PHOTO: Obama and Medvedev out for a burger & fries

[quiet.american]

I don't know who the owner of Ray's Hellburger is, but could they have possibly imagined when they opened the restaurant that one day, the President of the United States, and the President of Russia would be sitting there chatting over lunch! WOW. God, I love this kind of stuff.

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NYT: Just a Couple of Guys Grabbing Burgers
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/just-a-couple-of-guys-grabbing-burgers/

Mr. Obama had a cheddar cheeseburger with onions, lettuce, tomato and bread-and-butter pickles, with a bottle of iced tea to wash it down. Mr. Medvedev also ordered the cheddar burger, but he added jalapenos, onions and mushrooms, and paired it with a bottle of Coca-Cola.

Translators stayed close at hand to keep the conversation going as the two world leaders sat down to eat in shirt sleeves (Mr. Obama even unbuttoned his cuffs). They all walked out afterward to cheers from the other patrons.

The two world leaders evidently worked up an appetite discussing bilateral issues at the White House in the morning; perhaps they decided that a hearty American lunch would fortify them to face reporters and cameras at a news conference scheduled for the afternoon.

Mr. Medvedev is traveling in the United States this week to promote economic cooperation between the two countries. Even so, Mr. Obama picked up the check.