I see we've entered the "who's the Real American" portion of our program
by digby
Fergawdsakes:
He is a lover of diner fare and fast food grub, of overcooked steaks (“It would rock on the plate, it was so well done,” his longtime butler once observed) and the bland nourishment of Americana. He prefers burgers and meatloaf, Caesar salads and spaghetti, See’s Candies and Diet Coke. And he shuns tea, coffee and alcohol.
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“There’s nothing more American and more of-the-people than fast food,” said Russ Schriefer, a Republican strategist and ad maker. “It is the peculiarity of the brand that he’s able to be on his multimillion-dollar jet with the gold and black branding and colors, and at the same time eat KFC — and what makes it perfect is he does it all with a knife and fork, while reading The Wall Street Journal.”
Or, as Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser and pollster on the Trump campaign, put it, “It goes with his authenticity.”
“I don’t think Hillary Clinton would be eating Popeye’s biscuits and fried chicken,” she said.
You can be sure that if Clinton ate Popeyes chicken and biscuits she'd be excoriated for being fat. She already is. Meanwhile, Trump wears suits two sizes too big to hide his extra pounds can eat that sort of food and it's adorable.
I have heard that he prefers to eat fast pre-fab food because he's a germophobe and believes that such chemically laden fare is more sanitary. But it's just as likely that he eats that way because his eating habits, like everything else abut him, are immature and haven't evolved since he was a kid. (The Michael Wolf article in The Hollywood Reporter indicated that Trump also pretty much lives on vanilla ice cream ...)
But let's just be clear --- what these candidates eat says absolutely nothing about how they would run the country. The press makes this silly stuff into symbols of salt-of-the-earth regular Joe sensibility and cynical operatives like Conway run with it. It's stupid. Who cares what they eat?
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