{"id":158,"date":"2004-07-12T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T00:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2004-07-12T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T00:14:18","slug":"who-knew-that-food-could-be-so-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/12\/who-knew-that-food-could-be-so-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew that Food Could Be So Political?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently the conservatives among us are getting into the food business. <\/p>\n

First it was Star-Spangled Ice Cream<\/a> designed to compete with liberal Ben & Jerry’s, boasting flavors like: “Nutty Environmentalist,” “Donald Rum Raisin,” “Choc & Awe,” and my personal favorite “I Hate the French Vanilla.”<\/p>\n

Now we’re onto: W Ketchup<\/a> (The “W” stands for Washington — yeah, right.) <\/p>\n

From their site:<\/p>\n

The leading competitor not only has 57 varieties, but has 57 foreign factories as well. W Ketchup comes in one flavor: American. <\/i><\/p>\n

I also love how they both have the same picture of Reagan in the upper right-hand corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently the conservatives among us are getting into the food business. First it was Star-Spangled Ice Cream designed to compete with liberal Ben & Jerry’s, boasting flavors like: “Nutty Environmentalist,” “Donald Rum Raisin,” “Choc & Awe,” and my personal favorite “I Hate the French Vanilla.” Now we’re onto: W Ketchup (The “W” stands for Washington — yeah, right.) From their site: The leading competitor not only has 57 varieties, but has 57 foreign factories as well. W Ketchup comes in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-food","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-2y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}