Obama orders tuna melt!

[babylonsister]

:wow: WITH cheese!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/26/AR2008122600599.html?hpid=topnews

Obama and Family Venture Out in Hawaii

By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 27, 2008; Page A02

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On the way back to his Kailua vacation home, the president-elect stopped at the bustling Koko Marina Center for a bite (coincidentally allowing the pool to catch up with him). "So, what are we going to get?" Obama asked at the counter of Koko Marina Paradise Deli.

"Let me get a tuna sandwich," he said, asking for it on 12-grain bread with tomatoes. (Hold the mayo, he said.) "Actually, can you melt cheese on that? Can you make, like, a tuna melt with cheddar cheese?"

Carrying his sandwich, Obama walked with his daughters, Sasha and Malia, to Kokonuts to order "shave ice," a treat akin to a snow cone. As dozens of onlookers swarmed the shop, snapping pictures and saying hello, Obama ordered for his daughters and several other children.

"Everyone, once you've ordered, step back," Obama instructed the kids. "We're going to do it one at a time." He pulled out his wallet and paid for the shave ice with cash. (Eric Whitaker, a close friend from Chicago, pitched in to cover the tab.)

Obama joked with reporters that he ate his sandwich before his dessert to set an example for his daughters. He then enjoyed a green-and-orange shave ice.

He also offered to buy the journalists some.

"Guys, here's your chance," Obama said. "No? I'm telling you, this is really good."

No one took him up on the offer.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Should have taken him up on his offer

Shaved ice is the greatest. I make mine with black cherry flavor, which you can do without adding sugar.

[snowbear]

9. Num!

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Black cherry shaved ice..

I wonder what flavor the one Obama ordered was? It says: "He then enjoyed a green-and-orange shave ice"

Green and orange?.. ...lime-something?

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[RC]

17. Yep, Lime and Orange. Yummy.

[Name removed]

2. Deleted sub-thread

Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[opihimoimoi]

3. ME ME LEMME GET SOME....Bwahahaha...them reporters missed out

[Wilms]

4. Why does he hate dolphins?

:shrug:

[texastoast]

5. Oh man,

there is nothing better than a blue coconut shaved ice on a hot Houston day.

[DangerousRhythm]

24. Where do you get one in Houston??

What I miss from NYC, which is essentially the same thing, is piraguas, especially coconut... but I have not found any here in Houston yet.

For the piraguas deprived: http://www.dollarman.com/puertorico/piragua.html :)

[texastoast]

26. They are usually at little stands

Often worked by teenagers. There was one by our old Wally World (operated independently), and I used to go there just for the ice, but that store is closed, replaced by another Super Wally World just around the corner at a loss of about 5 acres of trees while the old store stands empty. But I digress.

Down Sawdust Road in Stepford, er, The Woodlands, there is one on the south side of the street. It operates seasonally.

Just keep an eye out, especially at festivals. I've seen them occasionally in Montrose in the summer and down in Galveston.

[pUNk Limited]

6. obama

whoah he eats tuna, just like me!

[left is right]

11. I voted for the man

that I'd most like to share a tunamelt with

[panader0]

7. There was a small store just off campus at Punahou

(where Obama went to high school). I graduated in '68. The store had shave ice for 10 cents, and they are 'way better than snow cones.

[KamaAina]

19. Humph! Those were the days...

when I arrived here, just after the Selection, I lived one block 'Ewa (roughly, west) of Barack's alma mater. By then the nearest store was nearly a half-mile away in either direction. And I do not drive... three years I stayed there...

Oh yes, one of my all-time favorite females is P'92. She's on the mainland (NYC), too... :shrug:

[KamaAina]

8. How non-local can you possibly get?!

I thought he was into "coconut kine" 'ono local cuisine like Zippy's and Rainbow Drive-In. Now he orders something like my old boss would have, precipitating gales of laughter as soon as her back was turned.

I mean, really, I can put up with Warren, but this?! :sarcasm:

edit: spelling

[ellisonz]

20. He still hasn't eaten a plate lunch in public to my knowledge.

"We're going to get a plate lunch someplace, guaranteed. We're going to get shave ice, guaranteed. I will go body surfing at an undisclosed location, guaranteed," Obama said with a smile."

http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/8887/251/

Fo shame Barack Obama!

[ddeclue]

10. Oh noesss....all the controversy!!!

1) Why does Obama hate dolphins?
2) Why does Obama hate tunas?
3) Why does Obama support factory farmed cheese?
4) Why does Obama hate white bread?
5) What does Obama have against mayo?
6) Why does Obama hate America(n cheese)?
7) Why does Obama hate credit card companies?

:rofl:

[mikiturner]

12. SHOCK SCANDAL

Obama wears his hit backwards!

[ellisonz]

21. I can hear the old white men grumbling now.

[bridgit]

13. Oh no, not "cheddar cheese" on a tuna melt, that's not going to do....

I can see maybe a light Monterey, that makes sense, a Swiss, a Swiss/light Cheddar perhaps BUT NOT CHEDDAR CHEESE DAMMIT!! That dude has gone waaayy too far

:rant:

[snowbear]

29. Fontina cheese would be great too..

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Mild, yummy, and melts great too! ~

http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/1/17470/09_2008/grilled+cheese+043.jpg

[Terran]

31. cheddar = not good on cold tuna but

very very good on a tuna melt. You should try it.

[bridgit]

14. duuup!

:blush:

[Doctor_J]

15. Tuna! That's so foreign and exotic

- Coke-whore Roberts

[RC]

16. The best shaved ice is at a place in Haleiwa on the North Shore.

[libnnc]

18. whoa...freaky-deaky

That's what I fixed for lunch yesterday. :wow:

hmmmmm.....

[snowbear]

25. You had a tuna sandwich..12-grain bread.. tomatoes.. no mayo... with cheddar?

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You're right.. ...that is freaky-deaky!

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[ecstatic]

22. I love Obama, but if I ever get invited to dinner, I will need to

choose my own meal.

[Phredicles]

23. Doesn't a tuna melt include cheese by definition?

Shows he's a president I can relate too, though - I too enjoy a good tuna melt.

[snowbear]

27. Good point !! .. Where else would the melt in "tuna melt" come from?

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LOL!! ~~~

[IndianaGreen]

28. Tuna has high levels of mercury

It is recommended that people restrict eating tuna to no more than once a month.

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg3.html

Some species of tuna have become depleted.

http://www.japaneconomynews.com/2007/01/23/tuna-stocks-being-depleted/

[Terran]

30. "deleted sub-thread"??

:wow:

How does one manage to get that nasty discussing a post about a tuna sandwich?

[awoke_in_2003]

32. Proof positive...

that the media is full of idiots. If anyone, and especially the PE, offers to buy a shaved ice, DO IT. Jeez Louis, you can say to your grandchild "you know, one day President Obama bought me a shaved ice"

[MilesColtrane]

33. "Let me get a tuna sandwich," he said,...

...asking for it on 12-grain bread with tomatoes."

Also known as the "Jeremy Piven Special".

http://blog.beliefnet.com/astrologicalmusings/2008/12/jeremy-piven-mercury-poisoning.html

[Arkana]

34. Tuna melts are awesome--I knew he was my guy.