LIKES

¶Planters Trail Mix: Nuts, Seeds & Raisins

¶Roasted almonds

¶Pistachios

¶Water

¶Dentyne Ice

¶Nicorette

¶MET-Rx chocolate roasted peanut protein bars

¶Vegetables, especially broccoli and spinach

¶Hand-made milk chocolates from Fran’s Chocolates in Seattle

DISLIKES

¶Mayonnaise

¶Salt and vinegar potato chips

¶Asparagus (“if no other vegetables are available, he’ll eat it”)

¶ Soft drinks (he prefers water)

jerseyhoya wrote:

LIKES

¶Planters Trail Mix: Nuts, Seeds & Raisins

¶Roasted almonds

¶Pistachios

¶Water

¶Dentyne Ice

¶Nicorette

¶MET-Rx chocolate roasted peanut protein bars

¶Vegetables, especially broccoli and spinach

¶Hand-made milk chocolates from Fran’s Chocolates in Seattle

DISLIKES

¶Mayonnaise

¶Salt and vinegar potato chips

¶Asparagus (“if no other vegetables are available, he’ll eat it”)

¶ Soft drinks (he prefers water)

Obama's likes and dislikes...

I can really get behind him liking broccoli, which is probably my favorite veggie, rivaled only by string beans. But since he doesn't like salt and vinegar potato chips or soft drinks, I'm not sure he has the judgment necessary to lead this country.

dajafi wrote: And the denunciation of mayonnaise does speak well for his judgment.

The mayonnaise season is upon us
As we head into picnic season, mayonnaise plays a star role.
By Joyce Gemperlein

For The Inquirer

My life is ruled by this question: What can I put mayonnaise on today?
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Calling mayonnaise a condiment, which connotes an ingredient attached to something of a higher order, slights it.
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A New York delicatessen owner named Richard Hellmann did not invent mayonnaise in the early 1900s, even though he began jarring his wife's blend, which was destined to become ubiquitous in the United States, and eventually over much of the world. Note that his wife's name seems lost to history, adding the element of sex discrimination to the tale. (It bears the Hellmann's label in most of the United States, except west of the Rockies, where it's called Best Foods mayo.)
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It has international appeal.

For example, real Belgian French fries are served with mayonnaise and mayonnaise-based sauces. Throughout Mexico, corn on the cob roasted on a fire is rolled in mayonnaise before being coated with cheese. In Oaxaca, some stores carry 39 types, and people often just put a dollop on bread to eat as a sandwich. Grocery stores in Brazil carry jarred mayonnaise in many forms; added ingredients may be tuna or carrots, garlic or lime, cucumbers or onions.

It is a huge deal in Japan, among other countries, where one brand even has a type flavored with cheese. Mayonnaise was introduced to Japan in 1925 by QP Corp. Called Kewpie mayonnaise, it is identified by a drawing of a naked baby doll. Made with rice vinegar, it is tangier (less sweet), more savory and silkier than standard commercial U.S. mayonnaise. And it has been used as a condiment on vegetables, meats and sushi for years. But now it is the rage among young people who are putting it on rice.

There's even a word in Japan for people who love mayonnaise: mayolers. At the Mayonnaise Kitchen, a restaurant devoted to mayonnaise outside Tokyo, bar specialties include the Mayogarita and the Mayoty Dog, vodka-based drinks served in mayonnaise-rimmed glasses.
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Food scientists have also developed a way to make mayonnaise with cooked egg yolks to ease the worry that some home cooks have about eating raw eggs possibly tainted with salmonella bacteria. (See accompanying recipe). Commercially made mayonnaise contains pasteurized egg yolks, making this irrelevant.
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When a potato salad, a crab cake, a macaroni salad, a deviled egg are excellent, do people credit the mayonnaise?

Never.
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It is controversial.

For every 10 people who love mayonnaise, there is always one person who abhors it and considers anyone who likes it to be strange, or to have an eating disorder.

Just the other day my daughter told me, in a shocked tone, about a girl she knew who obviously had an eating disorder because she had been seen eating a tablespoon of mayonnaise, all by itself.

I didn't know what to say.

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TomatoPie wrote:I so much want to like the Libertarians, I fully endorse their notion of smaller government. But they really embarass themselves on international events.

I was watching their convention on C-Span, and one of those nonimated for President was a cute little gal who looked like Annie Hall. She accepted the nomination from Comic Book Guy and haltingly began her speech. She was charming at first, but soon switched to a snarling rant about US imperialism. I had to move her into the wingnut column.

Christine Smith has a strict libertarian stance on domestic and foreign policy. She declared that she would start a withdrawal plan for the War in Iraq from the first day she is nominated president. Additionally, she advocates withdrawing U.S. troops that are deployed all around the world. She is against welfare programs and government spending, believing that these are fundamentally corrupt. She advocates abolishing most government programs, including the Federal Reserve, Internal Revenue Service, War on Drugs, the National ID card, internet regulation and prosecution of victimless crimes. She is a strong opponent of U.S. corporate welfare policies, seeing them as the result of corruption and inefficiency. Believing that free markets and free trade are would raise the standard of living, she advocates a strong monetary system and private property rights. She strongly abides[citation needed] by the U.S. constitution, personal freedom and privacy. She claims that the U.S. healthcare system is getting worse because of too much government intervention, corruption and corporatism. On education issues, she is a firm supporter of privatization and homeschooling. She supports abortion, but opposes funding for stem cell research. She supports local control over pollution and conservation over the federal level. She supports private property rights and abolishing government corruption to reduce pollution

Laexile wrote:He's saying that someone who didn't serve shouldn't be saying that someone who did doesn't care about veterans and understand their situation. I'm sure he would say the same if you also said you knew what was better for veterans.

jerseyhoya wrote:
Obama's likes and dislikes...

I can really get behind him liking broccoli, which is probably my favorite veggie, rivaled only by string beans.

philliesphhan wrote:

Laexile wrote:He's saying that someone who didn't serve shouldn't be saying that someone who did doesn't care about veterans and understand their situation. I'm sure he would say the same if you also said you knew what was better for veterans.

That's basically the same as when someone outside of the game disagrees with a manager's move. "This guy's never even played the game. What does he know?"

jerseyhoya wrote:Mitch McConnell is trailing by 5 points in a Rasmussen poll.

The Senate Minority Leader. In Kentucky. Down 5. Shoot me.

jerseyhoya wrote:We're in real trouble in all four of those states I listed in the second set there. Maine might also become a race. And Texas. And I left off Mississippi, where there was a poll last week that had us down. The Dems could legitimately get to 60 votes this cycle if things keep going this badly.