Posted on 02/11/2015 5:02:45 AM PST by Kaslin
Before the nation's Food Nanny guilt-trips you into ditching boxed dinners on a frazzled night, know this: The first lady profited from cheese dust before she was against it.
In the new issue of Cooking Light magazine, Michelle Obama takes another sanctimonious stand against processed foods. The occasion of this latest hectoring is a month-long celebration of the fifth anniversary of her Let's Move initiative. This time, she spins a slickly crafted tale of how her former personal chef challenged daughter Malia several years ago to turn a block of cheese into powder. "She sat there for 30 minutes trying to pulverize a block of cheese into dust," Mrs. Obama claims.
"She was really focused on it, and it just didn't work, so she had to give up. And from then on, we stopped eating macaroni and cheese out of a box because cheese dust is not food," snob momma Obama pontificated.
Hey, Michelle Antoinette: Shunning convenience foods is easy when you've got a taxpayer-subsidized cooking staff whipping up four-course feasts every night. Those boxed meals you spit upon are affordable and easy to store, and last a long time. For someone who pretends to be sympathetic to working-class and middle-class families, Her Royal Highness sure has a funny way of showing it.
But the faux populist narrative must be spoon-fed to the masses. Cooking Light's editor marveled at how "real" Mrs. Obama is and how genuinely "personal" her government health crusade is. Yahoo News similarly gushed over the nation's enlightened "family meal champion" and touted the five-year anniversary of her "pivotal" Let's Move initiative.
Message from sycophantic foodie and women's magazines: Michelle Obama is just like you and me! She's an ordinary mom who cares!
Except she's not.
Before she was wielding the power of public office to dictate school lunches and castigate junk-meal makers, Mrs. Obama profited from the very same processed food industry she now demonizes. What none of the fan-girling mainstream journalists who've covered her Let's Move anniversary campaign has bothered to mention in their glowing profiles is that "cheese dust" was gold dust for the Obamas.
The first lady may not think it's food now, but powdered edibles provided hefty financial sustenance for her family 10 years ago. It's just one of the many tasty perks of political influence Mrs. Barack Obama has enjoyed in her adult lifetime.
Let's move? How about let's remember, shall we? In June 2005, a few months after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate, Mrs. Obama snagged a seat on the corporate board of directors of TreeHouse Foods Inc. Currying favor, the food-processing company put her on its audit and nominating and corporate governance committees despite her complete lack of experience or expertise. For her on-the-job training and the privilege of putting her name and face on their literature, the company forked over $45,000 in 2005 and $51,200 in 2006 to Mrs. Obama -- as well as 7,500 TreeHouse stock options worth more than $72,000 for each year.
Mrs. Obama raked in that easy money thanks to the worldwide conglomerate's popular product line of powdered non-dairy creamers and sweeteners, hot and cold cereals, evil macaroni and cheese, skillet dinners, powdered gravy and sauce mixes, powdered drink mixes, powdered soup, and puddings.
She certainly didn't look down her nose at milk dust, cheese dust, juice dust, oatmeal dust or broth dust when it came mixed with a healthy paycheck.
I wouldn't begrudge Mrs. Obama's enterprises, except for the fact that she's using taxpayer money and public office to shove her highbrow tastes and control-freak ideology down our throats. More offensive: Constant posturing from the White House about the need for jobs, while Mrs. Obama now sneers at the food-processing industry that put money in her designer pocket. Kraft Foods alone employs 103,000 people, with manufacturing and processing facilities worldwide, and reported annual net revenues topping $40 billion.
When you look past the phony concerned-mom costumery, Mrs. Obama's healthy living campaigns are all about control and cash flow. While she food-shames the rest of us, her Partnership for a Healthier America charity is a conduit for corporations and lobbyists to buy access. Her Fed Foods racket is pulling in millions of dollars from secret donors and nonprofits.
Mrs. Obama's self-aggrandizing food elitism is hard for ordinary Americans to swallow, no matter how much truffle oil her personal chef drizzles on top.
Clearly the wooky is lying or Malia is a dullard. A semi-intelligent child would understand that removing all of the moisture from the cheese would be step one. After which, you could rather easily turn it into powder.
This is the great thing about Free Republic and the news tear lines that populate here....informed readers get the truth sooner or later...this is no denying that everyone knows the Obamas are just another form of the Clinton’s, lying, corrupt, POS politicians that said what they had to to get power and dragged who ever with them to make money...so far I have not met one polticans state or federal...not even local that actually gives a crap about the rest of us...there is no justified service as a politician anymore...no honor in being such...so like them...the business dealings I have from this point on is about the money...I have done the honor thing for my nation and it does not get one very far in the long run..sad as it is to say....
She should sue! If I paid my chef for good meals and kitchen duties and he served me mac and cheese from a box, I’d be furious.
Even Velveta on pasta would have been better.
Just goes to show that Michelle is a horrible manager.
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Schrafft’s Cheese Bread / fourpoundsflour.com / makes two loaves
Adapted from "When Everybody ate at Schrafft’s" by Joan Kanel Slomanson, 2007 nostalgia book.
METHOD Stir/dissolve pkg dry active yeast, ½ c warm water. Add stir/dissolved 1 1/2 c warm water, 2 tea salt. Add cup at a time sifted 3 1/2 c flour, 1 1/2 tea sugar, 1-2 tea Kraft cheese powder (from mac/cheese box). When dough becomes hard to stir, turn out on floured surface. Let dough rest as you wash bowls. Knead dough 10 min smooth and elastic, add flour if needed.
Place in buttered bowl; let rise 2-3 hours (triple in size).
Punch down; turn out on counter. Sprinkle w/ cup grated sharp Cheddar. Roll up; knead just long enough to incorporate cheese. Halve dough; let rise 45 min in two greased loaf pans covered w/ towel. Bake 450 deg 15 min; reset to 350 deg; bake 10 min. Cool on racks.
When did that fat ass become the world’s nutritionist?
Lets Move would be a good program if it would only move the lard butt wookie out of our lives forever.
“She sat there for 30 minutes trying to pulverize a block of cheese into dust,”
Words fail. What sort of numskull even comes up with this Calaveras County cavalcade of lies?
I can’t get past the “personal chef” thing. gee, I’ve never had one of those, how ‘bout you? Boy talk about out of touch. If this broad had to make her own sandwich she’d probably have a nervous breakdown.
LOL. I knew Queen Michelle was a hypocrite, but I didn't realize it was this bad. I guess nothing should amaze me anymore with her.
I’d bet Moochie has a copy of Gwyneth Paltrow’s $400 to make recipes.
And I thought demonstrating that their kids are nincompoops was out of line.
I’m glad I read your post before I submitted one of my own. I was going to state nearly the same exact sentiment that you did.
If you’re trying to create cheese dust from a block of cheese, you will need to dehydrate it first - not smash it with a meat hammer like a caveman, never learning from your initial mistake of going that route.
These sanctimonious busybodies have no idea just how stupid they are because no one dares tell them; lest they fall out of favor with the regal anointed ones.
I feel sorry for the daughters having those two as parents. And I use the term “parents” loosely.
Back in Schrafft's day, powdered cheese was a commercialy-made product used by Schrafft's (and other bakers)---it was called Cheese Tang.
‘Cooking Light’ Magazine...
Just a reminder to stop buying this rag. They are now complicit in promoting this Nanny State stupidity!
Yes, I’d like to see her qualifications. As far as I know she does not have a degree in nutrition, nor has she been employed as a dietitian or nutritionist. So who is feeding her this tripe?
Well...I assume her personal chef, although I’m sure it’s fresh tripe, not the boxed kind.
Oh, my beloved Schrafft’s! An acquaintance of mine wrote a nice book about those great “lady” restaurants. One day someone needs to do Longchamps and Hamburg Heaven.
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