President Obama Clarifies That Whole ‘Seven Lightly Salted Almonds’ Thing
President Barack Obama was on Today and chatted with co-host Savannah Guthrie about one of the odder stories to come out of his presidency. In a July New York Times article, it was revealed that the president ate exactly “seven lightly salted almonds” every night. Obama gave Guthrie the context around that piece of news.
“So Michelle [Obama] and Sam Kass, who is our chef here, one night they were talking about me and teasing me about how disciplined I was that I didn’t have potato chips, or I didn’t have a piece of cake,” Obama said. “This is when Michelle said, ‘He just has seven almonds. That’s it.’ Sam relayed this joke to the New York Times in the article, and somehow it was relayed as if I was counting out these seven almonds. All my friends were calling up and saying, ‘This seems a little anal, this is kind of weird.’”
Though President Obama might not eat ’em every night, he still has a lot of love for almonds. “But, you know, almonds are a good snack, though. I strongly recommend them,” he finished.
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