If Election Day Were a Holiday, What Would Its Traditional Foods Be?

People are constantly floating the idea of making Election Day a national holiday in the US as a way to making voting easier and get more people to the polls. Holidays need meaningful treats, and there are already a few recipes that have political or even electoral overtones that would be good candidates for inclusion. For example, in Australia, it's already traditional to serve up grilled "democracy sausage" on a bun as an. election day fundraiser. This reminds us that if you love sausage and you love the law, you don't want to see either being made.

Or how about bean soup? It has been the Soup of the Day in the United States Senate dining room for more than a century. Or maybe we could resurrect Watergate Salad, which is neither salad nor does it have anything to do with the Watergate scandal. Check out the bone fides of these and other foods that have some tenuous link to political campaigns at Atlas Obscura. However, most of us would like to celebrate the end of this year's election with a good stiff drink.