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By Moe Lane Posted in 2008 — Comments (14) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

For the love of God, please tell me this:

Fried shrimp on a bed of jasmine rice and a side of mango salad, all served on a styrofoam plate. Bottled water to wash it all down.

These trendy catering treats are unlikely to appear on the menu at parties sponsored by the Denver 2008 Host Committee during the Democratic National Convention this summer.

Fried foods are forbidden at the committee's 22 or so events, as is liquid served in individual plastic containers. Plates must be reusable, like china, recyclable or compostable. The food should be local, organic or both.

Via the Corner, which is as horrified as I am. No fried foods? No bottled water? It's not quite as bad as it sounds - this is just at the DNC's own parties - but in a very real sense it's worse. If I understand things correctly, these events are going to be where the primary free feeds are going to be... which means that a lot of bloggers are going to be facing their own private food Hells during the convention. Granted, most of them probably hate my guts anyway (or would, if I was well-known enough to be worth hating)... but it's the principle of the thing.

So, to the RNC: Grease, garlic, oil, salt, fat, sugar, bacon, BBQ, chocolate, ethyl alcohol, and corn chips. It's very hard to go wrong with various permutations of all that, and I'll worry about my own damn cholesterol levels, thank you very much.

Moe

PS: Also from the article - which is interesting, if you're into listening to people discuss how to subordinate their sense of taste to their need to seem Green. I swear, you'd think that these guys would be the ones planning to eat well, but no, they're more worried about the composting. Really:

"Composting for the convention hasn't been entirely figured out yet, she says."

Given what's most likely going to be the primary output of said convention, they should probably get cracking on that.