Internal Memo Bloated With Lactose Intolerance

Lactose intolerance jokes are a crowd pleaser, unless you have it, right? (Then you’re in a gaseous state with flatulence and abdominal pain, as we read on WebMD.)

At Politico they are part of a series of inside jokes between Editor-in-Chief John Harris and Ryan Mannion, head of tech, who often jokes that he’s lactose intolerant. References appeared in an internal memo that VandeHarris dispatched this morning to staff thanking everyone for the good time had at their four-year-old birthday party last night.

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