 When city manager Chris Traeger tries to remove red meat from the city hall cafeteria as part of a government @-@ wide health initiative in " Soulmates , " Ron intervenes by challenging Chris to a cook @-@ off . Chris agrees to abandon his plan if Ron 's regular hamburgers are deemed better than his lean meat turkey burgers . Although Ron exerts little effort compared to Chris , his burgers easily win the contest . In " Road Trip , " Ron reluctantly agrees to be interviewed by a young girl for her school assignment , during which he explains his libertarian beliefs about small government , and illustrates the concept of taxes by eating 40 percent of her lunch . The two bond , and he ends the day by giving her a claymore landmine as a gift . Ron gets in trouble the next day when the girl 's mother explains her daughter 's assignment was " Why Government Matters , " and that Lauren simply wrote " It doesn 't . " 
