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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 01:57 PM
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Bush's chief chef: first choice for lunch is peanut butter and honey or grilled cheese

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/02/bush_likes_pean.html#more

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The president, she told NBC's Today Show today, also likes raisin cinnamon bread.

All this was said in preparation for the Valentine's Day dinner in the White House - in a first kitchen that may not seem as big as necessary for the sizes of the first banquets they produce there: 16 burners on the range, four ovens and two other convection ovens. (But we've seen reinforcements brought in for the really big shows, with caterers working in makeshift hallway stations.)

Now, the White House Mess serves a lovely Navy bean soup and a fine grilled salmon as well in the panelled luxury of an old men's club, which essentially is what it once was. The two-shift lunch-service in the basement of the West Wing also is conducted by sharply dressed Navy waiters.

But the president's chief chef maintains that the president's first choice for lunch is that peanut butter and honey or grilled cheese.

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Sannum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 01:58 PM
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1. Oh my god, is he four?
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:04 PM
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10. Mentally, definitely
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:00 PM
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2. I hope all that stuff he eats clogs his arteries.
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cyberswede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:00 PM
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3. * is a child
He has the same dining preferences as my 4 year-old daughter. :eyes:
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:01 PM
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4. if no honey, then Fluffernutter is acceptable.
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:02 PM
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5. With the crusts on or cut off?
My mom used to cut our PB&J sandwiches with a cookie cutter. I bet * would love that. :eyes:
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:02 PM
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6. I believe he was stunted emotionally when a child and his choice of food seems to reinforce that
belief.

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Deb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:03 PM
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7. Cut in squares or triangles? n/t
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:03 PM
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8. This is the least objectionable thing I can think about him
so what if he has a peanut butter or a cheese sandwich for lunch? I do too, occasionally.
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chefgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:10 PM
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16. Yes, so do I
But I couldn't exactly say it's my first choice. Jeez, he really is a child.

-chef-
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:26 PM
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21. If I had a chef willing and able to let me explore taste treats ...
Edited on Wed Feb-14-07 02:29 PM by TahitiNut
... I sure as hell wouldn't waste those talents. Sure ... I like an occasional grilled cheese sandwich ... and peanut butter is a staple in my diet (as my waist bears testimony), but I'd sure enjoy having someone with that talent and the resources of the White House put a bit of fun into lunchtime. Imagine! Having that kind of culinary diversity available and being so incurious and myopic to have them do something any teenager can do! Ridiculous.

Gads! It reminds me of those people who take their kids along to a really good restaurant and the kids whine for a Big Mac. If my kid did that he wouldn't get a Big Mac ever again.

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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:03 PM
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9. Here's a post from a while back about the FORMER WH Chef:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=111026

http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/02/another_bush_cook_tells_all.html

“The Loneliest President,” the cover story in this week’s magazine (http://nymag.com/news/politics/Bush/26997/index.html ), keeps resonating with us. Earlier, we wondered aloud whether Bush’s near-delusional state had something to do with the departures of his two pastry chefs. Now we discover that a new memoir, White House Chef , from former head cook Walter Scheib, who was fired by the Bushes in early 2005, supports John Heilemann’s suggestion that W. is an emotionally stunted, narcissistic personality incapable of empathy or growth.

Bush, who called Scheib “cookie,” “wanted his food to hit the table at the same time his posterior hit the chair,” and would never eat anything green or “wet.” What did he eat? Almost exclusively BLTs, grilled-cheese sandwiches made with Kraft singles and white bread, peanut-butter-and-honey sandwiches, and hamburgers. Whichever item Scheib had at the ready, the president would reject. (Scheib learned to anticipate this, keeping all four foods prepared at all times.) In his final weeks on the job, Scheib admitted he was fired, rather than saying he resigned. For this perceived act of disloyalty, he was immediately dismissed. The chef does not reveal whether Bush then turned over his bowl of Cheerios.


PLEASE check out the caption under the photo!
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:06 PM
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12. Didn't he write the book, Cooking for Dummies?
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:06 PM
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14. ..
:rofl:
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:07 PM
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15. No, I think that's the new pastry chef. NT
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:17 PM
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18. He is the new pastry chef. Thanks for the correction. Desserts for Dummies.
Edited on Wed Feb-14-07 02:22 PM by shain from kane

Look forward to his next book. What to Cook on a Desert Island, after the chimp's exile.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:17 PM
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17. Bush is an asshole that likes BLTs
or a burger or a grilled-cheese or pb with honey..... All ready :shrug:
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:04 PM
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11. Preferred pretzels. Until they started biting back.
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:06 PM
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13. lol
biting back
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:20 PM
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19. I thought he liked bananas.
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rhiannon55 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 02:25 PM
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20. I'll bet he LOVES corn-dogs, too
And instant mac and cheese (in the little envelopes). And goldfish crackers.

Oh, and jello...:9
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 03:00 PM
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22. does she have to cut the crusts off and
make little happy faces on them too?
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