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frogmarch

(12,153 posts)
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 08:35 PM Jan 2017

Who 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 OP
I hear Chris Christie is looking for a job in the administration.... crazycatlady Jan 2017 #1
Oh damn nini Jan 2017 #4
LOL. mnhtnbb Jan 2017 #5
Chris Crispie - I was thinking the exact same thing Motley13 Jan 2017 #6
He's going to need one MFM008 Jan 2017 #2
Melania jehop61 Jan 2017 #3
Christy or Malaria 2naSalit Jan 2017 #7
HAH: "himself" - well, he answers his own phone!1 Plus, going by his policy of filling govt jobs UTUSN Jan 2017 #8
Rasputin? KamaAina Jan 2017 #9
If I were Dump, I'd be careful of the food at the VP mansion. roamer65 Jan 2017 #10
The Rancid Penis would be a good choice. WhiteTara Jan 2017 #11
Trump will taste the food himself. Initech Jan 2017 #12
Sounds like a job for Chris Christie! AnnieBW Jan 2017 #13

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
6. Chris Crispie - I was thinking the exact same thing
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 08:48 PM
Jan 2017

BLOTUS even hired the guy Crispie was blaming for bridgegate. I'm sure SIL had a hand in that.

UTUSN

(70,691 posts)
8. HAH: "himself" - well, he answers his own phone!1 Plus, going by his policy of filling govt jobs
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 09:30 PM
Jan 2017

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.

Initech

(100,070 posts)
12. Trump will taste the food himself.
Sun Jan 8, 2017, 10:56 PM
Jan 2017

Because he has the best taste. Nobody has better taste than he does.

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