Nothing Says ‘Thanks for Visiting the US’ Like Pickled Okra
**Written by Doug Powers
As the world leaders were back in the City scheming to divvy up money that doesn’t belong to them, the spouses hung around with FLOTUS and received a basket that I’m predicting will come to be known as “the re-gifting heard ’round the world”:
First lady Michelle Obama underscored her healthy eating project today by giving U.N. spouses a tour of a working farm near New York City, and giving them nature-themed gifts.
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The first lady also gave the spouses gifts tied to the kitchen garden she set up at the White House. The descriptions are provided by the White House:A special recipe of pickled, hand-picked ingredients from the White House Kitchen Garden, including sun gold tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, chocolate bell peppers, carrots, lemon verbena, and fresh herbs are presented in jars with the First Lady’s signature. The jars are topped with original artwork done by California artists, Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma, who were inspired by a photo of Mrs. Obama tending to the garden with children and a wheelbarrow.
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Each gift is presented inside a one-of-a-kind, hand woven basket made of Maplewood harvested in the Midwest by The Longaberger Company, which is a family-owned and operated American company that has been in business for over 100 years. Each basket is lined with a khaki canvas insert. A nickel tag is affixed to the outside of each bag and engraved with the words, “Made Exclusively for Michelle Obama.”
Well of course — who else is going to eat this stuff?
The secret is to use only extra-virgin formaldehyde. For some reason I just had a flashback to high school science lab.
That gift was for the spouses — the visiting men who spent the week hanging out with Barack were sent home with baskets containing much better gifts: An iPod (pre-loaded with all the president’s speeches), autographed photo of Jay-Z, a divot repair tool, Hope & Change limited-edition signature gold-plated putter, carton of Marlboros, autographed copy of “I, TOTUS” and gift certificate for a bacon triple cheeseburger at Ray’s Hell.
Bonus Trivia: The First Lady of Cameroon was the only visiting dignitary to have hair bigger than the country she represents.
(h/t Todd Starnes and WZ)
**Written by Doug Powers
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I seem to remember reading some time ago that the soil in the White House garden was made toxic by the fertilizer that the Clintons used… like it was from dried sewage and had mercury or lead in it that contaminated the soil.
Does anyone else remember reading about that?
Aaaaargh! Thank goodness I am not one of the “lucky” recipients of either of the Obama gifts! Yikes! It is enough to get me off veggies for a while. Barry is still into giving out copies of his speeches? Won’t they corrode the insides of the iPod?
A nickel tag is affixed to the outside of each bag and engraved with the words, “Made Exclusively for Michelle Obama.”
If she didn’t pay for those, which I doubt she did, shouldn’t that tag say “Made Exclusively for the American Taxpayer”. Seriously.
I ran my Bill Clinton parser over this and noticed, it is “tied to” the garden (doesn’t say, “came from the soil of”) and I assume the phrase White House Kitchen Garden is some sort of tradename (it’s capitalized and doesn’t say “Garden at the White House”) and may belong to some conglomerate that shipped it all in from one of the few farms in California allotted water under the Obama Quid-Pro-Quo Water Company set of rules. The White House Kitchen Garden may be in the Central valley, or Chavez’ backyard for all we know.
Everything they do is fake or a lie.
Heh – Pickled Okra – you mean the vegetable. I thought… oops, so awkward….
Gawd, first it was an iphone to the Queen with his speeches on it; then, what, some plastic airplanes picked up in a gift shop at the airport; then DVD movies of great American films; then they return the bust of Churchill; now pickled okra…GIVE ME A BREAK!!!! This couple has no class and are idiots. Sheesh. How cheap can they get.
I love it….”tied to” the garden. Yeah, they walked through it on their way to Whole Foods.
I’d bet their food is specially grown on a secured farm for security reasons. Obviously is it known as the White House Kitchen Garden. …in any case the nomenclature is meant to deceive.
Or done for show and the cameras. Nitwits running our country.
Racist? It has to be; no vanilla beans.
Something tells me Michelle is fed up with this schtick. I know I sure am.
Now that wasn’t very nice Doug. Michelle has a full schedule as it is and yet carved out time to slave away for hours in a hot kitchen preparing a very thoughtful gift with her own hands. No wonder she thinks being First Lady is hell. There is just no pleasing some people.
Michelle grows chocolate in her garden?
I wonder if there are chocolate bunnies in Michelle’s garden too.
So she re-gifted, too.
Also, the veggies’ll counteract the buck-and-a-quarter cookies that Bono’s organization hands out. (See previous thread re: ONE foundation.)
I love pickled okra, but who here thinks mo had this in ‘her’ garden? I have just to ask, who in the wh gave mo this advice to DO THIS? Man, oh man, every day I didn’t think it could get worse, by golly it does! The whole world is laughing their fool heads off at who we have in the wh.
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I TOTUS. Good one. LOL.
Pickled Oprah? That’s disgusting!
What? Oh. Nevermind.
You know, other than this story about okra supposedly being grown in Michelle’s garden, I cannot find ANYTHING anywhere which says she was growing it. Lots of other plants, but, not okra.
Granted, there are about 55 different types, but no web search I’ve done finds okra. She probably had the help buy it.
Seriously, with all the other stuff grown, she gives okra?
Watch for these to show up on Ebay.
I can’t get over how brazen, arrogant, egotistical, left wingers are…it seems to be as if when one goes left they take an oath to be the must obnoxious person they can be. I could type out a list but it’s just as accurate and much faster putting them all together under the same label…left winger, liberals.
Where’s the Gift Czar??????
I happen to LIKE pickled okra. I’m not saying it is the perfect gift for the First Lady of Cameroon but in flight food on trans-Atlantic flights isn’t what it used to be so for all we know it will be most appreciated as these other First Ladies return home.
It leaves one to wonder what gift items DID NOT survive the first cut…
Truly, the most tasteless, crass and idiotic president and first lady ever.
Dear Lord, for all his faults and mistakes, George W. Bush and Laura are such a class act. The contrast could not be more stark.
G-d help us all.
I will take the Okra over Obama’s speeches (which no doubt contain a worm).
OT///
Prayer request:
Having a rough time. Some “friends” misunderstood some stuff we said, gossipped about it amongst themselves until it became a huge problem in their imaginations, then filed a false “abuse and neglect” report with CPS.
Please pray. We now return you to your regularly scheduled pickled okra.
Ugh. I have bought my last Longaberger basket.
Only one way to eat okra –
…cut and pan fried in cornmeal and salt.
Why are her approval numbers so high?
Pickled okra!!!! In some countries they’ll use that for enhanced interrogation.
Amen.
On September 25, 2010 at 04:55 pm, Tennessee Dave said:
Amen to that as well.
Thank heavens for big government. It keeps us all safe. /end sarc
Sorry to hear that. If you can move out of the state, it totally messes up their system.
Then all you have to do is throw it directly in the trash. Okra is inedible.
Okra is one of God’s great gifts and Southern Culture has been given the great responsibility of sharing that gift with the whole world.
Fried, boiled and pickled, okra is virtually a second manna…
I love gumbo. Okra is in that. Fried okra is awesome.
BTW have you ever had fried pickles? Had some in Columbus GA when my son was in basic.
Sounds like some of you are now ready for a surprisingly good dish: garlic ice cream. Tried it a few years ago at the Gilmore Garlic Festival. I swear, you can make ice cream out of anything and it will taste good. It’s like chocolate and pizza and sex. When it’s good, it’s very, very good. When it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.
I had mushroom ice cream in France.
in seafood gumbo. Mmmm
Praying for you to be able to continue parenting Biblically without “friends” and the government telling you that you can’t.
If you have a Cracker Barrel nearby, stop in and order the side of deep fried okra. Absolutely yummy! Of course, I also order fried chicken livers. Heaven!! Mom always put okra in her sloppy joes. Good eatin!
However, as a gift to foreign “dignitaries”, I think it is a bit cheesy (sorry Rogue!)
Originally it was going to be little doggy bags of poop, but the First Dog wasn’t up to the task, so they settled for this, the cheap bastages!
What, Winfrey fell off the wagon again?
Lambert’s Cafe in Sikeston, Mo. They give fried okra by the handful.
Close. It’s Orca Winfrey, not Okra.
Just how badly has Obama lost Independents?
In the last 20 months, he’s gone from +12 to -35 among Independents!
(That represents a current -35 rating among Independents, as compared to his +12 rating among Independents on the day before his inauguration.)
Source: Demographic Notes – Barack Obama Approval Index
What? No arugula?
I love hot summers when the Okra grows in great abundance. Hope MO remembered to add an Habanero to each batch of okra pickles.
There is no wrong way to eat okra, however, one can prepare okra wrong and end of with wonderful tasking slime.
I have yet to meet anyone that doesn’t like my green popcorn. I’m sure there is someone out there, probably a snooty liberal like that senator Gigolo Kerry.
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Thanks y’all.
Had 1st visit from “Xena Warrior CPS agent” a couple of days ago, will have 2nd visit sometime in next couple of weeks.
Father-in-law is a cop. He told us that based on our description of “Xena’s” behavior that she didn’t find anything (he has worked with CPS many times).
Other friends who have worked in the system have said there is no basis as well.
Mrs. Acclaim and I are hoping to restore the friendship if we can, but they have to understand what they did and that it can NEVER happen again TO ANYONE. One couple has figured it out already (good sign) the other two need a good stern lecture.
NEVER underestimate the destructive power of gossip.
Can’t make some of this stuff up. While Googling “White House Kitchen Garden” I found THIS picture.
Must need the extra wheels to throw folks under come November.
You are a kinder, more forgiving man than I Good Sir.
Why didn’t the flotus give them all ipads. Keep showing what a bunch of low rent buffoons you are to the rest of the world, as we need them to accept “anyone but Obama” as the next president.
Michelle, My Belle gives visiting dignitary a basket of pickled okra and we’re the ignorants hicks?
I don’t believe for one moment that there is anything resembling a WH vegetable garden.
Show me.
Oh and the Cameroonian hair? Dear Lord save us…the hair was the best part of either one of their outfits.
Sorry, but I would find other “friends”. These are toxic. Why would you even want them around you any more? You may forgive them, but don’t forget. You will aways be on your guard around them. Who needs that?
Well, that explains the chocolate bell peppers, now doesn’t it?
and the flag of the Republic of the Philippines was flown upside-down at a recent meeting between D’oh!bamma and President Aquino in NY. What a bunch of idiots. Someone please place the cone of shame around their necks so they don’t lick themselves in public.
Arizonaneanderthal
Thanks.
Happyscrapper
It all depends on whether it was ignorance or malice. I’m not ruling out ending the friendship, but I want my conscience clean no matter what happens. Mainly I want to be sure they don’t do this again to anyone else. If I didn’t try and it did happen again, I couldn’t live with myself. There’s one of them that seems to be the ringleader. She might be toxic. I think the other ones are just ignorant/stupid.
Oh, come on. Mickey Obeyme doesn’t have a clue about women….who wants a basket with healthy junk in it?? Women, especially the kind of ruling class we have today, want chocolates, lots of chocolates, and champagne, and oh yeah, stuff with carbohydrates, like cookies or cakes and such. Please, Mickey, give the ladies satin purses with a bottle of perfume for goodness sakes. (cheap btards!)
How about a little blue box from Tiffany’s? I like pearls, myself — you can wear them with bluejeans. Besides the chocolates and champagne, that is.
I personally have never worn pearls with jeans but who doesn’t like jewelry? Also like the idea of a Tiffany’s box (as long as it’s Obama doing the spending and not the taxpayer!). If they’re spending OUR money, I say the hell with these First Ladies!
How much was paid to the artists that were so inspired? If it was really just inspiration it should have been given freely, not gouged from the taxpayers.