Why does Willard fear the 7-Eleven Cookie?

[deminks]

What is in the 7-Eleven cookie that he won't eat? That's my question. What does the 1% know about eating 7-Eleven cookies that the rest of us don't?

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/19/467465/mitt-romney-cookie-problem/?mobile=nc

At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania Tuesday, Mitt Romney sat down with some regular Americans to discuss the economy and, apparently, his distaste for the cookies provided by a beloved local bakery. “I’m not sure about these cookies,” Romney said. “Did you make those cookies?” Romney said to one of the women. “You didn’t, did you? No. No. They came from the local 7-Eleven bakery or wherever.”

Unfortunately, for Romney, they came from Bethel Bakery — “a longtime South Hills staple,” according to a local ABC affiliate. Some loyal patrons were outraged by Romney’s put down of their local baked goods. “Maybe he’s just used to eating cookies with diamonds in them,” one customer said on Facebook, according to bakery owner John Walsh. Another suggested, “I think the Bethel Bakery should make a new cookie, called ‘The Romney’, and have the top be encrusted with something that resembles diamonds.”

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I dont' think this is about Bethel Bakery. I think it has everything to do with 7-Eleven. IMHO.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Jeez, good point.

When's the last time you saw Mercedes and Ducattis and Lexi and Lamborghinis in the 7-11 parking lot?

Just goes ta prove your point, iffen ya asks me.

[MrScorpio]

2. If you hate America's cookies, you hate America.

Therefore, Mitt Romney hates America.

[struggle4progress]

3. Bethel Bakery Offers 'CookieGate' Special After Romney Slight

Bethel Bakery runs 'CookieGate' special after Romney diss
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
By Janice Crompton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

... Julie Lytle, the bakery's sales and marketing assistant, said the popular local fixture since 1955 "turned a negative into a positive" by printing a sign offering customers a "CookieGate Special!" -- a free half dozen cookies with the purchase of a dozen cookies today and Thursday ...

Mr. Romney didn't taste any of the food, which Mr. Walsh thinks would have made a difference.

"I'm not sure about these cookies," Mr. Romney said. "They came from the local 7-Eleven bakery or whatever."

... Mr. Walsh said he's a Republican, but hasn't decided who to vote for in the next week's primary election ...

http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/12109/1225247-55.stm

[aquart]

16. He was offered food and HE DIDN'T TASTE IT?

Omg.

Mitt, you eat the food. You kiss the baby.

WHAT made him decide he was right for politics?

[Wind Dancer]

4. Idiot!

This guy manages to offend everybody and everything. He lives in a very small, pampered world.

[Enrique]

5. a higher quota of mice probably

the bigger the plant, the more challenging quality control becomes, I would think.

[Bluerthanblue]

6. well, the people who baked the 7-11 cookies, weren't baked

by people without the "dignity of work".

He asked if the women "made the cookies"- and when he decided that they hadn't, he dismissed them as not worthy of his mouth. Guess he only eats homemade cookies.


The man is absurd.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. If I ever ran for office

I would have to open remarks were food is present with my list of food allergies.

Locally though (7-11 are supplied regionally) they have corn syrup in them, so even if I were not allergic to wheat, I'd be a snob.

As to seeing Benz and Lamborghini at their parking lot...if you are lucky, I am, to live near a private college...yup...funniest thing, a beat up city pd squad car and a Lamborghini side by side, well before I carried my cameras all the time.

[Retrograde]

17. That's why pols have aides and advance men

"nadinbrzezinski will be here for a campaign stop on Friday: she's allergic to/can't eat/doesn't like whatever, so please don't be offended if she doesn't eat or drink anything. If there is going to be food can we suggest....?". Then when you are offered something unexpected I'm sure you'd respond like a normal polite person and say something like "Thank you, those look lovely" then tactfully steer the conversation so that no one notices that you're not actually eating anything.

It's like Romney's following some very basic program that tells him if approached by by lower class voter offer jocular anecdote; insert reference to 7-11 or DollarStore or WalMart to break ice. I would expect that with his resources he could afford to upgrade to a more context-sensitive model, but as he showed with the Seamus story he's cheap.

[abelenkpe]

8. It's just not proper etiquette to refuse food or drink

From your hosts. You say: thank you and if you have allergy or dietary concerns you can ask if any particular ingredients are part of the recipe. Only then can you politely refuse, but with thanks. You accept the food. You don't have to eat it, especially if you get caught up in good conversation. But taking a small bite is a great gesture. Otherwise you offend your host. How can he, Mr. Uppity one percenter, not know that? To go on and look down on the offering as below him is especially insulting. This man is a social clod of the highest order.

[MissMarple]

10. He is so inept. I suppose he is lucky that he wasn't refusing apple pie.

But cookies are close, it's almost unAmerican to refuse the ladies baked goods whoever made them.

[arcane1]

12. It's definitely NOT proper etiquette to trash-talk the food

That's what is so absurd about it: these "little people" provide cookies for the meeting and he basically shits all over them. It's dicketry in the first degree!

[tanyev]

22. I think he has observed that the little people try to make themselves feel better with jocularity.

The joshing behavior, clearly intended to distract from their dreary lives, can often include pointed barbs, even at each other. After observing this many times Mitt realized, "By Jove! They will think I am one of them if I emulate their japes and jests!" And every time he utters one of these gems that make all of us go WTF?, he walks away thinking, "Nailed it!"

[arcane1]

24. It didn't work when Data tried to emulate "friendly jibes and insults" either

More proof that Romney's a robot

[murielm99]

15. Sometimes you can make the food allergies

part of the conversation while graciously accepting the food. I have seen people with allergies do this smoothly.

I have become more sensitive to food issues over the years. I know people who need to eat gluten free. I know that I have to be sure about whether or not my guests are vegetarian or vegan.

I live in a rural pork producing county, and we farm. But that does not mean I am ignorant. Why is Romney so benighted? I don't think it is all about money. I think a lot of it is simply his clueless, dorky personality. He has no filter.

[Moonwalk]

9. 7-11 Makes Cookies?

Snob that I am, I just don't know, I don't frequent the 7-11 enough to know if they bake cookies. But I'm in agreement...what does Romney know about cookies made at the 7-11 that I don't and that I should?

[Bolo Boffin]

25. They have a little toaster oven thing they bake frozen cookie dough in.

So, yeah, they make cookies at the 7-Eleven.

[Democrats_win]

11. Maybe he's afraid people will call him the cookie monster?

Given that he clearly IS a monster.

[enough]

13. Another strangely disconnected moment with Mitt.

I get the feeling that he's actually on some kind of mental auto-pilot. He's not really thinking about the actual moment he's in or the people around him. He's doing a performance and can't really be bothered to think about what he's saying, especially when he's around the ordinary-salt-of-the-earth people he has to deal with on the campaign trail. MOre and more, it seems a mystery as to why he's bothering to do this at all.

[Octafish]

14. Should be thankful it's not a blancmange.

[CBGLuthier]

18. The Romney Cookie should melt in your mouth, with an aftertaste of waffles,

and give you diarrhea 30 seconds later. Kind of like the man himself.

[Erose999]

19. Well judging by their past BBQ menus, the Romney's have exotic tastes. I mean when you're eating all

that high-fallutin' rich people food like... barbecued dog... regular old gas station cookies are kinda tame.

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. “Maybe he’s just used to eating cookies with diamonds in them,” hee!

[Efilroft Sul]

21. Bethel Bakery makes awesome goodies.

If you're ever in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, this is the place to go cake and cookie shopping. It's a fantastic family business.

Now if they would only get the recipe for giant glazed pretzel donuts made by the late, great Johnny Mantsch of Donora...

[Fawke Em]

23. At least whoever bought the 7/11 cookie

wasn't shot and killed on their way home with the goodies.

[WCGreen]

26. Don't you get it... Don't you understand...

7/11 Chocolate chips are people....

It's people, 7/11 Chocolate Chips are people...