The White House recently released the Thanksgiving menu that the president and his family enjoyed recently.
Thanksgiving at the White House has to be pretty classy, right? One might imagine that on the White House dining table there wouldn't be the tired old American traditional Jell-O salad. Usually green.
One might also imagine a rather sophisticated, high-brow menu. The president and family dined on
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Roasted Turkey, Honey-Baked Ham, Cornbread Stuffing, Oyster Stuffing, Braised Winter Greens along with mashed potatoes and Sweet Potato Gratin. Six kinds of pie were also served: banana cream, coconut cream, pumpkin, apple, pecan and cherry.
Just a little something the White House Chef sneaked past the First Lady who would have probably requested stuffed and roasted kale, and would never allow such good-tasting, fulfilling food in a school lunchroom.
Sounds like a pretty upscale Thanksgiving dinner. Macaroni and cheese were also on the menu, but it's unclear if the chef didn't get the memo and served the two turkeys the president pardoned named Mac and Cheese or if it were some gourmet version featuring several kinds of cheeses with unpronounceable names and Bechamel sauce.
What I never imagined was the President of these United States being served green bean casserole for Thanksgiving!
Green bean casserole is a cruel joke played on a wonderful vegetable. It's a fat-laden, sodium-packed insult to the lovely green bean.
Yet family feuds have been maintained over that horrible concoction of green beans, cream of mushroom soup concentrate and canned fried onions.
I once attended a potluck dinner where the only vegetable offered was three versions of green beans smothered in that awful mess, and each woman who brought her offering insisted hers was different -- and superior.
News flash, ladies -- it's all the same recipe. Claiming to use "golden" mushroom soup instead of the regular cream of mushroom soup is delusional.
You have no idea how sad it makes me to know that common green bean casserole was served in the oh, so elegant White House dining room. D.C. reporters -- here's your chance to be the next Woodward and/or Bernstein. Skulk around the White House garbage cans and locate the empty cans of mushroom soup and the empty cans of fried onions. It will be a national scandal. Beangate, if you must.
I'd feel more confident about the state of the country if I knew that our leader dined on grilled or sauteed green beans. Steamed green beans with brown butter. Or deep fried green beans. I'm sure that the reason our educational level is lower than that of other countries is because so many Americans are fed brain-clogging green bean casserole.
It's a conspiracy. And it's right under the president's nose.
What I never imagined was the President of these United States being served green bean casserole for Thanksgiving!
Green bean casserole is a cruel joke played on a wonderful vegetable. It's a fat-laden, sodium-packed insult to the lovely green bean.
Yet family feuds have been maintained over that horrible concoction of green beans, cream of mushroom soup concentrate and canned fried onions.
I once attended a potluck dinner where the only vegetable offered was three versions of green beans smothered in that awful mess, and each woman who brought her offering insisted hers was different -- and superior.
News flash, ladies -- it's all the same recipe. Claiming to use "golden" mushroom soup instead of the regular cream of mushroom soup is delusional.
You have no idea how sad it makes me to know that common green bean casserole was served in the oh, so elegant White House dining room. D.C. reporters -- here's your chance to be the next Woodward and/or Bernstein. Skulk around the White House garbage cans and locate the empty cans of mushroom soup and the empty cans of fried onions. It will be a national scandal. Beangate, if you must.
I'd feel more confident about the state of the country if I knew that our leader dined on grilled or sauteed green beans. Steamed green beans with brown butter. Or deep fried green beans. I'm sure that the reason our educational level is lower than that of other countries is because so many Americans are fed brain-clogging green bean casserole.
It's a conspiracy. And it's right under the president's nose.
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