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Fact or Fiction: Traditional Veterans Day meal is ravioli?

Posted at 8:28 PM, Nov 11, 2022
and last updated 2022-11-11 23:28:51-05

(KGTV) — A story you may have heard about Veterans Day claims the traditional meal to serve on this day is ravioli.

It traces the tradition to the beginning of the holiday which was proclaimed as Armistice Day by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919.

But it's complete fiction.

It all started when someone put it on Wikipedia as a joke in 2010.

Since Wikipedia is an open source website, anyone can edit the entries.

In this case, the made-up ravioli story remained on the site for a year before someone finally corrected the misinformation.

In the meantime, enough people repeated it, so the fake story is still told to this day.