hard hitting journalism: candidates food dislikes

[sniffa]

The Associated Press asked them a series of questions about their personal tastes, traits and backgrounds. Today's question and their answers:

What food do you hate?

DEMOCRATS:

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: "I like nearly everything. I don't like the things that are still alive."

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards: "I can't stand mushrooms. I don't want them on anything that I eat. And I have had to eat them because you get food served and it's sitting there and you're starving, so you eat."

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama: "Beets, and I always avoid eating them."

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: Mushrooms, specifically. "I'm not a big vegetable eater." Recalling the first President Bush's distaste for broccoli, he said: "I sympathize with that fully."

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Dec06/0,4670,2008PersonalSideFood,00.html

:eyes:

and i suspect Hillary is lying, because i think she'd love to eat Obama and Edwards alive.

[rucky]

1. Mushroom dislike is a dealbreaker for me.

sorry, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

[BOSSHOG]

2. This is making it very easy for me

Any candidates who do not like mushrooms and broccoli won't get my vote.

[cali]

3. mushrooms and beets are two of my favorite foods

I make a killer mushroom and toated walnut pate with 5 different kinds of mushrooms and roasted beets are delicious.

[Beacool]

12. Hmmm, sound wonderful!!!

Would you be kind enough to post the recipe. I love to cook!!!

[cali]

28. why I'd be more than happy to.

2 lbs mushrooms, mixed portabella, shiitake, oyster, white button, plus a handful of dried morels (you can omit the dried if you don't want to be bothered)

4 tbls butter

2 good sized shallots

salt, fresh ground pepper and nutmeg (I use whole nutmeg and grate finely)

1 generous cup walnuts (or hazlenuts)

4 oz. cream cheese

1/4 cup sherry or vermouth or use your imagination

fresh italian parsley

chop mushrooms and shallot finely (I use a food processor)
saute them in the largest skillet you have in the butter over high heat until all liquid is evaporated. Add booze, reduce until there is only a tbs left. Cool. Toast walnuts in 325 oven until fragrant. Chop in processor until finely chopped, remove a couple of tbs. Add a big bunch of parsely to processor and chop finely. Dump in cooled mushroom mixture. Add cream cheese. Put in bowl and refrigerate at least 6 hours. Decorate top with reserved nuts and extra chopped parsley.

Note: I also make a vegan version of this with olive oil in place of the butter and soft tofu or soy margerine instead of the cream cheese. Both work as binders.

Enjoy it. I don't know anyone who doesn't. I made it for Thankgiving and I'll be making it again for Christmas.

[sandnsea]

13. Oooh, yum, yea yea

I would love that recipe too!!

[MADem]

4. I agree with Clinton and Obama. I like mushrooms, so I can't get behind Edwards.

Richardson would do better if he plussed-up his veg intake.

And I completely disagree with these GOP idiots. No wonder they are so fucking stupid--they don't get their nutrition. It's a B vitamin deficiency that Rudy's suffering, I swear!!

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: Liver.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: "Carrots. I just don't like carrots. I banned them from the governor's mansion when I was governor of Arkansas because I could."

Arizona Sen. John McCain: "I eat almost everything. Sometimes I don't do too well with vegetables."

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: "Eggplant, in any shape or form. And I've always been able to avoid it."

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson: "Not much. I've tried to do better about that. I jokingly say that we kind of have a diet around our house that if it tastes good, you don't eat it. I haven't quite got there yet. There's not much that I turn down. That's a good thing on the campaign trail because you get quite a variety."

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[Beacool]

14. Romney just lost my vote!! As if he ever had it......... LOL!!!

I simply LOVE eggplants. I'm eating bab ganouj with pita chips as I'm writing this post.

[MADem]

20. Yeah, I'll bet some of those fools who voted for that asshole in the North End are regretting their

choice...if they hadn't so done already!!!

[asdjrocky]

5. Too bad.

I was firmly in the Edwards camp, but I can not support a man who dose not like mushrooms.

[sniffa]

8. he may have just won me over

a rabid mushroom hater. :hi:

[asdjrocky]

9. lol

You, you're good.

You are good.

[Maccagirl]

17. Same here

I hate mushrooms, and red peppers-and they're in everything!!!

[aquart]

18. LOVE mushrooms.

But I don't expect to be cooking for my candidate anytime soon.

[Cha]

6. OMG...that's too

funny. :wow:

[MadBadger]

7. Imagine if they had said corn

That would be it for them.

[Sequoia]

10. I don't like canned corn...tastes like the can.

However, I can boil an ear and slice it off...yum..with butter salt and pepper!

[AlCzervik]

11. WTF, the war on fungi?

[sniffa]

21. JE is not a fun guy?

[AlCzervik]

22. no he's not, him and Richardson, well now they're both on notice.

[sandnsea]

15. Hillary has to go poll test food n/t

[aquart]

16. No, she's not lying.

But how impressively vicious to put that on a fluff piece.

I, too, can't eat anything that looks at me with reproach.

[Occam Bandage]

19. ANTI-HILLARY REMARK REDACTED. I agree with Edwards here.

While I cannot accept Richardson's stance--properly steamed broccoli is very tasty--mushrooms are an aberration that ought be forgotten almost entirely.

One exception: Mushrooms can be used to add umami. However, when they're just sitting there, I can't stand 'em.

(Upon further review, Hillary actually did answer the question, although she first prefaced it with a bit of fluff--difficult to do, in a fluff question, but acceptable. Does her no-living-food stance extend to fruits and yogurts? I doubt it, but living animals are rarely consumed.)

[MADem]

25. I have been served 'live' food. It's not uncommon in other parts of the world.

It's not even uncommon here. If you're eating oysters, unless they're baked, you're eating a live being.

At a very fancy dinner in Japan, a poor enormous fish, his side all sliced up, but still alive and wiggling on the serving platter, was brought out for all to enjoy.

I couldn't stand it. I made a joke about how we give the condemned a cigarette and a blindfold, and maybe a shot of booze, and I blindfolded the thing with a napkin, got one of the assembled guests to put a cigarette in the fish's mouth (it had sharp teeth) and I quickly gave it a shot of Suntory Whiskey. That killed it. It bit the cigarette in half on its way off this mortal coil.

Great round of applause, oh, how very AMUSING....!

And there is that less-common custom of eating live monkey brains that is still out there--can't imagine how horrific that must be.

Other examples:

At some point in its prehistory mankind would have routinely eaten living, or at least not entirely dead, creatures, but except for a little-known branch of Japanese cuisine called Ikizukuri , the practice is generally discontinued. Banned in Australia and Germany, but almost unknown in the UK, Ikizukuri is now attracting wider notoriety because a number of clips of people eating live snakes, frogs and (especially) fish have surfaced on video sites such as YouTube.

Family eats fish: In a Shanghai restaurant a fish is scaled, gutted, then fried with its head wrapped in muslin to keep it more or less alive until it is presented to an enthusiastic family of gourmets. Uncomfortable viewing for most Westerners, although not it seems for the unremittingly perky American narrator.

Gameshow contestants eat fish: The practice of dining on live seafood is clearly not as popular in Japan as some people might have you believe. On a Japanese TV show called Zenigata Kintarou (like our own Fear Factor), contestants seem to regard the wriggling “bush tucker trial” placed before them with quite some distaste.

American eats sea urchin: Ikizukuri enthusiast Andy Zohury uploaded a video of himself dissecting and eating a live sea urchin in the Gulf of Mexico. His tone sits midway between evangelical zeal and pure showing off as he helpfully describes exactly which parts of the animal to discard and which to consume alive.

Rowdy frat boys eat octopus: The journey of Ikizukuri from culinary tradition to asinine “dare” is complete with this final example. A live octopus is plucked from a tank in a South Korean restaurant, rapidly chopped into writhing fragments, then dropped into the open mouths of the giggling diners before being swallowed.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1928778.ece

http://www.weirdmeat.com/2006/02/shanghai-drunken-shrimp.html

Drunken shrimp -- you may have seen a dish by this name on a menu in your country, but those are usually cooked. In Shanghai, drunken shrimp is not only raw -- it's alive !! Now I've heard many a Shanghai person talk with disgust about how the Cantonese eat all sorts of weird creatures, but eating a live animal is as weird as it gets. OK, some Americans eat raw oysters, which are actually alive also, but these Shanghai shrimp have little claws -- they bite back as you try to eat them.

They're served in a bowl, alive, swimming in sweet alcohol. It's a good way to go, I think -- if a giant were going to consume me, I'd prefer to have a bath in strong liquor first also. The alcohol helps to make them a little less feisty, too, as if humans needed more of an advantage over little shrimps.

[BeyondGeography]

23. Once again, she can't ANSWER THE QUESTION

:sarcasm:

[Hippo_Tron]

24. Notice none of them said that they hate corn

As long as Iowa goes first, we will never have a President that is honest about their food choices.

[AlCzervik]

26. no kidding, mmmmm ethanol!

[MADem]

27. Hell, Bush likes it so much he eats it RAW! nt