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Optimism opens the door to great things.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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Pretty sure it’s a glazed scone — the kind of dessert offered to a ‘picky eater’ if they finish alllll their vegetables… or at least the tomatoes, and most of the stuffed pepper…

Another view:

I think that’s a fried egg, atop the disemboweled pepper? In which case, presumably the stuffing is vegetarian?

Chances Trump ate this, I’d bet, are somewhere between ‘nope’ and ‘now *I’ll* tell one’. To be fair, I wouldn’t be enticed by those wrinkly old cherry tomatoes & hardened egg, myself…

Also meal-related (but much more laudable!):


Those of you who grew up eating in school cafeterias, insert your own jokes below.

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  1. 1.

    Mary G

    My mother was the director of food services for the local school district. I could tell you some stories.

    She never would have one that stuffed pepper.

  3. 3.

    jl

    First, is this a hoax? OK, on assumption that it isn’t, I’ll bite.
    I want one of those for Halloween. There, I said it. But, I love stuffed peppers.

    Only thing I’d change is that the eggs should be lightly scrambled, which would make a good likeness of Trump’s hair. Or maybe brains? A good chef could cover both bases. Improving on this dish would be a good topic for one of those chef-off competitions. Or a really scary Hell’s Kitchen. I can hear Ramsey yelling at some poor cook that they got Trump’s brains wrong.

    As for enticing kids to eat there veggies, what is the chance Trump ate the whole pepper or more than half the salad? And who would tell Trump he had to finish it all in order to get the lump of, currently supposed, glazed scone?

  4. 4.

    pinacacci

    I can’t be mad about this; it’s cute. I’d eat it. Feeling vaguely guilty because anthropomorphizing my veggies.

  6. 6.

    jl

    @pinacacci: Damn straight. I’d eat up the whole pepper, with the taters, in each bite, savoring that stuffed pepper goodness. And no ketchup…. or maybe just a dab. Actually, I’d ask if there were any hot sauce around.

  8. 8.

    Keith P.

    So is that “beverage” what they used to glaze the scone? Or are they seeing if they can get Trump to eat a salad and/or drink bull semen.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I can’t decide if the writers this season are brilliant or self-indulgent

    blakehounshell
    3h3 hours ago
    Plot twist: “This time, the colonel was accompanied by his identical twin brother, Yevgeny, who is a lawyer on the National Security Council.”

    That’s Col Vindman, the new whistle-blower

  11. 11.

    joel hanes

    All looks like a perfectly delicious breakfast to me.
    Cubed herbed breakfast potatoes in a roasted bell pepper, with a fried egg and roasted cherry tomatoes, all on a bed of fresh mixed baby greens. Orange juice.

    If I were making it myself, I’d put some crumbled breakfast sausage and onion in with those potatoes, maybe a light sprinkle of some kind of cheese.

    I’d give the scone to my sister or someone who likes scones more than I do, though.

  12. 12.

    West of the Rockies

    Yeah, I feel like the chef made an effort to provide healthful food with an element of fun. I can dig that.

  21. 21.

    Keith P.

    @Mary G: Plus, the sandwich is just straight-up delicious. it blows the Chick-Fil-A sandwich away….I’ve been missing the hell out of it.

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    @John Revolta:
    It’s a scone bone!
    Is that meal supposed to be breakfast or lunch?

    I was thinking, one of these days I need to buy a wee bottle of Tabasco sauce to carry in my backpack for when I eat out. Here, the usual restaurant option for extra heat is “chilli sauce”, which is basically a hot tomato sauce/ketchup. I want heat without gloop.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    @Yutsano:
    Making a competition of how much heat you can withstand is a thing some people do, but not in the Malay world. Generally sambal is for taste as much as heat, and you wouldn’t really see an extra-hot one. Because then you couldn’t taste anything over all the heat..

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    @Amir Khalid

    One time I brought a jar of ghost pepper salsa to add to the snackage laid out for our group’s gaming night. Made a point to forewarn everyone that it was hot. One fellow must have forgotten after a few drinks or discounted it as later on in the evening he scooped up a very hefty mound onto a tortilla chip and popped the entire thing into his mouth.

    The high volume utterance which followed was … a unique sound.

  31. 31.

    Sab

    I was a childhood thumbsucker. So they used to paint a hotsauce on my thumb. Didn’t cure the thumbsucking, but did make me tolerant of eaten heat.

    I can tolerate it but I still don’t get it as something you want in food. Seems to me it mostly detracts from the taste otherwise.

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    MSG got a bad rap because it triggered migraines in people who hadn’t previously realized they were prone to migraines coupled with a dash of Yellow Peril. But it doesn’t automatically cause headaches in most people any more than peanuts cause non-allergic people to break out in hives.

  34. 34.

    otmar

    fwiw: I’ll meet with a US State Dept. representative today here in Vienna and we’ll talk about protecting critical infrastructure from cyber attacks.

    Will be fun.

  36. 36.

    Jay Noble

    That scone might be an apple fritter. That woud account for the bones and frosted/ised look

  37. 37.

    Sloane Ranger

    Approaching this from a British perspective, this looks like a light lunch to me rather than breakfast. Are we sure it’s intended for Dump? It looks like the sort of thing Melania would order to keep her figure within her prenup agreement, or the smiley face on the pepper might appeal to Barron.

    Going back to school lunches, my favourite dessert was rice pudding. The dinner lady would plop a dollop into your bowl and there would be another bowl of strawberry jam at the end. You spooned some of that on to the pudding, went back to your seat and stirred until the entire thing had turned pink.

  42. 42.

    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid:

    I was thinking, one of these days I need to buy a wee bottle of Tabasco sauce to carry in my backpack for when I eat out.

    Apparently Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris both do this (along, no doubt, with a lot of other Americans). There’s a folk tradition that eating spicy food helps boost one’s immune system, and of course a working politician is going to have entirely too many meals where the flavor level is calibrated for people who think tomato ketchup needs to be cut with mayonnaise. This, of course, was branded a “scandal” by the usual suspects — silly enough in Clinton’s case, but when you try to convince people that the child of an Indian-American mother and a Trinidadian-American father doesn’t actually like spicy food, well…

  43. 43.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Anne Laurie: Tabasco is spicy?

    Had the same reaction to the Paqui’s Challenge in the previous thread. The heat level on Paqui’s is nice, but there’s a little too much of the “smoky pepper” flavor for me to really love them. (That “smoky” flavor is why I don’t care for habaneros.)

    I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had co-workers complain about the “too spicy” salsa at a new Mex place only to discover that the salsa in question was heavy on the cilantro and had no peppers at all, not even bell peppers.

  44. 44.

    Citizen_X

    Those peppers can’t possibly represent Trump: they’re smiling. Trump only smirks, and then usually for reasons of sadism.

  47. 47.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Anne Laurie: I always travel with a shaker of Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning. Their slogan is “great on everything,” but I’ve found it’s actually almost everything.

  48. 48.

    dnfree

    Broken glass aside, I’m tired of Elizabeth Warren promising free everything to everyone without explaining how it’s going to be paid for or why it can’t be means-tested. Free medical care for everyone with no copay or deductibles or premiums is just…unrealistic. That’s not Medicare for all. Medicare is nowhere near that generous and it’s not being paid for by the Medicare tax. No wonder she hasn’t been able to explain it yet.

    Go ahead and yell at me.

  49. 49.

    kindness

    My Mom made us sandwiches which we took to school every day. Except some Fridays. Our schools had that rectangle cardboard pizza which we HAD to buy and she let us. It was crap pizza. Dominos is better. I can’t figure out why we liked/wanted it so.

    @dnfree: Maybe you should be more worried about how Republicans are going to pay for their tax breaks to gazillionaires. Just sayin’.

  51. 51.

    dnfree

    I can worry about Republicans and their tax breaks and deficits, and I can be concerned that Elizabeth Warren is greatly overstating what programs our tax dollars should pay for. Apparently the people trying to come up with how her Medicare for All plan will be funded are struggling because her other plans already allocate her wealth tax.

    It’s not just a question of what the very wealthy should afford. It’s a question of what should be paid for with tax dollars vs privately. Behavior changes when things are “free” also. Kamala Harris took a look and backed off Bernie’s plan. I wish Warren would do the same.

  52. 52.

    JAFD

    @Gin & Tonic: Have you tried the salt-free version of Tony Chachere’s ? Only saw it in stores last week. Am advised to cut back sodium, so planning to get it, will report back.

  53. 53.

    joel hanes

    @Gin & Tonic:

    My granddaughter went to Jamaica and came back with a shaker of Slap Ya Mama.
    It’s available from Amazon, which is great because it’s become essential to my continued enjoyment of life.
    Give it a try.

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