His tongue forked. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an elected member of the Republican Party in the United States, found herself, Wednesday, February 9, derided on the internet for having used the word “gazpacho”, the famous Spanish vegetable soup served ice cold, instead of “Gestapo”, the political police of the Third Reich. She wanted to denounce the so-called police method of the Democratic leader of Congress, Nancy Pelosi.
In a diatribe delivered Tuesday evening on the very conservative channel One America News, the elected official of the State of Georgia likened the prison where the attackers of the Capitol of January 6, 2021 are held to a “gulag” and denounced “Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police, spying on congressmen”.
Just to clear things up, @RepMTG
Gazpacho: a vegetable-based Spanish cold soup
Gestapo: Nazi Germany’s secret police pic.twitter.com/T9q76r706G— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) February 9, 2022
This confusion has delighted many Internet users and personalities. Among the latter, the Spanish chef José Andrés, known for having popularized tapas in the United States, offered the Republican representative to come and taste a glass of gazpacho in one of his restaurants in Washington.
— Thee Vic (@vicsepulveda) February 9, 2022
Dear @RepMTG the Gazpacho police was created by me in 1993 to make sure that no one will add Tabasco or jalalpeño or strange things to my beloved soup! Please don’t blame anyone else but me…stop by for a glass anytime. Don’t forget your mask and vaccination card! https://t.co/srhSZXWv6L
— Jose Andrés (@chefjoseandres) February 9, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene had already shocked by comparing the vaccine passport against Covid-19 to the yellow star imposed on Jews. The elected Trumpist took things with humor, in a tone of self-mockery. “No soup for those who illegally spy on members of Congress, but they will be thrown into the goulash”, she tweeted. A little pun between the “gulag” and the “goulash”this Hungarian soup very common in Central Europe.
No soup for those who illegally spy on Members of Congress, but they will be thrown into the goulash.#Gazpacho #Gestapo
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) February 9, 2022