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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T. L. Swank
November 29th, 2011
4:02 pm
I’ve never eaten “black” mac and cheese. Wonder if it tastes the same as the regular old yellow-orange mac and cheese? Do you think it;st the “cheesiest” like the Kraft version?
Terrance
November 29th, 2011
10:48 pm
Phillip, let’s go home and have Kraft Dinner.
Terrance, not without my anus.
Philip
November 29th, 2011
10:49 pm
Terrance, you are such a hoser.
Patriot Act
November 30th, 2011
8:06 pm
Why do we allow these bible thumping fakes to be ok tv in the first place?
With the big picture of American white Jesus…come on, Jesus wasn’t white,
and he liked mac and cheese they had it at the last supper while they were watching the BCS selection show!
naw but serious you guy need to read the patriot act, it is serious.
Roekest
December 1st, 2011
1:45 pm
A) It’s not a black thing. My wife is as Caucasian as they make them and she makes some awesome Mac and Cheese…..but only usually for the holidays
B) Pat Robertson is an idiot, and if there is a Heaven and Hell, I’ll ask God for a ticket straight to Hell if I have to share eternal space with that space-cadet.
RWMCWooten
December 1st, 2011
9:24 pm
maybe it was was a joke in bad taste or maybe he is the joke
Andrea
December 3rd, 2011
1:26 am
Its not a black thing… this is out of context. Mac and Cheese (usually as a cassorole or just the noodles covered in cheese) is a major side dish among African american families at Thanksgiving… Its pretty much mandatory. (you can even see it on wiki- thanksgiving sides)
mel
December 6th, 2011
3:13 pm
Mac and cheese is an american thing and all people eat it, Pat including your family.Are you that blank up there?
Lorrie
December 6th, 2011
5:51 pm
Wow, didn’t know it was only for one group of people. I thought just about everybody loved mac and cheese. Its been a favorite my whole life. Prefer the homemade gooey kind, but the blue and yellow box will do in a pinch!