At 08:59 AM 5/28/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:

>I thought this was a stitch:
>
>====
>The newspapers took to saying I ruled the President [FDR] with a rod
>of iron.  Nonsense.  I had an awful time getting vegetables down him.
>I've come to the conclusion men just don't like vegetables.  They're
>meat eaters by nature.  There was nothing Mrs. Roosevelt liked better
>than a nicely arranged salad, but the President always looked at
>anything with lettuce in it with a sort of martyrish eye, as if he
>knew it was good for him, but that didn't make him like it.  Potatoes
>seem to be the male notion of a vegetable, even if the man is a
>president.  So one of the hardest jobs Mrs. Roosevelt and I shared was
>trying to coax vegetables down the president of the United States.
> 
>Henrietta Nesbitt, housekeeper for the F.D. Roosevelts, quoted in
>Barbara Haber's "From Hardtack to Home Fries"

Imagine.  Such a patrician, you'd think his palate would be more
enlightened, yet he turns up with tastes one would tend to attribute to the
social stratum of, say, Harry Truman.  Heeheehee.

Veloci--my husband likes salads--raptor
 

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