Way back in 2006, Barack Obama joked on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” that if he announced his bid for Presidency, he’d do so on Food Network. That got us thinking: Is Obama -- and the rest of the frontrunning hopefuls, for that matter -- a foodie? So today, on the eve of Super Tuesday, we did the most American of things and hit the Gore-created interwebs for more on the candidates’ cuisines of choice.
Turns out Hillary Clinton doesn’t know her way around the kitchen as well as she does around the Senate floor. Listed under the "Interests" section of her MySpace page, Hill writes, “I’m a lousy cook, but I make pretty good soft scrambled eggs.” Tyler Florence has just the recipe for her!
We couldn’t find what Barack Obama likes to cook, but Wiki Answers reveals his favorite restaurant is a pizzeria in his home state. If the Illinois Senator did actually announce his run for top office on Food Network, we’d like to imagine he did so through mouthfuls of Emeril’s Chicago Style Italian Sausage Deep Dish Pizza.
John McCain fuels his campaign trail on nothing but doughnuts, according to the Chicago Tribune. While this might upset the normal tummy, McCain is a former POW and might be able to stomach anything. For his next trick, he’ll consume one doughnut for every delegate he earns!
Apparently, Mitt Romney is a state-fair-foods kinda guy. If you spot the former Massachusetts governor at one, he’ll be positioned behind the grill pit. We have a feeling that when he’s not campaigning, he flips on The Neelys’ for some down-home barbecue.
Clearly the candidates don’t have that much in common when it comes to food, among other things, but they’ll be out tomorrow encouraging you to take that bite out of the primaries by voting.
