{"id":104121,"date":"2022-10-06T12:16:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=104121"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:50:11","slug":"dude-food-is-not-patriotic-vegetables-and-moderation-are-more-deeply-rooted-in-the-nation-s-early-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/dude-food-is-not-patriotic-vegetables-and-moderation-are-more-deeply-rooted-in-the-nation-s-early-history","title":{"rendered":"Dude food is not patriotic &#8211; vegetables and moderation are more deeply rooted in the nation&#8217;s early history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neither George Washington nor Thomas Jefferson would have approved of this bacon cheeseburger. zoranm\/Getty Images Dude food is on a roll in America. Gargantuan pizzas, footlong subs, high-stacked burgers and extra-loaded nachos remain a basic choice for any real or pretend He-Man . Eating dude food conjures not just manliness, however. There&#8217;s patriotism, too. TV networks keep churning out shows that celebrate the quasi-magical equation between generous portions, masculinity and devotion to country . Guy Fieri, the multimillionaire guru of dudeism , has a clear-cut philosophy. His barbecues and other cooking performances are a means to celebrate American patriotism, counteracting what he describes as a lot of &#8220; infighting and democratic craziness that goes on &#8221; in the U.S. Dude food, Fieri says, would remind Americans about &#8220;what a great country we are and how lucky we are to be the greatest country in the world .&#8221; But as an author of a new book on George Washington, notoriously the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dude food is on a roll in America. Gargantuan pizzas, footlong subs, high-stacked burgers and extra-loaded nachos remain a basic choice for any real or pretend He-Man. Eating dude food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,1],"tags":[121,6],"class_list":["post-104121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drinks","category-news","tag-food-drinks","tag-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}