From a New York Times article, referring to the 2016 presidential candidates:
"Perhaps the biggest drags on voter turnout in Milwaukee, as in the rest of the country, were the candidates themselves. To some, it was like having to choose between broccoli and liver."
"Perhaps the biggest drags on voter turnout in Milwaukee, as in the rest of the country, were the candidates themselves. To some, it was like having to choose between broccoli and liver."
This is testament to the fact that you can't write anything without irking someone: broccoli and liver are two of my very favorite foods. Choosing between them would only be hard because I like them both so much; not a problem for anyone this election. They are also both very high in iron, so if you are anemic I encourage you to write an impassioned letter to the editor about their lack of sensitivity to anemia issues. Every voice matters, right?
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Iron from animal sources is much easier for your body to absorb than iron from plant sources, so a single-issue voter on anemia would surely prefer liver over broccoli.
Good to know! Incidentally, I think being a single-issue voter on anemia makes about as much sense as being a single-issue voter on anything else. So next election, I plan to vote for whoever pledges to reintroduce liver to the American diet. And if no one does, I will just write in "liver" as my candidate. I feel like there is the germ of an idea for a satirical novel in this somewhere.
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