Me & Hussein are gonna have that with the fuckin' FRENCH FRIES and some FELAFEL!

although it is as, hannity says, a "very special condiment."

he really said spicy or dijon mustard.

Seriously.

Why is spicy mustard unamerican but secession threat aren't?

for "FRENCH's" mustard. There is no escaping this stupidity.

If you're eating anything else, you ain't eating mustard.

Because I'm really not that high-class myself, and our fridge has a thing of yellow mustard for stuff like potato or pasta salad where it's more about the color, rarely used... and a bottle of store-brand dijon that we go through like gangbusters not because it's ritzy or gourmet but because it tastes way better on just about everything ever made.

It's downright uncapitalist to continue to use an inferior product in the face of more delicious competition. Somebody needs to call them on that.

The media wingnuts will throw anything at BHO, no matter how meaningless. (Although yellow mustard has its place, a bright taste when in the mood for that).

I'm not surprised about Obama's choice as he probably could not get one of the local exotic mustards readily available in Chicago. These mustards are not snobbish, but how people in Chicago normally eat. What amazes me is how homogeneous and boring our food choices have become. If anyone wanted really good stories they should send a food editor with a community organizer or a Chicago cop and cruise the little restaurants and grocery stores in Chicago. Now that would be tasty set of stories.

It's really good. And I hope it had cheddar cheese instead of American cheese. American "cheese" is awful. I am embarrassed that my country has such a horrible food named after it.

Next they'll be upset because Obama likes mayonnaise instead of Miracle Whip. Or Italian bread instead of Wonder Bread. Or oatmeal instead of Cap'n Crunch. These Average-American-Foods are kids' food. They are not fit for an adult.

* By idiots, I mean Mark Steyn, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham

I saw a discussion on the Washington Post website based on the proposition that the real outrage regarding Obama's meal was that he ordered his burger done "medium well". Apparently the person who started the discussion thinks that's a choice for cretins. Personally, I say "Who cares how he likes his buger or what he likes on it?" It's all a matter of personal preference, not some kind of moral issue!

Obama should have said "I'm gonna get all John Kerry on your ass and order this here Hellburger with Grey Poupon." Then he could have had his mustard and also looked hip.

There are no winners in this debate. Yes, conservatives who are harping on this are being ridiculous. But liberals who are spending their time harping on conservatives for harping on this are only a little less ridiculous.

You brought it up first, dude, regardless of your excuse for doing so.

Anyway, not to harp on the Repugs or anything, but this is yet another example, and a tasty one at that, of how batsh*t crazy the Repugs have gotten. In fact, I don't think the term "batsh*t crazy" has ever been used to better effect than when applied to conservatives.

Lastly, I also prefer dijon mustard on my vegan burgers (imagine the GOP's response if Obama's burger had been vegan!)

... for Grey Poupon! I've gotta use it for my dinner tonight.

...Kraft. High class.

True, Gary Poupon is a Dijon mustard, which by definition originated in France, but the companies that made and market Gray Poupon, the Heublein Company and now Kraft, are American.

Criticizing Grey Poupon is like criticizing Hustler porn (LPF, inc); two American made products that made America great.

No Michelle Bachman or Virginia Foxx gaffes today?

For roast beef sandwiches, horseradish cream spread blows any mustard out of the water.

For cooking, grey poupon.

For burgers, spicy anything is good.

"no ketchup, just mustard. If you have a spicy mustard, something like that, Dijon mustard, something like that..."

Sounds pretty reg'lar guy, the way he says it....

I mean it really is terrible, lousy. The thing is, French's etc is even more dire -- and yet, trendies in the UK actually serve it!!!

Good mustard - Colman's English, freshly opened has a sinus clearing quality unmatched by almost anything else -- except perhaps the cheapest of French Amora brand Dijon fort. Cripes I remember a saucisesse de strasbourg (frankfurter in American) from a van, dropped into a jar of Amora and then into a hunk of baguette. It cleared my head so thoroughly my IQ rose 15 points (and before it wore off I applied for....)

It is an odd point -- in Europe there are a few "posh" brands, but little actually matches the "scream, gram nose, eeek my sinuses" quality of the two biggest mass market and cheap mustard brands. Try them.

Actually, there I have to agree with the critics. Ordering any meat above medium is a crime against all that is good and pure.

DEEZ NUTZ.

What next, quilted, double ply or Marathon?

or is it "degustibus non disputandis"

or is it " there is no accounting for bad taste."

It is highly amusing when free-market types who advocate leaving it to consumers to express their preferences in the marketplace go ballistic when the choice someone else makes is not their own.

I love dijon mustard, and I'm glad so many others do too, because that makes it more accessible at the grocery store. Capitalism at its best, I suppose.

At least Obama didn't put ketchup on a hot dog or we'd be hearing from Clint Eastwood.

Alex Koppelman -

While I empathize with this sentiment ...

"Frankly, it's one of those stories that makes me wish I was born in a time and place when everyone's behavior was just a little less absurd."

I have to laugh a bit. When I stumbled across it at memeorandum and read the original Legal Insurrection post, I found it mildly lame and tongue-in-cheek, and wondered how many idiots would view it as some sort of serious conservative attack on Obama's un-American mustard choice.

Apparently many did, which makes your judgment ...

"There are no winners in this debate. Yes, conservatives who are harping on this are being ridiculous. But liberals who are spending their time harping on conservatives for harping on this are only a little less ridiculous."

... generally correct but reversed in order of magnitude.