YOU WOULDN’T THINK Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has a lot in common with Haley Barbour, Mississippi’s Republican governor. And you’d be right: One’s a liberal, the other a conservative; one’s a Northerner, the other a Southerner. One’s been a senator for almost 20 years, the other a governor for only 5 months.

Yet it turns out that Kerry and Barbour do have something in common. Both are in the food service industry.