Hey garcon, do you have any Grey Poupon?
Marine (thinking): Man if it weren't for those Secret Service agents, I'd kick his ass.
Posted on 08/01/2004 4:54:01 AM PDT by Peach
Weekend, July 31 - August 1, 2004
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Was the real lunch choice Wendy’s or fine dine
What was being served inside the bus? While Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, and their families were having a “lite” lunch at Wendy’s in the Town of Newburgh Friday, drumming up local support right after the national convention in Boston, their real lunches were waiting on their bus.
A member of the Kerry advance team called Nikola’s Restaurant at the Newburgh Yacht Club the night before and ordered 19 five-star lunches to go that would be picked up at noon Friday. Management at the restaurant, which is operated by CIA graduate chef Michael Dederick, was told the meals would be for the Kerry and Edwards families and actor Ben Affleck who was with them on the tour.
The gourmet meals to go included shrimp vindallo, grilled diver sea scallops, prosciutto, wrapped stuffed chicken, and steak salad. The meals came to about $200.
The entourage had also expected to stop at the Alexis Diner at Route 9W and North Plank Road in the Town of Newburgh. In fact, the Kerry advance team had ordered 125 lunches for the team and supporters. Their buses drove right by the diner on I-84 and proceeded straight to Wendy’s.
Kerry may still have the vote of Wendy’s manager John Garrett. “I’m for anyone who comes in and likes double cheeses”, Garrett said. “I’m a big supporter of anyone who orders our food.”
Ping
I thought they ordered chili?
The CIA referred in the story, is Culinary Institute of America, not Central Intelligence Agency.
Figures it was a photo op. Threzza would probably go through withdrawl if she doesn't have her shrimp for luncheon.
Thank you, Peach.
Shades of the Mondale campaign's ripoff of a Wendy's commercial, i.e. "Where's the beef?"
The meals came to about $200.
They spent $200.00 apiece for lunch?
I wonder what theguy at the diner did with the 125 lunches?
"The meals came to about $200."
Looking at the luncheon menu I am pretty amazed that the per person cost was only about $10. Doesn't sound right to me.
These rich, elitist phonies are going to keep getting caught again and again. What a miserable existence, having to live an "contrived, alternate life", just to fool the dumb sheeple.
Were these meals paid for?
It looked like Elizabeth Edwards was packing away the single combo at Wendy's with much enthusiasm, so she either ate two lunches, or passed on the shrimp vindaloo and scallops. Hmmmm. I'm betting on the former.
Hubby will be in the area in a couple weeks. I have asked him to ask Alexis about those 125 lunches.
So, the truth comes out ...
Dubya would eat the exact meals as his staffers.
Better a REAL American Cowboy in the White House, than a stuck up frenchman.
Thanks for that clarification about the CIA; I did wonder about that!
I agree; it sounded like it should have been more expensive.
Let us know lysie! Kerry couldn't get much phonier.
That's an excellent point, Gail. Exactly so.
Edwards is worth what, 70 million?
I'm a pauper who wouldn't eat fast food if it was free.
Hey garcon, do you have any Grey Poupon?
Marine (thinking): Man if it weren't for those Secret Service agents, I'd kick his ass.
Nineteen 5-star lunches for $200? At around ten bucks a plate, it sounds more like 1-star to me. Apparently, Kerry's even a fraud at being a snob.
From the looks of things, she could have handled the shrimp and scallops too.
I just called the Diner and spoke with a female manager.
She said the Kerry Team sent someone up to the diner to pick up the 125 lunches.
So, it would be safe to assume that the riff-raff on the Kerry/Edwards team got the Diner take-out, and the Hoity-Toity Senators/wives/children/etc got the Gourmet CIA caterings from Nikolas.
Got it. I was confused about that. Thanks for calling! Hah - only freepers do this kind of research.
You know it was $200 a meal, not $200 total otherwise it would be an illegal campaign contribution.
HA!!! My mother was looking at me real funny while I was on the phone...
So the whole Wendys photo op was to come across as regular hamburger eating people, before they gorged themselves with finer dining in the secrecy of their perverted bus.
Good job, Nita. Oh well, at least the peasants were fed.
I'm just glad they didn't stiff the Diner folks.
Alexis is a nice place, good diner food. One of the best in the area.
Yanow, this is just another example of the TWO AMERICA's that Edwards is always touting.
Diner food for the Staffers, and gourmet 5-Star CIA food for them.
Yep, two America's all right.
Kerry says: "I voted against eating my 5 star lunch before I voted to eat it"
The real photo-opp was at Wendy's, the real meal was on the bus.
Unless the second meal was all for Elizabeth, just to tide her over until snack time.
IMHO, this line could be interpreted either way. If I discovered that Kerry did NOT engage in illegal campaign practices, then I'd be surprised.
I wondered about that CIA too, Dane. Thanks for the clarification, but I fear those not on FR will assume a connection to the other CIA and thus REAL important, you know.
There is no way 19 gourmet lunches only cost "about" $200. Using my parsometer, I see the key word as being ABOUT.
Howlin, get a load of THIS!
Kerry = Artificial.
GW = Genuine.
You can hear the conversation on the bus:
Teresa: I'm glad we have these gourmet boxes but I'd still rather be eating at Chez Hugebill
Kerry: Do you have any Grey Poupon?
Teresa: SHOVE THE GREY POUPON!
Ms Edwards: Too bad. We always eat at Wendy's on our anniversary
John Edwards: Mmmmf...We do?
Ms Edwards: Yes we do.
Kerry's (together) EWWWWWWW! That food is so common.
Teresa: I'd rather be eaten alive by wolverines.
Kerry: It would make a good photo op.
All: PHOTO OP!!!?
Later at Wendys
Teresa: What is this again?
SS Agent: Chili.
Teresa: Hideous. Ask the manager to shove this please. And this wine is horrible. It's too sweet. This thing you call a "straw" doesn't help it at all.
You can hear the conversation on the bus:
Teresa: I'm glad we have these gourmet boxes but I'd still rather be eating at Chez Hugebill
Kerry: Do you have any Grey Poupon?
Teresa: SHOVE THE GREY POUPON!
Ms Edwards: Too bad. We always eat at Wendy's on our anniversary
John Edwards: Mmmmf...We do?
Ms Edwards: Yes we do.
Kerry's (together) EWWWWWWW! That food is so common.
Teresa: I'd rather be eaten alive by wolverines.
Kerry: It would make a good photo op.
All: PHOTO OP!!!?
Later at Wendys
Teresa: What is this again?
SS Agent: Chili.
Teresa: Hideous. Ask the manager to shove this please. And this wine is horrible. It's too sweet. This thing you call a "straw" doesn't help it at all.
Apparently the restaurants they frequent are the five star kind. The Wendys and Burger King fast food joints are strictly for the great unwashed masses. I wouldn't spend such a huge tab on lunch. As aristocrats, they prefer to keep their contact with ordinary folks to the minimum possible. Upon reading stories like this, its amazing 40 percent of the country would still vote for a haughty eminence grise pair like Deadwards.
"Just give me a rack of ribs!" :-)
The gourmet meals to go included shrimp vindallo, grilled diver sea scallops, prosciutto, wrapped stuffed chicken, and steak salad. The meals came to about $200.
What a great article! Do you remember how much press the story about Bush Sr. got when he went through a supermarket checkout line and expressed surprise at the scanner being used?
Two days of saturation coverage of this story would probably destroy Kerry's campaign.
Reporter laziness, I guess. How hard is it to write Culinary Institute of America.
Credit where credit is due...Hubby found it. Slowly he is becoming a FReeper...lurker.
Slightly off-topic, I owned a carry-out pizzeria in Inkster, Michigan in 1980, and the Reagan campaign staff in nearby Dearborn placed an order one night when Reagan was to arrive for a rally to be held the following day. They cancelled the order when Reagan's plane landed early and they had to rush off to meet it.
They could have had the pizza free if I'd thought a slice would make its way to the Gipper. Extra cheese, too.
Yes... how can you live without a great chef? Now I know why the Cheris look down on the food most Americans eat: its not up to their exactingly high French culinary palates.
LMAO !
Well, give my thanks to your husband too! It's made my day to see this PUBLISHED vignette of what Kerry/Edwards are really like. In addition, it is the kind of news that regular people can relate to...BIG TIME.
Actually, CIA is the common acronym for the school. I guess you have to be a foodie to know that, though.
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