Thursday 3 September 2020

White House, Black Beans, and the Weaponisation of Soup

In one of the more random items of tinned food news in recent months, a couple of weeks back, Ivanka Trump posted a photo of herself on her various social media platforms, holding a tin of Goya brand black beans, with the caption "If it's Goya, it's got to be good" in both English and Spanish. It followed on from a tweet from the previous week by the Great Orange One himself, where he simply said "I LOVE @GoyaFoods!", and a subsequent post on Instagram, showing a picture of him in the Oval Office, giving a double-thumbs up to the array of products from the Hispanic-owned firm on the desk in front of him, including tins of beans and coconut milk.