No Joke: Mittens eats only the Tops of Muffins!

[reformist2]

"Romney prefers to eat only the tops of muffins, the logic here being that during cooking the butter and unhealthful lipids have melted down into the base."

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[Chorophyll]

1. And you know what he says about the rest of us?

"Let them eat muffin bottoms!"

Please sir, may I have your unhealthful lipids?

[RedStateLiberal]

30. LOL! I hope the American people

symbolically say "Off with his head!" with their votes this November.

[Vinca]

52. ROFL - that's hysterical.

[Chorophyll]

53. Thanks!

[TwilightGardener]

2. There's no logic in his logic (re butter/lipids). This is a case for Alton Brown.

[Lizzie Poppet]

13. Looks like he knows about as much about baking...

...as he does about how to transport animals.

[joeybee12]

46. You're right...it's just that the tops taste better...

I think they do.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Of course he does!

He likes to stick with the upper crust.

[soccer1]

12. Funny!

[pscot]

39. +1

[monmouth]

4. OMG, this is just icing on the ....lipids. What a day!...n/t

[louis-t]

5. "Top of the Muffin!"

Muffin bottoms are for the little people.

[arely staircase]

6. base?

i beleive the term is "stump."

[reformist2]

14. They're just stumps!

[11 Bravo]

7. He's also welcome to eat the peanuts out of my shit.

[mikeytherat]

16. Why was I drinking coffee when I read that? Why?

Damn coffee everywhere.

mikey_the_rat

[Scootaloo]

45. Tell him it's kopi luwak and he probably would n/t

[Wounded Bear]

8. "People with muffin-tops for Romney unite!"

[Bluerthanblue]

9. oh yea, like the cream sinks to the bottom of the milk

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Dog-on-roof loves muffin-roof

[Enrique]

11. he has a name for people that eat the bottoms

he calls them muffin divers.

[Scootaloo]

15. I clicked on the link, fearing this was a euphemism

Very relieved.

...Really? And for that reason?

man, how the fuck do stupid people get so rich?

[hifiguy]

19. The old fashioned way:

By inheriting most of it and then extorting the rest from the peasantry at the point of a sword.

[Scootaloo]

23. I don't think he's bright enough to hold the right end of a sword

[Salviati]

40. He pays people to hold the sword for him

he's a job creator!

[mikeytherat]

29. They amass a small fortune by first starting with a large fortune (usually an inheritance).

The contemporary term for it is "Trumpitis."

Failing that, they swindle folks dumber than themselves. If you've got no morals or ethics, taking someone's last dime and not giving a sh** is surprisingly easy.

mikey_the_rat

[Blaukraut]

17. Mitt is actually familiar with Muffins? I thought he only ate Petit Fours and Crumpets n/t

[Blue Owl]

18. Betchya Chris Christi is "The Cleaner"

He'll take care of those stumps!

[reformist2]

22. LOL!

Too funny.

[GoCubsGo]

20. Jeez, this jerk even lies about muffins.

What bullshit. The only reason he only eats the tops is because they taste better than the bottom part, because they have that nice, caramelized outside (or the streusel, or the glaze, or the sugar and nuts...). Throwing the bottoms into the garbage just doesn't look good, especially now, when so many people can't afford groceries.

[reformist2]

44. He's like a little kid - I bet he cuts the crust off his white-bread PB&J sandwiches, too.

[GoCubsGo]

47. I doubt he has ever eaten that peasant food.

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Watercress sandwiches, on the other hand...

[tanyev]

57. Don't be silly. He has the cook do that for him.

[sammytko]

51. You can buy a muffin top only muffin pan

No need to discard the bottoms. The top is the best part.

[NickB79]

21. He only eats the top 1% of the muffin

The other 99% he ships to China.

[surrealAmerican]

24. ... "during cooking the butter and unhealthful lipids have melted down into the base" ...

... ???
He must never have seen anybody bake to believe that.

k & r

I like this thread.

[snooper2]

25. Has he ever been caught eating a piece of fried chicken?

Or even corn on the cob

"Somebody needs to cut these kernels off for me, I will not pick that up LOL"

[nichomachus]

26. And he smashes the rest of the muffins to crumbs

So the servants can't eat them.

[SDjack]

32. Some he sends to the Food Bank in the Caymans. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

27. He creams off the top - always

[MADem]

28. What a creepily fascinating portrait. My favorite bits were these:

In other words, Newt is an ideal candidate because when an infant pestered him, he hacked it, took it like a man, a pro. If it were Romney? And an infant started fucking with him? You know it would be bad, some pediatric version of the time he sang "Who Let the Dogs Out" to black teens in Florida. "Hello, little organism different from myself. I will now make noises that I believe are comprehensible to your kind."

• In 2005, Romney rather cynically effaced his identity as a pro-choice, gay-friendly centrist and became a social conservative. One of the more appalling elements of the transformation: He reversed an earlier avowal that he hoped stem cells might cure Ann's multiple sclerosis.

Does Mitt Romney know that Oklahoma, the sort of state in whose image he intends to remake the nation, ranks forty-fifth in median household income (Hamm's billions notwithstanding) or that a recent Pew study rated Oklahoma one of the three worst states in terms of social mobility? My guess is that he does. But he also knows the more important truth, that the candidate with the tidiest narrative wins. And his narrative is very tidy: that making money is a good and patriotic undertaking, that those who make the most of it are the best and wisest people in the world, and that Romney shall save us because he knows what's good for him and Harold Hamm, and what's good for him and Harold is good for us all.

It's just a horrible portrait of the guy, even without the Mormon stuff and the Holocaust/pus/baboon references. But it's accurate, I'm thinking...

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201208/mitt-romney-wells-tower-gq-august-2012?printable=true

[chknltl]

31. Does his grape pealer have a green card?

Never know, could be scandaliscious info.

[Mosby]

34. he probably owns one of these

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/10/born-to-be-viral-watch-a-surgical-robot-peel-a-grape.html

[felix_numinous]

33. Skimming off the top

is the all pervasive R-money way of life.

[progressoid]

35. Well sure. Too many muffin bottoms will give you a muffin top.

[Waiting For Everyman]

36. He thinks a batter is going to re-separate back into its components again as it bakes?

So... this nitwit doesn't understand the concept of MIXING a MIXTURE. He knows virtually nothing about anything that is remotely real.

I really have to wonder, from that muffin nonsense, about that guy's thinking process in general.

[nichomachus]

37. Is there anything these idiots can't apply the "trickle down" theory to? n/t

[Chorophyll]

41. Duzy!

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

38. I don't see the big deal. My wife only eats the tops of muffins.

[gkhouston]

43. She probably doesn't do so in the belief that the fats sink to the bottom of the muffin, though.

For a brief time 15-20 years ago, "muffin top" pans were fairly popular, and you can probably still get them. They're very shallow, so people who like the tops of muffins because they enjoy the crust get more of that. It's sort of like those "all edges" brownie pans they have now for people who prefer the edge pieces.

[reformist2]

49. I think it helps if you remember the episode of Seinfeld where Elaine

said she liked eating only the tops of muffins. They turned it into a great satire on elitism.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

55. I was never a big Seinfeld kind of guy.

For a long time I didn't believe in watching TV. TV was for Atari, nintendo, and PlayStation... and CableTV bills were for suckers.

Recently, I've been watching Seinfeld reruns on TV and it is HIL-AR-IOUS. I'm sad I never watched it all those years. I'll keep an eye out for that episode.

[GoCubsGo]

61. It's not about eating only the tops.

It's about the bullshitting about why he does it.

[Marr]

42. Kind of like licking the frosting off of donuts.

The top is the tasty part.

[Bozita]

48. Those muffin tops must be just the right height!

[Liberal_in_LA]

50. Fancy LA market (Gelsons) use to sell "muffin tops" because many people just like the top.

They were regular muffins cooked wide and flat to increase the muffin top ratio.

[just1voice]

54. That's certainly an important issue, I feel so informed now

It drives home one of the most important issues of our era, who eats the crust on toast?

[DCBob]

56. You all are not going to believe it but that episode is on right now on DC50.

wweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird!

[reformist2]

60. Here too! What a weird coincidence...

[muntrv]

58. Mitt only cares about the top 1%.

[joeybee12]

59. Mittens is a top? I had him pegged as a bottom.