From the ranting queen of Photoshop: if working class Americans feel bitter, it’s not because wages have stagnated, access to health care sucks, jobs have vanished with minimal assistance for retraining for better ones, or anything like that; it’s because Barack Obama eats arugala. Because unlike an Oberlin graduate married to a former economist who makes enough money to have a stay-at-home husband to raise her kids while she blogs all day, he’s out of touch with working people.
It will be interesting when, a few years into the McCain presidency, people who voted for him are complaining that they still have stagnant wages, crappy health care, and worries about their economic future and their kids serving in Iraq, and are wondering, “How did this happen?”
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Stop the presses— I ate arugula last night. Baby arugula, in fact. In a salad. I must be an elitist snob!
It’s rainin’ McCain, baby…
No matter what the Yuppie reporters from the Ivy League (and elitist Republican millionaire Senators) say, arugula, otherwise known as “rugette” or “rocket” or “rock salad” is not an elitist vegetable. It is actually a staple of peasant Italian salads, a cornerstone of the Mediterrean diet. My Ellis Island grandmother grew tons of it in her garden in gritty Paterson NJ. It’s in most supermarkets on the East Coast but even the produce managers often don’t know what it is.
When I encountered rocket in England a year or so ago, I couldn’t figure out how arugala ever got that name. You have solved the mystery! Thanks!
Yeah, and they’ve renamed corn meal mush “polenta”, too.
p.s. I thought we invaded Arugula back in the Reagan Administration.
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