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cohenne -> RE: Obama orders pizza from St. Louis, Chicago miffed (4/13/2009 5:41:00 PM)
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Environmentally-friendly restaurant delivers pizza 800 miles for ‘green’ president
By Doug Powers • April 9, 2009 10:25 PM
Friday, pizza from a place called “Pi,” a self-described “green” restaurant, will be delivered to the White House.
Sure, pizza being delivered to the White House isn’t necessarily news (unless it’s 15 years ago and the delivery girl is named “Monica”), but on Friday, the owner of Pi, who flew to DC from St. Louis, ingredients in tow, will prepare the pies in the White House kitchen:
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Chris Sommers, owner of a pizza place in St. Louis, gets orders from all over town. But from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C.?
“It’s surreal, it’s a huge honor,” says Sommers, 33, who flew to the nation’s capital Thursday to make 20 pizzas for the Obama family and staff.
So how did a St. Louis pizza guy end up in the White House kitchen?
The president first tasted Sommers’s San Francisco-style pies, served at his St. Louis restaurant Pi, while campaigning in Missouri last fall. An Obama supporter, Sommers offered to deliver a few frozen pies to the president after the election but was told he couldn’t send food to the White House because of security concerns.
Instead, Reggie Love, one of the president’s closest aides and a fellow fan of Sommers’s deep-dish and thin-crust creations, arranged to have the pizza chef bring 20 pounds of dough and 3 gallons of sauce at his own expense to the White House kitchen and cook there Friday.
By DC standards, it’s not a large transfer of dough, and unless the pizzas are intercepted by pirates en route to the nation’s capital, they’ll be consumed shortly — but the only thing “green” about them will be the oregano and possibly peppers.
We need look no further than Pi’s website to see that Obama probably appreciates more than just the taste of the pizza — go here and click on “community” (naturally) at the bottom of the page. Does all this sound familiar?:
Pi is committed to environmentally benign success. Doing good while doing well is fundamental to our work, and is manifested in our commitment to create an ecologically sustainable restaurant.
Today, this concept is hardly relegated to the realm of an obscure few; it resonates with our customers, and they become enlightened and aware, acting as environmental stewards and leaders of change
It’s as if a bus carrying members from ACORN and the Alliance for Climate Protection crashed into a Little Caesars and set up shop.
Here’s the part of Pi’s website that knocks everything back down to reality with unintentional effectiveness:
The EPA defines “sustainable” as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
It’s good to know that a pizza place claims to be trying to meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations, because the people they’re delivering pizza to aren’t.
Now let’s all go plant some trees so the Obamas and their staff can enjoy the environmentally-friendly meal free from the carbon footprint guilt that a 1,600 mile round-trip pizza delivery might normally bring.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/09/environmentally-friendly-restaurant/
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