Food fight: can we have a presidential election without food photo ops?

[left-of-center2012]

Be in no doubt, the 2020 presidential race has already begun. Its official starting gun was fired not when the umpteenth Democrat declared their candidacy, or when mysterious Pacs started their bizarre attack ads. No, the true sign election season has begun is when the media begins scrutinizing politicians for their food choices.

Kirsten Gillibrand has already been scolded for asking, at a lunch with African American business leaders in South Carolina, whether she should eat fried chicken with cutlery or her hands. Eventually the food is served & Gillibrand starts to eat her fried chicken with a fork. She looks around, sees other people eating with their hands and says “Um, do we use our fingers or forks for the chicken?” The New York Times national political correspondent Jonathan Martin asked whether this could “really be the first time in 50 years she ate fried chicken?”

A New York Times piece that said Amy Klobuchar once ate a salad with a comb after an aide forgot to bring any utensils on a plane. After she finished the meal, Klobuchar is said to have admonished the aide and made them wash the comb. ...
the tale about eating and belittlement that has been most often cited, so much so that Klobuchar was forced to joke about it at the Gridiron Club dinner a month later: “How did everyone like the salad? I thought it was OK, but it needed just a bit of scalp oil and a pinch of dandruff.”

Gerald Ford ate a tamale still in its husk, John Kerry ordered too fancy a cheese on his Philly cheesesteak and Sarah Palin, John Kasich, Bill de Blasio and Donald Trump have all at various points eaten pizza with a knife and fork.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/24/us-election-2020-food-photo-ops

[MineralMan]

1. No corn dogs, please!

Never again!

[Tipperary]

2. Lol. That was my first thought!

I am lousy at posting pics so I am so glad you did.