On a more personal level, verbal warfare connects the vice president to his father, a New Deal Democrat who preferred lunch-pail issues over the austere campaign oriented toward defense policy that Mr. Gore ran in 1988.
But President Kennedy preferred lunches of sandwiches and soups, especially New England fish chowder.
Rui Horta, chief executive of Grupo Top Atlántico, a travel agency, prefers lunching at the BUFFET DO FOUR SEASONS (383-2020; about $70 for two, plus tip) at the Ritz Lisboa hotel.
None of it is outrageously spicy and if you prefer a lunch that comes with a fire extinguisher, you can request a spicier version made for you.
But on a recent, unusually chilly Wednesday afternoon (temperatures anywhere below 20C are considered too cold by Nairobians), two sisters who work in computer sales, Marissa Oluchina and Emma Mwongeli, explained that they prefer having lunch at Abu's Place, located just behind the city's main mosque, which specialises in coastal dishes.
For instance, today I asked my son what he would prefer for lunch: spaghetti al olio or sesame noodles.
Whether it's sales reps acting on behavioral and activity cues from certain prospects, marketing teams pivoting messaging based on things like Google search volume, or employee surveys telling you what kind of pizza they prefer for lunch, data will be the judge and jury behind the most crucial decisions your company makes in 2017.
Perhaps, too, they'll learn how these ancestors valued familiarity over variety, preferring their lunches to taste the same wherever they travelled and relying on things called "sandwich chain stores" so they could be assured that the brie and tomato baguette they had in Pret a Manger in Rotherham one week would taste exactly the same as the one they had in Edinburgh the next.
Chanel, though, turned up her nose at the healthy lunch, preferring instead to eat the lunch she brought to school in a bag, a packet of crisps and some biscuits.Feeding schoolchildren is big business; the federally funded National School Lunch Programme provides free or reduced-cost lunches to 30m children across America each day.
