Apparently in early 2001, David Manilow, one of the creators of “Check, Please!” sold his idea for a food TV show to Chicago’s WTTW. One of the early episodes, filmed in August 2001, featured a young state senator named Barack Obama, who was one member of the four-person panel to review Chicago’s Dixie Kitchen.
According to The Internet Food Association: The episode was never broadcast. Obama didn’t seem “amateur” enough, and he dominated the show. But on [January 16 2009], it’ll see the light of day, airing as the 100th episode of “Check, Please!”
Also:
Chicago Public Radio’s 848 interviewed the show’s Executive Producer David Manilow, who went on to say that Obama described the restaurant “the way one might describe a social security platform.”
[via Serious Eats]
