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JANUARY 18 - Today in Food History

• National Peking Duck Day
  (Duck Trivia  ---  Duck Recipes  ---  Duck Quotes)

• Women's Healthy Weight Day (Jan 18, 2024 - Thurs of 3rd full week in January)

• National Pizza Week (Jan 14-20, 2024 - 2nd week)
  (Pizza Trivia and History  --  Pizza Recipes)
  (Pizza Quotes)

 

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1778 Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands. He named them the Sandwich Islands, after Lord Sandwich, who was then first Lord of the Admiralty.
(Hawaii Food Trivia  --  Sandwich History)

1788 The first English settlers arrive at Botany Bay on Australia's south-eastern coast (Sydney, New South Wales) to establish a penal colony.
(Australia Food Trivia)

1799 Joseph Dixon was born. An American inventor and manufacturer. Among his many accomplishments, he produced the first pencil made in the U.S.

1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden was born. Glidden, an Illinois farmer, received a patent for the first commercial barbed wire on November 24, 1874. The beginning of the end to open range and the cowboy. Glidden formed the Barb Fence Company with his partner Isaac L. Ellwood, and became one of the wealthiest men in the country.
(Barbed Wire Trivia & History)

1818 George Palmer was born. Palmer, of Huntley and Palmer biscuit manufacturers, introduced the first biscuit tins.

1882 Alan Alexander Milne was born. Creator of Winnie the Pooh, the honey loving bear.

1907 John James McLaughlin of Ontario, Canada is awarded a trademark for Canada Dry Ginger Ale, "the champagne of ginger ales."  (Ginger Ale Trivia)

1909 Quebec prohibits the sale of alcoholic candy being sold by some 30 stores in Montreal.

1943 Pre-sliced bread was banned in the U.S. for the duration of World War II, to conserve metal from spare parts that might be needed.
(Bread Trivia & Facts  ---  Bread Quotes  ---  Recipes)

1990 The first McDonald’s in Moscow opened.
(McDonald’s Trivia & Facts)

2005 The first Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, was unveiled in Toulouse, France. The A380 passenger amenities can include lounge bars, restaurants, duty free shops, self serve snack bars, beds, and shower spas. Seating capacity averages about 490 with a maximum of 853 seats.
 

 

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