Super Tuesday Eat Sheet

By CHOW Editors, published on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 / Edit Post

This election season the politicians vying for the Democratic and Republican nominations have been asked about their policies on a predictable raft of issues, from Iraq to health care to immigration. It’s information you may well need to use on Super Tuesday, February 5, if you live in one of the 24 states that will be making a choice.

But what about the candidates’ domestic policies—at home, in their kitchens? Fortunately for us, the Associated Press looked into this during a series of personal questions with the presidential hopefuls. We’ve summarized its food findings into a downloadable chart (take it into the voting booth!) and interpreted the answers for your voting ease.

Candidate	Favorite Food to Cook	Shunned Food	What We Think They Mean
DEMOCRATS
Hillary Clinton	“I’m a lousy cook, but I make pretty good soft scrambled eggs.”	“I like nearly everything. I don’t like, you know, things that are still alive.”	I make the safe choice: eggs and food that’s already dead.

John Edwards	Hamburgers	“I can’t stand mushrooms. I don’t want them on anything that I eat. And I have had to eat them because you get food served and it’s sitting there and you’re starving, so you eat.”	Do you care? It doesn’t matter. I’m so honest I’m boring.

Barack Obama	Chili	“Beets, and I always avoid eating them.”	I’m out of touch with my root vegetables.

REPUBLICANS
Rudy Giuliani	Hamburgers or steak on the grill	Liver	In the days following 9/11 I still hated liver.

Mike Huckabee	Rib-eye steak on the grill	“Carrots. I just don’t like carrots. I banned them from the governor’s mansion when I was governor of Arkansas because I could.”	Next, I’ll make everybody lose 20 pounds. Because I can.

John McCain	Baby back ribs	“I eat almost everything. Sometimes I don’t do too well with vegetables.”	Like my fellow Republican candidates, I think vegetables are too liberal.

Mitt Romney	Hot dog	“Eggplant, in any shape or form. And I’ve always been able to avoid it.”	I eat the food of the people, even in my skybox. I might like eggplant if I were drunk, but I’ll never know.