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Article: BUSH SEAL OF APPROVAL PUTS PORK RINDS HIGH ON THE HOG

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February 15, 1989
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DRAWING - PHOTO President George Bush has taken the jar of jelly beans off his desk and replaced it with a bag of pork rinds. (AP photo)

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Pork rinds, as you know unless you've been living in a cave for the past few months, are President George Bush's favorite snack food. Visiting congressmen bring him bags of them; he gives them away as souvenirs to constituents. By all accounts, they've replaced jelly beans as the official presidential snack. Yes, pork rinds: Republican soul food.

Even Julia Child, grande doyenne of the gourmet world, likes them. "I think they're delicious," she enthused, noting that she has thought that ...

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