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The Old-School Soup Loved By President Taft That's Now Illegal To Serve In Several States By Maria Scinto Aug. 7, 2025 11:00 am EST

William Howard Taft is one of my favorite presidents. Not because of his politics (TBH, I've never bothered to look into these), but because he was the most generously proportioned POTUS and, as you might expect, a man who really enjoyed his mealtimes — especially his now forbidden turtle soup.

As one of the former presidents who enjoyed a nice steak , he was known to eat beef for breakfast; and one of his favorite presidential drinks was champagne (although he didn't overindulge in alcohol). But some of his favorite foods are less common now than they were when he was in office, back in the early 1900s. Roast possum, for example, isn

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