2016年11月18日 · In late November 1926, a live animal sent by one Vinnie Joyce of Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, arrived at the White House to be slaughtered and served up for that year’s Thanksgiving dinner. President...

In November 1926, Vinnie Joyce of Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, sent President Calvin Coolidge an unsolicited plump raccoon for his Thanksgiving dinner.

Rebecca was a raccoon kept as a pet by US president Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge. Rebecca came from Mississippi. [2] She had been sent to the White House to be served for the 1926 Thanksgiving dinner.

2024年11月26日 · Rebecca the raccoon arrived at the White House in November 1926, just in time for President Calvin Coolidge's Thanksgiving dinner.

In November of 1926, a woman from Mississippi sent President Calvin Coolidge a raccoon for Thanksgiving. An accompanying note promised that it had, in her words, a “toothsome flavor.” The story...

2022年11月8日 · As Atlas Obscura explains, Calvin Coolidge wasn't exactly demanding raccoons be served at the annual White House Thanksgiving dinner. Instead, the raccoon — a live one at that — was actually sent to the President as a sort of "gift" from a woman in Mississippi, who reassured Coolidge and his family that the animal would have a "toothsome ...

2018年11月5日 · It’s become an annual tradition and a staple of holiday news broadcasts: Each Thanksgiving, the U.S. president pardons a turkey. But how about a presidential pardon for a Thanksgiving raccoon? It’s true. In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge received a raccoon as a Thanksgiving dinner gift.

2023年11月23日 · Raccoon was once considered for the main course of Thanksgiving dinner at the White House. The First Lady intervened and made the trash panda a pet instead. The story begins with the death of Horace Vose in 1913.

2024年11月25日 · The image most associated with Calvin Coolidge and Thanksgiving is that of a raccoon. In 1926, a Mississippi supporter sent Coolidge a live raccoon… …to be served at the First Family’s Thanksgiving feast. President Coolidge received assurances of the animal’s “toothsome flavor,” according to the Washington Post. But the Vermonter ...

2020年11月15日 · Rebecca, pet raccoon of Calvin Coolidge, was originally brought to the White House with the intention of being eaten at a Thanksgiving dinner. Was eating raccoons common among high society in 1920s America?