1 So who won?

2 Hey - we need jobs too!

3
Alton Brown - who I like - is a big lefty.

4 Ah I was going to say something about cucumbers but it's not even noon yet

5

The Jan. 3 “Iron Chef America” drew 7.6 million viewers, the highest-rated show in network history.

Can that possibly be true?  If so, the viewing public must be truly desperate for entertainment.  Sheesh.

6 You know, when I first heard about this, I thought "huh, I thought you couldn't use the stuff from the garden because the soil is contaminated".  I didn't really pay any more attention to it because I presumed that the WH wouldn't be so stupid as to think they'd get away with it. 

I really need to stop sniffing glue. 

7

4
Alton Brown - who I like - is a big lefty."

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

8 What's even funnier is the reason why the produce from the White House garden couldn't be used.  Seems that they planted the garden in a patch of soil that had been contaminated with human waste- so the whole WH garden project was, literally, full of sh*t!

9

....

you lie!

10 The Potemkin Presidency.

I'm a Food Network addict but I passed this one up. Her husband is on TV all the damn time. I watch junk TV like the Food Network to AVOID seeing them. Why would I want to watch his hag wife put on a fake smile and spew crap about "organic" produce while wearing $600 shoes? Geez.

11 Does this count as jobs "saved" or "created"?

12 O/T

That cockroach just got on TV and said, essentially....

The Banks, being good borrowers, and paying back the money from TARP, are now going to have their taxes raised?.. AS A CONSEQUENCE !!!

13 They've just learned since the Air Force 1 flyover. They're still wishing they had photo shopped that one!

14 Nighthawk that old saying is true "The grass is always greener over the septic lines."

15 @18

LOL!

16 Alton Brown - who I like - is a big lefty

That makes me kind of sad. I could give less of a shit about Hollywood commies, but I really like Alton. As long as he keeps the politics out of the show, though, it's all good with me.

17

18 Dont forget the "white house" honey she gives away.
They must have a 100 hives and the bees must be on steroids to produce so much in central DC in one year.

19 Secret ingredient..................E.COLI!!!!!!!!!

20 Alton Brown is a lefty? I figured he's too smart for that. Too bad.

21 No way Michelle's taters are that big.

22 24 Dont forget the "white house" honey she gives away...

Posted by: nine coconuts at January 14, 2010 11:59 AM (DHNp4)

I just threw up in my mouth a little...

23 Finally, for the first time in my life I am PROUD to watch the food network

24 I don't see anywhere that Alton Brown is a lefty. The guy goes to a Baptist church. Not really a traditional Lefty hangout.

25 I didn't watch the show. Did they prepare Gagh?

26 At least Michelle didn't pardon a sweet potato while zucchinis were being slaughtered in the background. That would be truly unseemly.

27 He is a lefty based on one commentor's anecdotal evidence?

How about a little...um...proof? We aren't leftists here. We believe in things like facts and logic and rational analysis.

28 Not even the worse part of the comments. Worst part - thanks to the brillant leadership of Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner......vomit hit floor at that moment.

These Jackasses don't have the ability to run a popsicle stand and turn a profit.

29 This was at from Tim Blair's

http://tinyurl.com/yauymwm

30 Food?? Never heard of it...

31 And what a photo op it was.  A bunch of rotund chefs standing side by side with the hulking MEchelle.  Mario what's his name sported bright orange socks and clogs which just happened to match MO,who looked like she was trying to channel a demure Sandra Dee,  Well Sandra Dee she ain't.  Nothing demure about the coarse and classless MO. The violent clash of colors(too short blaze orange dress and too small teal blue cardigan) was enough to put anyone's appetite on hold. This, according to the fashion mags, is America's new fashion icon.

32 I'm in your dirt patch stealing your press.

33 ALL of  my scenes were edited out...............Politically correct bastards!

34 More "unexpected" bad economic news:

-Retail sales "unexpectedly" drop .3% in December (.5% increase was "expected")

-Jobless claims "unexpectedly" rose more than "expected" last week

I suggest everybody lower their "expectations" for the duration of ObaMao's presidency. And start drinking heavily.

35 I watch junk TV like the Food Network to AVOID seeing them.

Posted by: Angry Beaver at January 14, 2010 11:54 AM (OYPTA)

My thoughts exactly.  B++ !!

36 Gagh is always best served live, with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. 

37 It's poetic that there's foul dirt at the White House.  Democrats can't even keep their shit out of the garden.

38

I saw a re-run, vaguely curious as I'm a bit of a vegetable gardener myself. The garden looked fantastic, but I figured that was likely due to a team of round the clock professional gardeners. I did find the amount of honey produced by the hive to be a little. . . unbelievable. And the lack of companion planting indicated that the garden wasn't as thoroughly organic as advertised. . . (I do this do to little space and incurable desire to grow things. I think I'm part hobbit. . .)

Kinda disappointed that the veggies weren't the actual White House ones, but not all that surprised. I hadn't heard about the contamination.The whole thing was a bit gimmicky, as much as I love the chefs involved (despite their politics. They make good food, dammit!). And Michelle's outfit was totally weird. . . prom-dress and too-small-cardigan. weird.

*sigh* I knew the whole thing was too interesting to be true. . . back to my own planning for spring. . .

39 The First Lady Sinecure ($300K per year race hustler) may have faked her vegetables, but she still finds this nation to be tasteless... "mean," in her exact words. I was hoping salmonella showed up for that episode of Iron Chef, but it was busy getting loans from ACORN.

40 Where's the EPA when you need them?

41 I was hoping salmonella showed up for that episode of Iron Chef, but it was busy getting loans from ACORN.

Posted by: George Orwell at January 14, 2010 12:11 PM (AZGON)

 

Don't you mean getting registered to vote?

42 ace -

fellow morons

IRONY ALERT!

When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team [Clinton's] had used sewage sludge for fertilizer.

This is a fairly common practice with one huge problem. Sewage sludge tends to be laced with anything that people pour down the drain and often contains heavy metals. Not surprisingly, the National Park Service tested the dirt beneath Michelle's garden and found the plot has highly elevated levels of lead averaging 93 parts per million. That's below the 400 ppm that the Environmental Protection Agency says is a threat to human health.


Oops.

/

43 Seems that they planted the garden in a patch of soil that had been contaminated with human waste Soylent Green is people!

44 I was hoping salmonella showed up for that episode of Iron Chef, but it was busy getting loans from ACORN.

Didn't he play Gene Krupa in the movie?

45 slightly O/T, but who thinks it's a good idea for MO to make childhood obesity her signature issue? It's a serious problem for sure, but it is a bit off-putting to think of the First Lady telling kids they are fat and have bad parents who let them get fat. Could there be a more literal example of the Nanny State?

46 Alton Brown seems more stable minded to be considered an out-and-out leftie. The most 'out there' episode of Good Eats I've seen is the episode where he talks about responsible eating (eating further down the food chain). This isn't exactly a leftist standpoint... ask any hunter out there about sustainability. When your way of life depends on a food source, odds are pretty good that you'll care about how sustainable that food source is. It's the lefties that go all dogma either way on this issue.

47 Try the arugula, you'll love it.

48 I thought I read all the dirt in the white house garden was contaminated. So did they get any food out of it? And if so, was it safe to eat? I'm not comfortable eating food from tainted ground, if you know what I mean. So wouldn't they have to use stunt food?

49 It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team [Clinton's] had used sewage sludge for fertilizer.

That was all Dubya's fault somehow, I'm sure...

50 ODB-- My expectations for Zero are already so low that a disastrous month for the economy would be an upside surprise.

51 This gets back to one of my fundamental truisms of life: all liberal criticisms of conservatives are projection.  Cheney rounding up political opponents?  Umm, no.  But Big Sis sure would like to...
Another question: what in the world was in the sewage that was dumped to make the garden toxic for decades?  It's not like nobody uses feces for fertilizer anywhere in the world...

52

Except for one thing: As first reported on AOLÂ’s Politics Daily blog, the fruits and vegetables used on the show werenÂ’t from the White House

Is that true?

Because I was waiting for her to break out the two 30 lb pumpkins she had stashed in her back pockets.

53 Don't you mean getting registered to vote? Posted by: Insomniac at January 14, 2010 12:12 PM (DrWcr) Yep, we have her right here: Salmon, Ella

54 OK I see somebody already answered my question above while I was typing.   Leave it to the Clintons to fuck everything up.

55 what in the world was in the sewage that was dumped to make the garden toxic for decades?

Lead.  The actual concentrations are just under acceptable limits.  I thinkg the actual numbers were something like 80-90ppm with the limit being around 100ppm, so the stuff should in theory be edible.

Would you like some tasty paint chips on that salad?

56 Salmonella and Alton Brown together at last, in the stage play realization of the French cinematic culinary classic... Jeunet and Caro's D E L I C A T E S S E N featuring Michelle Obama as The Leader of the Troglodytes Off-Broadway has never thrown up such a dish before!

57 The Metropolitan Sanitary District in Chicago would sell dried sludge from the waste-plant settling ponds as 'Magic Soil' or something like that and people did put it on their gardens. Maybe that explains Chicago politics!

58

My question is this:

What part of the Consituion authorizes the government to spend a nickle on the President's wife?

This shit needs to end. Nobody elected this ugly scrunt.

 

59 That b***h had a bunch of school kids in there planting and harvesting the produce(didn't see the First Offspring there though) .   Hope their parents have them tested for exposure to toxins.

60 64  Here in Iowa we just use cow manure.  Something we have lots of.  Or "compost".  Which hopefully doesn't contain a bunch of heavy metals.

61

But that hasn't stopped roughly half of Americans from believing in the myth of the ...

... You end the sentence with "plastic turkey" because the article is about a plastic turkey. But it could be about anything, really.

62

I thought there was something wrong when they talked about having over 1000lbs of vegatables.  All ripe and ready to go at at the exact same time.

Anyone who gardens will tell you that is basically impossible.

63 It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team [Clinton's] had used sewage sludge for fertilizer.

That, by God, deserves it's own blog post.

heh,heh,heh

64 Alton Brown is a big lefty..

I'm sorry, but as a huge AB fan and someone who has a tape of every show he's ever done, plus reading his website, may I ask what you base this one?

65

52 -- It's a good thing to take on (my God, have the kids turned into out of shape fatties!  the high school's fitness walking ??? program goes by my house every day -- dear sweet baby Jesus! fit them for their Rascals now).

Now, if the First Lady would address it in a tactful, graceful, and classy manner that would be great...but we are talking about Michelle, so...

 

Z Malfoy -- I noticed that too -- that did not look like a truly organic garden, and those veggies...no way Michelle grew those; that looked to be the work of a pro.  I have just gotten one seed catalog and a garden catalog so far -- I really want to redo my front lawn (throw in veggies as well as flowers), but I don't know if I'm going to have the budget for it...bummer.  Obama is ruining my leisure time as well (I saw the Iron Chef show, which I too watch to get a break from all the politics).  Nothing is sacred (except the graven image of the owe I guess).

66  Jake Tapper zuccini sends a tinkle tingle down my leg. 

67 I'm more amused that they had to mandate Batali into the lineup to actually do the cooking this time around.  Every time I've turned on Iron Chef the past couple of years, he never gets chosen as the opponent; nine times out of ten it's either Bobby Flay or Cat Cora that gets picked (with seven out of those nine being Flay).  Maybe the challengers are afraid Batali's personality is going to be the X factor with the judges, but no one seems to want to go against him when he's on the panel of choices.

68 Oh, come on! 

Like Batali et al would be able to make anything with vegetables brimming with mercury and lead.

They had to bring in outside veggies.  The White House ones were pure poison (not unlike the current residents of that august mansion.

69 It seems to be a departure for the self-esteem preservation crowd to call kids fat. They stopped doing BMI tests on kids here in Arkansas in 2007 even though there was evidence they were working for that very reason.

I think the NFL Play 60 program gets it. They don't mention obesity, they just say to get some exercise. Emphasize the solution, fitness, rather than the problem, fatass kids (and yes, my God these kids are getting huge).

70 I'm so sick of this michelle bitch. What a piece of shit this whore is. She looks like something they would be searching for on Monster Quest.

71 4 Alton Brown - who I like - is a big lefty.

But what about his chiropractor, who plays W? She's the *real* star of the show.

72 I always thought that those melons couldn't be real.

73 Thanks to cablevision I had to wait a week to watch this . I knew it would be bad when the Chairman wasn't there in person.

Then Michelle came out with the most horrendous orange dress that made her look like she was all ass. Jackie O would not approve.

74 #74 - scuttlebutt says that Batali and the Food network broke ties a couple years back, so he's pretty much just an honorary Iron Chef.  Someone pointed out that it was a battle between the fatties and the skinnies - guess who won?  The skinnies.
Because it's all about the propaganda and the "healthy eating" schtick from Momo.
I just don't see how you can push healthy eating using inedible food as an example.

75 1.  The vegetables were real; the reports of them being from Michelle's garden were fake but accurate.

2.  The Bush Thanksgiving turkey was real; the reports of it being fake were fake but accurate.

3.  The Legacy Media is always accurate.  QED.

76 80 They have told Michelle to ditch the patterns and dress like a triangle, I think.

77 -77 troll much? Holy shit dude.

78 56 It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team [Clinton's] had used sewage sludge for fertilizer.

That was all Dubya's fault somehow, I'm sure...

 

Absolutely, Bush's fault.  He didn't clean it up like he should have.  Just like in everything else, Obama has to clean up all of George Bush's messes.

79 I thought I read they supposedly gave the produce to a food pantry. I guess the reasoning was "we'll teach you bastards to depend on charity instead of the government, here's some poison veggies."

80 This is a Politico article: Alton Brown Gets Political.  Sure seems more libertarian than lefty to me. This article makes me happy, because Alton is a favorite of mine, too.

81

Hey!  Where's the love?  This is so last night!  ;-)

198

“With about 4.6 million viewers, it was the highest rated and most-watched show in Food Network's history," yet most were duped.  Various participants in the show misled viewers with references to "using radishes from the White House garden" and other similar mentions. Viewers were not explicitly told that the vegetables in "Kitchen Stadium" were not the ones they had seen the chefÂ’s harvest.  Why not?  Turns out thereÂ’s  a great reason for that. The food in the White House garden has been deemed toxic. They knew this last year, so the whole scene of picking food from the White House garden was as fraudulent as President ObamaÂ’s promise to put the health-care debate on C-SPAN.
 
The problem stems from a previous administrationÂ’s having used sewage sludge for fertilizer. Which means it will never be certified organic.  

There ya go again, blaming the Bush administration.  Right?  Oh, you say, it was the Clinton administration?
 
Well, letÂ’s get back to the important stuff.  Sara Palin didnÂ’t create an index in Going Rogue!!!  That means I have to read it to see if IÂ’m in it.  Waaaaaaa.
 
http://tinyurl.com/y92dzsf

Posted by: Pike Place Pete at January 13, 2010 11:06 PM (qD3QA)

 

284 But the show did not disclose that "stunt double vegetables" were used and not produce from the First Family's garden.

Mrs. Obama's East Wing told me the vegetables picked at the White House garden that day in October were donated to a local food kitchen, so nothing went to waste. 

So explain this to me, as IÂ’m just a moron.  If the stuff is “deemed toxic,” why are they giving it to food kitchens?

Posted by: Pike Place Pete at January 13, 2010 11:35 PM (qD3QA)

 

82 Off Sock!

83 There was no way they could have used the actual vegetables from the WH garden.
They had to fly a whole crew from NYC to DC and then they filmed all day at the WH. Were the chefs supposed to fly back to DC and spend all night filming the show too? Not gonna happen. So then the vegetables would have been a day old and look like crap. Solution? Fresh vegetables. It is a cooking show with professional chefs after all. Picking that as the theme ingrediant was just stupid to begin with.

84

Alton Brown seems more stable minded to be considered an out-and-out leftie.

 

I don't know what AB's politics are -- they don't seem on display during 'Good Eats'. I will say that he does seem to bring out the snark when it comes to the food police (the egg nog and carpaccio episodes come to mind). He seems to skewer the nanny state "we know what's best for you and you'll do as your told" mentality on a regular basis.

85

Oh

 

Dear

 

God

 

It's the end of civilization! They're faking veggies now!

86 From that Politico page it seems Alton Brown is in an early stage of Stossel-ism. I won't write him off yet, and besides I've never seen any lefty-ism on his shows. He actually pokes alot of fun at the government.
Although the "Eat local, eat sustainable" stick is tired and obnoxious.

87

I watched the end of that episode, so I missed Michelle O. but I distinctly recall Emeril and Batoli praising several times the "high quality" of the vegetables from the White House garden with the implication that was what they were using. I told my wife that if those vegetable came from the White House garden then it was probably the professional gardeners doing all the work. MO, being a city gal, has probably never gardened in her life.

It really didn't occur to me to suspect out right lying, but I should have.

88 Although the "Eat local, eat sustainable" stick is tired and obnoxious.

I don't think there's anything particularly lefty about eating fresh food and supporting sustainable agriculture.  I mean, it sounds a bit hippie on the surface, but it's actually delicious and market-smart.  True, preaching about what people should eat seems lefty...

89 It's not hard to be a locovore when everything you need from the starter salad through the main course and sides, to the dessert, including the milk, juices, wines and beers are all produced within an hour of where I live.

There's a couple of different "behind the scenes" stories about ICA out on the web. When I saw that the Klingon-in-Chief was going to be a judge, my interest in the show went out the window. Finding out that the WH Veggie Garden grew some *literally* killer produce is like the ising on the cake and a prime example of all the problems with the current administration.

90 The First Klingons' garden was first under scrutiny back in June of last year, when she brought a bunch of kids out there to supposedly harvest nicely ripe produce after only 60 days of growing time.....

No lie is too big or too small for these people!

91

Well Batali's the dude -- makes great food and is a NASCAR fan...come on...

 

I wonder if it was rigged, and that's why Mario lost (because God knows freaking Bobby Flay is a big ol loser most of the time on that show).  Which is fine by me because I can't stand Bobby Flay.

92

And the "eat local" deal really isn't all that bad an idea -- you are helping to support small, independent farmers and businesses when you go to the local farmer's market.  And if you raise your own food, even if it's just some patio tomaters, you are taking at least a little step towards being more self sufficient.

 

Of course, the nanny statists hate this with a passion and would love to regulate and tax the crap out of it, so only a few small, specialty, "organic" gourmet places are left -- to service them of course.  Arugula for me, but not for thee.

93 Easy enough to tell if you are a veggie gardener yourself. Those things wouldn't ripen at the same time. Sweet potatoes are long season tubers, and I'm not even sure DC would have enough growing season for them? And tomatillos? Who the hell grows those? They shoulda settled for the All American seed package from Burpee...

94 michelle obama...talk about lipstick on a pig. she has absolutely NO class. she is built like a linebacker, and is F-A-T. there i said it, she's FAT. her ass is the size of a refrigerator, and her feet have got to be about a size 13. and the arms...god, i am sooooooo sick and tired of seeing her big jiggly arms. and let's not forget that furrowed brow and the look being perpetually pissed off.

ugh. she makes me want to throw up. ugh...

95 speaking of vegetables... i just realized that michelle obama's figure is shaped like a giant egg plant.

96 I proudly eat "locally" and "sustainably" and I'm about as red-state Conservative as it comes.