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How else to explain it? Yes, the TDS is strong throughout CNN, the most Woke Network on TV, so fabulist tales about members of the administration is a given. But in trying to “own” RFK Jr., CNN was counting on its audience to have flunked common sense.
I mean, REALLY? Really, CNN?
CNN remakes one of the “affordable” meals from RFK Jr.’s new cooking show. It should cost under $5 per serving, but what’s the real price point? @tomforemancnn reports. pic.twitter.com/7kvmaqa5cL
— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) August 20, 2026
ALL the facepalms as the smarmy Tom Foreman goes all breathlessly outraged that RFK Jr’s show priced out the single egg in the meal instead of the dozen he bought.
Foreman is right there showing his contempt for viewers and anyone who passed 6th grade math with his fake news piece.
The Real Food Show is RFK’s effort to teach Americans how to prepare healthy meals for under $5 per serving. CNN decided such a commendable effort had to be snuffed out immediately for reasons known only to them. So they sent one of their backbench intrepid correspondents out to go grocery shopping for the ingredients used in one of those recent meals — Wild Alaskan Salmon Cakes. (snip)
Foreman adds up the cost of the ingredients and notes that, at one point, RFK is using a “trick” by pricing out an individual egg for the recipe, not the cost of a dozen eggs.
Seriously. When calculating the cost of the meal, he claims that using only the cost of the one solitary egg in the recipe is some sort of arithmetic wizardry.
Geez, I’m sorry that the 66 y/o Foreman was so coddled by his mom as a child he never went grocery shopping with her or helped in the kitchen and made sure he took shop in junior high while he sneered at the girls in home ec. Otherwise, I have to go with him deliberately lying here on how meals are priced out. RFK Jr. certainly wasn’t taking this CNN ridiculousness laying down.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has so debilitated @ErinBurnett that she has abandoned both common sense and basic arithmetic.
CNN wants us to incorporate the full package price of every ingredient, regardless of what is used in the recipe.
If you put a squirt of ketchup on your… https://t.co/0vUy9yoJdC
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 21, 2026
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Trump Derangement Syndrome has so debilitated @ErinBurnett that she has abandoned both common sense and basic arithmetic.
CNN wants us to incorporate the full package price of every ingredient, regardless of what is used in the recipe.
If you put a squirt of ketchup on your burger, would you be surprised if the restaurant charged you for the whole bottle?
The Real Food Show uses standard recipe costing: we count what the recipe actually uses. The rest stays in your kitchen for the next meal—and the meals after that.
Our goal is simple: help Americans reclaim their kitchens, cook healthy food without breaking the bank, and stock their pantries with high-quality ingredients they can use again and again.
That’s how we Make America Healthy Again.
CNN would have its viewers believe that no one does weekly shopping or owns a refrigerator to store food or a pantry for condiments, spices and dry/canned goods. We all just wander to the BigFoodStore every day to buy for that night’s meal and toss everything away at the end.
What utter contempt the reprobates like Burnett and Foreman have for us “little people”.
It reminds me of several years back when some lame dude at the Houston Press decided to get all butthurt over people offering advice on how cooking at home saves money. HOW DARE YOU! Poor people can’t afford to cook at home cuz they can’t afford the pots and pans! Author Larry Correia offered a timeless and classic fisking.
(Houston Press) — A recipe is far more than the ingredient list, and things like utensils alone can make what seemed like a simple, cheap dish into something more costly than going by the drive-thru would have been.
(Larry) — A recipe is far more than the ingredient list, and things like utensils alone can make what seemed like a simple, cheap dish into something more costly than going by the drive-thru would have been. (snip)
Having been married to a dairy farmer, Mom understands cooking while poor (on the bright side, we always had all you can drink milk!) But the reason I called her is that my mom has been the manager of a dollar store in a poor rural area for the last decade. Jef seems unfamiliar with the concept, but a dollar store is a place where you can buy stuff for super cheap. Plus, she retired like a week ago, so I can quote her freely and not get anyone fired. So you’re in trouble now, Jef.Mom said forks are four for a dollar. Spoons are four for a dollar.
(Houston Press) — Cooking is not just a trip to a grocery store. You need a basic set of cookware for starters. I’ve been on a $70 Tools of the Trade set for more than a decade, and trust me, it really wants to retire. You’re going to need some knives for chopping, butterflying, mincing, etc. The low-end of those starts at $20, but they are absolutely essential.
(Larry) –Apparently, to cut a tomato in half requires a knife forged by a samurai blade smith, using ore taken from a meteor.
When was frugality something to be ashamed of? When you’re poor (e.g. first apartment after you move out of your parents’ home), you put cinder blocks and wood planks together to hold your books. You get your first set of pots/pans/cooking utensils at the local thrift store. You make a general meal plan for a week, a shopping list, and budget accordingly. That dozen eggs is going to see you through several meals. Same with buying a whole chicken, a few pounds worth of chuck roast and fish.
CNN’s Foreman freaked out the salmon he found was more expensive than what RFK Jr. used … so what? There’s always a substitute.
I mean, who knew one could check their local store’s online site to see what’s available?
CNN finds you all morons. Treat them accordingly.
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CDC says: My first thought when I saw this “news” at GP was, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services believes some citizens need to be shown how to shop for and prepare meals? If there are citizens in this predicament IMO they aren’t aware that there is a U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services let alone that he has his own “cooking show”.
Dietrich says: One of the most valuable pieces of advice my father gave me was “Learn to cook, You can’t count on finding someone to cook for you.” That bit has served me well. (No pun in ten did.)
Blackwing1 says: When I was really broke as a college student the only meat that we had came from hunting and fishing. I had a bunch of friends who loved to hunt but didn’t like venison; every season I’d get my deer, and then collect two or three others after they’d been registered and process them. I always added some small cost (beyond a hunting license and one shotgun slug) by putting beef fat and pork lard into my burger mix, since venison burger can dry out very easily when cooked. A pot of venison bourguignon with a nice roast in it (with a glug from a big jug of cheap red wine) would last us for at least 4 or 5 meals, with homemade bread on the side. I’d catch fish (sunfish and crappies) for the cost of a fishing license and my time in digging worms for bait and clean batches of them and freeze them packed in milk cartons and thaw what I needed. I’d get a goose every year and clean that and eat it fresh…leftover goose is great. My folks would let me use a big portion of their basement chest freezer to store it.
I suppose that if I worked for CNN I’d have to add the cost of a shotgun to the venison each time, and the cost of a hand-me-down fishing pole each time to each meal, since I’d obviously throw them away after using them each time.
It’s also amazing how you can stretch a bulk sack of lentils by cooking them different ways. Curried lentils, lentil stew with smoked pork hock, the list is almost endless. I got thoroughly tired of split pea soup by the time I graduated.
Almost all of our pots and pans came for pocket change (25 cents, maybe 50 cents) by hitting garage sales; same with plates and utensils. I remember getting one really good pot and cover from my aunt and uncle as a gift…that one’s still in use.
It used to be that American junior highs and high schools taught something that was called “home economics” that gave kids without good parents the ability to learn basic home stuff, including how to shop and how to cook. I was the only male that signed up for the cooking class in my sophomore year of high school.
I guess the credentialed idiots at CNN have never cooked for themselves, much less for a family (“what’s a family?”) spending all of their money at restaurants I could never afford. The latest things now are broke Gender Studies graduates spending all of their money on their phones and other trivia while ordering from DoorDash and GrubHub, and then complaining about the price of eating.
I’m not surprised when they come out with this kind of error-filled propaganda.
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