Author Topic: Obamas fly in chef 860 miles... just to make pizza (Read 4260 times)

headhuntersix · « **on:** April 10, 2009, 10:17:43 AM »

Yeah...well first off we have all of our money wasted on the trip, then we have the gas wasted..and the pollution. But let me guess libs, this is just a charming Obama anecdote right?

When you're the president of the United States, only the best pizza will do - even if that means flying a chef 860 miles.
Chris Sommers, 33, jetted into Washington from St Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with a suitcase of dough, cheese and pans to to prepare food for the Obamas and their staff.
He had apparently been handpicked after the President had tasted his pizzas on the campaign trail last autumn.

Great honour: Chris Sommers will make 20 pizzas for the Obamas and their staff at a White House dinner
'It's surreal, it's a huge honour,' said Mr Sommers, who owns Pi restaurant in St Louis.
'It will be a casual lunch and hopefully we'll have a chance to say hello to the president.'
Mr Somers was accompanied by this business parnter Ryan Mangilardo who will help prepare the dinner for 140 this evening.
It will feature his signature dishes - ten deep dish and ten thin crust creations.
He is also planning a pizza especially for the president - the Hyde Park topped with chicken and hot sauce.

240 is Back · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2009, 10:24:18 AM »

i heard this one guy flew 4000 guys thousands of miles to die for crude oil. messed up world.

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2009, 10:25:14 AM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on April 10, 2009, 10:24:18 AM

i heard this one guy flew 4000 guys thousands of miles to die for crude oil. messed up world.

Good try.

I wonder what the carbon footprint is for this?

240 is Back · « **Reply #3 on:** April 10, 2009, 10:26:25 AM »

Quote from: 333386 on April 10, 2009, 10:25:14 AM

Good try.

I wonder what the carbon footprint is for this?

we could ask president gore. if only we counted votes in 2000.

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #4 on:** April 10, 2009, 10:29:32 AM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on April 10, 2009, 10:26:25 AM

we could ask president gore. if only we counted votes in 2000.

Another example of how moron bush outsmarted the brilliant nobel prize winnder.

240 is Back · « **Reply #5 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:01:44 AM »

Quote from: 333386 on April 10, 2009, 10:29:32 AM

Another example of how moron bush outsmarted the brilliant nobel prize winnder.

his most brilliant move of all was convincing the world that cheney was really running things

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #6 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:02:55 AM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on April 10, 2009, 11:01:44 AM

his most brilliant move of all was convincing the world that cheney was really running things

Your brilliant liberal buddies somehow could never figure out how to outsmart GWB. Its amazing.

240 is Back · « **Reply #7 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:26:33 AM »

Quote from: 333386 on April 10, 2009, 11:02:55 AM

Your brilliant liberal buddies somehow could never figure out how to outsmart GWB. Its amazing.

yeah, when you follow the law it's really hard to stop the guys who dont.

BM OUT · « **Reply #8 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:27:22 AM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on April 10, 2009, 10:26:25 AM

we could ask president gore. if only we counted votes in 2000.

Geeze,they counted over and over including that bastion of conservatism ,THE NEW YORK TIMES,and Bush won EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY TIME!

However,the libs have their revenge as Al Franken is stealing the Minn. election right now.

tu_holmes · « **Reply #9 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:29:07 AM »

Quote from: BILLY MIMNAUGH on April 10, 2009, 11:27:22 AM

Geeze,they counted over and over including that bastion of conservatism ,THE NEW YORK TIMES,and Bush won EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY TIME!

However,the libs have their revenge as Al Franken is stealing the Minn. election right now.

Really? Last I checked, he had the most votes.

tonymctones · « **Reply #10 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:31:35 AM »

LOL 240 started a thread praising obama for spending his own money to remodel but now that barry just made a fool out of him he just shoves his head further up obamas ass and blames bush to avoid the criticism.

classic liberal these days

hey 2nd coming this is what i was talking about

tu_holmes · « **Reply #11 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:37:06 AM »

Flying in a chef to make a pizza is just ridiculous... Obama should be ashamed.

Serious question though... Where did you see this?

Is this for real, or just made up?

This is all I can find.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/13/obamas-favorite-pizza-com_n_143742.html

"The Ritz in Washington D.C. is paying to fly the pizzeria's owners to the nation's capitol for the inauguration expo to be held there next week to serve their pizza there.
A month before the election, owner Patti Harris-Tubbs got a phone call from the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., asking if she would be willing to come to the nation's capital to make her pizza if Obama won. She thought it was a joke, Harris-Tubbs when Obama won, the hotel e-mailed back, offering to fly her and her husband out to serve their pizza next week at the Presidential Inauguration Expo, which is an event designed to preview the food that will be served at inauguration time in January."

The Ritz paid... Obama didn't.

headhuntersix · « **Reply #12 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:37:13 AM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on April 10, 2009, 10:24:18 AM

i heard this one guy flew 4000 guys thousands of miles to die for crude oil. messed up world.

It was more then that, and now u have oil.....see everybody wins. I didn't get any pizza, did u?

Straw Man · « **Reply #13 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:43:52 AM »

BFD - this is nothing unusual for a POTUS to do.

headhuntersix · « **Reply #14 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:49:54 AM »

Yeah.....except we're in a recession. This was from foreign media as well, no mention of it here. Hmmmm

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #15 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:50:30 AM »

Quote from: Straw Man on April 10, 2009, 11:43:52 AM

BFD - this is nothing unusual for a POTUS to do.

He is wasting more fuel and gasoline in this one little stunt than all of us combined driving our cars. Typical limosuine liberal phony.

240 is Back · « **Reply #16 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:52:00 AM »

Quote from: tonymctones on April 10, 2009, 11:31:35 AM

LOL 240 started a thread praising obama for spending his own money to remodel but now that barry just made a fool out of him he just shoves his head further up obamas ass and blames bush to avoid the criticism.

classic liberal these days

hey 2nd coming this is what i was talking about

settle down tonya. we're just having the fun back and forth matches we enjoy doing. stop taking shit so seriously.

240 is Back · « **Reply #17 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:52:56 AM »

Quote from: Straw Man on April 10, 2009, 11:43:52 AM

BFD - this is nothing unusual for a POTUS to do.

bush flew from katrina to an airfield in arizona to pose with a birthday cake for mccain. the cake was then thrown away and bush flew home. that photo op hurt mccain later too.

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #18 on:** April 10, 2009, 11:55:00 AM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on April 10, 2009, 11:52:56 AM

bush flew from katrina to an airfield in arizona to pose with a birthday cake for mccain. the cake was then thrown away and bush flew home. that photo op hurt mccain later too.

If your best defense of Obama is always that Bush did it do, than Obama is already a failure by definition.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #19 on:** April 10, 2009, 12:01:27 PM »

The Obamas Order Out for Pizza – from St. Louis
By Sharon Cotliar
Originally posted Thursday April 09, 2009 06:50 PM EDT
Barack and Michelle Obama
Photo by: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / Getty

Chris Sommers, owner of a pizza place in St. Louis, gets orders from all over town. But from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C.?

"It's surreal, it's a huge honor," says Sommers, 33, who flew to the nation's capital Thursday to make 20 pizzas for the Obama family and staff.

So how did a St. Louis pizza guy end up in the White House kitchen?

The president first tasted Sommers's San Francisco-style pies, served at his St. Louis restaurant Pi, while campaigning in Missouri last fall. An Obama supporter, Sommers offered to deliver a few frozen pies to the president after the election but was told he couldn't send food to the White House because of security concerns.

Instead, Reggie Love, one of the president's closest aides and a fellow fan of Sommers's deep-dish and thin-crust creations, arranged to have the pizza chef bring 20 pounds of dough and 3 gallons of sauce at Sommers's expense to the White House kitchen and cook there Friday.

"It will be casual lunch," says Sommers, who will be helped by Pi chef Ryan Mangialardo, 27, and Anne Schuermann, 24, Sommers' girlfriend. "Hopefully we'll have a chance to say hello to the president."

The True Adonis · « **Reply #20 on:** April 10, 2009, 12:03:48 PM »

Looks like HeadHunter6 left out the fact that Sommers is picking up the ENTIRE tab.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #21 on:** April 10, 2009, 12:12:45 PM »

I wish Obama would have picked Rick Bayless for White House chef. I have all of his cookbooks!

I also have Chef Roland Mesnier`s cookbooks who was the White House Pastry chef for 25 years before qutting because of George Bush in 2004 and his neurotic nature towards the kitchen staff. There are so many funny stories of Bush and the Kitchen Staff and how he pissed them off.

headhuntersix · « **Reply #22 on:** April 10, 2009, 12:13:20 PM »

That wasn't in the original story.....I see the lib blogs were quick to find out the rest of story to prempt the BS.

TA nobody cares about ur cookbooks.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #23 on:** April 10, 2009, 12:16:02 PM »

Quote from: headhuntersix on April 10, 2009, 12:13:20 PM

That wasn't in the original story.....I see the lib blogs were quick to find out the rest of story to prempt the BS.

TA nobody cares about ur cookbooks.

Uh, it is in a ton of newspapers. It is ok, you can admit you look like a moron by posting this.

Here, I will post the same story from different newspapers.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #24 on:** April 10, 2009, 12:19:39 PM »