Democrat mayor says healthy food is “the new patriotism”.
One nation, under arugula:
As part of the effort to make the August 25-28 convention the greenest ever, the Democrats’ guidelines for food catering include one that strikes at the heart of Southern cuisine: no fried food.
No fried chicken. No fried catfish. No fried green tomatoes. No fried okra. No fried anything.
In promoting healthy eating habits, the Democratic guidelines say every meal should be nutritious and include “at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white.”
“It’s the new patriotism,” says Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the driving force behind the greening of the Democratic convention.
So it’s not merely a ban on fried food–it’s affirmative action for food! As I said yesterday, they’re patriotic, it’s just…a different kind of patriotism.
Not surprisingly, Mayor Hickenlooper’s already been causing trouble for the Dems with his foolish pronouncement that every bit of merchandise at the Denver convention must be organic and union-made.
The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.
Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary conclusion: “That just doesn’t exist.”
Ditto for the baseball caps. “We have a union cap or an organic cap,” Mr. DeMasse says. “But we don’t have a union-organic offering.”
Much of the hand-wringing can be blamed on Denver’s Democratic mayor, John Hickenlooper, who challenged his party and his city to “make this the greenest convention in the history of the planet.”
As I’m fond of saying, those of a libertarian bent should listen up: social conservatives might be nosing around in your bedroom and your basement where you’ve got the grow-lights and the Pink Floyd posters, but the totalitarian green left is sticking its nose in every dad-gum room in your house. They regulate the permissible flow of water in your toilet. They regulate the air freshener you can spray after you use it. They mandate a mercury-filled ugly light bulb in every socket. They’re all over your car and your gun cabinet and your garbage can and now your kitchen. They’re in your radio, dumping the Fairness Doctrine all over what you’re permitted to hear. And now we see they care about the stuff in your refrigerator and they care how you cook it.
They have an opinion on everything (which is fine, I’ve been accused of that myself) and they’re willing to back up every last one of them with the force of the state. It’s to save the planet, you understand, so it’s okay.
Guess what, comrades…you can have my fried okra when you pull it from my cold, dead, greasy fingers.
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The Nazis were also big on organic, healthy food, no smoking, vegetarianism, etc…
So elite.
And who is surprised at the logical extension of their madness?
Agreed.
“A-RU-GU-LA über alles…”
So they’re going to be eating organic rainbow flags?
I’ll stick to my fried catfish, medium-rare steak, grilled asparagus (with olive oil coating before grilling), and Alaskan Amber beer thank you. All of which was grown, caught, raised or made in the good ole’ US of A.
I will never in my life stop eating my fried food. I will only live once and will eat what and when I want. Like you, S/D, you won’t take my fried food from my hands along with my gun. Also, I do not plan to use those lite bulbs either.
L
WTF does ‘green’ have to do with fried food???
Oh, and thanks Lockstein13; now I’ll have that song stuck in my head all day!
As an Italian American, I ask — WILL YOU DAMN YUPPIES STAY AWAY FROM OUR FOOD!
As a kid, all of the stuff I loved to eat was cheap. Now that you damn yuppies have found it, I have to go to Whole Foods and it costs 10X as much.
Get into Mexican food or something please.
When the Left thinks health care is a “right” it’s not to far a walk to dictation what the people must eat in order to be healthy and maximize government health care dollars. I detect a whiff of totalitarianism.
I work in the city of which this idiot is Mayor. An illegal alien Mexican who worked at one of his restaurants assassinated an off-duty policeman. Hizzoner tried to pass the buck and continue the sanctuary policies that keep Denver crime-ridden. He ignores crime, pan-handling drunks, and day-labor centers full of illegal alien Mexicans, but he’s front-and-center when it comes to real problems like raising the thermostat 4 degrees.
“The mayor kicked off the initiative with Gov. Bill Ritter during a Thursday morning news conference.
Hickenlooper said Denver would take the lead by raising thermostats in seven city office buildings by 4 degrees.
He encouraged municipal workers to remove ties and suit jackets whenever possible and to wear short-sleeved shirts or blouses and open-collared shirts instead.”
Nice leadership, Mayor Moron. Keep fighting the good fight.
I can harldy wait until the spineless weasel has to confront the 50,000 protesters that are coming to Denver for the convention.
Al Gore will waste away to nothing in about, um, … 30 years.
You forgot to mention all the psychiatric drugs they want you to take to maintain a healthy, sound mind.
Good news see-dubya, Scalia says that handguns are the preferred weapon because you can point it with one hand while eating your fried okra with the other! I love those guys!
If Americans cannot continue dying from heart disease and diabetes due to poor food choices, then the terrorists have already won.
“If fascism comes to America, it’ll call itself ‘anti-fascism.’” Ask any donkey: they’d confirm it, if they were capable of telling the truth about themselves.
It’s been said that libs are libertarians when it comes to sex and drugs, and totalitarians about everything else. This story certainly does nothing to disprove that contention.
And everything is “patriotic,” provided that no outward sign of affection toward your country need be displayed.
Dissent is patriotic.
Peace is patriotic.
Refusing to wear a flag lapel pin is patriotic.
Politically correct food is patriotic.
Whatever.
This, from a person who got wealthy off of restaurants serving fried food and beer! Restaurants which he still owns, by the way!
Democrats are clowns, but Denver Democrats are the biggest idiots!!! What do you expect from the home of Patricia Schroeder, and Diana Degette?!?
First of all… I love visiting Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, so I’m not bashing, just stating a fact. Before Denver starts telling one what to eat, they need to do something about their smog. They have some of the smoggiest conditions of any large US city I’ve ever visited. The air is such a lovely brown.
And, it’s settled, I’m having something fried for supper tonight.
Sorry Room, they are monkeying with corn, and now a tortilla costs 10x as much too.
sausage…king of hit & run idiocy.
It’s really not an either/or choice, see-dub; neither are acceptable.
HOW DID YOU KNOW?!?
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
Let me be perfectly clear:
Those weasels are all for choice!
Legal disclaimer, spoken like a car commercial:
/sarcasm off
So, when I eat chicken fried steak with mashed potatos and gravy and cherry pie, I’m being unpatriotic?
In my 42 years I’ve learned one can live to be 100 by never doing anything to make one WANT to live to be 100.
Well AlohaGuy, then tell those damn yuppies to stay away from my prosciuto!
And you will peel my provolone from my cold, dead hands
sausage said:
OK Spurlock.
Har, har.
Why is it - when it comes to liberals - if I want to sleep around, abort my child, or look at explicit pornography it’s a “personal choice” that cannot be discussed, questioned, or judged? But when I decide that I want fried chicken for dinner it’s the freakin’ end of the world.
Oh, I know. It’s called projection. Liberals love to call conservatives facists; in reality, it’s just a cover for the totalitarian dreams liberals possess…
Did anyone else burst out in laughter when reading this asinine statement by a person who calls himself sausage?
Hey, sausage…… I eat rare steaks, drink Irish whiskey and smoke cigars… want to do a complete blood work up and health exam and compare?….. Lord save me from the slitherers.
Since you mention Pink Floyd and “GET OUT OF MY HEAD” I’ll I have say:
We don’t need no re-education, We don’t need no thought control!
The only “terrorists” I am concerned about are the “green” and “eco” and “enviro” types because they have too many friends in Washington …
Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollaah and such I can handle with the help of my friends Colt, Glock, Remington, Smith and Wesson … despite their friends in DC …
#26 - you beat me to it!
When will sausage be banned?
What a doofus. This guy is actually a mayor? Give him some organic corn cobs to substitute for his toilet paper.
chap–
FISA, baby!
Solution; Organic beer. It’s sort of like liquid granola.
I was listening to talk radio this week. One of the topics was the agenda at the DN Convention. Food and disposable utinsels and bio degradable balloons were discussed. Gas is $4.25 a gallon, these idiots are concerned about what we eat. Who votes these people into power?
To give credit to suasage, I think he was making a funny. I actually thought it was a good effort, which normally I don’t think.
OT - I am curious though. He said recently he hears hillbillies using the N word a lot, and I still want to know where he lives or works where that happens.
Don’t ban sausage… we should be encouraging free speech so that persons of such persuasion can be easily recognized and given a wide berth.
Besides, as a three-stoges and laurel-and-hardy fan, it’s a free source of idiot-entertainmnent.
No fried food = No bio-diesel fuel.
So come on democrats have some onion rings for the environment.
It’s a good thing thing the democrats finalyl got rid of the “old patriotism.” They’ve been failing miserably at that whole loving and respecting your country and its servicemen.
If all of this is true, will “Pork Fat Rules!” become hate-speech???
Democrats and their wormy following are absolutely stupid.
Yes. Try saying it in Dearborn MI. They will keel you.
‘the new patriotism’ thing is kinda like ‘the new, most ethical congress’.
Look out these nuts will be forcing you to provide a stool sample next. But being liberals I’m sure there will be plenty of volunteers to collect them. Meanwhile in LA, they are cracking down on… illegals, gangs, islamists?
No, bacon dog dealers .
Listen to the ponytail, is he advocating she increase her carbon footprint? I’m confused.
I must confess I have visited these carts myself, yes I sometimes buy one even though I’m not hungry and save it for later.
Hmmm, Obama smokes - is that unhealthy?
And after that line, all I could hear in my mind was this paraphrased line from “Blazing Saddles”:
“Howard Johnson: As chairman of the welcoming committee, it’s a pleasure to present a laurel and hearty handshake to our new … Patriotism“
I’m wondering where all this “blue food” he’s talking about will come from?
and like Obama’s ‘new biblical interpretations’. and his ‘new type of politician’ claim. and like…
No - nothing the Obamessiah does is ever unhealthy. Indeed, for Obama is the paragon of health, morality, and virtue.
John Hickenlooper, It has nothing to do with fried food you f-ing idiot.
sambo–I’m thinking it’s like “the Global Test”. “The New Patriotism”. The gall of these people.
It’s absolute political dynamite if youtubers, talk radio, and bloggers make use of it. I’m hoping Glenn Beck and Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham and Rush pick up on this for Monday.
I’d add the GOP to that list, but I don’t think they work weekends and they’r etoo busy sucking up to liberals anyway.
When did dems decide that patriotism was worthwhile? When Mayor Hickenlooper’s town hosted the DNC, that’s when. What could be more patriotic that serving your country? Serving yourself at the organic salad bar. Go green, Denver.
Would you rather be siting in a room with 5,000 plus people who have eaten beans and greens or ones who have eaten a corn dog? This may rivel the dirty hippies gathered outside.
Arugula pins for everyone!
I’ll agree only if you mean that neither exist. But I really think they are trying hard to re-label everything so I’m gonna respectfully stick with my views on this one.
I meant purely in the sense of an embarrassing political statement that should be used to rhetorically slap the Dems into submission using the brute-force moronity of their own words.
“Most Ethcial Congress”: Joke.
“Global Test”: Punchline.
“It’s the New Patriotism!”: Comedy Gold.
And that is the crux of the whole matter. Frankly, they can run their whole convention that way for all I care. It’s when they want to start forcing that crap on everybody that I get pissed off.
I have an opinion. They have an opinion. That’s all fine. As you correctly point out, the key operative words are “force of the state.”
Liberals were having trouble, what a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore their former glory
Where, Oh where was he? Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The man for you and me.
And now it’s..
Convention time for Obama and Arugula
Denver is happy and gay
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out, here come the veggie plates
Convention time for Obama and Arugula
Winter for Cheney and Bush
Springtime for Obama and Arugula
Come on, Unions, gotta’ get a push
He’s from Chicago, and that is why they call him Fast Eddie
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the donkey party
Convention time for Obama and Arugula
Backstep’s the new step today
Lies falling from the skies again
Liberals are on the rise again
Convention time for Obama and Arugula
Gas prices are rising once more
Convention time for Obama and Arugula
Means that soon we’ll be going
We’ve got to be going
You know we’ll be going to vote TWICE!
I’ll go alone with that.
Have a great week all. I’m going to the beach to celebrate the 4th old patriot style.
AS if we didn’t have enough loony libs around already they decide to hold their convention in a city where they have a “loopy hick” mayor … oh … sorry … that’s Hick-n-looper … guess they share the mayor’s office …
… ah well … can’t tell the difference anyway …
I’m not an old man, but I’m going to sound like one here.
I remember when being patriotic meant we knew how to handle and display the US Flag properly. We taught the kids the meaning of Memorial Day and the 4th of July. We modeled the sacred responsibility of voting and jury duty by participating in both. We supported the troops and the mission because the US is a good a noble nation, even though imperfect. Being patriotic meant we knew history and civics and remained faithful to our traditions and the rule of law.
Now, arugula and tofu? There’s a reason why the left wants to redefine patriotism; they traditonal patriotism provincial and repellent.
BSR
What a vision. How will they hold the Convention Center down?
Be prepared for UFO reports from Denver.
or else a massive methane-powered fire that will burn Denver to the ground
Azygos, I nearly wet me knickers at your #52.
At the same time, I’d be hard pressed to choose between the corndog hiss & the beans/green steam. Hmmm. Could I just choose something less cloying, but fried nonetheless? Perhaps french fries?
Do not light that match!
too bad they can’t take their elitist convention to France where their food selection would be more “en vogue” …
see-dubya said:
Musta meant esprit d’corps of Tammany Hall.
Can somebody teach Pelosi how to handle a gavel also?
I’m on it for a youtube cooking show this weekend.
And after that… pho-bama.
But instead of having beef or chicken like regular pho, this one will have bologna.
taylork
Bologna is good … grew up on it and now my Congress critters regularly feed it to me …
On June 27th, 2008 at 4:01 pm, Azygos said:
You owe me a new keyboard!
bologna pho !? Eeeeewwww…. almost as unappealing as the candidate.
The traffic sucks, too. Except for that toll road that nobody uses.
It will be good for Michelle’s children
I’ll say it.
What does this mean for soul food at the convention?????
How will soul food fans respond??
it’s as dumb as freedom fries.
grown ups acting like morons…
this is why many children have the reasoning skills of a retarded farm animal.
they learn it from watching you.
I love meat
Hence the nickname… I just find it amusing people are surprised fried food is being targeted as being unhealthy as crap.
…and if you keep on eating like that, you will be just another obese American who drops dead from heart disease at a very young age…
You see, I am a compassionate conservative. I care
I don’t know about you folks, but how does anyone take anything serious that comes from the mouth of someone called “Hickenlooper”… Gad, sure glad none of my C.O.s were named that… I’d have been dumped in the brig forever for insubordination…lol
I’m sure all the restaurants in the Denver area are looking forward to having their city overrun with people that won’t eat anything on their menus …
Adding to See-DuBya’s earlier list …
No eggs, bacon, ham, sausage, French Toast, pancakes … all “fried” …
No grilled cheese sandwiches, burgers, fries, onion rings, philly steaks, potato chips … all “fried” …
No pork chops, fried chicken, chicken fried steaks, fried shrimp and clams, fried potatoes, sauteed vegetable medleys … all “fried” …
Guess there will be a lot of people sneaking “food” into the convention center or else they’ll starve all day …
Apple pie has sugar - white sugar and the crust has grease AND SALT.
APPLE PIE IS UNPATRIOTIC!!!
Sausage:
Conservative? You? LOL!
BTW, how does one cook sausage?
So now they are trying redefine what patriotic means… how nice of them. It’s not like there are more pressing matters to attend to. Idiots.
cHickenlooper, don’t be stuck on stupid. It’s unbecoming.
Not to worry, I hear the black market for deep fried twinkies is going to do well in denver. oops, can I say black market?
this to me just screams girlyman which is perfect for the dems . What is their music going to be “im to sexy for my shirt “
i sent this story to lgf earlier today.
as i posted in my comments over there, i am not looking forward to being in denver in august and i live 1 mile from the pepsi center and downtown. i’m so excited to have a front-row seat to the crazy.
denver has become the new san francisco. our mayor is a crazy leftist who after two shootings in downtown denver, wants to try out philadelphia’s “one gun purchase per month” laws and institute staggered last call and closing times for bars rather than actually targeting the thugs who decided to shoot at cops with a shotgun. our governor is a tax and spend liberal who just gave $10 million in grants to a variety of communities in the state to make “green” improvements to their buildings.
it’s ridiculous!
Well I don’t know about everyone else, but on the rare occasion I do cook sausage as semi-main breakfast course, rather than just in something for flavor, I usually:
*Take about 4 to 5 ounces (small patty) of raw Jimmy Dean sausage and throw it on a hot frying pan.
*Cook about 3 mins each side and let the small amount of grease from the sausage pool in the pan.
*Remove sausage from the pan and let the juices redistribute while you take an egg and cook it over-easy real quick.
* Use the remaining small amount of grease film on the pan to put a hamburger bun in there and toast it in the grease until slighty crispy.
*Assemble bun, sausage patty, egg, and a slice of your favorite cheese.
*Eat and enjoy and be sure to have a paper towel handy for those greasy fingers.
*Come back here to be lambasted for your eating choices and how you are going to die young despite your physical fitness and general health proving otherwise.
No, it’s only unhealthy when eaten in excessive amounts. I have no qualms about saying portions of society are greedy - but you know what? Until liberals toss out their condoms and birth control and start realizing promiscuous sex is “unhealthy as crap”, too, they have little right to tell anyone what the hell to do with their bodies.
If anyone drops dead from eating fried foods what the hell does it matter to you? Quite frankly, it’s none of your damn business what I put on my plate at dinner time.
Whites, conservatives, Christians, and fat people are the last remaining unprotected, politically-incorrect groups.
He’s now Paranoid.
Heh. (last item.)
Hey Michael Yon: Denver’s mayor is an example of groupthink. I can picture all the Gen Y’s seeing his pronouncement on the news and nodding sagely. Egads. I’m happy to be a boomer. I should be able to eat pizza and spew carbon with my giant V8 powered vehicles until the day I no longer have the strength.
Man, gotta love that tolerant liberalism at work, huh see-dubya?
I’ll see your Arugula and raise you 2 double cheeseburgers, an order of onion rings, and deep fried Twinkies for dessert.
/WIN
why must everything be organic ????
no plant knows the different from a man made fertilizer and an organic fertilizer. the plants take up nutes from the molecular level . And as far as pesticides BT is an organic pest control and its just as deadly to humans as say ddt .
I’m glad I can’t go to Denver … would be very depressing to go to such a circus and not be able to walk around with a corn dog …
Exactly! It’s FRIED!
So go stuff it, sausage!
“Mayor Hickenlooper”
You made that name up, Michelle. Totally busted.
I have compassion for my fat American artery clogged friends!
So few left in the wild, huh?
I suppose some of these “last remaining” white Christian conservatives get a little scared when they encounter different religions, accents…etc may I suggest they grab a passport and travel the world - get out of ones own little backwater and explore the rich variety of culture and life outside of white, Christian America?
All this talk of food is making me hungry… a trip to Cracker Barrel is in order I think….
Only indirectly related to Democrat mayors (NYC’s mayor Bloomberg is officially an independent)
al-NYT says we are all going to die because of Heller.
Only the Obamunist can save us now!
They will take my onion rings from my greasy dead hand!
Ketchup is red
Green onions are green (see how that works?)
Mustard is yellow(except when it is brown)
God Bless America, I think I’ll have a Whopper Value Meal King size! And I’ll get a side of arugula for the Mayor.
ahhhhh provlone cheese steak wit….. and a side of scrapple with a liter of Wishniak’s Black Cherry soda and for dessert… a whole bunch of Tasteykake buttersotch krimpets…. and later a quart of Genessee cream ale
#94, no, michelle did not make it up. denver’s mayor really is john hickenlooper.
ha! the mets and yanks are playing a double header today, wonder how much fried food they’re going to eat at both stadiums playing at shea and yankee stadium? adding delgado is smokin the yanks with a nine rbi day.
and this method is one of my favs