Watergate Salad Is An Actual Sweet Dish Named For Our “Long National Nightmare”

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1972, a break-in at the Watergate hotel that kicked off a huge political scandal... and also, somehow, gave a gelatin dessert the name "Watergate salad." Plus: in 2022, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington hosted an exhibit called “Watergate: Portraiture and Intrigue.”Jell-O Journalism: Investigating the Origins of Watergate Salad (Mental Floss)Watergate: Portraiture and Intrigue (National Portrait Gallery)This podcast is not a crook, but it is backed by our listeners on Patreon

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