1. Scanning the list of dishes, she takes credit for the asparagus, the strawberries, the endive.

2. Celebration lunch at The Ivy: Buck‘s Fizz, endive, pear and walnut salad, braised beef with carrots, mashed potatoes (with added butter), gravy, bread and butter.

3. The three men then walked grim–faced down the colonnade, heading to what was expected to be a tense dinner of "sunchoke" soup, spicy sea bass and endive salad in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House, said The Washington Times.

4. Tasting a salad of red and white endive, with crumbles of gorgonzola, candied hazelnuts, and perfectly sweet red strawberries, she‘s pleased: "I want to have the best product so when people sit down and eat my food, they taste it and say, ‘Wow, this is incredible.‘"

5. But to Romney campaign advisers, McCain‘s statement was akin to Michael Dukakis suggesting that Iowa farmers give up on corn and start growing Belgian endive or Gerald Ford telling New Yorkers, as the New York Daily News famously interpreted it, "Drop Dead." Reveling in last night‘s victory, Romney advisers said a message the governor had been hammering for months finally broke through –– in part because people in Michigan were anxious to hear his can–do message on jobs and the economy, in part because McCain sent a rhetorical softball over the fat part of Romney‘s plate at a debate in South Carolina last week.