President Obama has spoken: peas have no place in any decent guacamole recipe.
The commander in chief weighed in on the brewing, avocado-filled controversy during a Twitter chat on Wednesday.
Social media had been buzzing earlier after The New York Times published a green pea guacamole recipe and suggested in a tweet that readers “trust us” and add the unlikely ingredient to the classic dip.
But when a journalist posed the question to Obama, he sided with green pea critics, replying on Twitter:
The recipe — whose author wrote the peas add “intense sweetness and a chunky texture” — also drew the venom of other guacamole enthusiasts.
The Twitter account of the Republican Party of Texas wrote:
Former Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) also weighed in: