Saturday, September 10, 2011

Walker's Salad Days Are All Ham And Cheesy

Remember the Wisconsin man who made your eyes roll and your stomach turn over for admitting to eating Big Macs every day since 1972 - - downing something like 25,000 at last count.

So what do we make of Scott Walker's claim in a video about 250 sandwiches ago that he has lunched on two ham-and-cheese-and-mayo-on-wheat sandwiches daily over the last twenty years.

That's more than 14,000 such sandwiches, and counting.

If you laid that many normal-sized sandwiches crust-to-crust, they wouldn't go around the globe, but would run from about from Bascom Hall to the State Capitol (demonstrations permitting).

If each had a mere two ounces of ham, and two ounces of cheese, that's roughly eight ounces, or a half-pound daily of the main ingredients, or more than 3.5 tons of ham and cheese total in Walker's brown bags for the last two decades.

Does this rise to the level of concern and interest we had for the Big Mac guy? Well, Big Mac guy isn't the Governor.

Do we praise Walker for being an ambassador for the state's dairy and pork products industries? For choosing wheat over white, and that possible germ of nutrition?

Should we credit him for thrift, or grade him down for inflexible habitualism, and for being penny-wise but cholesterol foolish?

For salting away too much of a good thing while eschewing roughage during his salad days?

Pass the Lipitor, please.




 




3 comments:

morninmist said...

this tells me is has a one-track goal for his body (cholesterol infested in addition to a one-track mindset (ALEC infested)

Anonymous said...

I head he also used the same paper bag for weeks.

enoughalready said...

1. Is that real ham and real cheese, or has Mr. Walker been eating that ham-and-cheese combo product from Oscar Mayer (that I remember from my childhood)?

2. I am sure Scott is only eating what God told him to eat. (While this is fun, and eating the same thing every day does signal deep conservatism if not fearful rigidity and a lack of imagination, perhaps we should focus our attention on more important things?)

3. That said, I am afraid I do have to wonder: is the prominence Mr. Walker gives to his ham sandwiches meant in any way to signal anti-Semitism?