We all slip up in our words once in a while. For most of us, our flubs don’t create a media firestorm, but a mistake by Marjorie Taylor Greene during an interview on One America News Network, certainly did.

In the interview, Congresswoman Taylor Green tried to lace the investigation by a special House committee into the violence of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol using the mangled kind of Nazi comparisons that Jewish groups have implored her to avoid.

“Not only do we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C. Gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police, spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens who want to come talk to their representatives,” Taylor Greene said.

The flub once again dismayed many Jewish observers because Taylor Greene, despite her visit to the Holocaust Museum and apologizing for using Holocaust analogies, continues the habit of making such comparisons.

But Taylor Greene’s Gazpacho flub also took me back to the mid-1980s, and a fact that I and forgotten for decades.

President Ronald Reagan, loved Gazpacho

I kid you not. The 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, and First Lady Nancy Reagan were huge fans of cold soups. I remember the fact simply because I remember hearing about it during a report on ABC’s World News tonight about how the White House was pushing the president to reduce his Jelly Bean intake, and one of the foods they were using was Gazpacho. I had never heard of Gazpacho, so it stuck.

Reagan’s Gazpacho

According to Ailsa Von Dobeneck, of The Daily Beast, The White House adapted a new recipe from the original created by a  housekeeper at the Reagan’s Rancho del Cielo, north of Santa Barbara, California. White House Chef Henry Haller served it as starter at a luncheon for the United States delegation to the U.N. Decade for Women’s Conference. “It has enough zest to avoid the feeling that you are eating pasta sauce (tip: don’t blend it to oblivion), and enough bite to feel almost full after a large bowl,” reported Von Dobeneck.

You can even download a copy of the recipe from The Reagan Library. So here it is for you and Taylor Greene to try out.