Our loyal readers who also surf political blogs have probably noticed the flap over Dijongate, wherein reality descends madly into satire as the blogsphere ponders the political meaning of Obama’s decision to order Dijon mustard on a hamburger (and whether the media hushed it up to make him seem like a regular Joe!) Anxious to do our part, we at EoTAW have discovered the real reason Obama ordered spicy Dijon rather than regular yellow mustard:
French? Classic? Mustard?
Obviously, yellow mustard has long been a sleeper agent in the culture war.
18 comments
May 9, 2009 at 9:56 am
N. Merrill
I think that bottle plays “the internationale” when you twist the cap.
May 9, 2009 at 10:12 am
SEK
You people like it when I hurt. (But not when I inflict said pain on you. I’ll take that encouragement, thank you very much!)
May 9, 2009 at 10:47 am
saintneko
Dijon is less processed than regular mustard. Less junk in it. That makes Obama a terrible socialist traitor to America.
Also, I think Dijon is gross.
May 9, 2009 at 12:18 pm
JPool
Also, I think Dijon is gross.
You crazy. Or were you talking about the the city? Because I haven’t been there.
It’s hard to feel any sympathy for William A. Jacobson, who indeed should not have been jumped on (if indeed he was) for a silly, throw-away post, when he then reads some obvious sarcasm from the Huff-Po as if it were meant straight.
Also, hummus is a fabulous thing, but seems like a mistake for a burger. I’d go with a tahini dressing or maybe a nice baba ghanouj.
May 9, 2009 at 12:31 pm
dana
Carmelized onions, bacon, and swiss.
Dijon is less processed than regular mustard.
It’s also available at Subway. Which is what’s particularly amusing about the cultural-markers nonsense; recently, nearly everything that’s been held up as unbelievably elitist has been something that is widely available in chain supermarkets.
May 9, 2009 at 12:45 pm
N. Merrill
…which is why I think the complaints have no purchase for people who aren’t true believers. OMG the elitist subway!
May 9, 2009 at 2:01 pm
jazzbumpa
You are all missing Jacobson’s point. It’s not the mustard, it’s the “John Kerry-ish quality.” Can you imagine a worse insult?
Though, somehow, it seems like that should relate more to catsup.
Which I would not put on hummus.
May 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
USpace
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The Left is just keeping this ‘Mustard story’ alive, the Right had a chuckle and moved on. There are many much more important things to criticize this administration about. The Left doesn’t want people focusing on the big stuff, because that’s where it’s most dangerous to them. The Truth will bring them down, God willing.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
deify your dear leaders
they are supernatural
with magical qualities
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
don’t protest tax increases
or support states’ rights
YOU RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST
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May 9, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Ben Alpers
USpace is right.
Like the Right, we should really be focusing on serious, important issues like how Miss California’s finishing second in the Miss USA pageant was a violation of her free speech rights or how closing Gitmo will vastly increase the danger of terrorism (these are two of the top stories on Townhall.com’s frontpage at the moment).
May 9, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Bitchphd
Or how cutting taxes raises them, and stimulus spending destroys the economy.
May 9, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Matthew Ernest
‘it’s the “John Kerry-ish quality.”’
They are also opposed to Heinz ketchup?
May 9, 2009 at 6:29 pm
andrew
Dijongate
I’m sure inside the administration it’s known as La Porte de Dijon.
May 9, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Ben Alpers
I’m sure inside the administration it’s known as La Porte de Dijon.
I hear that the language of the Court is French and that English speakers are scoffed at by the President’s aides de camp!
May 9, 2009 at 6:42 pm
dana
What a faux pas!
May 9, 2009 at 7:07 pm
andrew
Next up:
Obama orders breakfast. Did he ask for more juice? Or le mot juste? The audio on youtube isn’t clear; the debate goes on for days.
May 9, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Ahistoricality
Which is what’s particularly amusing about the cultural-markers nonsense; recently, nearly everything that’s been held up as unbelievably elitist has been something that is widely available in chain supermarkets.
That’s evidence, don’t you understand, of the liberal elitist conspiracy to make our children into rootless cosmopolitans. Good, honest Americans are being decieved by the retail-restaurant-higher education-Village Voice complex into thinking that they have choices about things that are, at their root, fundamental moral issues which all true Americans would consider settled issues.
May 9, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Michael Turner
two of the top stories on Townhall.com’s frontpage at the moment
Yes, ben, but the important thing is that conservatives will just have a chuckle over them and move right along, unlike that OCD Left, which will gnaw on them for weeks.
I’d go with a tahini dressing or maybe a nice baba ghanouj.
“Tahini”? “baba ghanouj”? Let me look that keyword combo up in our captured TerrorPlanner (TM). Ah, I see it, now, thanks, Jpool. You’re saying that the moment has come, my brothers, to ram hijacked planes into LA’s Liberty/Library/whatever-they-call-it Tower. You’re under arrest.
True, I always ask if they have red onions for the burger I’m ordering. But when they do, at least I always add, “Grill ‘em, please, until they’ve spilled all of their flavor secrets.”
May 11, 2009 at 8:38 pm
The Tragically Flip
The Left is just keeping this ‘Mustard story’ alive, the Right had a chuckle and moved on.
Uhm, even that proves the general point that you’re a bunch of mouth breathing cretins. What is funny or even noteworthy about a man wanting a particular topping for the food he eats? What possible impact does it have on anyone else? Are you really claiming you can infer anything meaningfully negative about a person from this kind of preference?
I thought you guys were about choice and freedom, but apparently anyone who doesn’t eat the regulation standard hamburger the way you like it is worthy of mockery for some bizarre cultishly conformist reason that only makes sense in rightopia.
And to head off the accusation that I am unfairly seeing a trend, I present exhibits on arugula and Boehner.