Bush Picks Mustard Over Ketchup on Burger

[RedEarth]

WARRENSBURG, Mo. - If you're a candidate facing the husband of the heir to the Heinz fortune, ketchup isn't the condiment of choice for hamburger — at least not in public.



During his bus tour Tuesday through Missouri, President Bush (news - web sites) stopped for a picnic lunch and loaded his plate with cole slaw, baked beans and a hamburger.


"Don't you want some Heinz ketchup on the burger, Mr. President?" a reporter asked.


Not missing the reference to Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s wife, Teresa Heinz, Bush replied with a smile: "I've got mustard on that, thank you."


Heinz Kerry's name also came up as the Democratic nominee campaigned in Greensboro, N.C., with his daughter, Vanessa

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040907/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_ketchup&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798

[neuvocat]

1. I guess even "W" ketchup isn't good enough for him either.

[xultar]

41. Heinz makes mustard too!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[The Zanti Regent]

45. Where is KKKandy KKKrowley on this?

After all, KKKandy raised SUCH a big stink when John Kerry's cheesesteak had (GASP!) SWISS CHEESE ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[goodboy]

50. Maybe he used "French's" freedom mustard...nt

[leetrisck]

2. Yellow fits bush better anyway

doncha think?

[Cha]

9. YELLOW IS bush's COLOR!

Freakin' YELLOW COWARD!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

21. TOUCHE!!!

[Inland]

34. Bwaaa-ha-ha-ha!

[hlthe2b]

3. Someone should have plopped on the Grey Poupon!

[hatrack]

4. Mais oui!!!

;-)

[Lefty48197]

16. Or just some regular poop.

.

[Cha]

19. Oui! And watch him be scared of

of that!

[LiberalBushFan]

5. I wonder if Heinz will still donate only to Republicans,

after this silliness is over.

[MercutioATC]

18. Great ponint. Heinz is a BIG Republican contributor.

[Cha]

20. So stupid~! bush is biting the damn hand

that feeds him and his slimey ilk.

[Wickerman]

6. Idiot

[pinniped]

32. It was there so someone must have used it.

Did the asshole order his cult not to use Heinz?

Dis they have to sign a loyalty oath banishing Heinz products from their diet?

How can a piece of shit eat cow?

[Sagan]

7. what a set-up question..

Was it a Scaife reporter? Maybe from FAUX?

[Placebo]

8. I think I am going to vote for George W. Bush

I like only mustard on my burgers too. And hotdogs...yea....

[hatrack]

11. I too, am convinced . . . mustard speaks truth . . . Bush strong leedur .

Must punch . . . Republican chad on ballot . . . then eat brains . . . BRAINS!!!!!

[luaneryder]

10. Now that's news! Did he choke on it?

[jean]

12. bush, the Reagan wannabe, should know better: Eat your vegetables!

Skipping the ketchup is a bad example to the youth of our great nation!

What year was it that Reagan declared ketchup was a vegetable (in school lunches)?

[daleo]

13. What about his freedom fries?

Did he put mustard on them too? (As long as it wasn't French's mustard).

The politics of food gets more bizarre all the time.

[fob]

30. There's another pic around here somewhere, it WAS French's mustard,

I mean Freedom mustard.

[Hobarticus]

14. Yuk yuk yuk...how frigging stupid.

Reporters should be asking him about the thousandth soldier killed in Iraq, and they're asking him about condiments.

[Fleshdancer]

15. wow. someone utilized an entire brain cell to write this crap.

Can someone please explain to me what happened to journalism? If I have to read about Bush not eating ketchup or renaming his french fries or see pictures of his adult daughter sticking out her tongue or any other idiotic banter and/or behavior, I'm going to scream!

This Deb woman, the person responsible for this "article" owes her journalism professors a HUGE apology. And if her parents paid for college, they should demand their money back.

[BrotherBuzz]

26. Yellow journalism?

[Fleshdancer]

27. I'm literally laughing out loud right now

good one :D

[Liberal Veteran]

17. Who is going to tell Bush he just dissed one of his supporters....

The CEO and Chairman of Heinz Ketchup!!!!!!

[mom cat]

48. Not only that, he dissed Ronald Reagan who officially designated

ketchup as a vegetable! :shrug:

[Rose Siding]

22. Yes but is this imported or domestic beer he's drinking?

Alcoholics don't drink fake beer

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

[Skidmore]

23. People dying as the result of this idiot's policies and all he can

worry about is ketchup?

[napi21]

24. Better tell him Frenches mustard is made by Heinz too!

On a pic from the shrub speech in MO, they showed a table with both Heinz Ketchup and French's mustard. Betcha the well informed shrub doesn't know that!

[liontamer]

33. uh oh

french's mustard. don't you mean freedom mustard?

[Spinzonner]

25. I'll bet he relished that question

[htuttle]

28. Talk about lowering the bar!

Bush chooses mustard over ketchup, and it shows up on yahoo news via AP?

:wtf:

Kerry speaks on policy to a huge crowd for 45 minutes, and gets 5 seconds on the news.

Next:
AP: Bush finds lost car keys
AP: Bush ties shoes with minimal help

And btw, if Heinz foods corporation continues to donate to BushCo after all this, they are as foolish as working class Republicans.

[derby378]

29. Can we spike his burger with habanero slices?

Pretty please?

In solidarity with the kids tortured with OC in California?

[derby378]

31. Hi, Agent Mike!

You know I'm only kidding, right?

[Joanne98]

35. Is it "freedom" mustard? n/t

[murray hill farm]

36. "girly men "use mustard

doesnt he know that?

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

37. That's un-American!

It's ketchup on hamburgers, mustard on hot dogs. Everybody knows that. Goddamn freakin' anti-American commie bastard...

[Khephra]

38. My mother and I won't eat mustard

because we both think it looks like and smells like some baby shit we both had to clean up once.

[KamaAina]

39. I will enjoy Kerry's victory with relish

:-)

[Piperay]

40. Smart ass reporter

wasting time with an idiotic question like that! x(

[Jim Sagle]

42. What is he, three years old?

[sofa king]

43. Criminal idiot cowards aren't the only ones who prefer mustard to ketchup.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's please not make this a wedge issue.

I happen to prefer mustard myself.

[Zen Democrat]

44. I live in Texas and was grown before I saw people put ketchup on a burger

[DS1]

46. I like mustard on my fries too, sometimes

Mustard is good for you, too.

[alarimer]

47. It might be a Texas thing

I have noticed here that a local hamburger chain does not put ketchup on its burgers- you have to ask for it, unlike national chains like McDonalds. I have also discussed this with people I work with and they don't put ketchup on hamburgers either. To me that is weird. Ketchup (and mustard) for hamburgers along with other toppings and mustard for hotdogs or brats.

[Mr. Brown of MD]

49. Real men have ketchup AND mustard

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

-CollegeDude
Can't imagine it any other way

[Ravenseye]

51. How Un-American...

I mean sure I'm from Pittsburgh...but not putting Ketchup on your Burger?

Go back to Russia, Comrade!

[Ramsey]

52. This is the supposed leader of the free world

What a fucking joke the man is. He's is so petty he cannot even use freaking Heinz ketchup!

Totally pathetic.

[gauguin57]

53. Huh. That's weird ...

Cuz I never thought Bush could CUT THE MUSTARD as president!