WASHINGTON - A seemingly simple lunch order today during the President's national security briefing went completely FUBAR when the group failed to form a consensus on  where to place the order.

"It was a split between Founding Farmers and Siroc," said a sleepy Undersecretary for Defense Marty Burns.  "Then someone had the bright idea of taking a vote, and everything degraded into a complete cluster from there."

"It was a massive failure of democracy," added Marie van der Welk, who works at the Pentagon.  "It was like watching the Iraqi Federation Council."

By some estimates, Founding Farmers was the clear favorite -- having gotten the president's vote and support of the ranking members of the national security council -- but debate shifted quickly to Siroc when Admiral James A. Winnefeld Jr., Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said "the food was great" adding that the Founding Farmers "was really overrated."

Not wanting to appear elitist, the President nodded and spurred a "best of five" rounds of voting, debate, and re-voting.

"By the time everyone stopped dicking around and finally agreed to order from Siroc it was 3:45, hours past lunch service and heading into dinner," said Undersecretary Burns.  "What a debacle."