I tend to find these sorts of cultural comparisons of liberals vs conservatives interesting. This one is on food: Conservatives tend to think McDonald’s fries are #1, while liberals favor “bistro fries,” mostly because they like saying the word “bistro.” For the same reason, while conservatives prefer pastas like spaghetti, liberals prefer pastas that hardly anyone can pronounce, mostly because they think they sound smart pronouncing them.
According to the survey, liberals live up to the “fruity” label, since they’re more likely than conservatives to eat fresh fruit every day.
In general, looking over the survey, I’m probably a food liberal because I don’t consider Chinese to be “exotic” food, though conservatives are more likely to. And I’m definitely a thin crust guy when it comes to pizza (conservatives are more likely to favor deep dish pizza). I probably skew the survey because my household is pretty exotic and I’ve lived overseas. That does strange things to your palate.
But, based on one factor alone, I can never be a liberal on food or anything else. Liberals are more likely to consider a bacon cheeseburger to be “disgusting.” I ask you, is this “disgusting?”
Every sane person who eats bacon knows that bacon makes everything better. And bacon cheeseburgers, whether from McDonald’s or Five Guys or wherever, are the modern food of the gods.
So the Monster Thickburger is still available for sale, apparently.
The trick is to find a Hardees or Carl’s Jr. where they’ll pay attention to detail, and order it without mayo.
Makes all the difference, trust me.
I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french fried potato
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well good God almighty which way do I steer for my
Cheeseburger in Paradise
I like them both. I’ve lived abroad and know good food. I live here in America and know good down home and fun food. And I never forget Fair food or street venders…
My politics are Conservative but my palate is independently it’s own judge.. as it should be.. =-)
A local diner has a cheeseburger topped with bacon… and ham. It’s paradise on a bun.
If I like Ban Mi (Vietnamese sandwiches) does that make me hip and multicultural, or am I celebrating the triumph of European colonialism?
I once saw the food groups organized according to what the person rides, rather than how they vote.
Scooter riders drink espresso, smoke cloves and eat croissants.
Biker diet is cigarettes coffee sausage and crank.
I enjoyed my first Ban Mi the other day, and it was AWESOME. I don’t know why I had never thought to add cilantro to a sandwich before. It makes a sandwich really pop.
As does bacon.
Banh Mi kick ass! They need the proper bread tho – half rice-flour baguettes. So hungry now…
Yes, it’s disgusting.
But only because I don’t like BBQ sauce on my burgers. I order the Double Western Bacon Burger myself every time I go to Carl’s Jr. – I just order it “no sauce”.
And I’m all in favor of people eating things I find disgusting, as long as they want to eat them.
(Also, on fries?
Fresh McDonalds fries were long the king and are still good, but the new Wendy’s fries are arguably superior – and an immense improvement for the chain, considering that the old Wendy’s fries were execrable.
Good restaurant steak fries – which is what I presume the leftists must mean by ‘bistro fries’ – still win in the overall FryContest, outside of the fast food realm.))
Only the imitation Cheese is a problem. Otherwise Bacon for ever…
I agree. The bacon is fine. But that “American” cheese stuff? It’s not even cheese, it’s “pasteurized processed cheese food.” It’s what they feed to cheeses to fatten them up!
You guys are nuts – there is no finer cheese for a burger than Velveeta. Now those onion rings – yuck. Add a fried egg to the top and we’ll have something really special.
I love bacon but fast food “bacon” (McDonald’s, Carl’s, etc.) doesn’t count as real bacon in my book.
I too have lived many years in very isolated, exotic places (e.g., try seven months of camel meat, augmented though it was with onions & garam masala), so I would describe my food habits not as either/or as in liberal vs. conservative, but rather a both/and – a solid conservative palate that loves exotic (liberal?) food.
But yes, bacon is the ambrosia of the gods, though my wife thought one Christmas to take that thought to the limit by acquiring a variety of bacon-flavoured gifts for stocking-stuffers. Bacon toothpicks, bacon floss, bacon mints – all acceptable, but we all had to draw the line at bacon jellybeans.
And Carls Jr? That’s not so much for conservatives as it is for men. I mean, look at the ads . . .
Bistro. Isn’t that French for small portions?
I think doner kebab would be fantastic with bacon, except it wouldn’t be halal lol
Try a bacon and peanut butter sandwich, it rocks!
I learned the political truth of such things years ago when I first heard the song ‘Junk Food Junkie’.
The Romans warned us about this!
De gustibus non est disputandum.
mmmm….bacon…
Stuff and nonsense folks… A thinking individual will eat what he enjoys eating a non thinking (liberal) will eat what is the next “new” or trendy thing. The difference between a Liberal and a Conservative is that the Liberal reaches his political point by emotion where as the Conservative reaches his by thinking it out. You can DESIRE a bacon cheese burger, but you really can’t “Feel like” having one as in “I feel like having a bacon cheese burger.” However, you can say “I think I would like to have a bacon cheese burger.” Get my drift? Now, please excuse me while I go fix a Peanut Butter, Banana and Miracle Whip sandwich (which really is quite good.)
I have to disagree. The only way I eat bacon is with fried over easy eggs, or on a high gluten thick crust pizza; the reason I don’t like thin crust is because when I was growing up we had Chef Boyardee pizza in a box and it burnt. Hence, that is why I wouldn’t patronize Pizza Hut when they first opened. I don’t care for bacon on my hamburger and it doesn’t impress me wrapped around a filet mignon. And ham on a hamburger is disgusting. That’s two different flavors fighting for supremacy on your tongue, NAH!
I must agree. Either the beef overpowers the bacon or (more likely) the bacon overpowers the beef. If I wanna eat a bacon and cheese sandwich, I’ll make a bacon and cheese sandwich. The perfect cheeseburger is beef and cheese on a bun.
Well, bacon is the gateway meat for vegetarians. They fear it. On whiff and their doomed.
Also, this explains why they feel they can surrender America to the Islamists. They do not understand the power of the bacon. Americans will put up with a lot but try to take our bacon and it means war. Although, to be fair, we’ll fight for pork barbecue, carnitas, char siu, pork chops, country ham.
Bacon cheeseburgers are excellent but in recent years, I cut out the middle man and went straight to the pork burger Kevin Weeks at Seriously Good developed. Ground pork with bacon, parmesan cheese, onion and I add a drop or two of A1. Hey, call it the Bistro burger and corrupt some vegetarians.
Most conservatives chose thick crust pizza in the survey because they are not from the New York City area, the only place that makes thin crust pizza correctly. Similar situation with Chinese food. If you don’t have very many Chinese restaurants to choose from, it will seem exotic. Here in NYC (and other huge cities), there is one every other block.
Bacon, while it can overwhelm other flavors, gives everything a nice smoky flavor. If you’re not overwhelmed, it’s great on almost everything. And fries depend a great deal on which oil they are fried in. The old McDonald’s fries were fried in burger fat, and they were amazing. The gov’t forced them to switch to oils containing transfats instead. Taste suffered immensely.
Crispy bacon bits transform a chunky potato salad.
BBQ sauce should be on the side, not on the burger.
My gauge of the uselessness of Congress: they keep allowing that plastic goo to be called AMERICAN cheese instead of the Godless commie crap it really is.
Serious conservatives are now into the paleolithic diet and – or aren’t impressed by the way politicians have taken kickbacks from lobbyists to get poison approved or allowed on the market.
Serious conservatives don’t let their chain get yanked by letting poison manufacturers get us to open our yaps and say “Stop the Nanny State” in their defense.
You wouldn’t let a molester grab your child, why defend Ronald McDonald’s overuse of cheap cooking oils that break down into the kind of transfats that can kill you by the young age of 50.
When you eat fries, you better ask how many times the oil it was cooked in was used so far that day. Overused oils break down into serious poisons.
If you are going to eat fries, do so at a restaurant that uses olive oil and uses that oil just once, to cook your specific order of fries, and then discarded.
In 1911 they invented the highly dangerous hydrogenated vegetable oil for one reason and one reason only: to allow baked products to be preserved so they could be transported and sold nationwide over a long period of time. This poison serves no interest to the consumer. It is entirely in the interest of the seller. Yet idiots think “preservatives are good because they allow me to not get sick from food that spoils”. Earth to dumb consumer: If the food would have spoiled, it was because it was no longer nutritious for you and shouldn’t be eaten now anyway.
So conservatives shouldn’t get suckered into the following:
Banning Transfats – That is not just for “liberal tree huggers”. Trans fat is poison and, no, nobody should have the right to sell poison.
Banning hormones in beef cattle, etc – Intelligent cultures have already done this. These hormones create a vicious circle where everyone has to do it to make a profit raising and selling beef. It’s poison so it wouldn’t be “nanny state” to put a stop to it.
Maintaining sensible food safety is not the “nanny state”.
Maintaining feminist laws is the nanny state.
I would advise all “conservative” readers to stop the narrative that “only liberals care about healthy eating and avoiding poisons in their meat and milk” and start into asking why both Republican and Dem politicians support an an anti-male feminist state.
Nucking Futz…Have another beer