Am I the only one who doesn't have a problem with the G8 Leaders lunch/dinner menu?

World Leaders Discuss Global Food Crisis Over
18-Course Meal

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1032909/Summit-thats-hard-swallow--world-leaders-enjoy-18-course-banquet-discuss-solve-global-food-crisis.html

:rofl: someone else put it well the other day - "such a shame that people are starving to death, boo, hoo, please pass the truffle sauce."

Served with Confetti of Constitution.

Just because some areas of the world are in a food crisis doesn't mean that everyone has to suffer, as well. I do think that it's a bit funny, the juxtaposition, but it doesn't exactly outrage me.

Candied vegetables?

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:)

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:9

But "fluffy fat" just doesn't sound the same.

I thought I knew what most foods of the world were by now, but I'm stumped. It sounds like a cheap knockoff of Armor All. :puke:

rawr!

I agree

I've got a fever and the only prescription is MORE KELP FLAVOR! :headbang:

By that measure I had a 43-course dinner the last time I went to the restaurant down the street. They have 43 items on the menu, so logically I must have had all of them, right? I'm convinced that that newspaper hires people based on their ability to secrete bile.

I got this from the Huffington Post.

It's their banner headline right now.

To be honest, I think it's too trivial of a distraction anyway.

:rofl: I think I know what was served with the brandy and cigars afterwards...

Worrying about this is asilly as saying Al Gore can't be an environmentalist because he has X kind of house or travels Y miles a year by plane or other contrived "contradictions" between personal behavior and political will. Edwards' house means he can't care about poverty. This menu means they can;t care about food shortages. The two arguments are identical, with if anything the latter having less credibility since John Edwards chose his own house personally, while we can assume that every attendee did not have go/no go authority to create this menu.

These arguments of course are baseless and frankly silly. Let;s say the attendees ate NOTHING. What would that entire menu do to solve world hunger? Nothing. It may feed a family or two for a few days at best (size of portions is not mentioned for a start). Instead what can the decisions that these attendees make do to help world hunger? A great deal, if the decisions are right and followed through. If these folks can hammer out an agreement on water purification or biofuels or ag. technology sharing they could eat like this every minute of their lives and still not counteract a fraction of a shred of a single percentage point of the effect they could (not necessarily will of course) have.

It might be a bit complicated for Dubya but it looks like it caters for the hard to please French, the Italian's etc.. I think these occasions are seen as opportunities for top chefs to show their best stuff... In the UK we have a televised competition for top chefs to win the chance to cook at big banquets.

I am sure * will get his fair share of it.

george will probably ask for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, stupid man.

and to show the best of Japanese produce and to show they can do other cuisines too.
I am sure Dubya would before a hotdog and beans, like he offered Sarkozy.

Too fancy for my working-class tastes. How about a grilled ribeye and loaded mashed potato?

*smack*

*yum!!*

Sooner or later the plebs are going to come to their senses about the bigshots.