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.
