By Dorothy Rosby
If you’re more informed than I am, you probably heard about the biggest controversy to come out of Washington in years. I can’t believe I almost missed it. I like a good scandal as much as anybody and this one involved two of my favorite topics: eating out and pasta.
Here’s the lowdown: One evening in February, President and Mrs. Biden ordered the same rigatoni dish at a Washington, DC restaurant. Shocking! Immediately a hullabaloo erupted where so many important discussions of the day start—on Twitter. Some twitter users…wait. What do you call people who use twitter? Twitterers? Twits? People with nothing better to do? I’ll go with tweeters. It’s kinder and quicker to type. Anyway, some tweeters wondered what the fuss was about. But many were horrified that the Bidens chose the same entrée when there were so many…uh…pasta-bilities on the menu. And it wasn’t just the Twitterverse. Media outlets from all sides of the political spectrum weighed in. Some even called on etiquette experts for advice so their viewers wouldn’t make a similar faux pasta. I’m sorry. I just can’t help myself. Anyway everyone had moved on to something equally important—maybe butter, sour cream or both on baked potatoes—by the time a friend mentioned the Biden’s blunder to me. My initial reaction was, “What next? Matching outfits!”
Not really. Actually I had three thoughts. One, Twitter users have too much time on their hands and should come clean my house. Two, all the world’s problems must be solved if cable news has time to cover the Great Rigatoni Scandal. And three, I can’t wait to write about this. Because as usual I do have an opinion. Also I’m usually right, so you’re in luck. But because I’m open-minded, I decided to go to Twitter and try to understand the opinions of those who live there before I tell you what you should think.