Why Obama Wants You to Eat Your Peas (Esquire)

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By Elizabeth Gunnison
July 12, 2011  

It's been a big couple of days for the pea people. That's because at a White House press conference on Monday, President Obama name-checked the little green vegetables in the course of discussing negotiations about how to solve the nation's debt crisis:

"It's not going to get easier. It's going to get harder. So we might as well do it now: pull off the Band-Aid, eat our peas. Now is the time to do it. If not now, when?"

The pea industry is, naturally, aflutter.

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