Posted on 02/09/2011 3:26:21 AM PST by Scanian
Wonder if the First Lady monitored portions at the Super Bowl Sunday Bratwurst Fest, because the woman who put double-stuffed potatoes on the menu is about to dictate what is sanctioned on restaurant menus across America.
After filling school vending machines with substances no self-respecting kid would ever eat and after bossing around food makers, rewriting nutrition labels, and attempting to worm her way into cupboards, refrigerators and grocery carts, Michelle is one forkful away from dictating the foods restaurants are allowed to put on your plate. According to White House and industry officials:
"A team of advisers to the First Lady has been holding private talks over the past year with the National Restaurant Association, a trade group, in a bid to get restaurants to adopt her goals of smaller portions and children's meals that include offerings healthier than French fries and soda."
Michelle is uneasy over other people's children consuming "more saturated fat and less fiber and calcium when they eat out." As a result, the President's spouse is challenging restaurants to toss out old menu options and alter recipes to "give parents the confidence" to do what the she herself has yet to do - "go into any restaurant in this country and choose a genuinely healthy meal" for herself or her daughters.
In short, the woman with a notoriously voracious appetite who feeds her daughters fried food is preparing to usurp parental authority, wrestle French fries from the hands of sobbing children, and establish herself as the sole authority over "Hav[ing] pie and eat[ing] dressing."
The problem with the whole scenario is that while the First Lady's advisors were "holding private talks" with the National Restaurant Association, she spent the last 12 months partaking of foodie adventures and paying no attention to quantity, calories, sugar, fat or sodium content.
During last year's tasting tour of NYC the "FLOTUS ate at Grimaldi's pizzeria in Brooklyn and Dinosaur Bar-B-Q in Harlem," and dropped in on Magnolia Bakery and Dylan's Candy Bar.
In April, Michelle Obama and hubby "landed in the Blue Ridge Mountains and made a quick stop at Twelve Bones Smokehouse ...the first couple ate ribs, macaroni and cheese, greens, baked beans, corn bread and corn pudding and washed it down with sweet tea."
In Panama City, Florida it was: "tuna appetizer and a course of fried oysters [and] lobster." Sasha had mommy-approved pasta Alfredo ... the President New York Strip and shrimp" followed by a full round of crème brûlée for all. At Bruster's Real Ice Cream, "First Lady Michelle Obama ordered a Hot Fudge Sundae with no whipped cream and extra fudge." Little Sasha had a "genuinely healthy" cup of Cake Batter Oreo.
There was cholesterol-laden lobster and ice cream in Spain, lobster, corn and slaw and Mt. Desert Ice Cream in Maine, and lobster tempura, the Sweet Life Café, and Mad Martha's Ice Cream Shop on Martha's Vineyard.
Then foie gras, lobster lasagna, and soy-braised short ribs at Alan Wong's in Hawaii, and for a home cooked meal for Super Bowl Sunday, "Bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish pizza and Buffalo wings with sides of German potato salad, twice-baked potatoes and assorted chips, dips and ice cream."
Michelle's 2010 food inventory is not even close to being comprehensive and yet this woman feels she has the authority to deny Americans the right to choose the quantity and content of what we eat? If the tasting tourist queen of barbeque and hot fudge sundaes gets her way, no more "abbondanza" for anyone but those fortunate enough to be dining with Michelle.
...6 billion dollar illegal initiative implemented. They conveniently forget Hillary’s attempt at Hillarycare.
Flaming, repulsive, arrogant hypocrite.
If she tries to put an end to “all you can eat” buffets, Italian wedding caterers will raise holy hell!
‘stu cazz’!!
That WH Super Bowl buffet would put any caterer to shame:
“Bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish pizza and Buffalo wings with sides of German potato salad, twice-baked potatoes and assorted chips, dips and ice cream.”
Marxist grifters! Can’t wait til they’re gone,...and I MEAN GONE!
That would be an offer I could not refuse!
The FAT ASS makes about as much sense as her idiot husband !!
These people need the fast express back to THUG-LAND !!
Yet another issue Palin positioned herself on the right side of from the start.
Who are these people?!!
They honestly believe they are making history, they have no idea what will really be said about them when they are gone.
If they had any small amount of logical smarts about them they had better find another country to move to.
They may get 4 years of rent free furnishings at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave but they will get 40 years of hate directed at them when they are gone.
They have quite literally created a whole new language of definitions of ineptness, stupidity, thirst for power and control and transparency.
The old saying of a gun behind every blade of grass will now be a question at every Google about Obamas past.
The people of America won’t stop, they know the whitewashing routines by now, they know Obama wants to shove enough propaganda out to flood the sensory inputs, but we have the very same tools at our disposal, tools that communism, marxism and Islam fear.
Its called faith, trust and communication.
BINGO!!!!!!!
It’s easy to see how 0bama stays thin. His wife eats most of the food.
No problem for the 0’s.
Once we finally get rid of them i.e., IF we get rid of them, they’ll probably leave the country. The only part of America they might care about is the East Side of Manhattan on Turtle Bay.
They are morally and intellectually superior and know what’s best for us. So eat your spinach. /s
I honestly wonder if they will be welcome anywhere in America, possibly in some form of faux Roman Coliseum on the outskirts of Chicago maybe.
The only legacy they are creating is the American Army of Citizens of the Republic that will band together to un-do his inept handling of the office of President.
“LYING FATASS WOOKIE SAYS SHE ATE NO FRIES... FILM AT ELEVEN”.
LLS
Being a bit of a “chubby chaser,” I’ve always thought that the caboose was the only remotely interesting part of her.
But with menus like the one from Sunday, it’s not likely to go away anytime soon.
“Do as I say, not as I do”
Me too, I’m so sick and tired of their busy body meddling I don’t know what to do.
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