Michelle Obama's Outrageous Superbowl Menu!

[Trakar]

This is where the false equivalency of the right fails. No matter how unpopular Bush became, how hated even, I never saw this much vitriol aimed at Laura Bush. Michelle gets it for everything from going on vacation to wanting people to eat healthier.
I think if she had taken up literacy as a cause like the last FLOTUS we would be hearing how she was trying to turn us all into elitist readers or something.

You mean you never heard all the stories about how she purposely ran down her cheating ex boyfriend and got away with murder?

 

[Trakar]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2669616/posts

"Who’s eating all this? Did more of Michelle’s relatives move in or did the clan come over from Kenya for the big game?"

"Funny how the woman that has one of the biggest asses in America chooses to become the ‘food Nazi & chief’, trying to dictate what everyone eats."

Here I thought we were ragging on Michelle and you bring Barry back into the discussion!

 

[TraneWreck]

I don't really care about it one way or the other, I was just pointing out the irony of the situation.

Except the irony only exists if 1) you don't understand what Michelle Obama's exercise and diet recommendations are about and 2) you build an absurd strawman.

If you can quote me the speech where Michelle Obama said, "Never again in any of your lives should any of you ever eat sugar, fried foods, or anything unhealthy, even if it's your birthday, Christmas, Thanksgiving, or another such holiday. I, Michelle Obama, want all such foods purged from the Earth for all times!!!!!," then you might be able to show the irony.

Increasing the healthiness of one's diet does not involve living like a Tibetan monk.

 

[Denver]

Once in a while eating unheathy food at a party? No big deal.

So what would the backlash have been had nothing but heathly food been served; salad, tofu, raw veggies and the like? Would she have been called out for unamerican tendancies?

Those were my thoughts as well. I can hear it now: Michelle Obama's Outrageous Superbowl Menu! Who is she to tell us what to eat? How dare she disrespect American tradition like this!

 

[WildCat]

Surely whether any of that is "unhealthy" food will depend on what it is made with and how it is cooked?

Most of those things couldn't be so named if they were made with healthy ingredients and cooked in a healthy manner... they're not really buffalo wings if they're not chicken wings deep fried and slathered in butter and Frank's hot sauce.

 

[A Laughing Baby]

Most of those things couldn't be so named if they were made with healthy ingredients and cooked in a healthy manner... they're not really buffalo wings if they're not chicken wings deep fried and slathered in butter and Frank's hot sauce.

You do have a point. If you make a cheeseburger out of a textured-protein vegetarian mixture, it's not a cheeseburger. It's a cheeseveggieburger.

Regardless, this topic still falls in the "Are you serious? This is what you're complaining about?" category for me.

 

[TragicMonkey]

You mean you never heard all the stories about how she purposely ran down her cheating ex boyfriend and got away with murder?

I heard she shot him at a hundred paces--once in each eye, once in each nostril, and a final shot to the heart--and then ran over his corpse afterwards. But it wasn't because of his cheating, it was because he held out on her on the takings of a huge drug deal they were working together. Ironically, in light of future events, the buyer was her future husband George, and the drugs were grown in Kenya by Obama and smuggled into the country via his Indonesian Islamic terrorist connections. She got out of being charged for her crimes because her on-again, off-again lesbian girlfriend Hillary Rodham was taking law courses and got her off on a technicality.

Pfagh. "Outrageous". I'll show 'em "outrageous"!

 

[WildCat]

My Super Bowl^TM menu was Italian beef sandwiches, taco dip, cheese cake, and banana cream pie. All homemade by me using only the most fattening of ingredients.

Not much survived the night, I'm sure my friends are dropping dead from heart attacks as I write this. There was a salad which was largely untouched...

 

[Trakar]

I heard she shot him at a hundred paces--once in each eye, once in each nostril, and a final shot to the heart--and then ran over his corpse afterwards. But it wasn't because of his cheating, it was because he held out on her on the takings of a huge drug deal they were working together. Ironically, in light of future events, the buyer was her future husband George, and the drugs were grown in Kenya by Obama and smuggled into the country via his Indonesian Islamic terrorist connections. She got out of being charged for her crimes because her on-again, off-again lesbian girlfriend Hillary Rodham was taking law courses and got her off on a technicality.

Pfagh. "Outrageous". I'll show 'em "outrageous"!

Well, "the rest of the story" isn't as juicy as your version, but it was still given extensive play in some quarters.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

 

[timhau]

You do have a point. If you make a cheeseburger out of a textured-protein vegetarian mixture, it's not a cheeseburger. It's a cheeseveggieburger.

No, actually it's not. It's just a bun with cheese and goo.

 

[A Laughing Baby]

No, actually it's not. It's just a bun with cheese and goo.

Well, let's not argue semantics. We can agree on what it's not--namely, a cheeseburger, and good.

 

[Steve]

Americans are weird! And funny! You seem to be able to play political games with even the most trivial of topics. Even some of the posters in this thread appear to be taking this (somewhat) seriously.

 

[fuelair]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2669616/posts

"Who’s eating all this? Did more of Michelle’s relatives move in or did the clan come over from Kenya for the big game?"

"Funny how the woman that has one of the biggest asses in America chooses to become the ‘food Nazi & chief’, trying to dictate what everyone eats."

I'll bet I can find several hundred thousand bigger asses than Michelle Obama's - a heavy lead on that just from registered republickers. And more fat in their heads (how do they fit that much fat in those little things??? ).

 

[Schrodinger's Cat]

I don't really care about it one way or the other, I was just pointing out the irony of the situation.

How is it even remotely ironic? Eating unhealthy for one day isn't bad for you at all. Having an unhealthy diet overall is what's unhealthy, not eating snack foods or foods high in fat, sugars, etc, in moderation as treats.

It's no more ironic than someone who has an occasional glass of red wine being a part of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. One has nothing to do with the other.

 

[johnny karate]

Michelle Obama has also been advocating exercise as part of her anti-obesity campaign, and it turns out during that Super Bowl party she wasn't exercising.

 

[Kaosium]

Is that the full menu? And where will the Whitehouse have released the menu?

ETA This seems to be the lot:

– Bratwurst
– Kielbasa
– Cheeseburgers
– Deep Dish Pizza
– Buffalo Wings
– German Potato Salad
– Twice Baked Potatoes
– Snyders Potato Chips and Pretzels
– Chips and Dips
– Salad
– Ice Cream
– Beverages including the following beers: Hinterland Pale Ale & Amber Ale (from Wisconsin), Yuengling Lager and Light (from Pennsylvania) and White House Honey Ale.

Surely whether any of that is "unhealthy" food will depend on what it is made with and how it is cooked?

Point of information. As has been mentioned, last night was the Super Bowl in American Football and the Green Bay (Wisconsin) Packers played the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bratwurst and Chicken Wings are traditional fare for Packer games, and being one myself I too was eating both of them. Wisconsin is also, of course, known for it's beer, both the cheap Amercian pisswater we export to everyone else, and the really fine microbrews we keep for ourselves. I see the Obamas are connoisseurs as Hinterland is a real beer, as is the one from Pennsylvania, Yuengling.

The truly ironic thing here is Wisconsin is in the top third for life expectancy despite having the highest percentage of 'heavy drinkers,' most widespread use of alcohol and one of the higher obesity rates in the US. Beer and bratwurst not being especially good for your figure, the latter being so delicious as it could be satirically described as spiced fat with some meat for flavor.

This combination would tend to irritate those who might just be on a health campaign, however being as the Packers spanked the Chicago Bears in the NFC Championship game to get to the Super Bowl, she might just have decided to choke down a bratwurst figuring if she can't beat 'em, then join 'em.

Of course there's also the fact that Wisconsin is a swing state and despite going for Obama in 2008 we replaced a Democrat governor and Senator with Republicans, thus perhaps it was decided for public relations purposes that Super Bowl Sunday was not the day to be eating quiche and crackers.

 

[Noztradamus]

~~~~~ I never saw this much vitriol aimed at Laura Bush. Michelle gets it for everything from going on vacation to wanting people to eat healthier.
~~~~~~~

I heard that she committed murder

 

[A Laughing Baby]

Point of information. As has been mentioned, last night was the Super Bowl in American Football and the Green Bay (Wisconsin) Packers played the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bratwurst and Chicken Wings are traditional fare for Packer games, and being one myself I too was eating both of them. Wisconsin is also, of course, known for it's beer, both the cheap Amercian pisswater we export to everyone else, and the really fine microbrews we keep for ourselves. I see the Obamas are connoisseurs as Hinterland is a real beer, as is the one from Pennsylvania, Yuengling.

The truly ironic thing here is Wisconsin is in the top third for life expectancy despite having the highest percentage of 'heavy drinkers,' most widespread use of alcohol and one of the higher obesity rates in the US. Beer and bratwurst not being especially good for your figure, the latter being so delicious as it could be satirically described as spiced fat with some meat for flavor.

This combination would tend to irritate those who might just be on a health campaign, however being as the Packers spanked the Chicago Bears in the NFC Championship game to get to the Super Bowl, she might just have decided to choke down a bratwurst figuring if she can't beat 'em, then join 'em.

Of course there's also the fact that Wisconsin is a swing state and despite going for Obama in 2008 we replaced a Democrat governor and Senator with Republicans, thus perhaps it was decided for public relations purposes that Super Bowl Sunday was not the day to be eating quiche and crackers.

Or, to appear politically neutral, they had foods and beers associated with both cities/regions of the teams playing in the game. You MIGHT be reading a bit too far into this.

 

[ZirconBlue]

My Super Bowl^TM menu was Italian beef sandwiches, taco dip, cheese cake, and banana cream pie. All homemade by me using only the most fattening of ingredients.

Care to share your recipe?

 

[Brainster]

Of course there's also the fact that Wisconsin is a swing state and despite going for Obama in 2008 we replaced a Democrat governor and Senator with Republicans, thus perhaps it was decided for public relations purposes that Super Bowl Sunday was not the day to be eating quiche and crackers.

Pennsylvania is a swing state too, which may explain why Michelle clung to a gun and a bible during the game.