Cookbook talk:Watergate Salad

Watergate Salad came about in history at about the same time as the Watergate scandal. At the time, my mother heard this recipe on a local radio program, and on that program (The Good Neighbor Show), they explained how the name came about. It was pretty simple. The basic premise was that government is filled with nuts and fruit, and with those involved in the Watergate scandal being the symbol of governmental craziness at its best, the name of this salad full of fruit and nuts was an oblique reference to the political atmosphere as perceived by the populace at that time in history.