Caption contest, 7/25
Via the Associated Press: “Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., walks with Renee Gould and her daughter Morgan Gould, 3, through the produce section of King’s Supermarket in Bethlehem, Pa., on Wednesday.”
Update (via Newsweek, for pt bridgeport): “Renee Gould, the young mother McCain had an extended chat with about the high price of tomatoes and milk, was not a random shopper, but an area resident funneled to the campaign by the local Republican Party.”
Tags: Caption contest, groceries, McCain
July 25th, 2008 at 9:43 am
“They’d better have been grown in America.”
July 25th, 2008 at 11:43 am
For the next part of this spontaneous conversation, Renee, you should stand on that chalk mark.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Salmonella, salmonella, lotta salmonella in that one, only a little bit of salmonella in this one. Deregulation 4 all!
July 25th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
“And what do you call those things?”
“They’re vegetables, Senator. You remember vegetables, don’t you?”
“Are they from Czechoslovakia?”
–Young mother Renee Gould of Bethlehem, PA pauses awkwardly, while Senator John McCain has another ‘senior moment.’–
July 25th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
We have to eat them over there so the salmonella won’t attack us here.
July 26th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Excuse me, miss. Is that a rutabega? I hear they are good for improving memory.
July 26th, 2008 at 6:25 am
MILF or Coug?
July 26th, 2008 at 7:13 am
While tagging along behind his campaign’s designated shopper, John McCain pauses to remind her that the beefsteak tomatoes taste just like beef.
July 26th, 2008 at 9:37 am
McCain: “Well, let me tell you something little Missie, back in my day, we didn’t have all this store bought stuff, by crackie. Nosiree, back in ought seven, eighteen ought seven, or thereabouts, right after the big blizzard it were, as I recall…Coulda been ought eight, maybe… No, that was the war with the Pawnees
and…Anyways, the womenfolk and the squawmen had to go out and gather the roots and berries while we braves hunted the buffalo and wolverine. Hard times they be and I…
Ms Gould: “It that right senator? Very interesting. (to self) Hmm, maybe Obama deserves another look.
July 26th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
RG: Well, yeah those fresh veggies look nice, but we stopped buying them since gas has gone up and before that since our ARM sent our mortgage payment through the roof, oh yeah and since my husband’s company increased the health insurance premium and…oh yeah since they also cut back on the retirement plan. Really we just can’t afford them any more. Don’t tell anyone but I just come here and buy a few things and then go across town and stock up on SPAM, noodles, and on condensed soup.
July 26th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Thought balloon for the daughter: “When’s that boring man gonna go away?”
July 26th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
“I want some of those in my soup.”
July 26th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
So this is what a supermarket is like. I figured my kitchen staff got the stuff somewhere but I never dreamed it’d be in a place like this.
Do you just pick the stuff up and carry it out with you?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:41 am
The confused elderly man walks over to the tomatoes and begins to speak to them.
“My friends!”
July 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am
McSame is whine-ripened.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:00 am
at the heirloom tomato display:
“Earl whom? I don’t get it.”
“Air (war) loom? that’s my plan for Iran.”
July 28th, 2008 at 11:01 am
how can we be sure that’s not a cardboard cutout of McW?
July 28th, 2008 at 11:08 am
“Renee Gould, the young mother McCain had an extended chat with about the high price of tomatoes and milk, was not a random shopper, but an area resident funneled to the campaign by the local Republican Party.â€
there’s a plant in the veggie aisle!
July 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
McCain:
Ah, I remember those things…they’re..ahh…reddish…round…some think are infected…oh yeah, zits.
Renee:
Excuse me Senator, but that’s a tomato.
McCain:
No, honey, you’re a tomato. I know….I was in the Navy you know.
Daughter: No, I won’t look at his bumpy cheek. Momma said I get a spanking if I made fun of his big, swollen, bumpy cheek. I just look at the deli counter, that’s it….
July 28th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
“Now there’s a nice pair of shoes!”
July 28th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
See the shriveled one on the right? Mine kinda looks like that one.