. Sure, their food is more nutritious, but let's not pretend that they're doing this for purely altruistic reasons like they claim in the article.