Monday, August 31, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“I never see any home cooking. All I get is fancy stuff.” Prince Philip, Duke of Ediburgh
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Trail Mix Day (Snack Mix Recipes) • National Eat Outside Day
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1742 A plague of grasshoppers destroyed crops in Pennsylvania. (Grasshopper Trivia & Facts) 1817 A 7½ foot sturgeon was captured on the Passaic River in New Jersey. It was taken to the Passaic Hotel where it was served to the captors and their friends. (Sturgeon Trivia and Facts) 1836 African American inventor, Henry Blair of Maryland, received a patent for a cotton seed planter.
(Cottonseed Trivia) 1900 Sir John Bennet Lawes died (born Dec 28, 1814). An English agronomist, he founded the artificial fertilizer industry. Together with Sir Joseph Gilbert, they conducted agricultural experiments at Rothamsted Experimental Station, the oldest agricultural research station in the world. They are considered the founding fathers of agricultural sciences. 1900 Coca-Cola goes on sale for the first time in Britain in a restaurant in Spence's department store in London. (Coca-Cola Trivia & Facts) 1921 The first successful demonstration of aerial crop dusting was performed in Ohio by Lt. John A. Macready. He was flying a Curtiss JN-6H (Jenny). 1960 The [National Agricultural Center & Hall of Fame] established. 1993 Canada orders a complete ban on cod fishing after stocks dwindle. (Cod fish Trivia & Facts) 1995 The summer was so hot in Missouri, that at the end of August, methane gas emitted within large bales of freshly-cut hay began to spontaneously combust. 1999 Virgil Foster, an 83 year old beekeeper in California, was stung more than 50 times by Africanized 'killer bees.' He died 2 weeks later on September 11, 1999. (Bee Trivia and Facts) 2007 A bull escaped at the Minnesota State Fair. The bull rammed into a fire hydrant across from the all-you-can-drink Milk booth, and fell dead next to the hydrant. (Minnesota Food Facts & Trivia)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** August 26-September 7, 2026 The Great New York State Fair - Syracuse, New York August 27-September 7, 2026 Minnesota State Fair
Falcon Heights, Minnesota August 28-September 7, 2026 - Colorado State Fair
Pueblo, Colorado August 28-September 7, 2026 Oregon State Fair
Salem, Oregon August 29-September 6, 2026 - National Championship Chuckwagon Race - Clinton, Arkansas September 3-6, 2026 - 79th National Hard Crab Derby
Crisfield, Maryland September 4-7, 2026 - Obetz Zucchinifest
Obetz, Ohio (SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new DAILY questions)1) All of the following events took place in the same year. What year is it?
· Chuckles sugared jelly candies are introduced.
· U.S. table-salt makers introduce iodized salt.
· 'Wise Potato Chips' were introduced.
· The 'I-Scream-Bar' is renamed 'Eskimo Pie' and within a year are selling one million bars a day. 2) What do the following plants have in common?
Kidney beans, lima beans, haricot verte, potatoes, tomatoes, corn, tapioca, peanuts, vanilla, green peppers, avocados, scarlet runner beans, butter beans, and pineapples. 3) What do these plants have in common?
Bananas, rice, yams, citrus fruits, cow peas, wheat, chick-peas, coffee, breadfruit and coconuts? 4) "G" was a surveyor, school teacher, newspaper publisher, inventor and businessman. As an early pioneer settler in Texas he made the first topographical map of Texas, and in 1838 he surveyed and laid out the site of Galveston. He developed a meat biscuit in 1851, and after several failed attempts, finally developed a method to make another new product in 1853. A product that scientific experts said was impossible to make!
He had to work hard to convince the U.S. Patent Office to grant him a patent, but he finally obtained one in 1856. His first attempts to market this new product ended in business failure, but finally with financial backing from a wholesale grocer, Jeremiah Milbank, he founded a new company which eventually became the largest of its kind.
What is "G's" name, and what product did he invent?
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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Dedication
This website is dedicated to:
· Gladys Ehler, my mother, who taught me patience and how to make Sauerbraten (it is still my favorite)
· Edward Ehler, my father, who taught me a love of books and history.
· Barbara Saba, my sister, who taught me how to dance.
· Cpl. Thomas E. Saba, my nephew. Died in action on Feb. 7, 2007 in Iraq. He was 30 yrs. young. Chef James
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