…wondering if you’re going to finish the rest of that? I don’t want to eat it I just want to keep it. An Illinois man just celebrated the 60th birthday of a sandwich that he has kept frozen ever since it was half-eaten by Richard Nixon in 1960. Steve Jenne was a Boy Scout when Nixon visited the town of Sullivan during a Sept. 22, 1960, campaign stop. The future president attended a cookout and ate half of a buffalo chicken sandwich and left it on his plate, which Jenne then took home to keep in his freezer. Jenne said the sandwich brought him notoriety over the years, most notably a 1988 guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Jenne said the appearance yielded him a half-eaten snack from Carson, as well as a paper plate signed by Steve Martin, who quipped that he had earlier used the plate to eat some chicken salad. Jenne said his collection now also includes unfinished foods from entertainers Tiny Tim and Henny Youngman. The story reminded me of the time I once gave away a half empty bottle of pop away on the radio. It was left by a musician by the name of Robin Thompson out of Richmond Virginia and at one point was in one of Bruce Springsteen’s first bands called Steel Mill. Thompson had a minor national hit in 1980 called Brite Eyes and I did an on-air interview with him. While we were talking, he was slugging away at the soda which he left half empty. So instead of throwing it away I went on the air and said if anyone wanted it just be such and such caller and it’s yours but you had to pick it up at the station. The phone lines went nuts, got a winner and sure as you know what some guy showed up to claim his half empty bottle of pop left by Robin Thompson. Don’t think he ever got invited to be on the Johnny Carson show but who knows maybe somewhere in a small town in southeastern Virginia there stands a half empty bottle of pop in a display case once enjoyed by Robin Thompson. Hey, like the old saying “One mans trash is another mans treasure”