Feed the Troops at the Capitol

[ssmjlm]

Saw this on IG from Sharon Says:

donorbox.org/we-the-pizza-we-the-troops-1

Help feed the National Guard Troops in DC protecting our Democracy. These pizzas are for the National Guard at the Capitol Building and we are including our local Metropolitan Police Force and any first responders in DC.

“We are in this together" has been the motto of We, The Pizza for the past 10 years. We are a community and will be working with other restaurants in the area to provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We are teaming up with Good Stuff Eatery (our sister restaurant), PLNT Burger, Maketto, Breadsoda, CHIKO, RASA, Pizzeria Paradiso, RIS, Sticky Fingers Eats & Sweets, Cane, The Duck and The Peach, and District Doughnuts to provide meals for our troops stationed in DC.

Donations are being spread around to restaurants that have been hit hard from covid and have been working at diminished capacity because of the domestic attack in our own backyard.

[morecoffeeplease]

I LOVE we the pizza. Same with good stuff eatery.

Jose Andres is there, of course, doing his thing. Nancy Pelosi was out with them handing out food.

I thought this was a really sweet story

A family was walking home to their house in DC and they ran into Jose Andres. They told him their son was named after his friend, Chef Ferran Adria so Chef Andres facetimed his chef friend and the family got to meet him over facetime.

[notsopicky]

Donated (thanks for the link) and shared on social media. I'm local and that was important for me to help in some way!

[Whitecaps]

Thank you for sharing this!

[Bad Dingo]

I'm confused, do they not get fed as part of their job?

[VillainV]

Jan 18, 2021 2:04:57 GMT -5 Bad Dingo said:

I'm confused, do they not get fed as part of their job?

They do, but they may only have access to hot food when they’re back in the barracks, and not in their duty location. While on duty, they may only have access to MREs (meals ready-to-eat, kind of nasty pre-packaged rations). I can’t imagine they’d turn down pizza (or sandwiches, or any other easy-to-eat food). It’s also about the gesture — that people care about them and support what they’re doing.

[morecoffeeplease]

Jan 18, 2021 2:04:57 GMT -5 Bad Dingo said:

I'm confused, do they not get fed as part of their job?

The article I saw was Chef Andres giving them hot stews when it was raining and they didn’t have shelter to stand anywhere but the rain.

Also, a lot of them are sleeping on cots in the middle of the Capitol building so I don’t think they are being fed hot food.

[georgeglass]

More Jose goodness

[jennybee1018]

Jose is the most exemplary human ever and we do not deserve him!!!!

I want to see him with a Nobel Peace Prize.

Thanks for sharing this link - donating now!

[VillainV]

Jan 18, 2021 21:11:47 GMT -5 jennybee1018 said:

Jose is the most exemplary human ever and we do not deserve him!!!!

I want to see him with a Nobel Peace Prize.

Thanks for sharing this link - donating now!

A high school friend used to work for him at his restaurants in DC (she’s a sommelier), right around the time he was gaining fame in the US. She says he’s really through and through the amazing human being he sets himself out to be. She loved working for him. And, she called him Big Papi, which I guess a lot of his employees called him, and is the cutest thing ever.

[jennybee1018]

Jan 18, 2021 21:31:57 GMT -5 VillainV said:

Jan 18, 2021 21:11:47 GMT -5 jennybee1018 said:

Jose is the most exemplary human ever and we do not deserve him!!!!

I want to see him with a Nobel Peace Prize.

Thanks for sharing this link - donating now!

A high school friend used to work for him at his restaurants in DC (she’s a sommelier), right around the time he was gaining fame in the US. She says he’s really through and through the amazing human being he sets himself out to be. She loved working for him. And, she called him Big Papi, which I guess a lot of his employees called him, and is the cutest thing ever.

That is really awesome to hear! Big Pali is cute!

I loved his Recipes for the people segments on Twitter with his daughters! Such a great example to be setting fir the next generation!

[khibb]

Jan 17, 2021 7:22:08 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

Saw this on IG from Sharon Says:

donorbox.org/we-the-pizza-we-the-troops-1

Help feed the National Guard Troops in DC protecting our Democracy. These pizzas are for the National Guard at the Capitol Building and we are including our local Metropolitan Police Force and any first responders in DC.

“We are in this together" has been the motto of We, The Pizza for the past 10 years. We are a community and will be working with other restaurants in the area to provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We are teaming up with Good Stuff Eatery (our sister restaurant), PLNT Burger, Maketto, Breadsoda, CHIKO, RASA, Pizzeria Paradiso, RIS, Sticky Fingers Eats & Sweets, Cane, The Duck and The Peach, and District Doughnuts to provide meals for our troops stationed in DC.

Donations are being spread around to restaurants that have been hit hard from covid and have been working at diminished capacity because of the domestic attack in our own backyard.

Just donated- thank you for sharing!

[raangoli]

Thank you for linking! Donated and added these restaurants to my list of places to visit if / when we visit DC again this summer. We love Good Stuff Eatery though!

[followyourarrow]

We The Pizza is so good, one of the places we still talk about from when we visited.