Navy Bean (1856, 1857, 1862)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:32 PM -0500 3/31/03, James A. Landau wrote:
>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?
>
Further evidence (in the presumed absence of any beast known as the
Senate Bean) for the plausibility of my reanalysis.

L