I just say this because not all Democrats are couscous-eating, vegans who live green all year. If there are going to be protests and anger outside the Democrat Convention, there could be some food fights going on inside.
Organizers have laid down strict rules, The Wall Street Journal reports, aimed at producing the “greenest convention in the history of the planet.”
Sounds like fun.
They include:
* No fried foods. Whatsoever.
* All meals must include “at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple and white.”
* At least 70 percent of all food must be organic and grown locally.And organizers have recruited 900 recycling enforcers to ensure that every scrap of trash goes into the proper bin. And to make sure that any balloons used are biodegradable, the convention’s director of greening (no kidding) has been burying samples in a compost heap.
Not very inclusive. I personally don’t know of any black people who’d substitute fried for organic.
And people are paying to go to that…
Mauser, I live in Colorado and it is a big farming state, but I don’t know if there’s a local flour mill, so bread may be illegal.
Actually, what do they consider “local”? Casper, Wyoming is closer to Denver than Durango, Colorado is. Is local within 100 miles? If so, then the world’s best cantaloupe from Rocky Ford, CO is illegal, San Louis Valley potatoes are illegal, and Pueblo chile is illegal. Weld County corn is already being made into ethanol, so they’re SOL for corn, anyway.
I wonder if one of the resident moonbats can help us figure out just what constitutes “local”?
If they enforce their own rules, it can be even more fun! Coors is despised by unions, Budweiser has a brewery in Fort Collins, but AB just announced layoffs, so they can’t be too popular right now. There are local microbreweries, but I’m pretty sure that closest hops fields to Denver are in the San Luis Valley (over 100 miles away) so I don’t see how beer can be allowed at all. There are Colorado wineries, but I don’t think any of the grapes are grown with 100 miles of Denver, even though I think there is a winery in the metro area. So, I think their only source of adult beverage might be Platte Valley Corn Liquor, provided Platte Valley has managed to get some of that Weld County corn before it’s made into fuel ethanol – or they can just drink the ethanol. It might improve their demeanor.
Is Colorado a big farming state? How much is actually grown locally? And is there much variety?
I think the term “Greenest Convention” refers to the color the conventioneers turn after eating this stuff.
No Popeye’s in Mass? You deprived young man! LOL.
Be cool, Swampy.
There are no Popeye’s in Massachusetts and we have to wait until I have business out of state before we can get chicken and red beans and rice.
Not to mention (from our Los Angeles years) Tommy’s, In-N-Out Burgers, Jack In The Box…
Well, I would go find a Pop Eye’s Fried Chicken and get me some red beans and rice, biscuits and a couple drum sticks. Then I think I would take it right back to the convention center and eat it right in front of some nanny lib and defy them to tell me I can’t.
Of course, you know there will be those fake sugar packets and non dairy creamer too. Geeezus.
I’d like to see someone come with a BK bag with a triple-whopper and king-sized fries. Bet the rest of the non-veggans would be drooling. Considering I just finished my lunch of 4 pieces of fried chicken, mashed taters, garlic bread, and mixed veggies….I couldn’t eat the “green” crap. And tommorrows lunch is ribs! Then Hotwings, followed by the grease burger with bacon, mushrooms, and jalepeno’s. Yep, my diet would probably get me killed in Denver
Yet they wonder why they are referred to as elitist latte sipping nanny types who are out of touch with the average American.
Years ago both conventions were Baseball , Apple Pie and Chevrolet…would Apple Pie make the cut now or is it verboten.