Okay, NOW it's personal:
Michelle Obama says she dropped boxed macaroni and cheese from her family's diet after her daughter couldn't turn a block of cheese into cheese powder.
In an interview in the March issue of Cooking Light magazine, Mrs. Obama says Sam Kass, the family's former personal chef, had taken a stand against the boxed variety, which includes processed cheese powder among the ingredients.
"He said there's nothing wrong with mac and cheese, but it's got to be real food," she said, crediting him with helping to eliminate processed food from their diet.
Processed food is still food, Scheherezade.
Kass gave her daughter Malia, who was about eight years old at the time, a block of cheese and challenged her to turn the fresh cheese into powder.
"She sat there for thirty minutes trying to pulverize a block of cheese into dust," Mrs. Obama says. "She was really focused on it and it just didn't work, so she had to give up. And from then on, we stopped eating macaroni and cheese out of a box because cheese dust is not food, as was the moral of the story."
Retarded performance art. What would an eight-year-old - or Mrs. Obama and her chef - know about food manufacturing? The cheese mix in boxed macaroni & cheese is made of real cheese. When you mix it with four tablespoons of butter or margarine and half a cup of milk, it actually becomes cheese sauce. And it tastes a helluva lot better than a melted brick of cheddar. But then, we're not allowed to have butter, margarine, or even skim milk either, are we? Guess that makes me a renegade.
Exit thought: I can only imagine how miserably Malia would be flunking Home Economics class at her ritzy private school if her last name wasn't "Obama".
Follow-up question: The Obama's were filthy, stinking rich enough to afford a personal chef before they seized power six years ago? Yeah, they're in touch with "middle class issues," aren't they?
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