Freedom Is Eating Steak Well Done with Ketchup: In Trump’s Washington even eating is politicized.

[Machiavelli]

Matthew Continetti
National Review
March 18, 2017

... In Washington under Trump even so rudimentary an activity as eating has become politicized, weighted with aesthetic and class significance, put under the jurisdiction of social arbiters who declare what is woke and what is haram. “Actually, How Donald Trump Eats His Steak Matters,” proclaims a contributor to Eater.com. “The president of the United States insists that his steaks be cooked well-done. Unfortunately, that’s a big problem.” But why is it a problem, Eater.com? Why should so trivial a detail impress itself on the average person’s consciousness for even a microsecond? Aren’t there far more important subjects that warrant reflection and criticism and debate: health care, trade and tax policy, missile threats, the men and women dropping dead from heroin? ...

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[EC]

Aren’t there far more important subjects that warrant reflection and criticism and debate

Dude's never been on a forum, has he? Very few topics are more virulently debated than food. 

[Cyber Liberty]

Dude's never been on a forum, has he? Very few topics are more virulently debated than food. 

There isn't a stick or a stone the left won't pick up to hurl at Trump.  I've never seen anything like it.

[EC]

There isn't a stick or a stone the left won't pick up to hurl at Trump.  I've never seen anything like it.

True, they do grab everything in range to chuck at him.

Still - a man that puts ketchup on a ruined steak? Deliberately, not making the best of a bad day in the kitchen?

There are limits. 

[anubias]

I'm with you EC.  Ketchup might be the only thing that could save that steak.  Medium rare with horseradish for me, please.

[EC]

 

Medium rare in a restaurant - for some reason they always do that really well, whereas the rare can be erratic. At home, a little to the rare side of medium rare, depending on the cut.

Horseradish unless I'm having chips (fries) - then I have either béarnaise or peppercorn sauce. 

[Cyber Liberty]

True, they do grab everything in range to chuck at him.

Still - a man that puts ketchup on a ruined steak? Deliberately, not making the best of a bad day in the kitchen?

There are limits. 

In her Yout, Mrs Liberty was a waitress in a nice steak house.  She took an order back for a steak well-done, and the Chef threw her out of the kitchen for the rest of the night.  I can't even begin to get my mind around the Ketchup.  Reminds me of a Red Dwarf episode.

[Machiavelli]

There isn't a stick or a stone the left won't pick up to hurl at Trump.  I've never seen anything like it.

They do it with every Republican president.

[endicom]

Dude's never been on a forum, has he? Very few topics are more virulently debated than food. 

"Eat _____!" is not really about food, you know. ;-)

[endicom]

Matthew Continetti
National Review
March 18, 2017
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Good article. The lefties go from absurd to ludicrous in snatching at anything to demean the opposition.

[Cyber Liberty]

They do it with every Republican president.

I know, but I haven't seen it be done so thoroughly.  I don't even know how GWB had his steak cooked.  Never wanted to know dittos the next guy.

[EasyAce]

Fair disclosure: I couldn't care less how Donaldus Minimus or anyone else likes their
steak.

But if mine isn't rare, I send it right back.

A left-wing nutjob, of course, would demand to know where I acquired my taste
for a) blood, and b) murdered or murdering animals. Not necessarily in that
order.

[Cyber Liberty]

Fair disclosure: I couldn't care less how Donaldus Minimus or anyone else likes their
steak.

But if mine isn't rare, I send it right back.

A left-wing nutjob, of course, would demand to know where I acquired my taste
for a) blood, and b) murdered or murdering animals. Not necessarily in that
order.

Sometimes left-wing nutcases need to be kicked in their left nutcases.  Just sayin'.

[EasyAce]

Sometimes left-wing nutcases need to be kicked in their left nutcases.  Just sayin'.

Assuming they have nuts in their cases . . .

[Cyber Liberty]

Assuming they have nuts in their cases . . .