Now that the cherry season is starting in Utah… During childhood visits to Utah I heard a legend I’d never heard before and have never heard since, but which was quirky enough to stay with me all these years; namely that eating cherries and drinking cold milk together would invariably be fatal. Until yesterday I did not know that the legend became widespread after the 1850 death of U.S. President Zachary Taylor. Taylor became sick while...
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