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Abby Simons ?@AJillSimons 1h
#potus sits down for lunch at Matt's Bar with Rebekah Erler, who inspired his visit. He had a Jucy Lucy. pic.twitter.com/qwbHo7epJu
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Mark Knoller ?@markknoller 1h
We're told Pres Obama had a "jucy lucy" during his lunch with Rebekah. It's a cheeseburger stuffed with molten cheese. Dont tell FLOTUS.
Abby Simons ?@AJillSimons
#potusmn leaves Matt's Bar to greet locals.
AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN
bengarvin ?@bengarvin 1h
Obama works rope line outside @MattsBar #potusmn
AP:
Before a town hall event Thursday, Obama stopped for the cheese-stuffed burger at Matt's Bar with a woman from the Minneapolis area who wrote him a letter about struggling to make ends meet after paying the mortgage, student loans and day care bills.
The White House was billing it as the first in a series of one-on-one meetings between Obama and an American who normally wouldn't have access to a president.
Thirty-six-year-old Rebekah Erler wrote Obama in March about the plight of a middle-class family . . .
http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/she-wrote-letter-president-now-shes-meeting-him
President Barack Obama holds his ice cream cone during a visit to Grand Ole Creamery in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt · 15h
Obama pays for his items as he makes a surprise visit to the Golden Fig specialty foods store in Minneapolis #potusmn Owner of the Golden Fig Fine Food, Laurie Crowell in St. Paul, Minn. wrote a letter to the Obama detailing the importance of mom and pop shops across the country and invited the President to drop by the shop if he was ever in the area.
BainsBane
(53,127 posts)Definitely beats Matt's.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)leftcoastloon
(20 posts)jmowreader
(50,589 posts)There's about two times your average monthly requirement for cholesterol in one of those things so you might not want more than a couple per year, but every once in a while you just gotta say "screw the diet."
JI7
(89,287 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)She doesn't like burgers yet, but she does LOVE melted cheese--
This may do the trick!
Tarheel_Dem
(31,257 posts)badtoworse
(5,957 posts)BainsBane
(53,127 posts)They have them with bacon.
Blue Owl
(50,567 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Making this old man happy
Aerows
(39,961 posts)but it sounds freaking awesome, especially with onions! Yum!
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)I love blue cheese!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)lol
he likes his burgers.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I will look it up
glinda
(14,807 posts)Puglover
(16,380 posts)the cheese some time to cool down. Otherwise it's the emergency room.
I am LMAO at a post down thread all up in arms that the food looks unhealthy. God this place.
As I said, Matt's is like four blocks from my house. The burgers are delish.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I get my exercise - I even am growing my own vegetables this year (and I even grow my own sprouts). That doesn't mean I don't drool when I see a delicious looking burger! Healthy doesn't mean so pious one is nearly into self-flagellation. Life without the occasional burger seems a bit too stark and empty for me.
Puglover
(16,380 posts)The other day I was gonna make Pad Thai for dinner. I am not kidding, I went to 4 local grocery stores to buy bean sprouts. Nada. Finally I thought "Fuck it" and went to an oriental grocery not too far away. Fresh and lovely.
How weird, not to find bean sprouts fer cripes sake.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and everyone quit having bean and alfalfa sprouts. I got these lids that go on top of quart Mason Jars and grow a big batch of alfalfa sprouts when I want them. They have a lid collection for bean and other types of sprouts. I get bulk seeds and grow radish, broccoli and alfalfa and they are extremely tasty.
I can't buy them for love or for money around here, though, unless I grow them - so I do.
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-grow-your-own-alfalfa-s-44854
Also a fun project with Mason Jars - you can regrow scallions, celery and other things
http://www.thekitchn.com/16-foods-you-can-regrow-from-kitchen-scraps-190938
I'm regrowing romaine lettuce as a house plant since the armadillos kept tearing it up in the yard. It keeps growing back.
IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)the cheese gets way too hot to eat. It will burn you.
But if you let it cool a bit, its oh so delicious. POTUS loves burgers. I just went to his favorite burger spot in VA last Sunday. There's also places in DC that have Obama burgers and "healthier" Michelle burgers made with turkey.
For people who like cheese, Minnesota also has cheese curds which are heavenly.
I miss Minnesota so much...
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Yet. I believe I'm at 35 now.
I think I've covered the South and everywhere in the sticks of the Midwest. I still haven't met one I didn't like, though I like them on the rarish side of Medium Rare.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Alaska has awesome cheeseburgers, even if it isn't on the list
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)don't eat a Jucy Lucy from Matt's. In order to melt the cheese on the inside, the beef is heated to well done. They are still great to eat once in a while, but a truly juicy burger is one that is medium rare. There aren't too many places that will cook a burger medium rare anymore.
Beef anything more than medium rare is a crime. I like my steak with the breath knocked out of it, and you can only get that in fine steakhouses anymore unless you make it yourself.
Mosby
(16,416 posts)Given the health of Americans these days it's really bizarre how so many restaurants and chains now go on about all their unhealthy food. Even Subway has given up the healthy food marketing approach and changed their menu to include lots of unhealthy choices.
It's really irresponsible imo but they obviously stopped caring a long time ago.
you can make your thousand plus calorie gut bomb at home now:
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/stuff-a-burger-grilling-kit/prod13420113.ip
I bet within 10 years manufacturers will start making some grills lower so diabetic amputees can still make their favorite shit on the grill without the need to stand up.
leftcoastloon
(20 posts)I'll eat your share of MEAT and CHEESE and really greasy fries!
FailureToCommunicate
(14,031 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Just how I love my burgers - juicy and a tad on the rarer side of medium rare but done on the outside. YUM.
jmowreader
(50,589 posts)dflprincess
(28,094 posts)I only wish I could indulge myself like that more often.
Though sometimes I think I prefer the Juicy (with an "I" Lucy at the 5-8 Club a mile or so south of Matt's.
Who has the better burger is an on going debate here.
bigtree
(86,016 posts). . . you've got the wrong burger!
Michigander_Life
(549 posts)Need to put your hair out, it appears to be on fire.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)Wives have a way of knowing those things.
jmowreader
(50,589 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)two daughters, beaucoup Secret Service agents, staff everywhere...
jmowreader
(50,589 posts)...and a big ol' shit-eating grin every time those three Secret Service officers go over to the Shake Shack twenty minutes before a staff meeting with push carts to bring the stuff back. Yeah, she knows.
She also realizes he's got bigger problems than whether there's one gram or one pound of cholesterol in his meal, like Al Qaeda, Syria, and teabaggers.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,031 posts)(wherever they put the cheese) ?
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Mosby
(16,416 posts)He's normal weight which looks like skinny these days with the obesity epidemic in full swing.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I weigh enough that I get harassed about being too skinny. I'm not sure what your point is, but you seem to insinuate that all Americans are fat.
I take exception to that.
Mosby
(16,416 posts)68.5% of adults are overweight or obese; 34.9% are obese.
31.8% of children and adolescents are overweight or obese; 16.9% are obese.
30.4% of low-income preschoolers are overweight or obese.
Disparities exist based on race-ethnicity, gender, age, geographic region, and socioeconomic status.
http://frac.org/initiatives/hunger-and-obesity/obesity-in-the-us/
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)The fascists are openly out of their holes, time to whack them back in.
LoisB
(7,250 posts)erronis
(15,460 posts)"Next time, let's make it Velveeta!"
- Get all the fat and byproducts you want without the funny aftertaste of "cheese".
- It's so runny it couldn't possibly clog your arteries
- Eat mo Velveeta - you're helping the chemical industries
- Yer gonna die anyway
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Cha
(298,018 posts)I'm vegan and I say let them moltenly enjoy themselves, once. Lol
"The White House was billing it as the first in a series of one-on-one meetings between Obama and an American who normally wouldn't have access to a president.
Thirty-six-year-old Rebekah Erler wrote Obama in March about the plight of a middle-class family . ."
Best Wishes to the People and the President who is trying to help out..
Thanks bigtree.
Auggie
(31,230 posts)MineralMan
(146,350 posts)morning. When his son called to tell him that Obama would be there, he was told that Matt had died. A very strange day. I don't suppose the President was given that news into later. I think Matt was 80 years old.
bigtree
(86,016 posts). . . I don't believe he knew the President would be there.
Here's an account:
Family members say that the original owner of Matts Bar passed away mere hours before President Barack Obamas visit to the long-standing Minneapolis establishment.
According to family, Matt Bristol died Thursday morning. He reportedly did not know that Obama would be visiting the Cedar Avenue restaurant.
Family members said that Bristol, who was born in 1925, was diagnosed with lung cancer nine months ago, and had only been given four to six months to live.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/06/26/family-original-owner-of-matts-bar-dies-day-of-obama-visit/
MineralMan
(146,350 posts)I Imagine he'll communicate with the family.
IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)RIP Matt
Puglover
(16,380 posts)Way cool! I wish we had better weather for the Prez!
bigtree
(86,016 posts)Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)Beacool
(30,254 posts)The ice cream doesn't look too shabby either.
That's it, let's what's in my freezer.......
boguspotus
(286 posts)Wow, so cool. I should have paid more attention where he was going to in Minneapolis. I would have taken work off to get a chance to see him. A lot of folks say The Nook and the 5/8's Club have better Jucy Lucy's, but Matt's is a S. Mpls institution, and is pretty much packed all of the time.
That is just so great!
3catwoman3
(24,109 posts)...had was stuffed with bacon and bleu cheese - mmmmmmmmm,mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Beacool
(30,254 posts)I have substituted many times cheddar or American cheese for blue cheese. Yummy!!
fishwax
(29,150 posts)annm4peace
(6,119 posts)hold the cheese burger over the fries so when you take a bite the cheese and juice spill on the fries.
so weird to know the Prez was only a couple miles from my place.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)I wouldn't be able to eat a bite of anything - healthy or unhealthy - sitting across from President O.
flvegan
(64,425 posts)Is it what he ate or that the First Lady might not approve?
I'll be honest, none of the Obama family has claimed to be veg*n, so I don't see where any can point fingers nor that they did or would. From the article, it appears that Barack Obama sat down to a meal with someone with a concern and listened. Better than what we had before, probably better than we've got on deck.
And fuck it, that looks delicious.
Find fault elsewhere.
bigtree
(86,016 posts)Just having some fun with the Prez, just a silly jab for not eating healthy, knowing his health-conscious wife might not approve. Husband-wife stuff (which I've known intimately for 35 years) . . . worth a giggle (and some cool pics, too!).
No fault found here.
from 2010:
President Obama, in Racine, Wi. for a speech about the economy on Wednesday, stopped to buy some Kringles at a Racine bakery en route from the airport in Milwaukee. Starting a speech at a town hall meeting in Racine, Obama told the crowd, "It is great to be back home in the Midwest" and shared a secret: maybe he would on the way back to the airport,"get a brat and some cheese curds while I'm here. Just don't tell Michelle."
flvegan
(64,425 posts)I thought this was coming from "the other side" finding fault, and you posted. I apologize.
bigtree
(86,016 posts). . . just a light photo essay about his trip and his outing.