| Tim Walberg went to Iraq and came back. Frank Beckmann asked him about the new menu in the House of Representatives, and Tim Walberg launched into a diatribe against paper products. Or Democrats. Or Democratic paper products. It's kind of hard to tell. So far, I'm not happy. They put scrambled eggs on cardboard now, uhhh, and you can imagine what a scrambled egg tastes like at a consistency moving around on a cardboard plate. It ... it isn't good.
For most of us, the first clue might be that the scrambled egg isn't any good is if it's at a consistency at which it moves around. The cardboard plate, seems to me, would be somewhat down the list of things that might be wrong. Not Tim Walberg, whose taste buds are so attuned that he can sense the chemical composition of the plate. If you've listened to the clip, this would have been the second of Walberg's targets. He also zeroed in on the new paper cups in which the coffee is served, cups that he says people have had physical reactions to (acid-laced cups). But, the real culprit for his double espresso's chemical taste, he eventually discerns, isn't the cup. Quelle horreur! ... It is not Starbucks coffee that he is drinking, but something eco-friendly. Probably French roast, at that. How was Magic Frank able to bring this stinging indictment of new paper products, and organic coffee in general, to the attention of his listeners? At the end of the clip, Magic Frank mentions Chesapeake rockfish with sweet potato fennel hash and yellow pepper relish; and also pears with Stilton cheese and watercress. Plug it into Google, and you come up with a stinging investigation on the new House menu by The Politico (which gave us weeks of detailed coverage on John Edwards' haircut). It gives us comments from anonymous House staffers who've apparently forgotten that they can always bring their lunches from home, and also Jeff Ventura, the spokesman for the guy who runs the cafeteria and my newest hero, who gave former retail peons everywhere reason to cheer when he said this: "We have had a few people observe that [straw] phenomenon and we had to tell them, 'Sip your coffee like a normal human being,'" Ventura said. "We're trying to save the planet here."
Right, just like those normal human beings who are smart enough to send back eggs when they're runny enough that they move around the plate. |
