On the front page right now: "Kamala Harris’s cooking wisdom: 7 tips from her kitchen videos."
seriously you need to watch Kamala dice the hell out of an onion (w/new bonus laugh!) pic.twitter.com/1y0gtZHCCa
— Josh Josh (Coconomenon Era) (@Josh_____Josh) July 22, 2024
The competition was inspired by a political gaffe made by Hillary Clinton in 1992... In response to questions about her career and the Whitewater controversy, she stated that "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life."...
Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, said that Clinton's remarks "stepped outside the bounds of what was seen as the traditional role of first lady, potential first lady [...] the price she paid was being placed in the midst of a cookie bake-off."... According to media science professor Tammy R. Vigil, media coverage of the bake-off portrayed the women participating as adhering to traditional gender roles and published anecdotes about their domestic lives that contributed to this image.
And isn't it funny? 30 years later, traditional gender roles are still front-and-center in American politics. The Democratic Party candidate is, once again, a woman. Back in 2016, Bill Clinton competed in the (re-named) cookie contest. He won, too, just as Hillary had won in 1992 and 1996, and with the same recipe: "chocolate chip cookies." (Yes, I think we all know that recipe.) And the new female Democratic Party candidate isn't even using her husband to handle the cooking. She's dicing an onion, right there on camera for us. In 2024. I suppose she could have just fulfilled her profession, but what she decided to do was go on TV with Mindy Kaling and dice an onion.
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Translation: here's the safest way we can talk about "I'm an Indian, you know from India" without causing a meltdown.
It is actually pretty good cooking, but then with a team of Hollywooders I could be the next Jamie Oliver.
Expect more of this through November.
I guess she stayed in the kitchen and baked cookies. Standing by her man, Willie.
Nope. I'm sticking with Kenji.
The Democrats have successfully fucked THEIR Democracy in the hindquarters, but let’s take a break and pretend ANYTHING about them is normal.
If this ran in the The Times, they would have gotten at least some pushback in the comments. But the WaPo? No, they love it and think Harris' work in the kitchen isa qualification for office.
If only because they have a slightly better class of readers, The Times and WaPo are not the same.
How’s that campaign going?
Oooh, cookies!
What, no collard greens or black-eyed peas? Surprised they mentioned the I-word.
WaPo: Vote for Harris to receive her cooking tips, and Harrison Butker is misogynist.
Wow! She chopped the onion without crying. She’s so gifted.
When the Professor turns to sarcasm, the /s tag is not needed.
This seems sexist. Would they do this with a man? Are we electing a chef in chief in November?
Or I should say are you electing a chef since I'll be sitting the election oit
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I was going to make a sarcastic comment but I can see several have already beat me to it. In retrospect, the Democrats waiting to the last minute to make the switch was brilliant. If Kamala had to go through the normal rigors of a campaign she would have quickly eliminated herself as she did in 2020. This way the always complaint media can stick to cooking advice for a few months and then, presto, the Obama mafia is back in the White House.
She does not know how to use a knife.
The gaslighting will continue to you plebes see her brilliance
I just keep seeing Ralph Wiggins from The Simpsons, with his finger in his nose, saying 'We're a Democracy and I'm helping ! '
I can't wait to read. I love Indian cooking -- samosa, tikka masala, and most of all, butter chicken! 🤤
Here's a great cooking video by Kamala, cooking dosa ... one of her family's home country of India's most famous dishes. She cooks it with Mindy Kaling, star of and lead writer of the comedy series The Office, who is also Indian. They made this video after Kamala became the first Indian-American Senator in US history.
Most people, Kaling says, don't realize that Kamala Harris is an Indian. Anyway, here's how Kamala Harris makes Indian dosa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7rNOAFkgE&t=83s&pp=ygUTbWluZHkga2FsaW5nIGthbWFsYQ%3D%3D
Signed,
Sharp Investigative Journalist Dixcus
“She does not know how to use a knife.”
She’d better learn quickly, as it will be a close quarters/slice n’ dice situation before the end of the month. She just might get her ass purĂ©ed.
It sounds like women in the kitchen.
Sure puts a scare into our adversaries.
I certainly hope that the recently-arrived voters of Minnesota remember that Kamala Harris believes that "bacon is flavor."
The nice thing about women in the kitchen is that they don't pretend to be men, which is what is hurting Kamala. The structural IQ expectations are lower.
It’s outrageous that the press has completely conceded its duty. I know they haven’t done their job in years, but it has reached an extreme of absurdity. We are approaching idiocracy at lightning speed. When is the next episode of “Ow my balls?”
Will Momala’s cooking shut the border or ease inflation?
Reuters: In-depth Fact Checks by Snopes and Politifact have determined it is likely that Kamala Harris is a descendant of slave owners.
NB: the Hindu dietary rules leave lamb alone. And chicken is allowed. It’s just beef that is totally forbidden. Thou shalt not eat the gods.
Anyway DaTrump was warning us that she is not American that includes African-American. Which would not be a big deal but for the cultural rules she does bow down to that makes her hate us because we eat meat. Add that to her Canada raising where hating Americans is rule #1 and you understand her laugh is about how easy it is for her to destroy us.
Given the pushback on this fluff WaPo will have will have no choice but to run the exposĂ© where their hard hitting, award winning journalists reveal what unnamed sources say is Kamala’s favorite flavor of ice cream…
“She does not know how to use a knife.”
Biden disagrees.
Here are some other "Americans" active in the cooking community:
Sundar Pichai - CEO of Alphabet Inc. and Google.
Satya Nadella - CEO of Microsoft.
Arvind Krishna - CEO of IBM
Shantanu Narayen - CEO of Adobe
Parag Agrawal - Former CEO of Twitter
Sanjay Mehrotra - CEO of Micron Technology
Nikesh Arora - CEO of Palo Alto Networks
Jayshree Ullal - CEO of Arista Networks
Raghu Raghuram - CEO of VMware
Anjali Sud - CEO of Vimeo
I wonder if Big Tech will tilt the election in Kamala Harris' favor?
In the mid-90s, a co-worker and a few of his friends used to enjoy going to an Indian restaurant for lunch. They’d all pile into co-worker’s Saturn and have their Indian food, enjoy conversation and it was all roses. Until one fateful day.
On that day, one of the friends had a bad… no it was a horrible reaction… to the spicy curry and yogurt he’d ingested and he projectile vomited his lunch all over the back seat and his companions on their way back to the office. Later, repeated attempts at cleaning the interior of that Saturn sedan proved fruitless and later, my co-worker successfully sold it to a buyer who had presumably lost their sense of smell.
And believe me when I tell you, what transpired that day was much more amusing than I could ever relate it.
Home Ec. from worlds greatest high school newspaper.
Raj Talluri - CEO of Enovix
Oh Ann, you're slaying me with your thorough, positive coverage of the Washington Post and their stories about the only genius nominee-designate for POTUS. How would I know that not only is Harris a master of the world salad, but also a master in the kitchen. Pretty soon, we'll find out how she uses her kitchen-mastery (is that P.C.?) to bring down inflation, solve homelessness and make our cities safe.
Keep up the good work, Ann.
Donald Trump plays golf, Kamala Harris cooks. I don't know that either activity is going to sway any voters but okay, whatever, I guess it's good to know that the candidates, both of whom lead incredibly privileged and coddled lives, have interests outside of politics and thinking of ways to f*ck the rest of us over.
https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1819222098247606663
I see they are working hard to maintain access to an important content source. You can't blame them; the CFO demands it.
"Washington Posting" under another motive.
Democracy dies in diversion and distraction.
The difference between Trump and Harris right now is we have no clue what Harris’s agenda is, in her own words, and how she rationalizes any changes she’s making with them since 2019. She’s leading with cooking skills - that is not what we need to know about her at this point. It’s pure deflection.
More from the American "cooking shows."
Lal Karsanbhai - CEO of Emerson
C S Venkatakrishnan - CEO of Barclays
Sanjeev Lamba - CEO of Linde
Ajay Banga - CEO of Mastercard
Indra Nooyi - CEO of PepsiCo
George Kurian - CEO of NetApp
Vasant Narasimhan - CEO of Novartis
Dinesh Paliwal - CEO of Harman International
Raj Subramaniam - CEO of FedEx
Vivek Sankaran - CEO of Albertsons Companies
The old fashioned onion choppers work in polar coordinates, the modern ones in cartesian coordinates.
Sally writes: "Donald Trump plays golf, Kamala Harris cooks. I don't know that either activity is going to sway any voters but okay, whatever, I guess it's good to know that the candidates, both of whom lead incredibly privileged and coddled lives, have interests outside of politics and thinking of ways to f*ck the rest of us over."
Yes, these are the greatest leaders America can muster right now, apparently. One hopes that if we end up in the ditch, we'll survive and can all get out and walk back to the road with new insight on what we need in the Presidency. I wish that insight could come now from persuasion, but I fear, given our general state of fat-an-happy silliness, it will only set in after a cataclysm.
Can't imagine why people have lost faith in their 'institutions'. Even those parading around as 'news organizations'.
Here's Kamala doing what Kamala does. Kamala Harris on Diplomacy.
Donald Trump plays golf, Kamala Harris cooks.
I'm the only one awake in a small Airbnb and don't have access to my earbuds, so I'm not watching the video right now... but I presume our host's point was that no media outlet anywhere would cover Donald Trump's golf game as a breathless hagiography.
I look forward to the vice president's fitness tips.
Maybe get the reporter who wrote about RBG"s brutal workout routine.
I suppose yoga would be a bridge too far though.
Tandoori Chicken with chickpea tikka masala? YUM!!!
However much I hated the press, it's not enough.
Mischievous. Not Mischeevious. Pet peeve.
Just summon the smod now
Former UW La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow and his administrative wife should invite Kamala on their vegan cooking / porn show.
Dan from Madison: If you're a John Cheever fan, it would be Mischeeverious.
Harris is the quantum uncertainty candidate. We won't know her position until after the election. She wants to be the panderer-in-chief.
Mussolini got the trains running on time.
Hitler gave everyone full-time employment.
Stalin won the Great Patriotic War.
Kamala will cook America's goose.
https://grammarist.com/idiom/goose-is-cooked/
This is what multiculturalism and diversity is to a significant chunk of people: it’s simply the cool food and colorful outfits. It’s not the rest of the stuff. And then they’re genuinely surprised and hurt when the MC and D city council bans flying the Pride flag and their MC and D kids start stomping on Pride flags.
And isn't it funny — 30 years later, traditional gender roles are still front-and-center in American politics?
There should be a new version of The Iron Chef where women have to cook against transgender women.
Kamala hasn't held a press conference. I don't believe she has answered one single question from a journalist since she anointed. Not one.
The new normal?
Journalists behave because they care about their access. Access means they are selected to carry a message from someone in power back to their editor. They don't want some other girl to be the one who gets to carry the messages. Pats on the head are at stake.
Two things from me:
1. Whoever up there said she doesn't know how to use a knife, I agree.
2. With regard to chocolate chip cookies: I am a good cook and baker. But I have a friend who has less technique than I do by a lot, whose chocolate chip cookies I cannot touch. I don't know what it is. I've followed her recipe exactly. I've watched her make the dough and done it exactly the same way. Yet when she makes these cookies - seriously, they're the best I've ever had, whereas when I make them they're just good.
Ok, a third thing. 3. Ugh, this is going to be a long few months. Followed, I fear, by four to eight more long lousy years in which we will continue to be told that the economy is great! and there's no problem at the border! and catastrophic climate change is happening so we must all cook on f*ing electric stoves!
This is what multiculturalism and diversity is to a significant chunk of people: it’s simply the cool food and colorful outfits. It’s not the rest of the stuff. And then they’re genuinely surprised and hurt when the MC and D city council bans flying the Pride flag and their MC and D kids start stomping on Pride flags.
Bingo. The diversity and multiculturalism proponents are often the worst sort of racists: simply assuming that everyone is a white person in a funny hat. The idea that cultural differences might be very real and create conflicts never seems to sink into their minds.
“Mischievous. Not Mischeevious. Pet peeve.”
“Mischeevious” describes author John Cheever’s behavior during his occasional forays into homosexuality.
I can has Indian food: just add tumeric to your favorite dishes for that south Asian pizzazz.
...I presume our host's point was that no media outlet anywhere would cover Donald Trump's golf game as a breathless hagiography.
And I have a different point to make. But still within the Althouse Rules I think, as it is connected to her post.
Mainstream media is a lefty circle jerk and has been for a least a few decades now. That's not really news.
It's very informative to read what is always on Iman's mind. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's a beautiful thing that he feels so comfortable at expressing his true self to the world.
Damn it, Temujin! Just saw your comment. You beat me to it, lol.
"She does not know how to use a knife."
I haven't read all the comments yet. Has anyone made the knife-in-Joe's-back one yet?
Answer to my question: Yes, Breezy.
It seems I wrote a comment that must’ve hurt you deeply, Howard. Please accept my sincere apology.
Gas stove. Her party is trying to take those away from American citizens, but the elites can brag away about theirs.....Such phony hypocrites.
I suppose she could have just fulfilled her profession, but what she decided to do was go on TV with Mindy Kaling and dice an onion.
Well, what is so important for a VP essentially functioning as a POTUS to do right now other than dice an onion? Don't you dare claim she should be responsible for the border.
This is ridiculous - she is running to be the President of the United States not the next Top Chef. She has had zero interviews about her campaign, her policy or answered any type of question about being the President. I checked her website and there are zero policy statements on her website, pretty much the only thing on it is a general "Meet Kamala" blurb and "Take action" by donating. Sort of surprised there wasn't a recipe section.
IMO, any self respecting woman who has worked to get to this level, would refuse to be put in the kitchen for this fluff piece in 2024. Not that there is anything wrong with cooking - but it absolutely has NOTHING to do with running for the Presidency of the United States of America.
It's interesting to see the use of a video clip that emphasizes Harris's Indian heritage so soon after Trump stirred the pot about Indian heritage possibly dominating Harris's self-identity.
They were going to have to address it at some point. They would have lost a lot of potential Democrat voters if they had ignored that the way Obama ignored half of his genetic makeup.
Alternative Headline
Democrat Dices in Darkness.
She is a destructive hellbeast
"It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."
-Kamala Harris
No doubt that video intended to showcase Harris's onion dicing technique, for what it's worth.
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As to Breezy's joke:
Kamala didn't knife Joe Biden; Barack Obama did. Joe Biden gifting Kamala the nomination and the money is Joe Biden's way of striking back at Barack Obama.
The machinations in the Democrat Party represent two competing groups: The Autocrats vs. The Communists. It is the game of the century and the winning group will get its hands on $200 trillion dollars to divvy up amongst themselves over the next 50 years.
Barack Obama, obviously, is in the Chicago Communist tradition with the Clintons. Kamala Harris represents the California autocrats (Pelosi/Newsome/Feinstein families).
California is currently winning, but the convention will be held in Communist Chicago.
It is not a foregone conclusion that Kamala Harris will win the nomination. The Communists may off her and blame Trump.
She's already pissed off Indian-Americans by ignoring them for months, playing only to the more 'approved' side of her lineage. So she's doing what she and the entertainment world have decided is needed to show her cred with the Indian community. May they be as insulted by the typical Democratic ploy of playing to the Tribe O' the Day. Today it's: Indian Americans!
Tuesday it'll be Jewish Americans!
Every other day it's Female Americans!
And on the other day its Black Americans!
Gosh...that's so exhausting. Good thing she only needs to do a cooking class for Indians, and name some progressive Jewish schmuck as VP for Jews, and show up in a Black church using Black and/or Southern accents and keywords to get the OK from the Black community.
Issues? Who needs issues? Policies? Please. Kamala's record? (sshhhh. You're not supposed to consider or even talk about that). Wonderful chopped onion!!! Wheeee!
I suppose she could have just fulfilled her profession
Funny. The profession that comes to mind involves being naked on her back with her legs spread.
So, Kamala illustrated the Peter principle.....in the kitchen. Hm, interesting juxtaposition and answers so very many questions. Also says quite a lot about those folks who will vote for her because she isn't caucasian. Boobis America at it again.
Kamala is the two V's.
Vicious and Vapid.
Best for the hack-D pres to focus on her cooking skills.
She and Joe have now overseen what looks to be 2 recessions in 4 years.
But look! She's cutting an onion! And its with a celebrity!!! Wheee!!!
Here we go again.
She goes with what she knows, and the WaPo goes with what they've got. Heaven forbid they should quote her in any detail on the issues.
Isn't it morally reprehensible to break the law? Are US immigration laws invisible to the collective left?
Here's Momala scolding the crowd on illegal status immigrants not being granted amnesty.
No Christmas songs for you.
Dixcus said...
As to Breezy's joke:
Kamala didn't knife Joe Biden; Barack Obama did. Joe Biden gifting Kamala the nomination and the money is Joe Biden's way of striking back at Barack Obama.
I disagree. It was clear that Kamala's price was to be the nominee if she agreed to threaten the 25th.
What I find interesting is that Obama has waited this long to expose Kamala and get her removed too.
I still think there is time for the Democrats to replace Kamala with who Obama wanted all along.
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This video is the end of Kamala. She is saying the dumbest shit. Normal.
The problem is Biden's face next to her.
I think when ever MINDY Kalling's heritage comes up we need to discuss her brother's.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/09/i-got-into-medical-school-by-pretending-to-be-black-we-must-enforce-supremes-ruling/
A Asian-Indian student needs MUCH higher grades and scores to be admitted to med school than a
Black-American student. What used to be called and often condemned as "Affirmative Action" (at one point, 67% of the voting public opposed "AA".) is now referred to as DEI. (I suspect that's why the left changed the name. ) And when those rules are played, there will be cheaters exploit those rules.
Disclaimer, Jo Jo's plans for a better career have nothing to do with VP Harris's, of course.
This perhaps explains why Biden is still President- if Harris were President should be expected to answer important questions at press conferences and interviews. The plan is pretty obvious now- hide her away from any tough questions while having her seen everywhere. It is a basic basement campaign without the basement.
I thought they were going to post this one:
https://t.co/hqqL2oYb3d
Kamala is not only Indian, but South Indian!
There goes the North Indian vote.
As I remember the quotes I've seen from the Hersh story on 25th'ing Biden, the Bidens were informed by third parties that Harris was ready to trigger Section 4. As far as I know, nobody has reported that Harris herself has indicated any willingness on or off record to invoke it.
Jersey Fled said...
"Kamala is not only Indian, but South Indian!
There goes the North Indian vote."
When it comes to the cooking, I prefer the North Indian dishes to the Southern Indian ones.
Kamala is following Nancy's advice. Get elected and then we can find out what her plans are. We could only hope her first few months turn out better than Obamacare.
if someone wanted to see if I was a competent doctor to care for their family I doubt they would ask me to cook them some pancit. The election cycle in the USA has hit the point of absurdity and I worry the enemies of the US are laughing .
Well since some days she's Indian American---she burned the chapatis--and some days she's Black--she burned the fried chicken and ruined the watermelon--the Post could report that.
Trying to humanize the Kackler is an exercise in futility. She's a flip flopping politician who somehow always winds up on the extreme left side. I could care less what she does in the kitchen or in the bedroom or anywhere else around the house.
Flip flopping politicians are a dime a dozen and they come in all flavors. I suppose there's nothing wrong with that. But extreme lefty politicians are dangerous to the country.
Her cooking means nothing to me until I see her Marie Kondo closet.
Goofus makes mean tweets and fakes his assassination, but Gallant chops onions and is supportive of immigrants.
"traditional gender roles are still front-and-center in American politics"
They are and they aren't. For example, Melania does little of it, not that she gets any credit for her independence. On the Dem side, the traditionalism is occasional and strategic, to make some normies in the middle feel that the party is not all prog all the time.
@Dixcus 08:44: 'Kamala didn't knife Joe Biden; Barack Obama did. Joe Biden gifting Kamala the nomination and the money is Joe Biden's way of striking back at Barack Obama.
The machinations in the Democrat Party represent two competing groups: The Autocrats vs. The Communists....'
Pretty much my take as well, except there's a larger leadership group on both sidesaround the figureheads, not just Obama vs. Pelosi. I think springing Kamala as the Candidate was Joe's revenge on Obama, and the fight is on regarding the VP selection. The convention is going to be messy - Who holds the reins on Antifa and BLM? And who will they face - the unions?
They are not trying to get intelligent people to vote for this empty pantsuit. This is for the Good Morning America crowd.
Joe Biden gifting Kamala the nomination and the money is Joe Biden's way of striking back at Barack Obama.
I have no idea, but...
If Obama did orchestrate the ascension of Kamala Harris, that would be precisely the kind of story he would want circulating and would plant.
Epstein’s client list. The “head” of the Democrat Leadership Snake are some of those listed therein.
It's most likely a video provided by Harris's campaign. Democracy dies in the kitchen.
That video had such an interesting way to dice an onion that I studied the video closely and tried to imagine myself dicing that way. I tried to imagine holding the onion and choosing which one of my knives to use. OK, so Kamala is balancing the onion on its end tip. I imagined doing that and my hand slipped and the onion tilted and I lost a finger tip. Oh well, so I went back to study the technique more closely and I there was Kamala peeling a brown onion but a purple onion emerges. Martha Stewart doesn't show this kind of onion in her onion types but ... Indian cooking ... oh well. Ok, get a purple onion. [Cut the bottom off to make a stable platform though Kamala did not do that] Cut the top off. Then slice downward part way and turn the onion and slice downward again but crossways - in other words, you dice on the onion. But this time around (in my imagination) I sliced into a finger but luckily the onion was purple so the blood didn't show much.
How did she do it? The more you look the harder it gets to copy it. You see, the Senator cut off the top and slashed across the top. But when the camera did a close up of the partially diced onion it was looking at the side of the onion as you can tell by the bulb shape. Slices across the top of an onion show a ring shape and slices across the side show the bulb shape, at least when I slice.
Besides that, Kamala's knife must have been incredibly sharp because the onion just parts before the knife without Kamala having to bear down and thus likely tilting the onion and cutting herself - as would have happened to me on my cutting board with my Wusthof Santoku knife.
So I don't know. I've pictured the whole thing to myself to see if I could learn a new technique. Maybe the brown/purple onions from India have a different interior so a longitudinal and a horizontal slice look different than on slices on the common old onions I've seen. Or may be the whole thing is a special DC way of cutting that can't be conveyed by the edited video. Sum it up: As we know now, Kamala is good with a knife. Even in just cutting an onion, she is, let's say, unbelievable.
Who wouldn't suspect a tan-skinned person with a name like "Kamala" might have Indian ancestry? Is Kaling referencing AWFLs who think ethnicity-dropping makes them look cool?
I have never seen anyone use that technique to cut onion. It seems time-consuming and dangerous. Was she trying to save the other half for later?
VP Harris has a dicing technique guaranteed to cut her fingers sooner rather than later. It works, usually, and allows the retention of uncut onion for the next meal. But it is also incredibly efficient at sending a blade into the thumb or the other fingers supporting the onion on its round end.
My momma always told me never to let the knife edge move towards any part of myself. I haven't cut myself with a kitchen knife since I was 9. VP Harris is asking for a cut thumb.
I sewed a finger tip back onto a colleague's wife many years ago. She brought it to the office in a paper towel, as I recall. It healed back fine in spite of the time delay and lack of blood supply, but it was just the tip. I gave her an apple slicer later as a gift.
America's Test Kitchen recommends slicing off the stalk tip, cutting it in half to the root end, peeling, then laying each half flat on your board and cutting down but not all the way to the root end, so it holds together until you slice crossways, as thinly as you like. I usually cut radially, but they don't, they make one horizontal cut after the vertical ones. I've found it efficient and safe.
My momma always told me never to let the knife edge move towards any part of myself.
Mine would slice fruits and vegetables back toward her thumb with a small knife. Guess she had a callous--and a dull knife.
Sign that the world needs to end: Althouse has a "Mindy Kaling" tag, and it points to more than one post.
"Well, what is so important for a VP essentially functioning as a POTUS to do right now other than dice an onion?"
How about making a sammich?
No big deal on heritage. She cooked turnip green stuffed Nan.
She needs to make a video showing how to toss a word salad.
Oh, right...that's all of her other ones.
Are blowjobs on the menu? Dessert maybe?
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