There’s another component to Rethug’s strategy that shouldn’t be overlooked. I wrote about it on the Bower’s thread here, but the summary is that Boehner’s trying to convince people that Liberals want to take away the food you love, the cars you drive, etc.

You mean Liberals don’t want to do these things?
And I always thought Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” was a liberal instruction manual.

Yes, but there are also wide swathes of the midwest that are allergic to flavor.

You can get pretty bad food in California, too. Just saying that there’s nothing about down home average Midwestern folks that means “stupid about food and likes it boring”, and Boehner fucking knows it.

I once brought a pot of fagioli alla tuscani to a potluck and no one ate it. I brought the same thing the next time and called it ham and bean soup and they ate it all and asked for more.

A Kantian nihilist!

A Hobbsian realist, on the other hand, wouldn’t be afraid to break a few eggs…

Yes, but there are also wide swathes of the midwest that are allergic to flavor. (I grew up among a lot of them.)

BTW, it’s probably because I live in Cali, but we can get nearly any food from any culture anywhere, and nobody really thinks that’s all that unusual.

I grew up in the Midwest. There’s plenty of “ethnic” food with “weird” names that Midwesterners eat without a second thought, and as for vegetables, all that ‘corn-fed’ doesn’t come from eating stuff out of a can. Boehner knows this. He just can’t help being a xenophobic, faux-anti-intellectual assbag.

(And you can’t get good corn in California, I’m sorry to say. I asked a vendor at a local farmer’s market what variety of corn she was selling and she said “Supersweet”. Damn Left Coasters.)

A Kantian nihilist!
(I couldn’t resist)

I like to serve Durian, Balut, and “Buddha Jumps Over The Wall” soup, and observe the reaction when my friends want to like this stuff, but have to admit that their western tastebuds might need a little training before the aforementioned are perceived as delicacies!

One of our former chancellors used to do that to visitors of state. He always took them to his home county, into his favourite restaurant, where they had to eat Pfälzer Saumagen. Think of Haggis and you’re close. I’m beginning to suspect it was his way of getting his own back at Maggie Thatcher.