stackyFACTSIn an attempt to build informal political rapport on the eve of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted King George VI at his rural estate. To the shock of polite society, he served the reigning British monarch a simple picnic meal consisting entirely of American hot dogs.
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