I assume for the purposes of this question the fast food has to be chains. Diner food is totally different.

Any word on if they’re explicitly setting this in the 70s?

I feel like there’s a big difference between the one you’d actually eat and the ideal PBJ.

Some food is designed to be talked about and photoed rather than eaten. This is clearly one of those foods. And here I am talking about it, so good job, independent business! Better you than Starbucks.

For the gram. The pretty colours mean they photograph well.

Isn’t it a Covid thing? Bunch all the episodes together?

I don’t think I’ve ever had canned pasta, but regular pasta (orzo works best) or rice, cooked and then you stir in cheese and a bit of oil/butter, is holy shit the best food ever and I lived on that in university. I suppose if you’re so poor you don’t have a fridge, I can see the appeal of canned pastam but even then,…

Sure. Assuming:

I think it’s amazing that they actually took the usual celebrity side hustle vanity project and made a real name for themselves. They’re actually successful and respected in another field, and aren’t even trading on their name and nostalgia for it. Good for them.

Being a successful working actress on a hit franchise, vs running a fashion empire and being really, really, rich, so much that they don’t need the spotlight any more.

Wow, imagine being insulted by a campaign to get people to support local businesses and try good food they might not be aware of. This is literally the gentlest, most innocuous thing a campaign can do.

I like injera. But I feel like it has a similar flavour profile as South Asian curries. That’s not an insult. South Asian food is amazing.

Bcause he’s a bully. He likes making people he thinks are beneath, bow and scrape and do humiliating things. He likes the sense of power. 

Never been to Texas, never even heard of this.

I don’t think it’s pickiness so much as he doesn’t care, which I think taps into a power fantasy for a lot of people. We all eat what we’re supposed to, and not what we want. All politicians do it. Don’t order the lobster and caviar, you won’t look relatable. Don’t eat the pasta or junk food, you won’t look good on…

The bad taste isn’t the problem. I think everyone sneering at the bad taste actually serves to mak Trump look far more sympathetic than he other wise would.

I think stories like this actually make Trump look sympathetic.

Fellow 90s kid, I got it out of the library and read it before I really knew what periods were. I think it was an old copy, because I know around the 90s it was re-written to be about modern pads, with the sticker.

I know Trump is supposed to be famously anti-drug, but he smokes weed, right? This is the diet of a high person. 

Blubber would be a great book to adapt into a movie or miniseries.