Kapeng Barakobama anyone?

March 13, 2009

Obama: Thank you for a lovely dinner.

GMA: Oh, we’re not done yet. Try our kare-kare. It’s ox. [Kare-kare is a Filipino soup that combines oxtail and vegetables.]

Obama: Okay, sure.

GMA: Guinataang mais! It’s corn. But we use our coconut. [Guinataang Mais is a sweetish Filipino delicacy made of corn kernels cooked in coconut milk. When GMA says “we use our coconut”, she refers to the mind.]

Obama: Oh, alright.

[Obama looks pained, and utters a grunt.]

GMA: Oh my gosh, that’s impatso na. Dispepsya yan no. Ang dami mo kasing kinakain no. Ang Motilium, bilis! [Oh my gosh, that is indigestion already. That’s dispepsia! You ate so much, that’s why! Get Motilium, hurry!]

[Obama is served the medicine, and he takes it.]

GMA: The impatso will disappear in thirty minutes, no?

[Obama buttons up his tuxedo.]

GMA: Kapeng baracks? [She’s referring to the Kape Barako she’s serving. Kape Barako is a kind of coffee grown in the Philippines.]

[The two smile and shake hands for the cameras.]