Candidates favorite foods?

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Leadership test: Nuts or jelly beans?
By Betsy Rothstein

In the world of presidential politics, having a favorite food is clearly not as imperative as the candidate’s position on taxes, war or abortion. But a food of choice comes with the terrain, and in some cases it can have a powerful effect on a voter’s taste buds.

A sampling of this year’s crop of Democratic presidential hopefuls indicates that they have definite ideas about what food they would pick if they reached the White House. Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) says his choice is easy: chocolate chip cookies.

“Kerry would choose chocolate chip cookies from his own recipe,” remarked Kelley Benander, his campaign spokeswoman, pointing out that Kerry is a former owner of a cookie shop in Boston and helped develop the recipe himself.

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Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), meanwhile, leaps into an entirely different genre of food.

His choice, if elected president, is Angus beef. Why? “Because it’s delicious, it’s healthy and they’re raised by a wonderful family in Miami Lakes,” explained Graham’s spokesman Jamal Simmons.

But Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) wouldn’t be caught dead eating a side of beef, much less having it as his food of choice. The vegetarian doesn’t yet have a specific favorite, but he has a few hard and fast rules: There will be plenty of vegan to go around, and there will be no genetically modified food at the first Kucinich State Dinner.

Even on the campaign trail, Kucinich’s status as a vegan is earning him brownie points. Upon hearing that Kucinich is a fellow vegan, Myrna Weinstein, the membership coordinator for the Vegetarian Society of South Jersey, blurted, “Oh, that’s wonderful! I’m voting for him.”

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The Rev. Al Sharpton is sure to please the poultry industry with his choice: chicken.

“I think he likes chicken,” said his campaign spokesman Frank Watkins: “I would imagine all kinds.”

Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), on the other hand, chooses North Carolina barbecue, and uses his choice as an opportunity to take a stab at President Bush and his apparent affinity for Texas barbecue.

“East Carolina barbecue has got a vinegar-based sauce and relies more on pork than on beef,” said Edwards spokesman Carlos Monje, adding that the Edwards campaign “wouldn’t want to get anywhere near” Texas barbecue, which he says is “absolutely terrible.”

Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.) is one presidential hopeful whose food choice isn’t even a food. It’s apple juice.

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http://www.hillnews.com/news/071503/food.aspx

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This a fun article with some historical tidbits (Clinton/McDonald's, GHWB/pork rinds.

But I gotta congratulate my man John Edwards' taste for North Carolina barbeque. Um um good!

[JCMach1]

1. I'm with Edwards on this-- Texas Barbecue is

:puke:

[Imalittleteapot]

2. Barbeque ribs from Angelo's in

Fort Worth are awesome...just had some at lunch.:thumbsup:

[TheBigGuy]

3. That Carolina BBQ sounds alot like Kentuckys version...

....served around Owensboro. More pork-based.

They even have a stew or soup thats sourt of BBQ-=ish...Burgoo. Similar to Brunswick Stew in the Carolinas.

[CBHagman]

4. You guys are making me hungry!

Also, I like the fact that Kerry takes an interest in how cookies are made. So many of these macho political types couldn't even find the kitchen, I'll bet.

And I had no idea Kucinich was a vegetarian, but that shows he's principled.

[OKNancy]

5. That's so funny about your barbeque remark

because my daughter came home to Oklahoma over the July 4th holiday.
She moved to Raleigh-Durham exactly one year ago. The first thing she asked for was some of my barbeque ribs. She said you have never tasted nastier bbq than that crap they serve in North Carolina.

I went to the store and bought her five bottles of Head COuntry Barbeque sauce to take home ( Head Country is made in Ponca City Oklahoma and it is the best)

LOL it's all in the upbringing I guess.

[sandnsea]

6. Eeew - I don't like vinegar

But I like his wit!

[chimpymustgo]

7. Try the BBQ - it's not vinegary tasting.

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