SEPTEMBER 30
Today in Food History• National Mulled Cider Day
(Cider Trivia --- Cider Quotes) • Chewing Gum Day (See 1861 below)
(Chewing Gum Trivia & Facts) • Extra Virgin Olive Oil Day • St. Jerome, patron of librarians and students. • Buffalo Round-Up (Sept 28-30, 2023)
[Custer State Park, South Dakota]
(American Buffalo Facts & Trivia) • UK: [British Food Fortnight] (Sept 20-Oct 6, 2024) • UK: Seed Gathering Season (Sept 22-Oct 22, 2024)
[The Tree Council] Gather seeds, fruits and nuts which can be nurtured to grow the trees of the future.
On this day in:1641 The Dutch colonial province of New Netherlands (now part of the U.S. East Coast from New York to Maryland) declared that "henceforth there shall be held annually at Fort Amsterdam a Cattle Fair on the 15th of October, and a fair for Hogs on the 1st of November..." 1861 William Wrigley, Jr. was born (died Jan 26, 1932). William Wrigley Jr. started out as a traveling salesman at the age of 13, selling soap for his father's company. He had a series of sales jobs, one which gave chewing gum as a premium. Customers liked the gum better than the product, so he was soon marketing his own gum, Juicy Fruit in 1893, and later that year Wrigley's Spearmint. He was an advertising genius, and his company became one of the largest advertisers in the U.S., and the largest chewing gum manufacturer in the world. 1887 Livestock market opens in South St. Paul and sells 363 cattle on its first day. 1922 The first U.S. plant built solely for crushing soybeans began operating in Decatur, Illinois by Staley Mfg. Co., offering for the first time a key commercial market for America's soybean crop (soybean oil & meal).
(Soybean Trivia and Facts) 1958 Walter Frederick Morrison of La Puente, California was granted U.S. Design Patent No. 183,626 for a plastic 'Flying Toy' which he sold under the name 'Pluto Platter' - this was the basic design for the 'Frisbee.' The pie tins of the Frisbie Pie Company in Connecticut were the inspiration for the creation of the Frisbee. 1960 The last episode of 'The Howdy Doody Show' airs on NBC. 'The Flintstones' premiered on ABC, the first prime time animation show. 1962 The United Farm Workers union is founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
(Farms & Farmers Trivia) 1982 The TV sitcom 'Cheers' debuted. The long running series (1982-1993) was set in a bar named Cheers in Boston, Massachusetts. 1997 Hooters Restaurants agreed to pay $3.8 million in damages to settle a class action lawsuit alleging discriminatory hiring practices because they would not hire males to wait tables. 2004 California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill that bans the production and sale of foie gras beginning in 2012. (The sales ban was overturned Jan 7, 2015, but not the production ban).
(Foie Gras Trivia)
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