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Never accused of superstition or of adhering to age-old antipathies, TIME should know that there is no medical proof condemning the crab for the recurring complaints through the years anent the indigestibility of crab meat...
...describing F. D. R.'s greeting of "Hello, Grouch," to Secretary Ickes, TIME said ". . . Secretary of Interior Ickes, who had eaten some crab meat for lunch and was wishing he hadn...
Secretary Ickes' crab meat MIGHT have left him "wishing he hadn't eaten it," but for TIME to plump down the definite statement that it did is the cause for our comment...
There is still, in this enlightened age, the superstition which prevents many people from eating crab and ice cream or milk at the same meal. This is entirely a superstition, not based on one iota of fact; yet, we dined at a famed Philadelphia club as late as last year and had to forego ice cream for dessert because we had eaten crab meat for luncheon! Many of Maryland's finest recipes for cooking the crab call for milk, and we, after the Philadelphia incident, have made a point of conspicuousness outside of the "Free State," and always couple...
...suffice to say that we just don't believe the crab meat caused whatever discomfort the Secretary felt. He can't prove it did and TIME fell into a groove worn too deep by repetition and blamed an old grief-catcher, the crab...