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.

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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.

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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