Nope, it doesn't taste like chicken.

All this moose talk prompts big questions

September 18, 2008|By Dianna Marder, Inquirer Staff Writer
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"We got ribs, and roasts that we grilled. We brushed it with some olive oil and some herbs and cook it 130 degrees for medium-rare.

"It's just divine."

 


Teddy bears, broccoli and cookie-baking

It was his refusal to shoot a bear cub for sport in 1902 that turned Theodore Roosevelt into a beloved teddy.

But food has long been a political hot potato.

In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan's administration famously categorized ketchup as a vegetable, to meet minimum nutrition requirements for school lunches.

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In 1990, George H.W. Bush had the audacity to bad-mouth broccoli. "I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it," 41 said.

In 1992, during Bill Clinton's first run for the White House, Hillary was vilified for not baking cookies.

"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas," she said, "but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life."

That same year, then-Vice President Dan Quayle attended an elementary school spelling bee and "corrected" a sixth-grader who had correctly spelled potato.

"Add an e on the end," Quayle incorrectly advised the student.

 


Contact Inquirer staff writer Dianna Marder at 215-854-4211 or dmarder@phillynews.com. Read her recent work at http://go.philly.com/diannamarder.

 

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