Navy Bean (1856, 1857, 1862)

[James A. Landau]

In a message dated 3/31/2003 11:13:20 AM Eastern Standard Time,
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:

> I always glossed this as [navy [bean
> soup]], i.e. the kind of bean soup you get when you're in the navy,
> when the evidence above (and in the rest of Barry's post) makes it
> clear that it was [[navy bean] soup] all along.

What does this say about "Senate Bean Soup", served in the cafeteria in the
US Capitol since Strom Thurmond was a little boy?

      - Jim Landau