When there’s nothing else to bitch about, count on ignorant scare-sheet the New York Post to find something evil about the peaceful and polite Occupy Wall Street protesters. Maybe they are eating fancy liberal food? A new poll of New Yorkers proves that 67% agree with the growing protest against America’s bank-run corporate-welfare system, and an overwhelming 87% of New Yorkers say the protesters have the right to stay at Zuccotti Park. But to the increasingly mythical Archie Bunker whose mouth moves while he reads the Post headlines and then shakes his fist at the coloreds on NY1 or whatever, those damned dirty hippies are living large like Prince Charles.
Why, the chef making the free meals is from the Midtown Sheraton! (He was laid off.) And as the New York Post illustrates with this fancy menu it made, the food is locally grown elitist vegetables and chicken. (Local farmers have donated some food.) And holy Jesus, “brown rice with black beans and fresh herbs.” (Beans and rice, the inexpensive and nutritious staple of poor people.)
[Capital New York/New York Post]
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Let them eat Big Macs.
It is food for a king… King of the Road.
Problem is that rice and beans is way better eating than the shit sandwich served up by Wall St book cookers.
Hobo beans are the new caviar.
Those damn hippie protesters should be eating like real 'Mericans, just Cheetos and Bud Lite.
Wendy's and a 64 ounce Mountain Dew.
Wendy's? Elitist! White Castle not good enough for ya?
4 Loko and a Hot Pocket.
White Kasuls and Cakes We Like
The Stuf for Speggti at the Midtown Sheraton is to die for.
Me luv me sum White Kasul wif Cedar Chese
White Kasul.
Wharr cheetos, wharr?
Fried chicken blobs and pork rinds or gtfo.
Corn bread & butter beans would be better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRX91eF_cY0
Bud lite is now owned by some damn Euros, though. Coors or Miller or just your own pee (because as Rip Torn put it "It's sterile, and I like the flavor.")
And don't even start on the Cheetos. I know for a fact that no one has ever seen that Chester Cheetah's birf certificate. And you know where cheetahs are from? Africa. In fact, they can be found in Kenya. So eating Cheetos is endorsing that damn Kenyan Usurper in the White House. Need to eat something truly American. Like Funions.
(And I know there aren't enough misspellings – it is too early in the morning for that).
Anheuser-Busch, purveyor of Bud Lite and other near-water beer-like substances, is owned by InBev, a Belgian-Brazilian brewer that gobbled up the Clydesdales in 2008. This is all captured in a fairly boring tick-tocker called Dethroning the King which I made the mistake of buying a while back, as I used to live in St Louis, where A-B was known simply as "the brewery." Before the buyout, A-B had 20 full-time pilots to fly their bigshots around in company owned jets, so they were an obvious takeover target.
At first the Busch family said, "No way, we're an American icon," and their tame Missouri politicians fell in line. Then InBev raised the offering price $5 a share and the Busches said, "Let's do it!"
But to maintain the shards of their dignity, the family insisted that the combined company be called A-B and be headquartered in St Louis. The Brazilians said, "Sure, whatever," and the deal was done. American Exceptionalism!
Corndogs and a fried stick o' butter, like a good Republican.
Ramen noodles and Sterno
Why don't they just come out and say, "This menu takes it in the ass!" like they want to?
Actually, a menu of rice and beans promotes taking it OUT the ass through better bowel health. But I guess if your bowel is not impacted with 90 days of Yum! Brands products, you're not a real American.
Hobo beans when cooked with love are delicious!
A reporter from the New York Post once tried to interview me. I ate his liver with some hobo beans and a nice chianti.
Mmmmmm tabloid journalists liver. That would be so bloated and tender, marinated a treat.
I hope, at least, that they are eating like Kings off Freedom Trays.
KFC Doubledowns or GTFO
Two grains of rice with a bean in between! The "occupiers"" double-down!
Yeah, when the protesters are photographed eating chicken and rice on paper plates while they look up laughing at investment bankers sipping champagne, that will be really something.
I can eat anything as long as it has a squirt of gourmet mustard. And maybe a little arugula.
Not so much with the French's yellow stuff and iceberg?
I know. I'm an elitist asshole.
Excuse me, do you have any Grey Poupon?
I'm sure the champagne swilling bankers overhead could poop some out.
Arugula?! Obama, is that you?!
place it between two pieces of bread so you don't have to look at it, add the spicy mustard, and I'm good to go
Hey, I sent you a picture of the kitchen they set up. Next thing you know the post is going to do a story about the socialized medicine going on in the park, what with the free socialist first aid tent and all the socialist socialisms and everything.
One of the protesters is a third year med school student, and she put a band-aid plus some antibiotic cream on a Vietnam vet who scratched his arm on some thorns. Didn't charge him anything. The Post is preparing a four-part exposé.
Band-Aids and Antibiotic Cream???
Rub some dirt on it you damned dirty libruls!!
I am happy to rub dirt in my own wounds. I am the 53%.
or maybe the 27%
Typical liberals – always wanting a handout. What incentive does that guy have to avoid getting scratched on thorns if he doesn't have to pay for his healthcare?
Very true. The Post's comment was: "Sure, put a Band-Aid on his scratch. But at least kick him in the nuts afterward. Otherwise you create a moral hazard."
I think he actually deserves to die. It's his own fault for not planning ahead.
I'd like to see the Tea Party protest menu. Fried twinkies, Kraft mac & cheese, anus burgers, pringles…
Deep fried spam.
Black children's tears.
In the handy gallon jug.
Spam is a certified poorz food, and can be made into wonderful things. As President Obama has pointed out a fried slice with rice is a nice snack (at least as far as Hawaiian's are concerned). So stick to the twinkies, oreos and butter for the deep frying, and leave dear spam alone.
And a bottomless Big Gulp of diet soda.
Must've been the fresh herb – uh, herbs – that sent this birdcage-liner over the edge…?
Typical wingnutz. They take the most normal functions and say it with a sneer as if it was something absurd.
Did you see them? Their actually eeeeating something. Oh my god! They're actually doing stuff like talking! Some people are sleeping! How dare they!!!
'Cause it worked out so well when Erin Burnett tried to do the same thing. Not!
It's like the sneer they use to say "community organizer" when talking about Obama, as if that was somehow a disrespectful thing; of course it didn't take me long to realize that the wingnuts were using it where they would like to use the n-word but couldn't get away with it.
Even the word "community" is just code for "confederacy of crackhouses".
Eating beans? *Seriously*???
I can't recall where exactly, but I remember reading a great piece by Zizek where he talks about how the entirety of nationalistic hatreds comes down to this sort of sneering suspicion of the way in which your neighbor does all the same things you do. I think there was one line that was something like "they eat, but they eat the wrong food. They listen to music, but it's the wrong kind. They have sex, but they do it wrong." etc. Something like that.
Simpler version, via Carlin – Your shit is stuff, their stuff is shit.
When Erin starts doing the show topless, I might watch. With the sound muted. Until then, I have better things to do. Like… like…. ok, maybe I don't have better things to do, but I still ain't watching.
Just make your own!
Food fit for a king. Here King! Com'ere, boy!
The only thing the protesters should be eating is the rich.
(Take it away, Lemmy)
Beavis: What's Lemmy doing in this video?
Butthead: He's Lemmy – He can walk onto any damn video he wants!
Who would win in battle between Lemmy and God?
Trick question. Lemmy is God!
Stolen from "Air Heads" a movie that was somehow a bomb despite having a lot of guys who went on to make big money in movies or TV (Brendan Frasier, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna and Michael Richards), one comic who died before his time (Chris Farley), one really talented motherfucker (Steve Buscemi, for once not the whiny guy in the movie), and a bunch of people you've known forever (Ernie Hudson, Judd Nelson) and even a Spinal Tap connection (Michael McKeon).
"He wiped his ass with his record contract!"
My crazy punk brother named his daughter "Lemmy" when she was born in 1995.
What a pretty guy! (Ewwww!)
Let them eat rice cakes!
Nosering girl….I love you!
How dare these protestors eat food! But, they're right, I'm going to bring my polo ponies and personal chef to the park this weekend.
Polo ponies! Them's good eatin'!
Beans and Rice Tonight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heKYNWFBkW8
I call bullshit on the Post. Most of the stuff on that "menu" is just gussied up fancified talk for Spaghetti-Os, Ramen, Mac-n-Cheese, and KFC.
They thought we wouldn't notice because they called it ßpagéttì-ö's, ラーメン, Mac-et-Fromage, and PFK.
Should be eating Five Guys and drinking Four Loko!
You know, I thought that shit was banned or whatever, but I saw a giant billboard for it on the way to work today. http://drinkfour.com
Hey, Five Guys is good; definitely better than the other burger chains. Sure, it's a heart attack on a bun, but now you've got me craving a burger or two.
Hey, Five Guys make fresh-cut french fries (chips as they are known in the exotic land of my birth) and provide vinegar for them. (Cider vinegar rather than white vinegar, but I'm in no position to be picky.)
For that alone they represent one classy joint à mon avis.
Malt vinegar, sir.
Malt, Cider, it's all the same to me because like my ancestors and those who proudly uphold my culture, I am a white supremacist about vi….
I mean, I prefer distilled vinegar.
Um…
Hey, there's another post up — let's go there.
Five Guys is the best…but you are correct…heart attack waiting to happen.
Eating five guys? Sounds ambitious. Can we get some input from Kortney?
I'll be she can handle five guys.
In n Out or GTFO (although I do like a Five Guys burger all the way plus grilled jalepenos, a Double Double Animal Style still beats it hands down).
Plus, In n Out has the triple Amurikun seal of approval – it is a heart attack waiting to happen, it is run as a "family business" and thus one of those vaunted "job creators" and the owners put cryptic Christian messages into their packaging (under the cups, for example).
But In n Out only exists on the West Coast – I've never seen one; Five Guys is an East Coast chain, and as the East Coast is the best coast, must be superior.
"Oh beans, bacon n' gravy
They almost drive me crazy
I eat 'em 'til I see them in my dreams
But when the workin day is done
If I live to see the settin' sun
I'll thank the Lord for another mess o' beans" ♫
This dietary staple is bound to align the protesters with most prison inmates' experience along with soup kitchens' frequent alternate to "soup."
"Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?"
"But of course!"
No lobster, caviar, pheasant under tarp? Peasants.
Maybe the Ohio National Guard can donate some exotic animal meat. In Soviet Russia, cops kill you. In America, cops kill zoo!
I dunno – the Ohio National Guard's record with protests isn't quite spotless.
Fucking Rupert Murdoch.
He's done as much to bring this country down as the banksters have.
Can't we kick his ass out? (Or at least break up his media monopolies?)
~
Build the dang fence!
Ah for the good old days, when the undesirables sent to Australia stayed there.
Now now, Rupert paid Newt Gingrich $4 million in cash, in exchange for which Newt shepherded through the legislation that allowed a foreign national to own a TV network, and the legislation that allowed the same company to own a TV station and a newspaper in the same city! You can't take away the special privileges that Rupert bought and paid for.
I say this Post story is stupid.
I'll just add that the Post will suck dead hippo weenie if it pleases the Kochlords.
Do we expect more from the NY Post? Though I admit, idiots will believe anything they read if it suits their personal beliefs. http://thecrankyhousewife.com/2011/10/19/let-them...
Christ on a cracker, people are stupid.
"They eatin' CHICKEN, and BEETS, and sometimes POTATOES! Bunch'a fuggen Rockefellas ova heeya!"
Rupert Murdoch is a dick. Just because that scrawny bitch wife of his survives on bird seed and water doesn't mean that everyone else should.
Really. "Chez Zuccotti"? Bitch, please. What, no freeddumb fries? Asshole.
Oh, honey. Pod people don't need food to survive. They just absorb residual energy from their host.
Residual negative energy, the goddamned suck-you-buses.
Look out, she's going to drop from the ceiling and slap the shit out of you!
"Local Farmer" donating food. That's hippie speak for narco syndicalist drones offering up their poliburo mandated produce tithe.
So the only thing the editors at the NY Post put in their beanies are their teeny weenies?
Beans and rice. Sounds Mexican. Better get the Alabama State Patrol up to Wall Street to check it out.
The Post is actually understating the case. Rice and Beans is a step up from the diet of Aztec royalty, which consisted of such delicacies as pocket gophers, corn smut and axolotls
Or for that matter the peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwiches favoured by The King.
Much less the undercooked chitlins rumored to be a certain notorious boxing promoter's preferred cuisine.
Mel? Thanks, Sugar-Tits.
Professor Longhair would approve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty3pEpCqPgA
Man, three morning posts in just over 75 minutes. Our cup runneth over (but don't tell the Post).
No kidding. I haven't even had my fifth cup of coffee yet, so I'm nowhere near ready to catch up.
Well, you're livin' on the street,
cravin' something hot
It's simmerin' in a dumpster
back by Popeye's parking lot
Smell the rich aroma,
it's a fragrance to entice
Dirty deep fried chicken
and dirty dirty rice
All my bro's on Sunset know
there's nothing to compete
No flop or rescue mission
serves nutrition so complete
It's downright good eatin'
And there's just no beatin' the price
Dirty deep fried chicken
and dirty dirty rice
Frying chickens in the sun
Politicians have their
fundraising dinners
their fine filet of sole
their creme de escargot
and their nouveau casserole
They can have all the caviar
and the pink champagne on ice
Gimme Dirty deep fried chicken
and dirty dirty rice
IF IT TAINT COVERED IN CORNSIRRUP, THEN IT TAINT AMERICAN !!1!!
I read this as taint covered in corn syrup and for a moment I thought I was back in the old buttsekks Wonkette. It is Cocktober.
Yes indeed.
To be fair, a lot of kings have had to economize, too.
A single Teartard meal can feed 10 Occupistas a day.
"Ocupistas"–great substitute for Ken's "ocupados," which means they're "occupied." Ocupantes means "occupiers," but ocupista has a more political feel to it, like "Sandinista" or "communista." It suggests that occupying is a matter of principle, which is exactly right. So what if it's not a word in Spanish?
Time for some Cisco Houston:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fODM5fFHeKo&fe...
I'm optimistic that the debate has apparently taken a gastronomic turn. Maybe now the 99% will start literally practicing the immortal credo of the rapaciously wealthy:
Eat or Be Eaten.
Good point. I wonder if those protesters are killing the beans themselves. 'Cause Wall Street types eat what they kill, as one of them informed us some months back.
For what's the sound of the world out there?
Those crunching noises pervading the air!
It's man devouring man, my dear!
Then who are we to deny it in here?
These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett, and desperate measures are called for!
The history of the world, my sweet,
is who gets eaten and who gets to eat.
The kings should try eating like the protesters every now and then. Might be eye-opening.
Might also be colon blowing from the sounds of it.
Prince Charles is vegetarian so he probably does eat a lot of rice and beans, but since he's royalty his farts do not smell.
WSJ, the Post… all we need is a Fox posting this morning to round out a Murdoch Trifecta.
Haut beau beans
The Post is off their game. I expected a cartoon about a herpetic monkey terrorizing the Midwest with a jobs bill.
"The increasingly mythical Archie Bunker whose mouth moves while he reads the Post headlines and then shakes his fist at the coloreds on NY1 or whatever": they're still hoping for a rerun of 1970, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Hat_Riot, which started the whole hard hat, Archie Bunker, Democrats for Nixon clusterfuck we've been living with ever since.
There are two types of Wonketeers: the ones who post links to the Hard Hat Riot, and the ones who post links to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
What does that make me? I've linked to both.
Let's probe further. "Blazing Saddles" or "Python"?
Now you're fuckin' with me. Python.
(P.S. This http://wonkette.com/454908/the-nyc-citibank-arres... was righteous. Thanks.)
So you're saying that referencing the beans scene from Blazing Saddles is uncalled for?
In Manhattan, hobo beans are called "microcuisine" and rice is "organoleptic".
On the menu tomorrow:
le riz marron avec les haricots noirs et les herbes fraîches
Sounds spectacular!
Hoppin' John! Is Chalky White part of the protest?
I know what you did last Sunday night!
Nucky showed up, too. He promised each protester a pot of chicken and brown rice. Then he went into the Chamber Of Commerce and promised he'd have the protesters cleared and jailed by Friday morning.
Hobo beans a la king.
Give those occupados enough beans and they'll blow the top off the Wall Street corruption.
Yes but I heard some of the wine pairings were simply awful.
Quite. Why I nearly dropped my monacle into my snifter of cognac when I heard they were offering Merlot with beans. How gauche!
Alrightee, here's 2 more musical selections, "I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop" (1928):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2E9zSvZNqw
and of course, "Big Rock Candy Mountain"
http://youtu.be/tYGCpGzFWh0
to be fair, my mouth sometimes moves when i read those furrin words.
But what really ground the Post's gears – they're saving it for the weekend edition – was learning that some of the protesters are being served delicious and exotic Quelque chose inconnu, trouvé sur la rue – un raton laveur, peut-être, ou un gros écureuil. À l'orange
i won't be really outraged until i see them eat cake.
Heh – I've been going through old Wonkwires, trying to find the classic grocery list post, and look I find from March 30; it's prophetic:
http://wonkette.com/441765/murdoch-biz-columnist-...
We have long enjoyed MarketWatch columnist Paul B. Farrell’s seething, doom-soaked predictions of American Collapse — and his column is always the “most read” thing on this stock-market business website, so we are not alone. But today’s is a delight even if you’re used to Farrell’s ranting, because now he’s calling for armed revolution against the Super Rich!
Or, well, actually he’s saying “tax the Super Rich now” or there will be armed revolution and you’ll all hang, ya bloody billionaires:
Yes, tax the Super Rich. Tax them now. Before the other 99% rise up, trigger a new American Revolution, a meltdown and the Great Depression 2.
You mean this one Soros?
Elviouslyqueer linked to it in a post a couple days ago, so I bookmarked it for later use.
Yay thanks!
I, for one, love beans and rice! It's simple, nutritious, and versatile! it can be added to any roadkill (armadillo is especially delicious!) for a completely balanced meal.
Too bad I already used my "terrible newspaper is terrible" line on the previous WSJ story.
Don't be afraid to repeat stuff, here. Sometimes, we miss things and get them in later posts.
Kind of reminds me of the guy who lost his shit when little Oliver Twist asked for a second helping of thin, watery gruel.
Real patriots live off of Jeremiah Weed and twinkies.
“brown rice with black beans and fresh herbs.”
Them damn Browns and Blacks are everywhere these days.
You know they've been waiting decades for a chance to use that head line.
The NY Post actually has a pretty good story on the OWS food here. The food is grown in upstate NY, in Connecticut and as far away as Vermont. Trucks come to the farms and pick up the food and deliver it to a well-equipped soup kitchen in East NY in Brooklyn, where as many as 12 cooks work to make nice meals for the protesters. All of this came together because people saw a need and rose to the occasion.
Holy what??? According to Occupy Chicago's Facebook page – CBOT asshats throw down fliers onto occupados below, saying "We are the 1% paying for this" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=171924006...
Prince Charles eats hobo beans?
So, NY Post, when you gonna do the expose on what the bankers eat, oh, every fuckin' day of the week? Never? Thought so, you goddamned losers.
Thanks! I haven't even looked at that thread since I wrote that – when I know I'm gonna get blowtorched, I just say my piece and move along, to save my blood pressure.
With one musturd and cerail for you and kid.
Heritage not hate, amirite?
The EDL is that-a-way. lol
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