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List - Presidents Favorite Foods For February 28th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Do you have a list?
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  Speaker 2: I do a list.
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  Speaker 1: It's Radio from Hell with another list because people love
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  Speaker 1: a good list ninety six. But people don't know is
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  Speaker 1: that when Gina presents these lists, this is a list
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  Speaker 1: she's researched and compiled all on her own.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I didn't find this list already put together.
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  Speaker 2: It is list of foods that presidents throughout history love. Now,
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  Speaker 2: some of these will be straight for their favorite dish,
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  Speaker 2: favorite dish, but some of them are a little odd.
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  Speaker 1: How many US presidents have there been? Well, we're on
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  Speaker 1: forty seven.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I have a list of all
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  Speaker 2: of them here, but let's.
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  Speaker 1: See you did the research.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Jackson liked ah tenderloin with Jezebel sauce. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a chicken breast chicken tenderloin, all right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: But the Jezebel sauce, what is that? Which sounds great? Actually, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's a tangy, spicy mix of pineapple, apple jelly, horseradish, mustard,
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  Speaker 2: and a hint of black pepper.
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  Speaker 1: Sure sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: You will not be surprised to know that Thomas Jefferson's
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  Speaker 2: favorite food was French vanilla ice cream.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you spent a lot of time in France. Barack
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  Speaker 2: Obama's favorite food chili really just chili, just straight ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a chili, make it cotton Carnie Darney.
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  Speaker 2: Martin van Buren liked a good boar's head. Now not
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  Speaker 2: like the Michaels Deli, like a head of a boar.
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  Speaker 2: Before becoming president, Martin van Buren had a globe trotting streak,
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  Speaker 2: especially during his tenure as the Minister to Great Britain.
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  Speaker 2: His frequent travels gave him a taste for British customs
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  Speaker 2: in cuisine, including a boar's head adorned with a crown
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  Speaker 2: of holly at the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: I understand the meat on the cheeks is really tender.
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  Speaker 2: James Polk liked ham and corn bread, like ham in the.
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  Speaker 1: Cooked into.
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  Speaker 2: That. Let's see we have uh. Chester. Arthur liked turtle
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  Speaker 2: steak Chester A Arthur sorry, Chester, a Arthur uh turtle steak.
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  Speaker 2: While this might sound unusual today, turtles were sought after
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  Speaker 2: dish back then. Arthur particularly enjoyed pairing his turtle with
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  Speaker 2: the side of macaroni.
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  Speaker 1: And turtles were used for a soup as well.
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  Speaker 2: Turtle Millard Fillmore liked resurrection pie.
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  Speaker 1: Let me, let's see if we can guess what that
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  Speaker 1: might be. What resurrection pie? What I'm gonna say, it's
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  Speaker 1: a kind of an apple pie.
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  Speaker 2: Resurrection pie is a hearty meat pie.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I meant.
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  Speaker 2: It was as practical as it was delicious. Traditionally filled
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  Speaker 2: with liver and steak, direction pie often served as a
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  Speaker 2: way to use up leftovers, making its exact ingredients a
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  Speaker 2: surprise with every serving.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're resurrecting what's leftover? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: James Monroe liked spoon bread. Do you know what spoon bread?
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  Speaker 1: I've heard of it, but I'm not really quite sure
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  Speaker 1: what it is.
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  Speaker 2: While Yorkshire pudding might be the subject of friendly ribbing
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  Speaker 2: from Americans, the South boasts its own beloved counterpart, and
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  Speaker 2: it's just as iconic spoon bread. This fluffy, savory dish
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  Speaker 2: was reportedly a favorite of James Monroe, made with cornmeal, eggs, butter,
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  Speaker 2: and milk, and a pudding like texture requires a spoon
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy. Abraham Lincoln liked corncakes.
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  Speaker 1: Corn cakes, Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: George W. Bush's favorite food is cheeseburger pizza.
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  Speaker 1: Two foods in one.
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  Speaker 2: Herbert Hoover liked something called caramel tomatoes.
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  Speaker 3: Caramel tomato.
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  Speaker 2: Sugar, like many staples, was a luxury during the tough times,
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  Speaker 2: which makes his favorite dish a little more surprising. Carol
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  Speaker 2: mel tomatoes. Yes, you read that right, tomatoes coated and sugar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. My grandfather that's how he ate tomatoes. Sliced tomatoes
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  Speaker 1: and then he'd sprinkle a little sugar on them because
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  Speaker 1: they're quite there. I mean, if you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: tomatoes are sort of acidic, and that kind of cuts
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  Speaker 1: the acidic.
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  Speaker 2: Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth President of the United States, hailed
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  Speaker 2: from New Hampshire and had a strong affinity for the
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  Speaker 2: American South. His Southern loyalties didn't sit well with many
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  Speaker 2: in his home state, but he didn't seem bothered, especially
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  Speaker 2: by his favorite dish, Fanny Daddies.
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  Speaker 1: What Fanny daddies You.
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  Speaker 2: Might not recognize the name, but Fanny daddies are what
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  Speaker 2: we now call clam fritters, a beloved Southern staple for generations.
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  Speaker 1: You get those at Hooters, couldn't you have? They were
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  Speaker 1: called Fanny daddies Hooters.
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  Speaker 2: James Buchanan loved saur kraut.
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  Speaker 1: Who doesn't I love Sauer Kraut.
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  Speaker 2: John Tyler liked Tyler pudding pie.
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  Speaker 1: What Tyler putting it?
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  Speaker 2: It's also known as chest pie.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard I've heard of chest pie.
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  Speaker 2: It's a This just says it's a rich, rich, delicious dessert.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't say what's in it.
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  Speaker 1: Like a custardy cream sort of thing. Dwight D.
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  Speaker 2: Eisenhower straight ahead beef stew.
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  Speaker 1: Beef stew. That's kind of a lot. People don't make
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  Speaker 1: beef stew much anymore. I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: Woodrow Wilson, Virginia, Virginia Country Ham. Well, yeah, Andrew Johnson
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  Speaker 2: liked something called hop and John.
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  Speaker 1: That's a I want to say it's a bean and
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  Speaker 1: potato dish.
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  Speaker 2: It's a It's a hardy dish made with rice, black
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  Speaker 2: eyed peas, tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetables and enhanced with
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  Speaker 2: smoky pork for extra flavor. Okay, Ulysses as grant rice
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  Speaker 2: pudding was he.
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  Speaker 1: A no, Ulysses says Grant like whiskey. That was his
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  Speaker 1: favorite food.
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  Speaker 2: James Garfield squirrel soup.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, squirrel soup.
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  Speaker 2: A humble dish tied to his Ohio roots. Well, that
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  Speaker 2: might explain JD Vance.
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  Speaker 1: I would have thought. I would have thought that James
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  Speaker 1: Garfield would like lasagna, reportedly.
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  Speaker 2: His go to comfort food, reminding him of simpler beginnings.
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  Speaker 2: It is just what it sounds like. It's soup made
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  Speaker 2: of squirrels.
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  Speaker 1: Squirrels.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see Grover Cleveland like corn, beef and cabbage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm for that.
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  Speaker 2: Benjamin Harrison fig pudding, Now bring him some m hm.
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  Speaker 2: William McKinney like red flannel hash. It's a humble dish
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  Speaker 2: made from meats potatoes. Calvin Coolidge, he liked himself a
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  Speaker 2: jelly roll, of course. Let's see Theodore Roosevelt fried chicken.
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  Speaker 2: That's straight ahead, yep.
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  Speaker 1: One more Taft steak, of course, William Howard Taft, the
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  Speaker 1: fattest president whoever exists. We died in the tub.
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  Speaker 3: I think we got ruling that President Obama's chili recipe
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  Speaker 3: does in fact have beans. And of course it's listed
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  Speaker 3: on the PBS website.
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  Speaker 1: Is it beans and meat? Is it beans on Karney?
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  Speaker 1: It's beans, just beans and meat. Oh and meat. So
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  Speaker 1: it's so it is chilli on Varney. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Of nor Trump's hamburgers hamburgers. I left that one with
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  Speaker 2: the side of.
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  Speaker 1: He's Ready any.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've had it before. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: red cabbage, but it's beats, beats,