If you are looking for something completely different it might be time to check out Obamafoodorama. It’s all about “White House Food Initiatives…And Other Bipartisan Bytes of Food Politics”.
Despite that silly description, the site does present a ton of information about White House food programs from a positive and not so positive light.
Take the story about Barugula Obama, for example. The article says that “It was created by Millie Holub of Los Angeles, and is a play on the whole arugula elitism discussion that went on during campaign season. Millie was a big Obama fan, and thought the idea of ‘arugula elitism’ should be reframed: Every president should be well-versed in leafy greens.”
“Arugula elitism?” Of all the different types of elitism that the Obama administration has displayed, this was a new one on us. But apparently this controversy was started during the campaign when “The idea of Candidate Obama being an arugula elitist–out of touch with regular citizens–was a much-noted subject/accusation in the blogosphere, after he asked an audience of farmers if they’d noticed the high price of arugula at Whole Foods. Candidate Obama was in Adel, Iowa at the time, and the nearest Whole Foods was in Omaha, Minneapolis or Kansas City.”
Fact is, we have far less trouble with the guy’s green initiatives than we do with his red initiatives. Although we sometimes have trouble telling them apart.
Source: ObamaFoodorama
– Written by Patrick Michael
