--- title: This Governor Is Getting Mocked for Brown-Bagging Lunch Every Day description: Wisconsin's Republican governor tweeted that he has eaten two ham & cheese sandwiches every day for 26 years. Twitter users had a lot to say. authors: - name: Kaitlin Mulhere role: Editor url: https://money.com/author/kaitlin-mulhere/ bio: Kaitlin Mulhere is an editor at Money.com. Since joining in 2015, she’s written and edited about a variety of personal finance topics, including banks, credit, student debt, saving strategies and more. education: University of Florida at_money_since: 2015 articles: 217 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://twitter.com/KMulhere - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaitlin-mulhere-64503048/ published: '2016-11-04T20:47:41.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T11:58:24.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - brown bag lunch - eating out - Food & Drink - Lunch - pack your lunch - pubdesk - Scott Walker - Wisconsin word_count: 433 canonical: https://money.com/scott-walker-ham-cheese-sandwich-lunch-twitter/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Scott Walker Campaigns At Chicago's Famed Billy Goat Tavern](https://img.money.com/2016/11/gettyimages-482159122.jpg) *A rare instance of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eating something other than a ham-and-cheese sandwich, while campaigning in 2015.* Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tried to show the Twitter-verse Friday that he's a simple ham-and-cheese-loving kind of guy. Walker tweeted that for 26 long years in a row, he has eaten not one, but two ham-and-cheese sandwiches almost everyday for lunch. "Like millions of Americans, I bring my own lunch to work," Walker wrote in [the tweet](https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/794578578327371776). His Friday announcement followed a [picture he shared on Thursday](https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/794222045924102144) of a rather sad-looking ham-and-cheese sandwich to celebrate [#NationalSandwichDay](https://money.com/national-sandwich-day-deals-free-subs-sandwiches-subway/). Twitter users, naturally, had a lot to say about Walker's eating habits, especially his uninspired sandwich of choice. > [@ScottWalker](https://twitter.com/ScottWalker) i don't even eat ham, but could totally make you a better ham 'n cheese sammich. For shame, Walker. > > — Blazer Ramon (@RedKhan1) [November 3, 2016](https://twitter.com/RedKhan1/status/794323102956191744) > [@ScottWalker](https://twitter.com/ScottWalker) [https://t.co/w2HHQo5Vsm](https://t.co/w2HHQo5Vsm) > > — jason (@JasonKirkSBN) [November 4, 2016](https://twitter.com/JasonKirkSBN/status/794595323830304773) > [@ScottWalker](https://twitter.com/ScottWalker) "As evidence I present you with a screenshot of a video of me in a human kitchen." > > — Dan Telfer 🐙 (@dantelfer) [November 4, 2016](https://twitter.com/dantelfer/status/794588250698432512) > [@ScottWalker](https://twitter.com/ScottWalker) [pic.twitter.com/Qsd3Tv2yab](https://t.co/Qsd3Tv2yab) > > — pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) [November 4, 2016](https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/794584236393168896) > [@ScottWalker](https://twitter.com/ScottWalker) You are what you eat. What I'm trying to say is: you are approximately 18,980 ham sandwiches, my man > > — Will Stratton (@rosewoodalmanac) [November 4, 2016](https://twitter.com/rosewoodalmanac/status/794587644726493184) Jokes (and the oddity and mind-numbing boredom of eating the same thing everyday) aside, Walker's right that he's not alone in brown-bagging it. In fact, Americans are packing their lunch even more this year in response to higher restaurant prices. Lunch traffic at restaurants was down 4% during the second quarter of 2016, and the average customer bill was down 5%. So perhaps Walker has just been ahead of his time--by *more than a quarter-century*\--in terms of this whole brown-bagging lunch thing. ***Read Next:* Americans Aren’t Going Out to Lunch As Much** Bringing your lunch from home even a few days a week can be a big money saver too. People who buy lunch every work day burn through about $2,500 a year, according to *What Are You Doing for Lunch,* by Mona Meighan. Calculations done by Money columnist [Dan Kadlec](http://business.time.com/2012/08/29/how-to-save-2500-a-year-on-lunch/) show that if you skip the $15 daily lunch in favor of brown-bagging a meal that cost you $3 to make, you’ll save $31,000 over the next 10 years. (However, Walker, who has a history of being in credit card debt, apparently needs to do more than brown-bag his lunch to pay off his bills.) In sum, Walker reminded us of two important lessons today: Eating out for lunch can be a huge money suck, and people are going to roll their eyes when you share pointless life stories on social media. 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