In all honesty, we've been keeping an eye on what President Biden's been eating, and
we couldn't help but notice: This man is an eating machine! We're talking fast food, ice
cream, and lumberjack breakfasts. But don't take our word for it ... see for yourself
what Joe Biden really eats.
“My name is Joe Biden and I love ice cream.”
It's no secret that Joe Biden is an ice cream enthusiast.
“You all think I’m kidding, I’m not. I eat more ice cream than the three other
people you’d like to be with. All at once.”
In fact, according to Columbus Monthly, the Biden campaign spent $12,546 on Jeni's Splendid
Ice Cream in one year. Of course, not all of that was consumed by Biden alone. It appears
the campaign sent quite a few six-packs of Jeni's pints to campaign backers, and presumably
kept some on hand for the enjoyment of campaign staffers. But when you consider that the 12,546
dollars doesn't reflect any ice cream that wasn't Jeni's, it’s pretty clear that Biden's
love of ice cream is real. So real, in fact, that Jeni's created an ice cream inspired
by Biden's favorite flavor, chocolate chip. And that's not even the first time Biden has
had an ice cream created in his honor. Back in 2017, when Biden gave the commencement
speech at Cornell University, the Cornell Dairy created the flavor "Big Red, White,
and Biden,” according to PBS.
Although Joe Biden identifies as an "ice cream" guy, he seems more than happy to enjoy any
number of treats. As Columbus Monthly noted,
"If it is creamy and frosty and sweet, Joe Biden is all about it."
Indeed, he's been known to stop everything just to grab a milkshake, which is precisely
what he did after his North Carolina drive-in rally, according to Business Insider.
And on occasion, he's been seen indulging in frozen custard, as he did in 2012. While
on a visit to Winston-Salem in North Carolina to highlight the Obama administration's efforts
to bring manufacturing jobs back to America, Joe Biden dug into a double-dip of Wolfie's
Frozen Custard, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.
But as loyal as Joe Biden is to ice cream and related creamy, frozen treats, it would
be unfair to the other desserts not to mention the other sweets Biden partakes in now and
then. According to his food diary from his 2012 vice presidential campaign, Biden's desserts
of choice have included cookies, rice pudding, peach pie, custard pie, cheesecake, coconut
cream pie, and an "unidentified strawberry treat" to name just a few.
In 2016, Joe Biden told Us Weekly that his favorite meal was pasta -- since apparently
ice cream isn’t a meal.
“Ice cream is big. Pasta with red sauce. He can go deep on that.”
And while our 46th President has been known to chow down on spaghetti with marinara sauce,
his flat-out favorite pasta dish is a slightly different variation on the pasta with red-sauce
theme: angel hair pomodoro, via The Week.
Biden's devotion to angel hair pomodoro runs so deep that he has been known to go a bit
"rock star" about it when he's on tour, which is to say that in the same way that Beyoncé
demands almonds and oat cakes backstage, Joe Biden demands angel hair pomodoro. And like
many a rock star who has their food preferences written into their concert contracts, Biden
has his written right into his speaking engagement contracts.
The Italian food and beverage industry has great expectations for Joe Biden's presidency,
according to Italian Food.net. They're hopeful the 46th president will usher in a better
climate for international trade. Apparently things have been rough on that front for the
past four years, with high duties being placed on food and beverage exports from Italy, according
to Ettore Prandini, who’s the president of an international trade organization.
But there might be another reason, being that Joe Biden is a huge fan of Italian food. For
one thing, Biden enjoys classic red-sauce-style Italian-American food. For another, his wife,
Dr. Jill Biden, is very big on Italian cooking, according to Delaware Online. And while Biden
alone won't likely make a dent in Italian food sales, the President of the United States
is always an influence on the nation's eating habits, via Penn State University's News.
Given Joe Biden's appreciation for red-sauce Italian food, it shouldn't be surprising that
his campaign trail tends to include multiple stops for pizza and at least one stop at Ohio's
Naples Spaghetti House for their famous chicken parm, according to Washington Examiner. But
thanks to Parade Magazine's interview with his wife, we now understand how that chicken
parm might have been particularly comforting to him while on the road.
Apparently, one of Dr. Biden's mantras is "food is love." When the Bidens were first
married and she became a step-mom, she made sure to provide both "security and love,"
and part of that was through cooking and baking for Hunter and Beau. One of the family's longtime
favorite dishes is a version of chicken parmesan that Dr. Biden calls "Parmesan Chicken," which
she serves with rigatoni and green salad.
Sure, President Biden eats what can only be called an "ungodly amount of junk food" via
Washington Examiner. However, it’s not like he never eats anything healthy. Biden's campaign
food diary has him eating salad not once, but three whole times. Granted, one of them
was a tuna salad, which may or may not have any vegetables at all, but one can always
hope that the deli served that tuna salad to Mr. Biden on a bed of lettuce at the very
least.
The campaign food diary also reveals that in Virginia, Biden dined on a "mini chopped
salad with avocado.” Then there's the side salad that his wife traditionally serves with
her signature parmesan chicken via Parade Magazine, and the vegetable soup Joe carried
out from Iowa. Nor should we forget about the Caprese salad that his speaking engagement
contract requires to be served with his angel hair pomodoro and raspberry sorbet, via The
Week.
State fairs are, as CNN puts it, "paradise" for politicians. And it's not just about supporting
the agricultural industry or acting folksy with the locals. According to the New York
Times, what a politician chooses to eat or not to eat at these shindigs matters. If you
find that hard to believe, just Google "what politicians eat at state fairs,” and you'll
find numerous outlets offering an obsessive listing of politicians and their personal
state fair foods. And if you dig just a little bit deeper, you'll find an obscure political
fact that may have guided Joe Biden's choice to eat fried cheese balls rather than a corndog
at Ohio's Canfield Fair, via Washington Examiner.
Ready? Here goes. According to Eater, no presidential candidate except for Barack Obama has ever
politically survived the eating of a corn dog. And apparently, our 46th president was
not willing to take any chances in Ohio.
Like state fairs, fast-food restaurants are big political business, according to Eater,
which performed a statistical analysis of which politicians are indirectly benefiting
most from fast-food profits. As it turns out, no CEO of any major fast-food company donated
to either Trump or Biden, but fast-food employees donate more money to Republicans than to Democrats.
It appears that President Biden is not taking it personally. Either that, or his love of
fast food is just too big for him to quit. Among the fast food joints that Biden enjoys
is Dairy Queen, which according to a tweet by Senator Chris Murphy, represents nothing
short of a brilliant political choice. In response to a video Biden tweeted flipping
a blizzard upside down, the Connecticut senator tweeted:
“His recognition of Dairy Queen’s greatness is reason enough to make him President.”
There’s also Whataburger, to which Biden gave a shout-out at the Dallas rally when
a Texas Representative officially endorsed Biden's presidential candidacy in early 2020,
via CNN. As the event came to a close, Biden exclaimed: "I'm going to Whataburger right
now.” Although members of the audience thought he might be kidding, he most certainly was
not.
Along with sliced cheese, ketchup, and eggs, something you'll pretty much always find in
Joe Biden's fridge is an ample supply of Diet Coke and Coke Zero, according to the Washington
Post. In keeping with the unification theme in President Biden's inauguration address,
here's a fun fact: an appreciation for Diet Coke is something that President Biden shares
with his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. So deep is Trump's devotion to the
diet soft drink that he had a special red button installed on his desk in the Oval Office,
which would alert his staff to bring him a Diet Coke, stat.
“This is a very ominous looking because of the red button.”
“What does that get you?”
“Well it gets you a Coke or it gets you a Pepsi.”
As for Biden, however, maybe the devotion doesn't run quite so deep. Just hours after
his inauguration, the Diet Coke button is gone.
President Joe Biden makes no bones about the fact that he doesn't partake in alcoholic
beverages. He's seen the damage that hitting the bottle has done to loved ones, neighbors,
and other members of his inner circle, according to Marie Claire. So, perhaps we should cut
him a break for drinking diet soda, which isn't exactly a health food, or his favorite
drink of all, Gatorade.
In his "25 Things You Don't Know About Me" piece that appeared on Us Magazine the day
after his inauguration, Joe Biden said that his favorite drink is orange Gatorade. Unfortunately,
while Gatorade is a healthier choice than soda, that's not saying much. A far better
choice for hydration would be good ole water. Or maybe even milk, which is actually better
than water at helping the body to maintain its state of hydration. Or coffee or tea,
for that matter.
Just a quick skim of Joe Biden's food diary from his 2012 vice presidential campaign,
which was published by the Washington Examiner, reveals that the 46th President of the United
States is a fan of sandwiches. And by that, we mean all manner of things stuffed between
bread, including hot dogs, cheeseburgers, and peanut butter and jelly, not to mention
meals consisting of both cheeseburgers and peanut butter and jelly. And like many a fellow
American, Mr. Biden is a fan of the sort of sandwich many refer to as a "Dagwood."
For those who don’t know, a "Dagwood" sandwich is a comically tall sandwich constructed of
multiple layers of bread, meat, cheese, and condiments. At a campaign stop in Concord,
New Hampshire, Biden enjoyed his own Dagwood sandwich, courtesy of The Works Cafe. On behalf
of foodies everywhere, we wholeheartedly approve.
Once upon a time, former Vice President Joe Biden was going head-to-head against Senator
Kamala Harris in a bid to win the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 presidential
race. And it wasn't going well for Biden in the wake of the first Democratic Party debate.
Senator Harris took him to task for remarks he made earlier about his work with segregationist
lawmakers, which Harris considered hurtful from a race perspective. So what did the industrious
former Vice President do? He went to Dulan's on Crenshaw in Los Angeles, donned an apron,
and got to work, according to The New York Times.
For those who don’t know, Dulan's refers to Dulan's Soul Food Kitchen, a Black-owned
restaurant that's been dishing up some of Los Angeles' favorite soul food since 1975.
And while spending a little time in a soul food kitchen was great for rehabilitating
Biden's image, we're guessing there was more in it for Biden than mere political currency.
And by that we mean potatoes, eggs, sausage, bacon, and fried chicken, which he told TMZ
are some of his favorites.
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