Larry Craig's Wiener in a Spud
It’s nice when politicians give us recipes. We all remember Laura Bush’s Texas Governor’s Mansion Cowboy Cookies, right? Right?
Idaho senator Larry Craig’s wife, Suzanne, was kind enough to contribute a recipe to Congress Cooks! Naturally, the recipe uses Idaho potatoes. The thing is, in light of certain recent developments regarding the Republican senator’s alleged behavior in an airport restroom, the recipe looks, well, a little Freudian. Called the Super Tuber, it involves coring a hole through a potato, inserting a hot dog into the hole, and baking it.
Ladygoat of Foodgoat fame has photos, and she is the first to admit the dish “seems to aspire towards actual, rather than metaphorical, food porn.” In fact, she says, “I wonder if the Super Tuber is another one of those secret signals Craig employed?”
Craig goes to court September 26 to attempt to dismiss his guilty plea for disorderly conduct in the airport bathroom. A little free legal advice, Senator: If there’s a lunch recess at court that day, keep your Super Tuber under wraps.
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I think people should show up at the court, spread out picnic blankets and have a nice Super Tuber dinner!
Dare I ask what kind of oil was used to, um, get the dog into the spud?
Bet they're toe-tappin' good!!!
:X
I can think of nothing to say that isn't just wrong. With a classy dish like this no wonder he has to cruse.
What? No link to the recipe???
Aaah, here it is: http://craig.senate.gov/kidsclub/boar...
"Kids club"
i guess that brings new meaning to "tater hole"
Maybe all those super taters explains his wide stance.
Well I decided to try this recipe.It just seemed as if it was a taste of cuisine from a bygone era. And I discovered several glitches.The potato was longer than the apple corer, even when I cut the top and bottom off the potato. Also the diameter of the hot dog was wider and thus the hole in the potato had to be made a little wider with the apple corer.and I think that they should be cooked at a higher temperature.unless you have a convection oven.
But I think they would be a perfect food to serve at a republican fund raising dinner.
This posting is mean-spirited as are the juvenile comments regarding it. Mrs. Craig could hardly have realized, when she posted this recipe for children, what would happen a few months later. She's not the center of the story and doesn't deserve ridicule.
Chow.com usually deletes political postings, yet the moderators have not only allowed this one but given it prominent position. It is by a person who has joined the board solely for the purpose of posting this vulgar link. Everyone is well familiar with this incident and mocking those involved serves no purpose.
It serves the purpose of being funny and rather ironic.
Seriously, get a sense of humor.
IMHO, when a public figure is as blatant a hypocrite as Larry Craig (or Rev Ted Haggard), he deserves everything slung at him -- including this very funny, very ironic example of food porn. And involvement with a public figure brings some of both the good and bad attention to said public figure's spouse. Mrs. Craig reaped the benefits or being a senator's wife, and now, she is paying a bit of a price. It comes with the territory. I have no idea why TraciVogel joined the board, but I'm glad she did. This thread made my day!
Really, folks: has anyone noticed that this is a blog, not a board-post? Read the description of what "The Grinder" is--a roundup of food-related media. I don't think Ms.Vogel joined just to skewer the deserving Senator from Idaho--she has many, many blog postings on this site.
Traci Vogel for President!!!
There are hundreds of better potato recipes than this one. The timing is funny, but if you really want something delicious to do with an Idaho potato, do a recipe search here:
http://www.idahopotato.com/recipe.php...