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demmiblue

(38,941 posts)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:56 PM Monday

RFK Jr: "President Trump is revising the dietary guidelines which is gonna dramatically change the food culture...

RFK Jr: "President Trump is revising the dietary guidelines which is gonna dramatically change the food culture in this country."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-10T20:40:34.873Z


(@ingemarknows.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T20:44:11.425Z


Jorkus Smellington (@jorkussmellington.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T20:41:50.808Z


Michelle Obama once suggested Americans should eat more vegetables and there was a nationwide freakout.

Chad Farrenburg (@chadfarrenburg.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T20:42:36.013Z


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RFK Jr: "President Trump is revising the dietary guidelines which is gonna dramatically change the food culture... (Original Post) demmiblue Monday OP
OMG - does this mean a McMuffin for breakfast, a Filet-O-Fish for lunch and a Big Mac for dinner? With fries, of course. Vinca Monday #1
Well, Not Fries At Breakfast! ProfessorGAC Monday #4
Substitute one of those awful "Hash brown" thingies. n/t the nelm Monday #34
You Mean The Ones My Wife Likes? ProfessorGAC Monday #53
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away I actually used to work for them for... the nelm Monday #57
My Wife As Well ProfessorGAC Tuesday #64
make that 2 burgers and 3 happy meals with a diet coke. rampartd Monday #9
Actually, It's Worth Considering, Assuming the Road Kill is Fresh The Roux Comes First Monday #35
are those grill marks? rampartd Monday #59
Maybe... Blumancru Monday #14
I'll take the Egg McMuffin KatyaR Monday #38
Actually an Egg McMuffin is one of the healthiest options mentalsolstice Monday #48
Change in American food culture? Attilatheblond Monday #2
So we all have congestive heart failure? Captain Zero Monday #3
Well, that makes things simple. Whatever the USDA recommends going forward, just do the opposite. AZJonnie Monday #5
Exactly. LoisB Monday #11
He's grotesque SamuelTheThird Monday #6
I think we should all want... Mike Nelson Monday #7
2 triangles I_UndergroundPanther Monday #62
Hamberder becomes its own food group? C_U_L8R Monday #8
Suggested during Reagan Regime... No Foolin'! BurnDoubt Monday #22
LOL! Jinx. Chellee Monday #25
Maybe he's channelling the ghost of Reagan. Chellee Monday #23
Yep! Yep! Yep! and... BurnDoubt Monday #26
Just mentioned it to my daughter last night Marthe48 Monday #46
Yeah. I have often looked at IT and thought to myself - I want to follow his dietary regime. LoisB Monday #10
Does it rhyme with boylent breen? Prairie Gates Monday #12
"I have a Modest Proposal"... BurnDoubt Monday #24
... madinmaryland Monday #36
We're gonna need more mobility scooters!! flvegan Monday #13
The five food groups will be revised Blumancru Monday #15
And ketchup. ananda Monday #18
Maybe it will.... Blumancru Monday #37
Good one! I don't see why it couldn't be both. ananda Monday #41
Welcome to DU Marthe48 Monday #47
RFK Jr.'s wife, Cheryl Hines says he eats read meat and sauerkraut at every meal (or all possible) hlthe2b Monday #16
He already managed to eat his way to a brain worm. Crunchy Frog Monday #20
Vascular occlusion from clots or endothelial "hardening," will kill the rest of the tissue, not dead from methylmercury hlthe2b Monday #21
It must be magic to be married to him Johonny Monday #56
Sounds like he's on the carnivore diet womanofthehills Monday #58
For decades. He became mercury-intoxicated two 1/2 decades or so ago from his unbelievably high hlthe2b Monday #60
At this very moment PCIntern Monday #17
I like a hamberder every once in awhile, Crunchy Frog Monday #19
Trump? Dietary guidelines?! Anyone remember this? keep_left Monday #27
That's got to be one of the most hilarious concepts I've heard in a long time. Sogo Monday #28
And then we will have healthy food cheap, right? Clouds Passing Monday #29
There's just some shit you can't make up. Paladin Monday #30
Why under Rebl2 Monday #31
I like Buddy's Just Jerome Monday #32
Get me the hell out of here!! Hope22 Monday #33
Will orange mango give up his big macs? redstatebluegirl Monday #39
My wife was still teaching during the Obama years. The lunches were modified to healthier cholces. twodogsbarking Monday #40
R.e. Farrenberg's comment: maxsolomon Monday #42
Interesting that My Plate specifies "protein" but doesn't mention meat. That's progress ! eppur_se_muova Monday #49
But the only thing you're allowed to drink is "dairy"! maxsolomon Monday #54
If ketchup is a vegetable, OJ is a fruit ! nt eppur_se_muova Monday #61
You mean raw dairy I_UndergroundPanther Monday #63
This menace, Trump, has been an albatross around our necks since he came down his golden escalator Joinfortmill Monday #43
We're DOOMED! Totally Tunsie Monday #44
Surely no one is going to make decisions about their diet based on recommendations by RFK, Jr. or Trump. TomSlick Monday #45
That would seem obvious wouldn't it ? But N O O O O O O O O O O O .... nt eppur_se_muova Monday #50
Hey RFK Jr and TACO, you two fools first. marble falls Monday #51
Trump will control every aspect of our lives. Irish_Dem Monday #52
so eating whole grains and fresh vegetables will become a woke act of resistance? DBoon Monday #55

Vinca

(53,006 posts)
1. OMG - does this mean a McMuffin for breakfast, a Filet-O-Fish for lunch and a Big Mac for dinner? With fries, of course.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:57 PM
Monday

the nelm

(204 posts)
57. Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away I actually used to work for them for...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:43 PM
Monday

a few years. Agreed, as you say, one's taste is subjective. I always found that after their time in a fryolator they seemed to be especially "greasy" or heavily impregnated in the cooking oil. Maybe it was just the idea of being deep-fried for a second time. They were already pretty greasy in their frozen form. But, again, that's just one opinion. (And I generally absolutely love potatoes no matter how cooked.)

ProfessorGAC

(75,188 posts)
64. My Wife As Well
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 08:06 AM
Tuesday

She LOVES her some potatoes. In any form.
I eat those hash browns in the rare occasions I get the burrito breakfast, but I'm getting that for the bur. Just not going to waste the hash browns.

rampartd

(2,961 posts)
9. make that 2 burgers and 3 happy meals with a diet coke.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:04 PM
Monday

anyone listening since earth day knows decent guidelines, and some even follow them. hell, usda published the food triangle during the depression.

i don't really swap recipes with a guy who eats road kill,

The Roux Comes First

(1,975 posts)
35. Actually, It's Worth Considering, Assuming the Road Kill is Fresh
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:56 PM
Monday

You needn't saturate it in evil cooking oils or rely on other fast food techniques.

Now, mind you, I'm not saying every shoulder cadaver is a good choice.

rampartd

(2,961 posts)
59. are those grill marks?
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:51 PM
Monday

or prints from a steel belted radial?

i'd eat 'dillo or nutria, our most common roadside delicacies.

but i don't think mom would bake a stuffed 'dillo for thanksgiving..

mentalsolstice

(4,630 posts)
48. Actually an Egg McMuffin is one of the healthiest options
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:03 PM
Monday

From a fast food place. But you have to leave off the hash browns.

AZJonnie

(2,250 posts)
5. Well, that makes things simple. Whatever the USDA recommends going forward, just do the opposite.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:01 PM
Monday

Mike Nelson

(10,833 posts)
7. I think we should all want...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:03 PM
Monday

... the great physique of The Donald! ... or the natural beauty of the Third Lady! They are such healthy role models!

I_UndergroundPanther

(13,304 posts)
62. 2 triangles
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:48 PM
Monday

For the men’s triangle it stresses meat and more meat. bacon ,beef and hot dogs and burgers. Butter chips and sweets.

For the women the triangle will be a picture of lettuce and the words don’t eat because men hate fat chicks.

C_U_L8R

(48,521 posts)
8. Hamberder becomes its own food group?
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:04 PM
Monday

Pickles and ketchup as vegetables?
Recommended Daily Allowances for double thick shakes?

Chellee

(2,273 posts)
23. Maybe he's channelling the ghost of Reagan.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:17 PM
Monday

Remember ketchup as a vegetable in the 80's?

Marthe48

(22,335 posts)
46. Just mentioned it to my daughter last night
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 06:56 PM
Monday

The felon isn't sharing the tax dollars we paid in, I doubt if he'll share the ketchup.

LoisB

(12,035 posts)
10. Yeah. I have often looked at IT and thought to myself - I want to follow his dietary regime.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:08 PM
Monday

Prairie Gates

(6,797 posts)
12. Does it rhyme with boylent breen?
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:09 PM
Monday

I mean, I knew beef prices were out of control, but this is ridiculous!

BurnDoubt

(1,234 posts)
24. "I have a Modest Proposal"...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:18 PM
Monday

Get thee to the nearest Library!!!!!
Jonathan Swift (No relation, presumably, to the Swift Meat Company?)




flvegan

(65,476 posts)
13. We're gonna need more mobility scooters!!
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:15 PM
Monday

Americans eating themselves to death, now only faster. I read that Trump likes to mash his Big Mac together with a Filet O Fish and make one "sandwich" out of them or something like that.

Yeah, take dietary advice from THAT guy. The epitome of health, indeed!

Blumancru

(17 posts)
15. The five food groups will be revised
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:25 PM
Monday

The new five food groups will be:
Hamberders
Cofveve
Fries
Filet of Fish
Tartar sauce

hlthe2b

(112,088 posts)
16. RFK Jr.'s wife, Cheryl Hines says he eats read meat and sauerkraut at every meal (or all possible)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:54 PM
Monday

He even tries to get her to carry his sauerkraut in her purse when they eat out.

So maybe we should start the death watch for him too (or at least the cerebrovascular dementia/stroke risk).

Seriously. She was not kidding (apparently).

hlthe2b

(112,088 posts)
21. Vascular occlusion from clots or endothelial "hardening," will kill the rest of the tissue, not dead from methylmercury
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:13 PM
Monday

or neurocysticercosis (tapeworm cyst)... End result the same, just how fast...

womanofthehills

(10,604 posts)
58. Sounds like he's on the carnivore diet
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:45 PM
Monday

Many body builders and people who want to lose weight are on it. All social media platforms have carnivore diet forums - it’s huge right now. Some nutritionists are going there too - grass fed beef, good fats, and vegetables but no grains and sugar.

He’s probably eating sauerkraut because fresh sauerkraut has probiotics. .

Trump is trying to appeal to MAHA people - but he will keep having his toxic diet cokes & McDonald’s.



hlthe2b

(112,088 posts)
60. For decades. He became mercury-intoxicated two 1/2 decades or so ago from his unbelievably high
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:59 PM
Monday

canned tuna consumption--at a time when this risk was WELL DOCUMENTED--which should tell everyone how 1. arrogant; 2. Ignorant; 3. Uninformed, and 4. Unbelievably STUPID he is. Particularly since this was not long before (or after) he was diagnosed with a possible brain tumor (which turned out, instead, to be tapeworm cysts in his brain from his ingestion of wild road kill or undercooked pork.

And yes, you and I know fermented vegetables have probiotics, but kindly don't give this moron more than a casual acknowledgement for knowing ANYTHING or doing anything for which there is validation--all the while he wants to kill you and me and our children with unproven treatments, nonscientific policies, and disregard for vaccines that have saved millions of lives. So, he eats sauerkraut- which is good, but even a broken clock is correct twice a day, after all. And, RFK Jr is nothing more than a broken clock.

PCIntern

(27,791 posts)
17. At this very moment
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 04:56 PM
Monday

I am wallpapering my dining room with Heinz ketchup, insignia wallpaper.

Crunchy Frog

(28,161 posts)
19. I like a hamberder every once in awhile,
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:05 PM
Monday

But not effing all the time.

I won't eat raw meat with parasites in it either.

keep_left

(3,112 posts)
27. Trump? Dietary guidelines?! Anyone remember this?
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:20 PM
Monday

According to a book co-written by Corey Lewandowski (Trump's 2016 campaign manager), this was Donnie's "standing dinner order" on Trump Force One: two Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fish, and a "chocolate malted" (actually a shake--McDonalds doesn't serve malts).

The Chapo Trap House podcast did a reading from Lewandowski's book that "spilled the tea", as the kids say, about Trump's horrifying diet.

(By the way, that's none other than RFK Jr in the picture, Mr. "Make America Healthy Again", with a full plate of Mickey D's and a 20-ounce bottle of Coke).

https://democraticunderground.com/100220562634#post6

Trump's Mickey D's feast on his private 757. Corey Lewandowski said this occurred on Trump Force One on the regular.

https://democraticunderground.com/100220496710#post56



Sogo

(6,822 posts)
28. That's got to be one of the most hilarious concepts I've heard in a long time.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:20 PM
Monday

STFU, wormbrain!

Paladin

(31,988 posts)
30. There's just some shit you can't make up.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:44 PM
Monday

Dietary advice from trump. Medical advice from RFK Jr. It's a long list.

Rebl2

(17,204 posts)
31. Why under
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:46 PM
Monday

Michelle O. eating better was horrific idea and under orange one it’s a good idea.

Hope22

(4,319 posts)
33. Get me the hell out of here!!
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:49 PM
Monday

It’s one thing to let him be a madman but this is insanity!

twodogsbarking

(16,654 posts)
40. My wife was still teaching during the Obama years. The lunches were modified to healthier cholces.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 06:26 PM
Monday

Caught on with the kids right away.
Waste went way down. Kids got breakfast if needed. That's the way to do it.

maxsolomon

(37,807 posts)
42. R.e. Farrenberg's comment:
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 06:37 PM
Monday

There wasn't a "Nationwide Freakout", there was a manufactured RW Propaganda freakout. If Obama did it, it was Communism.

RFK, as usual, is inventing a problem that he'll solve by proposing a solution Dems have already implemented.

My Plate HAS ALREADY REPLACED THE FOOD PYRAMID: https://www.myplate.gov/

eppur_se_muova

(40,530 posts)
49. Interesting that My Plate specifies "protein" but doesn't mention meat. That's progress !
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:16 PM
Monday

Also, acknowledges the way billions of people around the world eat already -- an estimated 22% of all humans are vegetarian.

maxsolomon

(37,807 posts)
54. But the only thing you're allowed to drink is "dairy"!
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:50 PM
Monday

Them dang Libruls r tryna tell me how to live mah life!

Joinfortmill

(19,489 posts)
43. This menace, Trump, has been an albatross around our necks since he came down his golden escalator
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 06:40 PM
Monday

TomSlick

(12,806 posts)
45. Surely no one is going to make decisions about their diet based on recommendations by RFK, Jr. or Trump.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 06:54 PM
Monday

Neither of them are the picture of health or have two working brain cells to rub together.

DBoon

(24,498 posts)
55. so eating whole grains and fresh vegetables will become a woke act of resistance?
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:58 PM
Monday

"Give me celery or give me death"

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