How to Eat Like a Republican: Or, Hold the Mayo, Muffy – I’m Feeling Miracle Whipped Tonight
Townsend
2014
Submitter: This book was just weeded at my public library. It was weeded for low checkouts and there’s a reason why. It’s trying too hard to be funny and the recipes don’t look good at all.
Holly: I bet if you replaced “Republican” with any other group of people, political or not, you’d get the same basic recipes submitted. It’s definitely tongue-in-cheek, and I bet there are libraries where this kind of thing circulates well. I agree that the recipes look kind of dumb. For me, that’s actually what makes it funny! Some of the reviews on GoodReads are pretty funny too.
As someone raised by staunch Republicans (I mean, their BFFs got an invite to W’s inauguration ball), can confirm this is absolutely correct.
Although mayo vs. Miracle Whip is a class signifier — if you’re upper middle class or rich, you use mayo. MW is for the lower middle class and poor. Mr. Muffy must be slumming it.
We always used mayonnaise — Hellmann’s, of course — with one exception: crabmeat, which the fishermen’s wives in Maine would pick out, from their husbands’ bycatch, and sell. My mother was convinced that Miracle Whip was better with crabmeat.
Fremont was also the pre-Republican Free Soil party’s presidential candidate.
Sadly, the Dog Museum moved out of St. Louis many years ago.
As an apolitical Canadian, I can’t even begin to understand why my southern neighbors have politics on the brain. Even worse, it’s spread to many other Canadians. It’s going to be the literal death of us all.
I, on the other hand, cannot understand how people cannot be political and must assume if they aren’t they’re lucky enough to not have people trying to pass policies that remove their rights or have a big negative impact on their life.
I’m political as I’m trying to prevent literal unnecessary deaths.
Gotta admit, I’d eat the fire department’s stew and just ignore the sodium content. And the Crockpot parenthetical is funny.
The question has to be asked then, how do you eat like a Democrat?
I would like to know this also, but not from a Republican.
Somebody’s trying a little too hard to be P. J. O’Rourke if you ask me.