Now it appears that there is a grass roots movement to spank Subway for traipsing hand in hand with the FLOTUS Michelle Obama.
Note that the La Times headline announcing her partnership with Subway reads "Michelle Obama taps Subway to help in healthy eating initiative," not the reverse, which is all too familiar with Americans being bullied by this administration.
A hilarious read over at Subway's Facebook page reveals the outrage the American public feels at seeing, once again, the FLOTUS flouncing around television mewling about the benefits of veggies and buying a sub.
Sandwiched in between complaints about the quality of their product and various stores are numerous imprecations and vows never to eat at Subway again because of Subway's connection with the Obamas.
In fact, the Subway FB page is probably a great reason to disable comments on a company page. Geez.
But to each complaint about Obama, the FB Subway moderator responds the same thing, which in itself prompted complaints:
To which posters respond, "Subway, what about THIS?" followed by a link to another announcement about Obama's association with Subway.Thanks for reaching out to us, Jimmy. Someone gave you the wrong information and we’d like to clarify a few things related to our announcement in January with the Partnership for a Healthier America. We are not promoting or aligning with any politician as part of this healthier eating initiative. We are teaming up with a non-partisan, not for profit organization that promotes building awareness to help fight childhood obesity. This is not about politics.
From when we served our first sandwich in 1965 we always offered lots of FREE veggies. Then in the 90’s people started to focus more on healthier eating and the childhood obesity problem, which led to many organizations recognizing us for our leadership in making it easier for families to make better choices, to eat more vegetables, and to lead healthier lifestyles.
One of the goals of the Partnership for a Healthier America is to raise awareness of the importance of eating more fruits and vegetables and we’re glad to be able to join them in furthering this important message. As part of the announcement we made with Partnership for Healthier America, Mrs. Obama had lunch with local school children in one of our restaurants in Washington, DC to bring attention to this cause. This was not a political statement or an endorsement of Mrs. Obama in any way. We’ve been in business for almost 50 years and agree that business and politics don’t mix so our intention is not to promote any political figure or have a political figure represent us. Our goal is to continue to encourage families to make smarter choices and to continue to make it easy for folks to eat more vegetables.
So please stop by any one of our local stores to check this out for yourself. You won’t find a picture of Michele Obama, but you will find plenty of FREE fresh veggies to add to your sub!
There's even an anti-Subway/Obama FB page.
Michelle Obama, who herself loves to eat, is also getting backlash from her government imposed restriction on school cafeteria menus; any kind of unacceptable food will now be banned from school vending machines.
Imagine. Yum. Brown carrot sticks in a vending machine for a snack. Yum.
Yeah. I'd say the Subway/Obama partnership is a great idea, wouldn't you?
We always like to know just who's in bed with the government.
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