Tasteful Epicureans: The Mar-a-Lago Thanksgiving meal

Broccoli and carrots are very mundane vegetable choices for a thanksgiving meal. That cornbread looks institutional.

Oh. That’s when I ate corn!

What is the lump to the left?

Was McDonald's closed for the holiday?

R3 I'm guessing a piece of turkey, but it looks more like chicken baked in Shake in Bake mixture.

How much do you think they charged per plate?

I wish they had all been served a nice glass of Flavor-Aid to accompany it.

That looks absolutely terrible. Sometimes food photos end up looking less appealing than the actual thing due to bad lighting and so on but that is really pathetic.

What do you expect from someone whose favorite meals comes from McDonald's.

[quote] What is the lump to the left?

Probably my stepmothet.

Most Americans consider the turkey to be the star of the Thanksgiving plate.

Why is the carrot in the middle? 😂

The free meal at the homeless shelter I volunteered at on Thanksgiving was more appetizing that that mess.

This meal look like something you would get at a cheap donor's dinner while out on the campaign trail. I think that lump on the left is stuffing and the thing on top is a piece of turkey. Boiled veggies and frozen corn bread. Poor chefs, if they are chefs, are probably embarrassed. I am sure everyone loved and raved about it to Donald. Elon probably had seconds.

It looks like the gravy was ladled in the kitchen (the table cloth is clean), but the staff didn't wipe the rim of the plate. Sloppy, sloppy. And they couldn't serve individual corn muffins and instead cut that very dense corn bread out of huge trays like they do at high school cafeterias.

I found this in the Post so I won't link.

[QUOTE]An insider said the Thanksgiving feast was about $350 a pop, including drinks.

C'mon. There's not even $7 worth of food on that plate. No mashed potatoes or stuffing? What a swindle.

Is this Melanias cooking that other thread was talking about? Maybe she is trying to kill them all.

You could build a retaining wall out of that cornbread.

jesus christ, that's CANNED corn.

Thanksgiving Dinner? Imagine the slop MaL serves up the rest of the year!

I'm not sure it's cornbread - perhaps a leaden sweet potato casserole? I think the turkey is towards the back of the plate and the lump on the left is some kind of stuffing or potato patty.

Even my fat ass wouldn't eat that prison slop.

$350 a plate? Honestly, that's appalling, even if it included wine and cocktails (which you know they cheaped out on.)

Zee brocceolitti she ees WEELTET!

Sometimes a 5 inch carrot, is just a 5 inch carrot.

No cranberry sauce or relish? Jeez. Is there any chance this was buffet -- that's why it looks so sloppy and there's no cranberry side because this diner didn't get any? For $350, this fat whore would expect the food to be brought to me.

They’re cooking for a guy with no taste, what do you expect?

Dear Christ, is this what foreign dignitaries eating at Mar Lardo get? Melania could at least demand a decent chef.

You can tell gays aren't running that place!

My fat ass agrees with you, r19. I would try to turkey just to see how badly they fucked it up.

Our "The Farmer's Dog" packaged foods look, and likely are, more appetizing than whatever it is on that plate.

For that price, I would have taken home the plate as a souvenir.

It looks like what they serve at an insane asylum, oh wait…

Most unappealing and no Trump chocolate cake?

Like I keep saying, classless white trash.

Always has been, always will be. Just like his hangers on and handlers.

R5 and I helped!

Take the plateful, and lacquer it or something, along with some proof of what it was. An invitation? A place card?

$$$$$$$$

If they were at Mar-a-Lardo, they got exactly the Thanksgiving they deserved!

I've seen better food at homeless shelters.

Fllllaaccccciddddddduh. A limp and unappealing looking meal.

Well, if a framed banana can fetch $5 million at auction, I guess the laminated MaL blue plate special could be worth about $350 in MAGA/confederate dollars, R34.

Thanksgiving is a feast, it is not just a meal, that features all the foods American porkers dream of eating all year round. Succulence and abundance. There is nothing about that image denoting succulence. It's grim and a turnoff, just like maga itself.

Where are the hamberders and covfefe?

We have the best corn, don't we, folks? Every body tells me, "Wow, your corn is the best!"

The time has come...

For bacon flavored chewing gum!

This is like cafeteria hot-plate food.

found a pic of the kitchen:

Don't say that r42. Some of the better Thanksgivings turkey dinners I've had have been in university cafeterias.

Even the lowest cafeteria can slice a carrot...

That plate was a deliberate insult.

I wouldn't be surprised if the kitchen is staffed with unpaid, inexperienced interns.

Yum! It looks Hometown Buffet quality.

Mmmm mmm mmmmm

Did Mel cater this?

Look at those carrots. Are they small? Little Marco said they were, but I guarantee you, there's no problem.

[quote] It looks like the gravy was ladled in the kitchen (the table cloth is clean), but the staff didn't wipe the rim of the plate. Sloppy, sloppy.

It was probably a buffet. I think that’s MAL’s style.

That’s what one guest chose. There were probably other choices.

r22 Well it's certainly no Arnold Palmer.

[quote] It was probably a buffet.

We only need one plate for the whole family. Gimme somma tha yella.

Massive Reddit thread about the Thanksgiving plate. Three major conclusions: 1) people who have friends/loved ones in institutional settings or work in their kitchens agree their food looked better; 2) the food at 9 o'clock remains unidentified. Compressed mashed potatoes, half a pork chop, a second turkey slice?; 3) WTF carrot?!

I have decided that the block on the left is some baked macaroni and cheese abortion

I found one of the chefs! First we skewer the turkey . . .

Shit, I can cook better meals than that, and I hate to cook! The Churches around here serve better meals than that sorry ass "dinner."

Are there any pictures of any other plates?

That's a big step down from the Thanksgiving meal Trump might have had in jail.

The slop the pigmagats deserve to eat.

Trump must be livid. I wonder why he hasn't released a better photograph.

For $350, you can have an amazing dinner at many Michelin starred restaurants around the world.

I also think the mystery item on the left is a bread roll that is upside down.

This is what happens when the help flees, fearing what's coming from ICE/DOJ/our military.

Mar-a-Lardo has a long reputation for poor hygiene and rotten food -as do all of Its hotel restaurants. It is only concerned with profitability, and knows that the kind of MAGAt snobs who'd eat there wouldn't know any better, and wouldn't dare complain if they did.

That shit look like the Thanksgiving they serve on a Navy ship. Trump is so low rent to be so rich. I swear the upside down world is real.

R62 I can’t tell if it is cornbread, filet o fish, or vomitted turkey. Yuck.

Looks like a meal they would serve at a homeless shelter.

Imagine overpaying for cafeteria food, then going up to your bedbug infested room. But hey, you got to dance to YMCA with Diaper Don, so it was worth it!

Are we sure that's not what came out the other end?

[quote] I can’t tell if it is cornbread, filet o fish, or vomitted turkey.

Seeing as the big block of bread on the opposite side of the plate is obviously cornbread, we can rule that out.

That corn looks like Carol Channing made it.

The brick of cornbread is your contribution to the border wall,

I wonder if this is the same meal that Trump’s table got. I mean Trump’s own tastes are awful, but wouldn't the main table get higher quality stuff? It's roped off from the other revelers and the SS keeps guests from getting too close so they wouldn't notice.

I'm reminded of Richard Nixon who always drank Chateau Margeaux at gatherings, but served the cheap stuff for his guests. Waiters would serve from bottles wrapped in a cloth napkin.

what the fuck? is this real?

Ze cronbeard was WW2-era Slovenian respice: boil wallpaper, sawdust + pee. Back over open fire 40 min.

The picture of that meal is a perfect metaphor for the next four years--shit served on a faux-gold plate tro idiots.

That was a very astute observation, R76. I'll be quoting you...

[quote]Why is there a five inch long carrot on the plate, seriously?

Donald's dick.

A button mushroom would have been apt for that.

A baby carrot topped by a baby Bella.

The plate says “behold, there is ornate gold-ish stuff in the design because we are Rich People.”

The food on it says “East Bumfuck Home for the Aged.”

If it wasn't for low class, Trump wouldn't have any class at all.

what the fuck is wedge at the left?

It could be a pork chop, R83.

Maga, can't even do Thanksgiving right and y'all want them in charge again.

YouTubers make more appealing meals with 20 dollars at the DOLLAR TREE!

[quote]R16: jesus christ, that's CANNED corn.

Nope. The section of connected corn kernels tells us that it's been cut from a cob, though that hardly improves its putative quality. There's not much of it, and it looks unbuttered/unseasoned.

I'm unable to commit to a positive identification of the object on the left. Breaded fried exterior, whitish interior. R84 might be right. At first I thought it might be a salmon patty/croquette, since there looks to be a dark green fragment and a smaller red fragment of something embedded in the breading - a chopped green onion top, and maybe a tiny piece of red bell pepper or a red pepper flake. I'm highly doubtful of the latter, however, since I cannot believe a seasoning like that would be employed at Mar-a-Lago. Maybe it's what passes for their cheap-assed, re-imagined dressing - a sort of fried cornbread batter with a sparcity of chopped vegetables, probably dried and added from a packet or a jar.

Thanks for your intensively research. This seems heinously bad

Only what I could observe in the pic, R87. Perhaps if I'd conducted the autopsy in person, with a smear of mentholatum under my nose, I could offer more accurate results.

indeed, CSI

The corn doesn't look fully ripe.

As awful as the food is, I personally find the actual plate even more unappetizing - one of my odd quirks is I have a very hard time eating off of gaudy, patterned china.

If I’m at a dinner party and the china looks like this I naturally shut up and soldier on, but it actually requires the same kind of deliberate attentive effort as driving in a snowstorm.

No published menu available?

I got home late last night and prepared a quick meal of air fried shrimp,baked potato, salad, and a dinner roll. I'm not rich but at least I eat better than guests at Mar-A-Lardo.

R83 Mystery meat

Or simply mystery

Makes those Big Mac meals look positively gourmet.

Media trying to sane wash these criminals and the criminal’s family. Watching the right make hero's out of the criminal president and his henchmen is laughable but so tragic.

This is sanewashing? It’s disgustwashing

I'm surprised they weren't served an all-you-can-eat buffet of Bic Macs.

This is the Fyre Festival Sandwich of Thanksgiving dinners!

He's a "billionaire", but he can't afford a chef.

R93, which air fryer do you use?

Just a 4 QT. Gourmia. I'm a single person so I don't need anything big. I've been very satisfied with it.

[quote]Media trying to sane wash these criminals and the criminal’s family.

It simply cannot be done. Watching the craven media cringingly attempting to sane wash 'the first family' will be one micro-pleasure for the next four years. DL will be vigilant and rightly merciless.

This thread proves for the millionth time that every single thing linked to Trump is cheap, sleazy, fake, worthless. Sane washing is a doomed corrupt enterprise. You can't polish a turd.

My mom was an angry woman who resented the burden of motherhood and offered her children the bare minimum. But I can tell you, we ate better than these magats! Mom always prepared Thanksgiving feasts including homemade pies and two different meats, turkey and old school ham served with pineapple and maraschino 🍒!

r105 omg that looks so delicious.

This is what I mean, you look at the image of the ham and start salivating. You look at the image of the magats meal and ask yourself WTF.

I went over to a friend’s for thanksgiving.

He smoked a turkey and his wife made her grandma’s stuffing recipe. We also had cornbread, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce and I brought a chutney and peanut butter brownies.

We also had nice rose wine.

Quite good and looked way better than that mess

The color of the plate makes it look more putrid.

I agree that the fact that it's plated on such fine China makes it even more trashy. I can't wait For Spike Lee to create a satire about these ghetto ass white people.

Might the mystery side have been attempting to pass itself off as a potato knish?

Oy.

Jewish cuisine at Mar-a-Lago?

Yes, R112.

R111, that could be it, it looks deadly dull

This cute little porcupine had a much nicer looking Thanksgiving plate at the Cincinnati Zoo.

His place setting included a candle, water goblet, and a plated feast that looked nicer and more appetizing than the Mar-a-Lago cafeteria slop.

indeed it does

Doll-faced little Rico has better table manners than donald. Notice how he doesn't rest his little elbows on the table.

Better quills, too.

R110 "fine china"?

I'm cringing with vicarious embarrassment.

Fine Jyna!

That porcupine is very cute!

And tasty, too.