Even the HuffPo sycophants aren’t buying it.

(Huffington Post) — Photo evidence might suggest he likes something a little more savory, but President Barack Obama told a kid journalist Tuesday that his favorite food is actually broccoli.

After mingling with little top chefs at the White House’s second Kids’ State Dinner, pool reporter Andrew Clevenger said Obama fought off the hardball question of favorites with a healthy answer. If not entirely true, Obama’s response was at least tactful: the event was focused on healthy cooking and eating.

While Obama claimed to love broccoli now, he also admitted he wasn’t the kind of kid who just chowed down willingly on veggies by pretending he was a giant eating trees.

“My family when they cooked vegetables, they would just boil them and they’d get all soft and mushy,” Obama recalled, according to the Washington Post. “Nobody wanted to eat a pea or a Brussels sprout because they’d be all mushy.”