Where in the world; Update: Vid link added
Update: Video here.
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I’ll be on The Big Story at around 5:15pm Eastern to yak about politics. In addition to all the latest campaign stuff, we are scheduled to talk about Nancy Pelosi’s congressional cafeteria makeover, which went into effect this week. Via Fox News:
“I like the food we had before,” House Minority Leader John Boehner said Wednesday morning. “I like real food, food we can pronounce the name of.”
We’ve gone from Freedom Fries to Commie couscous! Feel free to offer your own menu suggestions.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have left her progressive instincts at the barn door when she drove a starch-, sugar- and fat-bloated bill that all but left out organic farmers through the House last summer, but when it comes to food for Congress, it’s out with high-fructose corn syrup and in with uncaged hens and hormone-free milk.
Under Pelosi’s signature “Green the Capitol” initiative, the House cafeterias will get a full-blown makeover Monday to the very latest in organic and locally grown cuisine under a new contract with Restaurant Associates, caterer to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The vast House food service operation that feeds the belly of the beast – more than 2.5 million meals a year for members, staff, tourists, lobbyists, lawyers, journalists and other highly regarded species that inhabit the Capitol – is switching to locally grown, organic, seasonal and generally healthy food. It will be served in compostable sugar cane and corn starch containers instead of petroleum-based plastics. Even the knives and forks will be biodegradable.
The Senate, the last place in America to abandon elevator operators and smoking in the hallways, is sticking to its fried okra and Styrofoam…
…OLD MENU
– Salad bars with canned and conventional vegetables, iceberg lettuce and processed ranch dressing
– Conventional beef hamburgers with processed cheese, often served cold
– A special fried food bar
– Soggy vegetables drowning in butter
– Barbecue with corn and coleslaw
– Custards, pies and cakes with fake whipped cream toppings
– French fries (known under Republican rule as “freedom fries”)
– Plastic and Styrofoam containers
NEW MENU– Composed salad tossed to order with choice of seasonal vegetables and proteins with house-made vinaigrette over a warm grilled Focaccia bread
– Roasted chicken with fire-roasted tomatoes and goat cheese
– Cedar-plank wild salmon with apple cilantro relish
– Seared barramundi (fish), white beans and tomatoes with thyme
– Smoked salmon, roasted beets and arugula
– Steamed broccoli, Brussels sprouts, sage roasted butternut squash, herb couscous
– Samplings from Indian, Chinese, Greek, Moroccan and Mexican cuisines
– Locally made Gifford’s Ice Cream from a 70-year-old Washington institution
OTHER ITEMS– Fair Trade coffee
– Sustainable seafood
– Local and organic food choices
– Zero trans-fat cooking
– Cage-free shell eggs
– Compostable disposables
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Goat cheese, obviously from Trent Lott – at least when the goats are around and not leaping the fence.
Fire-roasted tomatoes, as opposed to what – water-roasted?
Pelosi is always full of Shiitake though…
Chertoff is going to be really peeved that they dumped the ICE-berg lettuce.
Ted Kennedy: “What, no sub sandwiches?”
Fixed the spelling error.
I’ll stick to the double cheeseburger, onion rings & Coke Classic, thank you very much.
Just watched the video of your appearance over at Hot Air. Perfect as usual.
Kirsten is wrong on this one, the Klinton’s would do or say anything, anything, to regain the power of the White House. As I’ve said time and again, they are not running for President to serve, they are running because they lust for the power. Obama is in the way and they will deal with him in the same slimy way they have dealt with all those who get in the way. They are the masters of the politics of personal destruction.
One day out of the week members of congress should have an MRE on the menu. Ice cream? I’m afraid to check the freezer over at congress!!!!!!
Actually, Alohaguy, Ted Kennedy has a sandwich: pulled pork at the bottom of a big bowl of Scotch, with the bread “bridging” the rim.
WHERE’S THE BEEF??!!
That’s supposed to be my line.
Since I can’t beat that or any of the other suggestions, all I can say is that if I were on Capitol Hill, my office would become a short-order kitchen.
I just saw the video, MM trounced all over KP!!! Hey KP, did you get the license plate number of that MAC truck?
jose
They wouldn’t touch an MRE with a 20 foot pole! During my husband’s training before deployment, they ate MREs rumored to be leftovers from Katrina. Yummy!
They do eat pretty good in the sandbox from what he’s told me. Of course I am sure that varies from base to base.
A week on MRE’s while they debate veterans’ issues would be appropriate.
Davy Crockett (story from lead “Suck it up”) is rolling in his grave.
I hope you all enjoy reading the menu you are funding with your tax dollars, because you sure don’t get a place at the trough!
I just watched the video of MM appearance and although I like KP, I am surprised she’s towing the Clinton line. Sometimes she surprises me by being very intellectually honest. Not today.
Great job, Michelle! Too bad you didn’t have more time.
Who has the biggest and best organic farms in the North East? Who gets to live, work and make a living on these farms tax free?
AMISH
And so, the sissy-fication of our country continues.
Remember when men were men, and women were women? I miss those days.
Fish’N’Schips
Unclemonkey, medium-well! But you can’t even taste the meat!
Porterhouse steak, medium-rare, a dash of garlic butter, and some gnocchi with steamed broccoli.
And so, the sissy-fication of our country continues.
Remember when men were men, and women were women? I miss those days.