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“No two countries with a McDonald’s have ever gone to war,” sophisticated pundits need to get out more “by talking to people at Applebees,” and any Black man — even Republicans — who wants to run for governor in FL needs to make the white folks feel safe by making it clear they read Cracker Barrel menus not Malcolm X. We need a name for this river of semiotic pink slime coursing through our body politic. I propose victual-signaling or, for the folks back home, vittle-signaling.