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"At the request of the White House, silverware will not accompany the table settings"
(JIM MORRILL, Charlotte Observer, April 6, 2004)
It was a mouthwatering menu. Not that you'd expect less for $2,000 a plate. Seered beef tenderloins with golden tomatoes on an herb-encrusted baguette. Grilled garlic chicken with smoked gouda on a honey wheat wrap. Fruits and gourmet olives and crudite. A gourmet luncheon with only one thing missing: something to eat it with. The explanation was at the bottom of the menus distributed at President Bush's $1.5 million Charlotte fund-raiser Monday. "At the request of the White House, silverware will not accompany the table settings," it said in discreetly fine print. No silver. No plastic. The lack of utensils might have been why many plates went virtually untouched.
The reason: So the tinkle of silver wouldn't disrupt the president's speech.
*********I was going to make some obviously inane comment but realized I couldn't top the unembellished truth.**********

posted by A Curmudgeon 11:48 AM