Pat Robertson: Mac & Cheese ‘a black thing’
TV preacher Pat Robertson, who once ran for president and had the support of millions of Americans, set the record straight on macaroni and cheese today while hosting yet another episode of The 700 Club.
Pat Robertson, in 1998, gives a thumbs-up to the impeachment of presumed mac & cheese aficionado Bill Clinton.
It’s “a black thing” and he’s never tasted it, he said.
The informative exchange came after Robertson showed a clip of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying she enjoyed the gooey delicacy, but only during Thanksgiving, which is almost as unbelievable a statement.
The news shocked the 81-year-old evangelist.
“What is this mac & cheese? Is it a black thing?”
African-American 700 Club co-host Kristi Watts said yes, and that everyone else in the world needed to get on board and start eating more macaroni and cheese.
The show was not, to my knowledge, sponsored by Kraft.
Robertson is no stranger to controversy.
* In September, he said it is OK to divorce someone with Alzheimer’s because it’s a “kind of death.”
* In 2010, Robertson blamed a devastating earthquake in Haiti on that island nation’s alleged “pact to the devil.”
* In 2005, he seemed to suggest Hurricane Katrina may have been God’s punishment for America’s abortion policy.
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Biggus
November 24th, 2011
4:55 pm
The only black think about mac and cheese is if you leave it in the oven to long and the top turns black……Pat has no more feet left to insert in his mouth. What is this mac and cheese he asked? A delicious side dish that you can make a main course by adding anything from tuna to tomato soup. Moron Pat! Wake up and smell the Geritol!
R U kiddin?!
November 24th, 2011
6:12 pm
Do you have to be an idiot to get your own TV show these days?
jan
November 24th, 2011
6:20 pm
I LOVE when people like Pat RObertson make comments like this,I am not prejudice so i address my comment to each individual and issue. THIS man is so tacky and i hope black people keep their offerings in their pockets and buy mac and cheese instead,loads of it. I Understand that in every culture,there are certain foods that are eaten,i dont see anything wrong with that,but does PAt R. Think he eats better or has better taste than blacks? For him to say that is just stupid! He knows many white folks eat M&C,ia going to email him to let him know how insulting his comment is!
DEBE
November 24th, 2011
6:23 pm
come on people, take it in the context it was said, I am white and I have never seen mac and cheese on anyone’s Thanksgiving table. I was watching the show he said that on and it was in response to his cohost (Kristi, who happens to be black) interview of Condoleezza Rice who admitted the one thing she HAD to have on her Thanksgiving dinner table was mac and cheese. So, who has it for turkey day? Is it a dish that African Americans have?
Average Joe
November 24th, 2011
6:56 pm
I’m tired of worrying about what Negroes think.
brad
November 24th, 2011
7:01 pm
And they don’t give a sh*t about you, Joe.
Jimmy
November 24th, 2011
7:33 pm
Anyone that writes a check to the 700 Club is a MORON.This clown could not stay on the air nor could Paul and Jan Crouch unless dumb people send them money.Support your local church and pastor and these con artist will go the way of Shular and the Crystal rip off operation.
Ole Bill
November 24th, 2011
7:40 pm
For at least the past forty years Robertson has been a senile old fool with mush for brains. He’s an embarrassment to Christians everywhere. A quote from Hamlet was clearly intended for Robertson: “Let him stay inside that he play the fool nowhere but his own house”. BTW, Mac&C is a very White, old New England thing for me and growing up in the North, we ate it all the time. When my job moved me South, I found Southerners (White and Black) enjoyed a somewhat different version of the same dish which I’ve grown to love also. The Yankee version is a heavier and denser recipe, but both are great.
Nimrod
November 24th, 2011
7:46 pm
“Kraft dinner” in Canada means 1 thing. Didn’t know there were so many blacks up there.
Lincoln Bates
November 24th, 2011
8:45 pm
What is the fuss about, the black co-host said Mac & Cheese is a black thing and Pat Robertson said what? Mac & Cheese, I don’t eat that. Even Condi Rice said she eats it only once a year so this is fubar reporting.