cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/64519913
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s staff cut off a USA Today interview question about the grossest food he has ever eaten, moments after he admitted eating “stuff I find on the street.”
“…I will literally eat anything… I don’t have a gag reflex,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Chambers. “When I travel, I’ll eat, you know, even stuff I find on the street, you know, street vendors, cooking.”
“Like, is there stuff that you’ve eaten that people are like, wow. You ate that,” Chambers asked.
“You mean, like, something gross? Or?” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replied.
“Yes. Maybe gross for others. Yeah. Not for you,” Chambers said.
“I’m getting a signal not to answer that question,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, shutting down the line of questioning.
RFK Jr is an idiot and a menace. He’s a threat to public health and also to his own health. In a sane country he’d be under close observation by a psychiatric specialist. He has actually said enough terrible stuff–in fact, he’s actually said before that he picks roadkill up off the street!–that we don’t need to twist what he said into something fake.
With that out of the way so that you don’t think I’m a MAHA cultist: This headline is misleading. That’s not what he’s saying here. He’s just saying that he eats stuff from food trucks.
Honestly, the implication that he eats trash like a raccoon would be funnier than the banal reality that he’s either out of touch at best (because he thinks it’s weird to eat street food) or racist at worst (because a huge chunk of street vendors are nonwhite folks serving the food of their ethnicity). Or both, which is probably the real answer here.
My first thought was freegan tbh