🧩 BND Motif Index · M1207
Food fight
People argue over a loved or loathed food or restaurant, tacky chain or comfort food, fine dining or not, and the defenders and haters trade jabs for the fun of it: 'Who the fuck thinks The Cheesecake Factory is fine dining?'
- 3claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🐘 right 2
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump criticizes Obama's Cheesecake Factory remark 2026-10-25 to 2026-10-28
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-26 “Donald Trump has turned the White House into something that looks like a Cheesecake Factory decorated by Saddam Hussein.”
🎙️ Morning Wire 🎙️ Politico Playbook 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ Top Story with Tom Llamas (NBC) 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-26 “Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump's White House renovations as looking like Saddam Hussein had opened a Cheesecake Factory.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-25 “The Cheesecake Factory is a place of poor quality, excess, and bad taste.” 🧶 people online
M1207 · first seen 2026-10-25 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works