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LUNCH PICKED

Among Thursday’s United Nations highlights:

BAN KI-MOON PICKS BEEF AND BROCCOLI FOR LUNCH AT U.N CAFETERIA: Asked what the Secretary-General had eaten when he visited the staff cafeteria on Tuesday, the Spokeswoman said he had eaten beef with broccoli. In response to another question, she noted that he continued to visit different offices at UN Headquarters.

(Via Dr. Sam)

Posted by Tim B. on 01/05/2007 at 07:28 AM

  1. That’s only because they were out of kimchee and dog.

    Posted by Young and Free on 2007 01 05 at 07:32 AM • permalink

  2. Er, should that be “beef and brockery”?

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 05 at 07:32 AM • permalink

  3. Well, I for one, welcome the new UN overlord.

    Isn’t beef and brocooli a better choice to ponder than which son gets the oil for food kickback?

    Posted by entropy on 2007 01 05 at 07:44 AM • permalink

  4. Yes, but what underwear did he chose for today’s meeting? I’m also deeply concerned that it might not have been lean beef or organic broccoli. Did he add salt? Was it washed down with a soda? This is incomplete reporting. How are we supposed to evaluate the new leader on such paltry evidence?

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 01 05 at 07:50 AM • permalink

  5. Sweet Mother Mary! This is UN news??

    Bet that takes the minds of the Darfuri’s off being subject to an effing genocide by the Sudanese Arabs!

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 01 05 at 07:51 AM • permalink

  6. No blood for Vegemite!

    Posted by splice on 2007 01 05 at 07:52 AM • permalink

  7. No doubt the new UN chief has insulted the religion of Hinduism by eating beef.

    Posted by murph on 2007 01 05 at 07:55 AM • permalink

  8. I had him pegged as a FournTwenty and Coke kinda guy. Any bets that he’s a lunchtime drinker too? Does all his best work after the noonday snack.

    Like Tim does after those loooong lunches.

    Posted by CB on 2007 01 05 at 07:55 AM • permalink

  9. I wouldn’t knock this guy too quickly. The MSM jumped real quick, when he did not condenm the hanging of that despot Hussein. Maybe the UN is due for a good shake up. We will know when the MSM and EURO’s start criticising him. It would be great to know how much the Kofster and his family rorted from this crap outfit. Still, the leftist media will keep us informed, whether in the negative or positive. As Ronald Reagan said: Get rid of the building, its taking up valuable real estate’. (I stand corrected if I have quoted him wrong here).

    Posted by BJM on 2007 01 05 at 07:57 AM • permalink

  10. The actual quote was ‘To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women’ or words to that effect.

    Posted by CB on 2007 01 05 at 08:14 AM • permalink

  11. I am glad to hear the UN cafe has a new ventilation system.  With all that methanehot air issuing from the members, I am sure it is well needed ;)

    Posted by missred on 2007 01 05 at 08:16 AM • permalink

  12. BAN KI-MOON PICKS BEEF AND BROCCOLI FOR LUNCH AT U.N CAFETERIA

    I bet this is the only thing resembling a real decision that comes out of the UN all year.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 01 05 at 08:54 AM • permalink

  13. Lets deconstruct this important missive, its in code, surely.

    Beef ( He’s against the rise of India) Broccoli (hmmm, a green) but wait, no noodles. What self respecting Asian doesn’t go for the noodles or the rice? It means he wont support China.

    And you all thought this was just a fluff piece.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 01 05 at 09:03 AM • permalink

  14. This is not about beef. This is not about broccoli. This is about belief and broccoli. A belief in nations united.

    Nations united by belief and belief in nations united.

    And a united belief in nations. And nations that are united in belief. And above all, of course, belief in belief.

    Because without belief there can be no belief in nations. Or belief in nations united. Or nations united in belief.

    Posted by splice on 2007 01 05 at 09:10 AM • permalink

  15. I think the gaurdian could use this piece to demonstrate the UN’s fight against global hunger.

    Maybe its the UN’s version of the “trickle down” effect in action.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 05 at 09:17 AM • permalink

  16. Boutros Boutros, Koffi and now Ban.

    Do you think, just once, the UN could be run by a guy called John?

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 01 05 at 09:23 AM • permalink

  17. Must have been a real slow news day at the UN.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 01 05 at 10:24 AM • permalink

  18. well at least he didn’t order grass and strips of tree bark- that would be a truly disturbing indicator of whose side he’s on

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 05 at 10:35 AM • permalink

  19. Let me get this straight:  Heading up the UN is a beef eater who doesn’t oppose the death penalty.

    He also likes broccoli, unlike Bush 41, and we know how that whole business ended.

    Next question: What does he drive?

    If it’s an SUV, muscle car, or roadster, somebody make sure he and John Bolton have been photographed together.

    Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 01 05 at 10:50 AM • permalink

  20. I’ll wait to see how much he steals before I judge the guy.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 05 at 11:13 AM • permalink

  21. #10 CB,
    That was Conan the Barbarian answering the question “what is best in life?”. Do I win a fiver?.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2007 01 05 at 11:30 AM • permalink

  22. Thank God for the openness of our many-layered media.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 05 at 11:33 AM • permalink

  23. Was the beef halal?  If not, this could prove a greater insult than the Danish cartoons.

    Posted by 2dogs on 2007 01 05 at 11:34 AM • permalink

  24. Hmmm.

    Er, should that be “beef and brockery”?

    Ovel in Kiralney
    Many yeals ago
    Me Mithel sang a song to me
    In tones so sweet and row

    Tu-la-ru-la-ru-la
    Tu-la-ru-la-ri
    Tu-la-ru-la-ru-la-ah
    Hush now don’t you cly

    Tu-la-ru-la-ru-la
    Tu-la-ru-la-ri
    Tu-la-ru-la-ru-la-ah
    ‘Tis an ILish rurrabye

    ...

    What?  What did *I* do?

    Posted by memomachine on 2007 01 05 at 11:56 AM • permalink

  25. Are you a song writer for Rosie O’Donnell, ed?
    ;^)

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 05 at 12:43 PM • permalink

  26. Was he ‘deeply concerned’ about the chicken?

    Posted by Patricia on 2007 01 05 at 12:48 PM • permalink

  27. #19 - Bush 41 didn’t like Brussel Sprouts. And I’m with him on that one.

    Its a kicking place, the UN.

    Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 01 05 at 12:48 PM • permalink

  28. Meanwhile (once lunch is finished), it’s the same old crap at the U.N.

    ‘In a response to a question I was asked yesterday in connection with the allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel in Juba, Sudan, I can confirm that as a result of previous investigations, the UN mission in Sudan (UNMIS) has already repatriated four peacekeepers from Bangladesh and their case will be pursued in front of a national jurisdiction.’

    ‘As of today, there are 13 ongoing investigations regarding allegations of serious misconduct, including sexual exploitation and abuse.’

    ‘Asked why the information about the UN’s actions regarding the soldiers was only coming out now, the Spokeswoman said that the United Nations was following a process in which it had investigated cases and repatriated some soldiers. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) will follow up with the Bangladeshi authorities to find out what action has been taken since then.’

    Gee, I’m so impressed.  You’re actually going to “follow up” on this?  I mean we’re only talking about the alleged rape of children here.

    Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 01 05 at 01:58 PM • permalink

  29. CB
    I think the quote was actually “...und hear da lamentation uf da vimmin.”

    I remember that because it’s what I tell the kids everyday before school.

    Posted by Merlin on 2007 01 05 at 03:47 PM • permalink

  30. I reckon the UN hack that wrote that riveting “news story” makes more per annum than 95+ % of the citizens of the UN member states…

    TANJ!

    Posted by Major John on 2007 01 05 at 05:38 PM • permalink

  31. Damn!  I had Kung Pao Chicken in the office pool.

    Posted by Christopher Johnson on 2007 01 05 at 08:38 PM • permalink

  32. It was a finely-tuned anti-Bush message, eating the broccoli.
    I must disagree with post 27.  President G.H. W. Bush (as he then was) famously disrespected the veridian vegetable.  Famers retaliated by dumping forklifts full at the White House. Ah the good old days when people could politicize produce with impunity! Here’s a short account along with some tasty recipes:
    http://www.maine-nutrition.org/Maine/MBJuly7.htm

    As to brussel sprouts, well NOBODY likes brussel sprouts.  King Leopold II of Belgium is reviled to this day for introducing them into the Congo.  Farmers don’t dump them proudly on national monuments,  They slide them quietly off trucks in the dead of night at wholesalers along with severed horseheads and other assorted threats to the greengrocers who must take them in order be supplied with other, edible produce.

    Posted by kiwinews on 2007 01 05 at 08:55 PM • permalink

  33. At least he is decisive. Kofi’s still contemplating the menu with deep concern

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 01 05 at 09:12 PM • permalink

  34. she noted that he continued to visit different offices at UN Headquarters.

    I guess that’s what you do if you’re a half decent head of the UN. Naturally, Kofi Annan would never have stooped to such pedestrian matters as keeping an eye on his ship.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 05 at 09:59 PM • permalink

  35. #16 Boutros Boutros, Koffi and now Ban.

    Do you think, just once, the UN could be run by a guy called John?

    Watch what you wish for - it could be John Kerry!

    Posted by Young and Free on 2007 01 05 at 10:12 PM • permalink

  36. #16 Boutros Boutros, Koffi and now Ban.

    Be thankful he’s from South Korea. Knowing the perversity and downright Bolshevism of the UN, he just could have come from it’s northern neighbor. No kidding.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 05 at 10:54 PM • permalink

  37. BTW, does anyone know if Ray Ban has expressed deep concern, yet?

    He has a quota to meet.

    Posted by rinardman on 2007 01 05 at 11:06 PM • permalink

  38. Once again, I should have Googled first:

    Ban expresses concern over reports of sexual abuse in Sudan.
    Ban Ki-moon expresses concern over Middle East crisis.

    He’s off to a good start. He’s just not “deeply concerned” yet. But, give him time, he’s new at this.

    Posted by rinardman on 2007 01 05 at 11:16 PM • permalink

  39. This fellow could turn out to be very interesting indeed.

    AsiaNews says that he is a Christian and a, “member of a “group without Church”, a serious organisation that emerged in Japan at the beginning of last century.”

    This guy says the term, “is almost certainly referring to the Mukyokai (“Non-church”) Movement,” and refers readers to this article in which we learn that, “Mukyokai, or non-Church Christians,” are pacifists.  Faaabulous, you might say.  However they appear to be pacifists with a twist.

    Paradoxically, this type of pacifism does not take the form of conscientious objection, but requires the believer to go to war in much the same manner as Christ going to the Cross to die for the sins of others. ... Conscientious objectors who refuse to obey the will of God by letting others die in their places are cowards.

    Could explain his silence over Hussein’s execution.

    Posted by Janice on 2007 01 05 at 11:18 PM • permalink

  40. Try ordering a kosher meal at the UN cafeteria. It’s like you don’t even exist.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 05 at 11:24 PM • permalink

  41. It cries out for a nursery rhyme doesn’t it?
    Boutros-Boutros, Kofi and Ban
    stole some pigs and away they ran.

    Posted by kiwinews on 2007 01 06 at 08:10 AM • permalink

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