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24 MIDWEEK MARCH 8, 2023
Because there aren’t enough issues to di- vide Americans these days, the Washington Post has served up another one. Call it “Menugate.”
PATERNITY WARD D. L. Stewart
What’s On The Menu? A Forthcoming Food Fight
On a recent evening, the newspaper reported recent- ly that President and Mrs. Biden went out for dinner at a popular local restaurant called the Red Hen. One of them ordered chicory salad, grilled bread and butter, and a bowl of rigatoni with red sauce. Then the other one ordered . . . chicory salad, grilled bread and butter, and a bowl of rigatoni with red sauce.
The blaze already has reached the land in which my wife and I reside. Because what to order has been a question for as long as we’ ve been dining out together.
“Because I want try the linguini.”
“The Bidens order the
But the issue already has raised what the Post de-
“I was thinking about the chicken Parmesan.”
same dish at a restaurant,” the ensuing Post headline declared. “Who does that?”
“It was the mere fact that they both ordered the same entrée that set group chats and social media sideline commentators ablaze across the land,” the Post concluded.
about that, too. But if you get that, maybe I should get the linguini vongole.”
A dating expert raised the question of whether or not sharing food was a possible indication of some sort of character flaw. Others said people who insist on ordering different meals suffer from FOMO (fear of missing out).
That is, perhaps, a ques- tion of such magnitude that it will not be resolved without a subpoena or two, several congressional hearings and a Supreme Court decision. And it will come as no sur- prise if other news outlets spin the story by question- ing why the president of the United States is ordering for- eign food instead of Amer- ican food. Or whether the reason the president ordered pasta is because he’s too old to chew steak.
“Why don’t you just get the Parmesan?”
“Yeah, I was thinking
“So order the linguini.”
“But if I get the linguini and you get the Parmesan, we can share.”
scribed as “a virtual food fight.”
A dating expert raised the question of whether or not sharing food was a possible indication of some sort of character flaw. Others said people who insist on order- ing different meals suffer from FOMO (fear of miss- ing out).
The other evening, for instance, we went out for dinner at a popular local restaurant.
“I don’t even like lingui- ni.”
“Getting the same thing as the person you’re eating with is silly,” one woman is quot- ed as saying. “The whole point of going out to eat is getting to try as many things as possible.”
“How can you not like lin- guini? It’s just like spaghetti, only flatter.”
“What are you going to order?” I asked.
By the time the server ar- rived to take our order, the only thing we agreed upon is that we both were ready for a large glass of wine.
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