Showing posts with label vegatables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegatables. Show all posts

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Why The Obsession With Arugula?

I was reading this story on The Washington Post's site. At the end of the story a McCain spokesperson is quoted as saying:

"In terms of who's an elitist, I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type based on his life story."


This isn't the first time I've seen eating arugula equated with elitism. What's up with that? I admit, I don't think I've ever eaten arugula (in fact, I had to look it up on Wikipedia), so I want to know why there's all this hate for it. Is it like spinach for Popeye, except instead of inducing super-strength it induces moral relativism and an inflated sense of self-worth?



It doesn't look all that threatening. With all the anti-arugula sentiment coming from the right I expected it to look more like this:



So, let's lay off the poor arugula, huh? It's clearly not hurting anyone.