Tough Love

I was listening to more of my Woods Hole oral history tapes and I have a tidbit to share with all y'all.

This one woman's father, Captain So and So, decided that a great and necessary way to combat the plenitude of poison ivy growing in Woods Hole was to immunize his children using this creative tactic.

He forced them all to eat poison ivy sandwiches. Buttered, of course.

His daughter averred they tasted just like lettuce sandwiches and worked like a charm.

My dad was always pretty neurotic about poison ivy, but he never made us eat it.