Posted on 01/05/2010 7:03:53 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
BREAKING: The vegetables used on the special Iron Chef America episode didn’t come from Michelle Obama's kitchen garden!!!
Remember I told you a few weeks ago to catch the very special episode of Iron Chef America airing on Jan. 3? Guess what? I missed it! Did you get the chance to watch White House Chef Cristeta Comerford and Bobby Flay win against Mario Batali and Emerile Lagasse? Did anyone think Comerford’s team wasn’t going to win?
If you saw the show, then you saw the four chefs digging through the White House garden for the “secret ingredient.” The chefs were to use vegetables from the White House garden to create their dishes. It turns out, they filmed the White House portion a week before the competition. The vegetables picked that day weren’t used in the show. Stunt vegetables were used! Obamafoodorama has the scoop.
Due to a time-lag between garden harvesting and shooting the competition in the Kitchen Stadium, "stand-in" vegetables were used for the actual filming of the competition part of the show, which wasn't mentioned on air, in the interest of "fictive continuity." The chefs' garden harvest at the White House was about a week before the Kitchen Stadium shoot, but the varieties of replica vegetables used for the dishes actually did grow in the Kitchen Garden.
According to the New York Times, show host Alton Brown frequently reminded the audience that the vegetables were fresh, organic and local. He never revealed that they weren’t specifically the vegetables the viewing audience saw harvested at the White House. In fact, here's a clip of Michelle Obama informing the chefs that their secret ingredient will by anything in the White House Garden. (Clip at link...)
I’m bummed. I was bummed I missed the show. Now I’m bummed about the stunt vegetables. I’m not outraged. I’m not crying foul. I’m just a little bummed. Iron Chef, ultimately, is reality television, and after a decade or so of reality TV shows, we all know to assume that not everything is as it seems.
I understand that filming the chefs at the White House couldn’t happen the day of the competition. But when did Cristeta Comerford and some of the rest of the White House kitchen staff, including Sam Kass, go to New York for the competition? Couldn’t they have had the same vegetables picked and brought up on the plane with them? That would have satisfied “fictive continuity” without being so fictive.
I won’t let this affect my love of Michelle Obama and her White House kitchen garden. I’ll happily keep you up to date on what the first lady is doing to promote good, healthy, local foods. But you know what, I probably won’t bother trying to catch up this episode of Iron Chef that I missed ‘cause I’m still a little bummed.
Everything that the libtards do is a sham and a deception, but we’re supposed to look past it for the desired end. Liars are liars period. And her closing “I still admire Michelle” makes me want to throw up. The Wookie is the front man (and I am being generous here) for the Anti-Christ. They are low life slime across the board.
Sure. Just like "Survivor" is "reality" too. Geez. Some people are so easily amused.
Fake...just like Obammy.
Is anyone surprised anymore?
He’s just figuring out that show biz is, like, a show?
Please don’t tell him about wrestling, or reality shows for that matter.
David Atenborough once said, you don’t simply go out into the desert, point your camera at the ground, and wait for scorpions to mate under it. You sometimes need to arrange things.
She? Wha-everrr.
What a scandal it would have been if George or Laura had used stunt veggies.
I’m sure Sen. Reid would be asking for a Congressional committee investigation and Rachel Morrow would be bemoaning the false nature of the Bush White House.
CNN would have already be calling it “Treasonous Tubers of Shame.”
Michell knows and cares about gardening and growing vegetables about as much as a cat knows about quantum physics.
Yes, what actually was harvested from the People’s Garden?
It’s not relevant they were the same varieties. That’s like taking a prize winning show dog and passing it off as one that you bred yourself.
I recall reading that it was discovered some time ago that
the White House ground had been poised by some sludge that was
used as fertilizer many years ago?
Of course, the Zero voters love it, and the leftists don't care what's real. To them, it's all about staying on message.
Shreeve is a ‘little bummed?’ Gee, what a shocker that the veggies were not from the White House garden. /s
Nothing about this administration is ‘real’ except the Marxist takeover of our country. THAT is real!
Well gee- the White House has been poisoned by the sludge that is living there too. Seems rather appropriate for the grounds around to be filthy.
And the secret ingredient ? Collard greens ?
The sod was grown in > SEWER SLUDGE <!!!
The sludge comes from the local > SEWER TREATMENT PLANT <,,,
The Sludge is hauled to a field and spread a few inches deep
over a large area and seeded with grass,,,
In about 6 months or so the sod is cut and delivered,,,
It is against the law to sell any food grown in Sludge
because of the metals(lead/etc.) that the plants contain,,,
I hope the Greenies chew their Veggies Good!!!
LMAOROF!!!,,,Euuuuwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!...;0)
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