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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho will be Trump's official food taster?
Will he insist on choosing one himself?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/taster.asp
Do food tasters work on behalf of U.S. presidents?
Claim: Food tasters work on behalf of U.S. presidents.
TRUE
Origins: Food tasters are a concept long associated with important personages such as political leaders and business tycoons. The most common image of a food taster is someone who serves as a guinea pig for his
employer, sampling meals before they are served to ensure that no one has tampered with them (particularly by introducing poison or some other harmful substance). Food tasters can serve other functions, however, such as ensuring that foods do not include ingredients that, although ordinarily innocuous, might nonetheless pose a problem for a particular diner, such as wine used in the preparation of a dish intended for someone who is abstaining from alcohol, or an ingredient that a person with specific food allergies might have a sensitivity to. Or a taster may simply function as someone who is intimately familiar with the preferences of his employer and serves to ensure that food is prepared to the latter's culinary satisfaction.
Whether food tasters are employed on behalf of U.S. presidents when they're away from the White House is a subject that the Secret Service refrains from officially commenting on, but it's something of an open secret that they are:
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Who will be Trump's official food taster? (Original Post)
frogmarch
Jan 2017
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crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)1. I hear Chris Christie is looking for a job in the administration....
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Wish I had thought of that
Motley13
(3,867 posts)6. Chris Crispie - I was thinking the exact same thing
BLOTUS even hired the guy Crispie was blaming for bridgegate. I'm sure SIL had a hand in that.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)2. He's going to need one
And body doubles.
jehop61
(1,735 posts)3. Melania
2naSalit
(86,600 posts)7. Christy or Malaria
UTUSN
(70,691 posts)8. HAH: "himself" - well, he answers his own phone!1 Plus, going by his policy of filling govt jobs
with jerks who are HOSTILE to the departments that they're administrating, follows that he would hire a taster who doesn't believe in his job.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)9. Rasputin?
roamer65
(36,745 posts)10. If I were Dump, I'd be careful of the food at the VP mansion.
WhiteTara
(29,711 posts)11. The Rancid Penis would be a good choice.
He's very amiable to all sorts of poison.
Initech
(100,070 posts)12. Trump will taste the food himself.
Because he has the best taste. Nobody has better taste than he does.
AnnieBW
(10,426 posts)13. Sounds like a job for Chris Christie!
Something that even HE can't screw up!