Fast Food President Picks Fast Food Labor Secretary

Trump has picked Andy Puzder, the CEO of Carl's Jr. and Hardees to be Labor Secretary in his administration. The Left is freaking out. Not only is he a fast food exec, he has been a vocal opponent of the Fight For $15 labor

movement among fast food workers. And culturally he has caught flack about using risqué ad campaigns featuring swimsuit models and Kim Kardashian types. He sounds like Trump's kind of guy in many ways.

The Fast Food President

The imminent Trump presidency has the left freaking out on many fronts. The President-Elect is perceived by many Americans as politically incorrect, racist, sexist, greedy, gauche, tacky, and basically uncool. And his food crimes are a source of much triggering as well. Trump, you see, is a fan of fast food, junk food, diner food, and other non-healthy edibles. He used photos of himself scarfing on McDonald’s, KFC, and taco bowls as part of his campaign. His complexion has even been compared to the orange hue of Cheetos.

Unsurprisingly, the mainstream press has tut-tutted over Trump’s dietary habits. From The New York Times’ take: “In an era of gourmet dining and obsession with healthy ingredients, Mr. Trump is a throwback to an earlier, more carefree time in American eating, when nobody bothered to ask whether the tomatoes were locally grown, and the first lady certainly didn’t have a vegetable garden, complete with a bee hive, on the South Lawn of the White House … Mr. Trump’s diet also telegraphs to his blue-collar base that he is one of them.”

But it’s not just that Trump is setting a bad personal example. Food activists think that the nation’s food policy is now at stake.

"The president-elect said little about food policy on the campaign trail, but there’s plenty of reason to believe he will roll back some of the most ineffective policies and stop bad ones from advancing on his watch. The culinary elites were hoping to use food issues to promote their overall agenda of higher taxes and more regulations under a Clinton administration; that agenda is now toast,” writes Julie Kelly in National Review.

The salad days of the Obama Administration are over. GMO labeling and Michelle Obama’s school lunch act are in peril. But liberal foodies can take some comfort in knowing that the White House Garden will be preserved as a permanent feature of the White House grounds. With Obamacare on the chopping block, the garden may be the only part of Obama’s legacy that Trump leaves standing.

Food Nanny-in-Chief?

Several news outlets are reporting that Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire who declared war on salt and Big Gulps when he was mayor of NYC, is considering a late entry into the already cray-cray 2016 presidential race. Which, if true, would not bode well for the cause of food freedom.

Chipotle Be Like: GMOs GTFO. The FDA Says: Meh.

Today, Chipotle (Hillary's new favorite burrito place) loudly and proudly announced that they shall no more serve genetically modified foods. Because those are terrible for you, right?

Maybe not so much ...

GMOs in foods have been a controversial topic for years, and even the FDA refuses to take an official stance. “While FDA regulates foods and ingredients, including foods made from genetically-engineered plants, the agency neither supports genetically-engineered plants based on their perceived benefits nor opposes them based on their perceived risks,” the agency says on its website.

But the head of the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety center has said the agency found no basis that GMOs pose any different safety concerns than foods developed by traditional plant breeding.

Read more on Yahoo Health, and sarcastic tweets at Twitchy.

No One Has Ever Loved a Little Caesars Pizza More Than This Man.

Like millions before me, I've discovered Daym Drops and his Super Official food reviews on YouTube. No wonder he's become a huge internet star: it's a joy watching this guy react to fast food, which he usually eats inside his car, as one should. In this video, he crosses paths with Little Caesars' provocative new bacon-wrapped pizza. Enjoy.

Breakfast Shaming

Are you ashamed of eating normal breakfast foods when you please? No, of course not, because you are a normal person (albeit one with exceptional taste in blogs). But the food police aren’t normal down-to-earth folks like you and me.

When golfer Bubba Watson won the Masters, he decided to enjoy a Victory meal at good ol’ Waffle House and tweeted a picture about it. A nutritionist then went on Fox News and criticized Watson for setting a bad example by eating there, which set off a chain reaction of waffle-shaming by food-shaming types.

Some normal people might look at this and see a top athlete who is keeping it real by going to a normal-folks restaurant after winning a huge coveted prize – but that kind of humility doesn’t appeal to the elite food-shamers.

Rush Limbaugh made really good points about the larger significance of this seemingly silly incident: “They are not a kooky, small minority.  They're the base of the Democrat Party and they're out there actively stigmatizing … if you don't conform, and apparently the left thinks that eating any food other than what they say, is bad for your kids … Folks, it's not an insignificant thing … The left has really did a bang-up job of creating an army of like-minded genuine idiots to whom this stuff matters, and they are willing to act like a bunch of little junior fascist brownshirts running around trying to interrupt people's freedom, freedom of choice, what have you.”

“You've got Michelle Obama basically doing the same thing.  When you've got the First Lady of the country setting this example, and you've got people following it, don't make the mistake I made 20 years ago and think it's fringe and never gonna amount to anything.  Because now it has come to amount to things.”

It’s funny that Rush mentioned Michelle Obama, because she was targeted by the food cops next, despite being on their side, rhetoric-wise. PETA tried to shame the First Lady for using real eggs in the White House Easter Egg Roll. Of course if she’d used candy eggs, they would have called her out for encouraging kids to eat candy on Easter (imagine that). This stupid stunt puts me in the uncomfortable position of feeling some sympathy for Michelle Obama, which tells me that things are really getting out of hand.