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A Fast Food Feast at the White House
This is the picture making the rounds on Twitter over the last twelve hours:
This is the greatest photo of the Trump era, hands down. pic.twitter.com/1kvj9Ox6eo
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 15, 2019
Due to the government shutdown, the White House is short-staffed, leading President Trump to order a feast of fast food. The Washington Post reported,
When the Clemson football players entered the White House’s opulent State Dining Room during their visit with President Trump on Monday, they were greeted by a sight many had likely never laid eyes on before.
In the center of the historic room that has hosted royalty, foreign dignitaries and celebrities, a long mahogany table gleamed under the glow of an enormous golden chandelier. A pair of ornate candelabras holding tapered white candles sat on the table amid numerous silver serving platters piled high with what Trump described as “Great American food.”
Funny enough, while the Post described Trump as “roasted” for the move, Cleveland.com reported the Internet was “loving it.”
I was recently in that room for the White House Hanukkah party, and saw the opulence the room is capable of. The sight of boxed burgers on our nation’s finest china makes me uncomfortable, no matter how funny the moment. Guests of the White House shouldn’t have to eat McDonald’s.
But what was the alternative? If Trump had managed to serve a banquet, if he had fed them better food, the headlines would have read “DONALD TRUMP HOSTS FANCY PARTIES WHILE FEDERAL WORKERS ARE LITERALLY IN BREAD LINES.”
It still hasn’t been reported (that I’ve seen, anyway) what Democrats are eating while on a “work trip” to Puerto Rican beaches. Just saying.
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The best ones were the scolds who tweeted out how much Clemson and other universities pay for sports nutritionists to prevent them from eating foods like that. Lost in the conversation is the fact the now that they are officially in their post season, they are also into an NCAA mandated period of 9 weeks where the athletic department are supposed to leave them alone. The idea that none of them would “break training” with an occasional cheeseburger is ludicrous.
This is just too ridiculous.
Our nation’s finest china defiled!
I know some “old money” people. Most of them aren’t at all snooty. I know “new money” people too, with mixed reviews. ( me, I’m mostly a “no money” type)
But the worst are the “old money wannabes” .
Ralph Lauren (née Ralph Lipshitz) had a saying, think Yiddish, act British.
He hacked the high-class traditional thing very well. Good for him. But we Americans aren’t snooty people. We have good china, and sometimes when necessary, we serve fast food on it.
Im reminded of a story: Mrs. Farnsworth, a wealthy matron, hosted a dinner party at her estate with several distinguished guests. The butler, Meadows, brought out the pheasant on a silver platter and tripped, the main course and platter spilling onto the floor.
Mrs. Farnsworth: Meadows, there’s no need for concern, take that back into the kitchen and bring out the other one.
Also true. What purpose to the good china if you never use it?
Oh, and imagine the offended outcry of all the oh-so aristocratic (not) ones had he used anything LESS than the fine china. Let’s face it. Whatever Trump does or says, it will always be wrong. I for one am fed up to here with it and them. A Conservative website trying to attract new members. Great. Good job.
Yikes, how did I get in there (not my quote)? My life is boxed burgers on fine china. Or at least fine Chinet.
Suggestion : we now call it “freedom plates.”
At least you’re classy enough to take them out of the box?
At one point a player was overheard asking, “Hey Coach, which one is the McNugget fork?”
Hahaha Oh wait, I think we aren’t allowed to make fun of people.
I would say he’s my kind of guy, but that might fall under that rule too.
Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired in 2010, favored cheese sandwiches on white bread with the crust cut off.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. orders a salad for lunch from the court’s cafeteria, Justice Sotomayor said, while Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Samuel A. Alito Jr. bring food from home. “And sometimes I see Sam’s fare and think maybe I should eat dinner with him,” she said.
As for Justice Ginsburg, her colleague said, “the treat she’s most fond of is muffins.”
Food delivery to the court has apparently improved since 2013, when Justice Sotomayor complained about the difficulty of getting takeout.
“I go to New York, I order food, it’s at my door in 10 to 15 minutes. O.K.?” she said. But in Washington, she said, “there isn’t a place I call where it doesn’t take 45 minutes.”
“And then, getting the food delivered to the Supreme Court?” she went on. “They’ve got to stop at security, security has to call you, you’ve got to go downstairs. By the time you get downstairs, you may add another 15 minutes to the 45 minutes. And the food is ice-cold.”
On Wednesday, she said she had instructed her law clerks to research the problem, adding that she now had two go-to favorites: sushi and Indian food.
She keeps candy in her office, “which is a very unusual thing for a diabetic,” she said of herself. It encourages people to come talk to her, she explained.
The court suffered a culinary loss in February with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, an enthusiastic hunter. “He would bring everything back, from fish to fowl,” Justice Ginsburg said.
I eat mcdonalds off china all the time.
If I had china, I might.
On the “class-o-meter”, serving fast food to football players ranks well above giving the Queen of England an Ipod with a bunch of your own speeches on it.
Don’t forget how mad they were when Nancy Reagan *bought* fine china.
And at least Hillary isn’t there to steal it.
Or maybe a President serving hot dogs during a picnic lunch to the King and Queen of England.
I found this.
I think, given the fact that I don’t remember and/or had never heard of it, there wasn’t that much criticism of it at the time.
The only reason to have voted for Hillary would have been so she could return the White House silverware when she moved back in.
Normally I argue for bratwurst as the sausage-inna-bun of choice but it would probably have been unwise due to the international situation.
Yea. At least he didn’t blemish our nation’s finest freedom plates. And, he never said it was a mile high (fact check).
Butter is more expensive than water.
My ramen biscuits were just never cooked. Tasted good that way.
I thought it was just a packed of Ramen, uncooked. Is it an actual item?
Another thing caught in that video : the girls hugging and jumping—“he eats our kind of food !”
Not to mention at a table… my burgers are consumed in the car… en route from point a to point b… in rush hour traffic at dinner time.
Trump needed the snappy electronic music with this. Then it would have been cool!
I don’t know. Sounded like they were talking about old food. Cooked ramen dried out works as a biscuit, too, right?
Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Foods
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/abraham-lincolns-favorite-foods/view-all/
Apple Pie
Chicken Fricassee
Gingerbread Men Cookies
Oysters
Bacon
Blackberry Pie
Macaroon Tart
Corn Cakes
Corned Beef and Cabbage
Apples
Biscuits
Almond Cake
Coffee
Venison
Pecan Pie
Turkey Legs
Ramen biscuit: eat the dry noodle brick right out of the package. For when you are too
drunklazy to boil water. Seasoning packet may be used for added culture.That’s what I thought it was. For the record, the guy I learned it from was in fact too lazy to boil water.