Before "Pearl Harbor" was reduced to a three-hour reel of explosions starring overpriced wooden puppet Ben Affleck, it was a place where a bunch of American soldiers were attacked by a bunch of Japanese soldiers these seventy years ago today. A Day of Infamy, if you will. You may remember from every commemorative evening news broadcast since then that Americans generally avoid doing anything Asian-sounding on this day, to honor the fallen and to keep our wounds fresh. This year, though, you can count out those Obama daughters and their fancy-schmancy private school to have other plans. America-hating plans!
You can thank some local CBS affiliate "WUSA9" for keeping it so VERY eyewitness-y today, allowing the right-wing blogs to suffer a complete meltdown.
What are President Obama's kids eating at school on Pearl Harbor day? Japanese food, of course!
Sidwell Friends School's website shows the menu for Wednesday December 7th, 2011, the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, as an Asian food day.
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It was the bloodiest foreign attack on U.S. soil in the modern war era, until the September 11th attacks in 2001.
Here are the options for Malia Obama and her sister, Sasha on the "Day that will live in Infamy: December 7, 2011.
Asian Mushroom Soup
Oriental Noodle Salad
Classic Spinach Salad
Teriyaki Marinated Chicken Strips
Szechuan Tofu and Veggies
Garlic Roasted Edamame
Vegetable Fried Rice
Fortune Cookies
Is the Szechuan cuisine of southwestern China native to Japan now? Eh, DETAILS. And oh, look, the kids also managed to get the Pearl Harbor Day Ceremony cancelled , too, probably as part of their training in Kenyan voodoo. [ WUSA9 ]
Asian food? If you are going to be stupid do not be ignorant at the same time. It would be Japanese food, although it is difficult to say 70 years later what difference it makes. Thank you Mr. Erickson.
Fortune cookies are American. And despite the horrors Japan inflicted on China, all our local Chinese places have no problem serving teriyaki.