Pearl Harbor Day menu at Sasha and Malia’s school: Teriyaki chicken and edamame
This is either tone-deafness taken to extremes, or a hideous coincidence, but the pricey private school attended by President Obama’s daughters served Japanese food to its middle school students today, December 7 – a day that apparently no longer lives in infamy amongst the progressive elite.
As reported by WUSA,
What are President Obama’s kids eating at school on Pearl Harbor day? Japanese food, of course!
Sidwell Friends School’s website shows the menu for Wednesday December 7th, 2011, the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, as an Asian food day.
Took me a while to track down the actual menu, but I found the hidden pdf on the Sidwell site listing the lunch selections for each day. Each day has a different ethnic theme, and by sheer “coincidence” December 7 features both Japanese and Chinese food options, including “Teriyaki Marianted [sic] Chicken Strips” and “Garlic Roasted Edamame” (edamame are Japanese soybeans, for you non-foodies out there) as well as the ethnically unspecified but potentially Japanese “Asian Mushroom Soup” and “Oriental Noodle Salad”:
Obama’s daughters are of course completely blameless in this, as is President Obama himself; rather, it’s a reflection of either the cluelessness or the conscious expungement from the progressive mind of any historical fact which might stir feelings of patriotism.
At $32,960/year tuition, I’d expect a little more historical awareness.
The expungement of any historical fact period. Or at least any that contradicts any progressive idea or else how could they have progressive ideas. If one studies the history of progressive ideas put into practice, they’ve been abysmal failures all along the line.
On Pearl Harbor Day I’m going to make a scale model of a Mitsubishi A6M Type Zero Carrier Fighter out of sushi and feed it to a pig.
So the date December 7th didn’t ring a huge bell with anyone at the skool? Plus they misspelled marinated? And it’s an elite skool? So it’s much more impertunt to lurn uther kulchurs than history or dates or spellingz.
I don’t mean to nitpick, but you seem to have left out the “them”, as in “lurn THEM uther kulchurs”. You obviously are not current in your Squidbilly watching. Please rectify this horrible lack of kulchural uhwarnis as soon as it is convenient.
Zombie, you are the best!
Greetings:
And lunch will, no doubt, be followed by post-prandial screenings of documentaries on the WW II internment of Japanese-Americans and the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But the liberal communists don’t think that much ahead specifically. They only stick to their plain and simple propaganda agenda. They’ve been dumbed-down.
No doubt the muzak over the cafeteria’s P.A. system played that famous song of the period as sung by Eddie Cantor:
I you knew sushi like I know sushi…
How did Szechuan Tofu sneak in?
South China cuisine…we move with the times. Tasty, though…
I’m pretty sure the Japanese were in control of Szechuan on Dec 7th, 1941.
The Japanese culture traditionally consumes horses & whale. How will the school explain that?
I rather like the Japanese…AND…their food. (although I go for bit more “adult” tastes that are not on this kids’ menu)
I’m not so much against sharing other cultures with kids…as I am unwaveringly against the gratuitous insulting of our own, exalting of anyone who has once been an enemy, or is today.
Japan is no longer an enemy and in many ways one of our strongest allies.
Not sure if the Marxists and Fabians would serve Thuringer and spaetzels on D-Day or Holocaust remembrance day.
Or would dare to serve watermelon and fried chicken on the day MLK was assassinated.
Or serve tacos and burritos on February 2nd. the date of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo…American conquest over Mexioc in the Mexican-American war…which basically gave us the American West.
Multi-culturalism only hurls its insults in one direction, I suspect.
From left…to right.
I simply can’t get worked up over the Japanese these days, though. Pearl Harbor should be carried in our memories, not forgotten….but, of all the problems we have to confront…Japan and Japanese Americans are not among them.
To make up for it they are planning to take Bo down to the Washington monument to take a leak on one of the Japanese Cherry trees
To be fair, Obama DOES place Hawaii in Asia these days…
What are the odds that they would have “coincidentally” offered chitlins and watermelon on MLK Day?
Anyone that thinks soy-flavored goo dumped on top of overdone chicken is ‘teriyaki’ should be banned from ever discussing food in public.
“(edamame are Japanese soybeans”
Guess what? The bulk of all ‘Japanese soybeans’ are grown in the US.