This is the greatest thing ever.
I don’t know how much time you spend thinking about Hummus, but I spend lots. Most of those wistful, longing daydreams are for Sabra brand hummus, which is so inexplicably good that there must be something in it. MSG? I don’t know. I didn’t eat it for awhile because a friend told me it was bad or something — like, the company was oppressing someone somewhere (Palestine maybe?) but I looked into it and as far as I can tell, my friend was mistaken.
I don’t know how much time you send thinking about Barack Obama, but I spend lots. Clearly (up until this week at least) I love him almost as much as Sabra brand hummus. If you had told me “Ben: Would you like it if someone made a sculpture of Barack Obama’s head made out of Sabra hummus?” I never would have dreamed it was possible. But yesterday my remarkable friend Rupa was at a food expo in New York and put me on to this:
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you could literally smear the candidates.
does this make all three of them Muslims?
Just middle eastern. Possibly jewish.
SABRA!!! I’m covered in drool. Roasted pine nut…mmmmmmm.
oh my god i would even eat out John McCain for this hummus.
The John McCain one is the most accurate — what with his scary looking face that bulges out.
It also looks dried out and crusty.
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