Boy SISIg, fake rice ala politiko top militants' SONA menu

Instead of black Angus and wasabi burger, what about Boy SISIg, Wa-sabi SONA and fake rice ala politiko?

 

These are among the items topping the militant groups' version of the menu for President Benigno Aquino III's last State of the Nation Address this Monday.

 

Youth group Anakbayan posted a copy of the menu on its Facebook page. The hot buffet items include:

 

 

The cold buffet includes:

 

 

Boy SISIg is a play on "Boy Sisi," the informal nickname that Aquino's critics gave him for his supposed penchant of blaming his predecessors, former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, for the country's ills.

 

The actual menu's hot buffet included black Angus with soft pan rolls with caper mayonnaise, bacon-wrapped chicken rolls, chicken barbecue kebabs, eastern shrimp rolls with sweet chili sauce, bread sticks with quatro formaggio artichoke dip, pasta carbonara and cappellini a la puttanesca.

 

The SONA cold buffet included cocktail sandwiches, shrimp and capsicum vinaigrette in shot glass, cream puff, chocolate eclair, fresh fruit pannacotta, and green tea and raspberry iced tea.

 

Meanwhile, militant labor group Partido Manggagawa scored the P700-per-plate menu, saying it is proof of inequality in the country.

 

“For lawmakers and VIP guests, the SONA menu for merienda may look ordinary or even cheap. But for a jobless person and for the many families living in subsistence level, a P700/plate merienda made of black angus and shrimp rolls, among others, is lavishly alienating and, of course, insulting,” said PM chairman Renato Magtubo.

 

Magtubo, a former partylist representative, said workers in sweatshops who earn P200 a day, like in the case of Kentex, can live on that P700 to survive for a week.

 

“At least here in the P700/plate merienda, the persisting inequality in Philippine society is best understood.  And it will be good for the people to know that for those who will be inside the Batasan Complex on Monday, fine dining is most memorable than listening to PNoy’s last SONA,” he said. — Joel Locsin/ALG, GMA News