POTUS had a 'jucy lucy' . . . Don't tell FLOTUS.

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Abby Simons ?@AJillSimons 1h
#potus sits down for lunch at Matt's Bar with Rebekah Erler, who inspired his visit. He had a Jucy Lucy. pic.twitter.com/qwbHo7epJu



(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)





Mark Knoller ?@markknoller 1h
We're told Pres Obama had a "jucy lucy" during his lunch with Rebekah. It's a cheeseburger stuffed with molten cheese. Dont tell FLOTUS.




Abby Simons ?@AJillSimons
#potusmn leaves Matt's Bar to greet locals.



AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN


bengarvin ?@bengarvin 1h
Obama works rope line outside @MattsBar #potusmn











AP:

Before a town hall event Thursday, Obama stopped for the cheese-stuffed burger at Matt's Bar with a woman from the Minneapolis area who wrote him a letter about struggling to make ends meet after paying the mortgage, student loans and day care bills.

The White House was billing it as the first in a series of one-on-one meetings between Obama and an American who normally wouldn't have access to a president.

Thirty-six-year-old Rebekah Erler wrote Obama in March about the plight of a middle-class family . . .

http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/she-wrote-letter-president-now-shes-meeting-him




President Barack Obama holds his ice cream cone during a visit to Grand Ole Creamery in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)



(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)


Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt · 15h
Obama pays for his items as he makes a surprise visit to the Golden Fig specialty foods store in Minneapolis #potusmn Owner of the Golden Fig Fine Food, Laurie Crowell in St. Paul, Minn. wrote a letter to the Obama detailing the importance of mom and pop shops across the country and invited the President to drop by the shop if he was ever in the area.

[BainsBane]

1. He should have gone to the Nook

Definitely beats Matt's.

[monmouth3]

2. I'm sorry but that is the most unappealing food item I have ever seen...Ugh!!!

[Aerows]

8. I'll have yours :) n/t

[leftcoastloon]

9. They are YUMMY!!!!

[jmowreader]

17. Looks pretty good to me

There's about two times your average monthly requirement for cholesterol in one of those things so you might not want more than a couple per year, but every once in a while you just gotta say "screw the diet."

[Jamaal510]

31. +1

[JI7]

65. it looks really good to me

[snooper2]

69. After seeing that pic I'm making one for my daughter this weekend...

She doesn't like burgers yet, but she does LOVE melted cheese--


This may do the trick!

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Yummy! n/t

[badtoworse]

4. I don't see any bacon. How good could it be?

[BainsBane]

14. Another reason to go to the Nook.

They have them with bacon.

[Blue Owl]

5. Prez can haz cheezeburger

[madokie]

6. Thats my man

Making this old man happy

[Aerows]

7. I've never heard of one of those before

but it sounds freaking awesome, especially with onions! Yum!

[KittyWampus]

12. Aerows… try blue cheese.

[Aerows]

25. Oh GOD I bet that is heavenly

I love blue cheese!

[seabeyond]

20. they have one in new orleans. son took other son there for his bday. son says it is .... amazing.

lol

he likes his burgers.

[Aerows]

26. Next time I'm there

I will look it up

[glinda]

27. They are rated #1 burgers in MN.

[Puglover]

37. They are great. But it is most important that you give

the cheese some time to cool down. Otherwise it's the emergency room.

I am LMAO at a post down thread all up in arms that the food looks unhealthy. God this place.

As I said, Matt's is like four blocks from my house. The burgers are delish.

[Aerows]

39. Hey, I eat my sprouts

I get my exercise - I even am growing my own vegetables this year (and I even grow my own sprouts). That doesn't mean I don't drool when I see a delicious looking burger! Healthy doesn't mean so pious one is nearly into self-flagellation. Life without the occasional burger seems a bit too stark and empty for me.

[Puglover]

41. LOL true.

The other day I was gonna make Pad Thai for dinner. I am not kidding, I went to 4 local grocery stores to buy bean sprouts. Nada. Finally I thought "Fuck it" and went to an oriental grocery not too far away. Fresh and lovely.

How weird, not to find bean sprouts fer cripes sake.

[Aerows]

45. There was some salmonella scare

and everyone quit having bean and alfalfa sprouts. I got these lids that go on top of quart Mason Jars and grow a big batch of alfalfa sprouts when I want them. They have a lid collection for bean and other types of sprouts. I get bulk seeds and grow radish, broccoli and alfalfa and they are extremely tasty.

I can't buy them for love or for money around here, though, unless I grow them - so I do.

http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-grow-your-own-alfalfa-s-44854

Also a fun project with Mason Jars - you can regrow scallions, celery and other things

http://www.thekitchn.com/16-foods-you-can-regrow-from-kitchen-scraps-190938

I'm regrowing romaine lettuce as a house plant since the armadillos kept tearing it up in the yard. It keeps growing back.

[IronLionZion]

50. There are reasons why it hasn't caught on everywhere

the cheese gets way too hot to eat. It will burn you.

But if you let it cool a bit, its oh so delicious. POTUS loves burgers. I just went to his favorite burger spot in VA last Sunday. There's also places in DC that have Obama burgers and "healthier" Michelle burgers made with turkey.

For people who like cheese, Minnesota also has cheese curds which are heavenly.

I miss Minnesota so much...

[Aerows]

56. I haven't had a cheeseburger in every contiguous state in the US yet.

Yet. I believe I'm at 35 now.

I think I've covered the South and everywhere in the sticks of the Midwest. I still haven't met one I didn't like, though I like them on the rarish side of Medium Rare.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Alaska has awesome cheeseburgers, even if it isn't on the list

[Jenoch]

68. If you like your burgers anything other than well done,

don't eat a Jucy Lucy from Matt's. In order to melt the cheese on the inside, the beef is heated to well done. They are still great to eat once in a while, but a truly juicy burger is one that is medium rare. There aren't too many places that will cook a burger medium rare anymore.

[Aerows]

70. I know

Beef anything more than medium rare is a crime. I like my steak with the breath knocked out of it, and you can only get that in fine steakhouses anymore unless you make it yourself.

[Mosby]

10. It looks gross

Given the health of Americans these days it's really bizarre how so many restaurants and chains now go on about all their unhealthy food. Even Subway has given up the healthy food marketing approach and changed their menu to include lots of unhealthy choices.

It's really irresponsible imo but they obviously stopped caring a long time ago.

you can make your thousand plus calorie gut bomb at home now:

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/stuff-a-burger-grilling-kit/prod13420113.ip

I bet within 10 years manufacturers will start making some grills lower so diabetic amputees can still make their favorite shit on the grill without the need to stand up.

[leftcoastloon]

13. Go eat your sprouts!

I'll eat your share of MEAT and CHEESE and really greasy fries!

[FailureToCommunicate]

34. Here ya go...and welcome to DU!

[Aerows]

40. Ooo, and you can see a little red juice dripping out :D

Just how I love my burgers - juicy and a tad on the rarer side of medium rare but done on the outside. YUM.

[jmowreader]

19. Sams Club is a subsidiary of Walmart

[dflprincess]

48. I've eaten at Matt's - it is gross & I love it

I only wish I could indulge myself like that more often.

Though sometimes I think I prefer the Juicy (with an "I&quot Lucy at the 5-8 Club a mile or so south of Matt's.

Who has the better burger is an on going debate here.

[bigtree]

49. Matt was known to say, if you spell it right

. . . you've got the wrong burger!

[Michigander_Life]

67. FFS, really?

Need to put your hair out, it appears to be on fire.

[No Vested Interest]

11. I'm sure FLOTUS knows what her guy eats.

Wives have a way of knowing those things.

[jmowreader]

18. Especially when pictures of his meal hit the AP wire

[No Vested Interest]

30. Pictures help, but I suspect she knows what's going on re food comsumption-

two daughters, beaucoup Secret Service agents, staff everywhere...

[jmowreader]

35. ...ketchup under his fingernails, bacon on his breath...

...and a big ol' shit-eating grin every time those three Secret Service officers go over to the Shake Shack twenty minutes before a staff meeting with push carts to bring the stuff back. Yeah, she knows.

She also realizes he's got bigger problems than whether there's one gram or one pound of cholesterol in his meal, like Al Qaeda, Syria, and teabaggers.

[No Vested Interest]

64. Now you've got the idea. nt

[CBGLuthier]

15. Juicy Lucy looks like its name may be even more apt a few hours after eating it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

16. Does Obama look like he has to worry about an occasional cheeseburger...

(wherever they put the cheese) ?

[Louisiana1976]

22. Yeah...he's skinny.

[Mosby]

28. he's not skinny

He's normal weight which looks like skinny these days with the obesity epidemic in full swing.

[Aerows]

58. Oh for heaven's sake

I weigh enough that I get harassed about being too skinny. I'm not sure what your point is, but you seem to insinuate that all Americans are fat.

I take exception to that.

[Mosby]

60. not all, only 68% or so

In the U.S.:

68.5% of adults are overweight or obese; 34.9% are obese.
31.8% of children and adolescents are overweight or obese; 16.9% are obese.
30.4% of low-income preschoolers are overweight or obese.
Disparities exist based on race-ethnicity, gender, age, geographic region, and socioeconomic status.

http://frac.org/initiatives/hunger-and-obesity/obesity-in-the-us/

[Fred Sanders]

21. Right wing outraged that burger was stuffed with Swiss cheeses, not American, demand impeachment.

The fascists are openly out of their holes, time to whack them back in.

[LoisB]

23. You made me laugh.

[erronis]

29. Yup - how about this 'merican jingle (tm)

"Next time, let's make it Velveeta!"

- Get all the fat and byproducts you want without the funny aftertaste of "cheese".
- It's so runny it couldn't possibly clog your arteries
- Eat mo Velveeta - you're helping the chemical industries
- Yer gonna die anyway

[muntrv]

38. No, it was stuffed with Gouda!

[Cha]

24. Damn Obama! Better not tell Michelle.. hide the internet! Rofl

I'm vegan and I say let them moltenly enjoy themselves, once. Lol

"The White House was billing it as the first in a series of one-on-one meetings between Obama and an American who normally wouldn't have access to a president.

Thirty-six-year-old Rebekah Erler wrote Obama in March about the plight of a middle-class family . ."

Best Wishes to the People and the President who is trying to help out..

Thanks bigtree.

[Auggie]

32. He'll burn it off playing hoop

[MineralMan]

33. Sadly, Matt, the founder of that bar, died this

morning. When his son called to tell him that Obama would be there, he was told that Matt had died. A very strange day. I don't suppose the President was given that news into later. I think Matt was 80 years old.

[bigtree]

42. yeah, that was sad

. . . I don't believe he knew the President would be there.

Here's an account:

Family members say that the original owner of Matt’s Bar passed away mere hours before President Barack Obama’s visit to the long-standing Minneapolis establishment.

According to family, Matt Bristol died Thursday morning. He reportedly did not know that Obama would be visiting the Cedar Avenue restaurant.

Family members said that Bristol, who was born in 1925, was diagnosed with lung cancer nine months ago, and had only been given four to six months to live.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/06/26/family-original-owner-of-matts-bar-dies-day-of-obama-visit/

[MineralMan]

43. Sad coincidence. I'm sure Obama has been told now.

I Imagine he'll communicate with the family.

[IronLionZion]

52. Shit, that is sad.

RIP Matt

[Puglover]

36. Matt's is a few blocks from my house.

Way cool! I wish we had better weather for the Prez!

[bigtree]

44. update: pics

[Arcanetrance]

46. Probably the wrong thread to have clicked on drunk and hungry

[Beacool]

47. I'm jealous. That burger looks delicious.

The ice cream doesn't look too shabby either.

That's it, let's what's in my freezer.......

[boguspotus]

51. The Pres comes to my neighborhood!

Wow, so cool. I should have paid more attention where he was going to in Minneapolis. I would have taken work off to get a chance to see him. A lot of folks say The Nook and the 5/8's Club have better Jucy Lucy's, but Matt's is a S. Mpls institution, and is pretty much packed all of the time.
That is just so great!

[3catwoman3]

53. One of the best burgers I have ever...

...had was stuffed with bacon and bleu cheese - mmmmmmmmm,mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[Beacool]

63. Oh my, two of my favorite things.

I have substituted many times cheddar or American cheese for blue cheese. Yummy!!

[fishwax]

54. there goes the 5-8 club vote

[annm4peace]

55. I like Matt's the best.. and best way to eat a Jucy LUcy

hold the cheese burger over the fries so when you take a bite the cheese and juice spill on the fries.

so weird to know the Prez was only a couple miles from my place.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

57. Pretty sure

I wouldn't be able to eat a bite of anything - healthy or unhealthy - sitting across from President O.

[flvegan]

59. Token DU vegan says, "Seriously?"

Is it what he ate or that the First Lady might not approve?

I'll be honest, none of the Obama family has claimed to be veg*n, so I don't see where any can point fingers nor that they did or would. From the article, it appears that Barack Obama sat down to a meal with someone with a concern and listened. Better than what we had before, probably better than we've got on deck.

And fuck it, that looks delicious.

Find fault elsewhere.

[bigtree]

61. it's just a silly title

Just having some fun with the Prez, just a silly jab for not eating healthy, knowing his health-conscious wife might not approve. Husband-wife stuff (which I've known intimately for 35 years) . . . worth a giggle (and some cool pics, too!).

No fault found here.

from 2010:

President Obama, in Racine, Wi. for a speech about the economy on Wednesday, stopped to buy some Kringles at a Racine bakery en route from the airport in Milwaukee. Starting a speech at a town hall meeting in Racine, Obama told the crowd, "It is great to be back home in the Midwest" and shared a secret: maybe he would on the way back to the airport,"get a brat and some cheese curds while I'm here. Just don't tell Michelle."

[flvegan]

62. No, bigtree, I didn't.

I thought this was coming from "the other side" finding fault, and you posted. I apologize.

[bigtree]

66. no problem

. . . just a light photo essay about his trip and his outing.