Nomad (01-15-2019)
You’re right, College players don’t eat every single meal in the dining hall. And like most college students most don’t have a lot of money so they eat fast food, pizza etc.
I get the argument that this could be seen as disrespectful to the team. But the idea that college football players don’t eat fast food is bogus.
Nomad (01-15-2019)
SERIOUSLY? Media Outlets Actually Fact-Checked Trump’s Fast Food Banquet
On Monday evening, President Donald Trump hosted the Clemson Tigers at the White House after the team became national college football champions. Trump personally purchased the food for the event – a massive offering of fast food items from McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and Domino’s. Naturally, Leftists knocked him for his food choice.
Even dumber, some media outlets actually felt the need to fact check the buffet.
The Washington Post did – I kid you not – a deep dive into the banquet to try and determine how much it all actually cost, complete with a “Detailed Washington Post analysis” of the spread. The chart of the layout of the food was most likely meant to be humorous.
Nonetheless, after the Post determined that Trump likely spent between $2,437.11 and $2,911.44 on the feast, depending on whether he took advantage of McDonald’s 2-for-$5 menu, the outlet had to take some spiteful dings at the president.
The Post notes that Trump originally said he bought 300 hamburgers, but later said he bought “1,000” burgers and later, “over 1000 hamburgers etc.”
Vox wrote an entire article about Trump switching from saying 300 burgers to 1000, ignoring the “etc” part of his statement that seemed to suggest he was referring to all the items. Couching Trump’s burger numbers claim as part of the president’s larger problem with lying (as if Trump is unique as a politician who misleads and lies), Vox notes that “this particular exaggeration isn’t a big deal in and of itself” but that it shows “how effortlessly Trump fibs about everything.”
But the Post takes the cake for most absurd fact check. It may be a joke (I hope it is) but given how the paper covers this president it’s kind of hard to tell. Trump said at the banquet that he bought 1,000 burgers for Clemson and that “It was piled up a mile high.” The Post felt the need to fact check this, writing:
FACT CHECK: At two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high.
Take note, Republicans: Don’t use commonly used hyperboles or you may be fact checked.
PoliTalker (01-15-2019), USFREEDOM911 (01-15-2019)
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No offense intended (and I mean that) given that we are mostly on the same side of most issues, but if there is one kind of person who I find hard to take, it's food snobs.
To me, it speaks of an underlying insecurity being compensated for by associating one's self worth with the food they eat.
As if one = the other.
It doesn't.
One can eat only the finest foods known to man every day and still be the world's biggest POS.
C'MON MAN!!!!
USFREEDOM911 (01-15-2019)
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Nomad (01-15-2019)
And they also aren't monitored and watched 24/7 by a staff of highly trained dieticians who carefully and scientifically prepare every meal they eat as if they were some kind of experimental lab specimens.
The staff tells them basically to try to stay away from too much of certain kinds of food and to try to eat more of other kinds of foods, but for the most part, they are on their own at meal time.
C'MON MAN!!!!
Thread translation:
The Left in 2018: Unhinged
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Well, you stick with your cold burgers and pizza and I will dine on my Alaskan salmon and asparagus. My health has greatly improved since I have become more of a food snob. It isn’t about worth, but love of self and fueling my body with foods that improve my overall well being. I love a good burger, I just want to know what’s in the meat.
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Phantasmal (01-15-2019)
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Phantasmal (01-15-2019)
I never claimed I eat "cold burgers" and I don't eat much pizza anymore, though when I do, the leftover slices do go in the fridge for lunch the next day and damn if it ain't some good eatin'.
My nightly meal Monday - Friday is stir fry vegetables, roasted chicken and brown rice seasoned with a bit of salt substitute, a dash or two of low sodium soy sauce and some onion powder.
On weekends I relax a bit and have my burgers and pizza or subs etc.
I pity anyone who can't allow themselves to eat a little junk food now and then.
C'MON MAN!!!!
USFREEDOM911 (01-15-2019)
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Phantasmal (01-15-2019)
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