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694Lw TIL a 1912 cookbook deemed Vegetable candy "the ideal confectionery" & "insurance against the evil effects of gluttony!" Before an undue amount of sugar is consumed, the mass of the vegetable base satisfies the appetite.
1aYBr TIL that prohibitionist president Rutherford Hayes held dinners at the White House with punch that was rumored to be spiked with rum by the staff. The truth was that Hayes himself had spiked the punch with non-alcoholic rum flavoring.
8aROL TIL in 1984 a group of paleontologists ate a buffalo stew that had been frozen for 30,000 years. The flavor was reported as tough with an earthy mushroom smell.