Tuesday, January 15, 2019

"I Like 'Em All" - Updated


photo credit: Brad Mills/USA Sports





Candlelight and burgers: Donald actually doesn't look too thrilled, at least in this picture:


photo credit: Chris Kleponis--Pool/Getty Images


That's not a joke:




... Clemson really does have a culinary coach and she's probably not happy this morning:  

One of the first of her kind, culinary professional Donna McCain is in her second football season as executive performance chef, a position that was introduced to the college football ranks when she and her colleague, Hali Foreman, were hired in 2017 by the Tiger football program.

“It was a good fit for me and a way for me to make an impact on the players,” said McCain. “I’m extremely grateful to be a part of this culture.”

With a lifelong passion for both athletics and nutrition, McCain described her position with Clemson’s football team as a career that marries her two passions, as it enables her to work closely with the players in molding their dietary customs to meet the high standards required of competing on college football’s biggest stage. From ClemsonTigers.com, read more here.

And one more thing. The Washington Post digs deep into the logistics:



...and provides a bit of cost/benefit analysis:

...319 sandwiches, 177 of which were hamburgers. Perhaps Trump’s “300” hamburgers figure referred to all of the sandwiches — or perhaps they weren’t all put out at the outset. (The low number of Whoppers and pizzas certainly does suggest that some food may have been held in reserve.) That the staff who were passing around Wendy’s on serving trays took those sandwiches directly from the table, however, seems to suggest that what you see in the photos was what was purchased.

Was it indeed enough food? We didn’t see photos of the aftermath, so we don’t know exactly what might have been leftover. But we do know that the team alone is made up of 120 players, weighing over 27,500 pounds combined. So, the average Clemson player weighs about 230 pounds.

Thanks to the also-aptly-named CalorieKing, we can also determine how many calories were waiting in that room: About 310,000 — excluding sauces and dressing. The spread also made up somewhere around 16,000 grams of fat. In other words, each player could eat about 2,600 calories of food assuming our counts and estimates above are correct. Football players apparently need about 50 calories for every 2.2 pounds each day, meaning that the spread covered about half the team’s necessary caloric intake for the day. (Read more here.)

 Tuesday afternoon update. What, exactly, did Donald serve to the Clemson team:

  

 No worries, he fixed it, although somehow 300 hamburgers, straight from Donald's mouth in the video above, magically became "over 1000 hamburgers":

Update #2. OMG is right:


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