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Everything’s staged: Michelle Obama’s garden food was fake

hypocritexposer

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No doubt they’ll argue it was “Fake but accurate.”

Everything’s staged: Michelle Obama’s garden food was fake
By Michelle Malkin • January 14, 2010 09:52 AM

They stage their health care town halls.

They hand out lab coats to make their doctor donors look authentic.

They treat soldiers as “pretty good photo ops.”

So, this Iron Chef revelation about Michelle Obama’s produce is entirely in keeping with Obama Theater:

For months, the Food Network ran ads about a forthcoming episode of “Iron Chef America,” its flagship chefs plus secret ingredient versus time competition. The show would take place at the White House garden, with Michelle Obama making a cameo and plugging her responsible-eating initiative. The network promised it would be its biggest episode ever.

The buildup matched the reality: The Jan. 3 “Iron Chef America” drew 7.6 million viewers, the highest-rated show in network history. In it, superstar chef Mario Batali teamed with Emeril Lagasse, and Bobby Flay with White House chef Cristeta Comerford to cook five dishes using the secret ingredient: produce from the White House garden.

Except for one thing: As first reported on AOL’s Politics Daily blog, the fruits and vegetables used on the show weren’t from the White House. They were stunt produce. Ringers.

At the beginning of the two-hour special, the chefs were shown picking sweet potatoes, broccoli, fennel and tomatillos from the White House garden. Then the chefs were seen walking into Kitchen Stadium, produce in hand. One problem: The show is filmed in New York City.
 

Mike

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Some of us knew that crap was fake from the git-go.

They supposedly harvested hundreds of pounds of vegetables from like a 30 ft. X 30 ft. garden on one day.........................

That was a dead giveaway. :wink:
 

hypocritexposer

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Mike said:
Some of us knew that crap was fake from the git-go.

They supposedly harvested hundreds of pounds of vegetables from like a 30 ft. X 30 ft. garden on one day.........................

That was a dead giveaway. :wink:

Welcome back Mike.

Maybe it was the contaminated soil that made the veggies grow so well :???:
 

Tam

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Is this the same White House Garden
:?
Oops! White House Garden Contains Nearly Twice The "Safe" Level of Lead Contamination -- Produce Already Fed To Kids, Dignitaries, and Homeless


From what I read produce from the garden was on the menu of the first State Dinner which fed some 320 White House guests not including the three that crash the door. Besides that it supposedly was fed to kids, the homeless, the Obama family and now being canned by the top chefs of the US. That seems to be alot of food for a 30 X 30 foot garden.
 

hypocritexposer

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That seems to be alot of food for a 30 X 30 foot garden.


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Small portions
 

Larrry

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Hey now come on, they could have produced that much food. Just look at how much crap they have spread. They could have flown this produce to NY, it wouldn't be the first time they have used a planein this manner.
 

Steve

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Their challenge? Whip up five dishes using anything from the garden. The chefs harvested everything from fennel and collard greens to purple cauliflower and

Japanese eggplant. Comerford and Flay won the cook-off.

The 1,100-square-foot plot, about the size of a small apartment, has yielded more than 1,000 pounds of sweet potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, broccoli, fennel, lettuce, other vegetables and herbs that White House and visiting chefs have used to feed the Obama family and guests.

A nearby beehive, bolted to the South Lawn to withstand wind gusts from the president's helicopter, produced 134 pounds of honey. Some was given to spouses who accompanied world leaders to an international economic summit last year in Pittsburgh.

the Obamas’ garden will far transcend that, with 55 varieties of vegetables — from a wish list of the kitchen staff — grown from organic seedlings started at the Executive Mansion’s greenhouses.

The Obamas will feed their love of Mexican food with cilantro, tomatillos and hot peppers. Lettuces will include red romaine, green oak leaf, butterhead, red leaf and galactic. There will be spinach, chard, collards and black kale. For desserts, there will be a patch of berries. And herbs will include some more unusual varieties, like anise hyssop and Thai basil. A White House carpenter, Charlie Brandts, who is a beekeeper, will tend two hives for honey.

The total cost of seeds, mulch and so forth is $200, said Sam Kass, an assistant White House chef, who prepared healthful meals for the Obama family in Chicago and is an advocate of local food. Mr. Kass will oversee the garden.

The plots will be in raised beds fertilized with White House compost, crab meal from the Chesapeake Bay, lime and green sand. Ladybugs and praying mantises will help control harmful bugs.

sounds like utopia..

("Q. How much honey can one bee hive produce?
A. One hive could produce 60 pounds of honey in a good season. An average hive, however, produces 20-30 pounds of surplus honey. ")

and they had 134 pounds of honey?.. I guess they taxed the bees to the max and left them to fend for themselves over the winter..
 
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