Huckabee Mocks Romney for Skinning Fried Chicken

FoxNews:

Mitt Romney took a stop off the trail Saturday, and shared a meal with his traveling press corps. The food? Colonel Sanders' fried chicken, and biscuits. Romney, known for his healthy eating habits, however, pulled off the skin. For some Southerners, a culinary faux pas.

Today, FNC asked Huckabee, how he as a Southerner, and someone who is also known for his healthy diet(Huckabee famously lost 110 pounds) eats the calorically-colossal, but Southern gastronomic mainstay.

"Going thru the weight loss program I try to eat it more broiled, and baked but I can tell you this: any Southerner knows that if you're not gonna eat the skin, don't bother with calling it fried chicken,"Huckabee said through a smile." And that's good, I'm glad to hear that he did that because that means I'm going to win Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma- all these great Southern states that understand that the best part of fried chicken, is the skin."

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Comments

[ornery]

Hey, Mittttt:

It's finger-lickin' good!

[VOTER]

The msm finally asked Huck a question his IQ

could handle.

[ballewb]

This is a ridiculous story.

[WomanInOrangeSweater]

I'm so glad someone is paying attention to the fried chicken skin issue this election season. All the talk about Iraq and the economy is getting so dull. Thank you Huffpo and Fox News!

[jpopphan]

Why in the hell does the link on the main page to this story link to the Faux News website? Surely this story is reported elsewhere, why give the Faux folks a link and imply some credibility?

As to the Huckaberry­.... well, this Southerner (a real one, from GEORGIA, not the Midwest like Arkansas) pulls the skin off his fried chicken too. Why? Because the skin is all FAT, that's why.

Not to defend Romney, but what a stupid thing for Huck to pick up on. With all the terrible things that Romney has to say and has done, why focus on something so trivial as this...?

Oh, wait. I get it. HUCKABERRY THINKS THAT SOUTHERNERS ARE STUPID! Yep... that's gotta be it.

Well, sorry Huckaberry. Even the moonbat separatist theocrats in South Carolina couldn't muster a win for you. Drop out now while you have the chance, eh?

[LiarLiarIraqsOnFire]

Huck a hypocrite; he skinned them squirrels 'afor he fried 'em up & et 'em.

[Mort]

Fried chicken is good, but how bout a chunk of skinned, deep fried Huckleberry!

[curmudgeon3]

The Huckster, being the self-proclaimed man of the cloth that he claims to be, must surely be able to explain how a loving God could approve of a system where much of the plant food that we raise is diverted to feed animals to produce flesh to be consumed by the privileged few, allowing many others to starve as a consequence.

According to some sources, sixteen pounds of grain are required to produce one pound of beef, as well as between 2500 and 5000 gallons of water.

Tyson Foods, headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas, Huckleberry's home state, must surely appreciate the publicity, and will surely send him a "tangible token of their appreciati­on."

According to the Voice of America website, a "U.N. special investigator on the right to food, Jean Ziegler says hunger in the world is progressing on a catastrophic scale. He says the number of people suffering from hunger has been rising every year since 1996 and reached 854 million in 2006...Eve­ry five seconds last year, a child below 10 died from hunger," he said. "Every four minutes, somebody loses the eyesight by lack of vitamin A." For more details -- http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-06/2007-06-14-voa54.cfm?CFID=200564615&CFTOKEN=16016813

Has anyone heard The Huckster explain this yet?

[curmudgeon3]

The conditions under which animals are raised on today's factory farms and are "processed" in large factories is a national disgrace. There are many sources of such information, however, since this article addresses fried chicken, a couple of sites are: http://www.kfccruelty.com/ and
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/20/news/fortune500/kfc/index.htm

Perhaps The Huckster could speak to the writings of The Gospel of the Holy Twelve, perhaps the earliest and the only unadultered writings about Jesus' life, which has also been cited as a source for the four gospels in The Holy Bible. A sampling..­.

Lection 12:1-3 and 12:6 --
1. AND some of his disciples came and told him of a certain Egyptian, a son of Belial, who taught that it was lawful to torment animals, if their sufferings brought any profit to men.
2. And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, they who partake of benefits which are gotten by wronging one of God's creatures, cannot be righteous: nor can they touch holy things, or teach the mysteries of the kingdom, whose hands are stained With blood, or whose mouths are defiled with flesh.
3. God giveth the grains and the fruits of the earth for food: and for righteous man truly there is no other lawful sustenance for the body.
6. And whatsoever ye do unto the Cast of these my children, ye do it unto me. For I am in them and they are in me, Yea, I am in all creatures and all creatures are in me. In all their joys I rejoice, in all their afflictions I am afflicted. Wherefore I say unto you: Be ye kind one to another, and to all the creatures of God.

For more details regarding the preceding, they can be found at http://www.thenazareneway.com/origins_gh12.htm and http://www.thenazareneway.com/jesus_condemneth_ill_treatment_animals.htm

Would a loving God approve of the eating habits of most in this country today?

This would be a great question for The Huckleberry.

[MajorKong]

So I guess Romney has to wrestle a pig or something to prove he's a "regular guy"?

[degjack]

Well, I'm careful what I put in my mouth too, but - I have to give it to Huckabee on this one! The skin's the thing when it comes to fried.

[reno 77]

Nice to see the GOP debating the important issues…lol!
Perhaps Huckabee can ride his “No drumstick left behind” ideology straight to the nomination.

[curmudgeon3]

So, is this all it takes to be a real man?

Maybe Romney and everyone else who discards chicken skins could immediately freeze-dry them, and send them special delivery to Huckabee so he can eat them? Huckleberry could have a pile of these on his plate at every rubber chicken dinner he attends, just to emphasize his point (and watch his weight and cholesterol go off the charts).

Some numbers...

A four-ounce chicken breast with skin is worth 188 calories, 49 percent of which are from fat.
It contains 10.5 grams total fat, and 3 grams of saturated fat.

A skinless chicken breast is worth 118 calories, with 11 percent of calories coming from fat. It contains a mere 1.4 grams of total fat and 0.4 grams of saturated fat.

[punkingale]

Huckabee certainly is generalizing about Southerners. This Southern Belle pulls the skin off BEFORE she fries it. My Akita loves the skins boiled.

[rbenjamin]

Lost 110 lbs huh? Is the name of his rock group "The Gastric Band?"