Hotel Gift Baskets

The hotel gift basket -- reserved for VIPs and friends of the hotel, generally -- is something I think about far too often. Spying a gift basket in your hotel room as you lunk your suitcase onto the bed can make the knees go weak. The cans of salty nuts. The processed cheese triangles. The twice-baked crackers. My oh my.

As of late, I've been thinking about the presidential candidates and the sorts of gift baskets they might be seeing in their rooms at various hotels as the travel the country. Is Barack Obama gifted the foods of Chicago, while John McCain finds Arizona treats in his basket? Or perhaps the hotel just opts to go with the local favorites of the immediate area.

Or maybe the hotels just go with an American theme, such as this:















I eagerly await election day, so I can stop pondering such weighty matters.



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