Wednesday, June 17, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.” Fran Lebowitz ('Metropolitan Life')
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• Eat Your Vegetables Day (Vegetable Recipes) • National Apple Strudel Day (Apple Strudel Recipes) • National Stewart’s Root Beer Day
(Why Does Root Beer Foam So Much?) • [Men’s Health Week] (June 14-21, 2026) (week leading up to and including Father’s Day) • Dairy Goat Awareness Week (June 13-20, 2026 - 2nd to 3rd Sat in June) [American Dairy Goat Assn]
(Goat Trivia & Facts) • UK: [National Picnic Week] (June 15-21, 2026)
(Picnic Trivia & Facts)
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1239 King Edward I of England was born (ruled 1272-1307). His coronation feast included 278 bacon hogs, 450 pigs, 440 oxen, 430 sheep and 22,600 hens and capons. 1860 The 692 foot long iron sailing steam ship SS Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time, began its first transatlantic voyage. Originally scheduled to sail on June 16, the Captain delayed the voyage until the 17th because the crew was drunk. The ship had a capacity of 4,000 passengers. 1862 W.H. Fancher and C.M. French of Waterloo, New York received U.S. patent No. 35,600 for an "Improved Ordnance Plow"; a combined plow and gun. 1870 George Cormack, the creator of Wheaties cereal, was born. (Wheaties Trivia & Facts) 1872 George M. Hoover arrived in Dodge City, Kansas. He was the second settler there, and opened the first business, a saloon of course. Whisky was 25 cents. (Kansas Food Trivia) 1903 Ruth Graves Wakefield was born. Inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, at the Toll House Inn neart Whitman, Massachusetts in the 1930s. (Chocolate Chip Cookie Trivia & Facts) 1947 Pan Am inaugurated the first round-the-world passenger service when the Lockheed Constellation 'Clipper America' with 21 passengers, 9 crew members and 400 pounds of food, departed from LaGuardia Airport in New York bound for San Francisco, the long way around. The trip covered more than 20,000 miles in 13 days, with 92 hours 43 minutes of flight time, landing in 17 cities and 10 countries. 1978 'Cheeseburger In Paradise' by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32 on the charts. 2020 Quaker Oats is retiring the Aunt Jemima pancake brand and logo that have long been criticized as perpetuating racial stereotypes. For the same reasons, Mars Co. is also planning to change the branding and logo of Uncle Ben's Rice, and Conagra will review branding and packaging of Mrs. Butterworth's syrup. (see also Sept 23, 2020). 2020 Former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods was sentenced to a 40 month jail term and a $100,000 fine for his role in a canned tuna price fixing conspiracy involving Bumble Bee, StarKist and Chicken of the Sea brands. (see also Sept 11, 2019 and Aug 4, 2017). 2020 Coronavirus: Most airlines ban alcohol sales to minimize passenger-crew interaction; Drive-In restaurants become popular as safe places to eat.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** June 17-20, 2026 91st Annual Emmett Cherry Festival - Emmett, Idaho June 17-20, 2026 Annual Ice Cream Days
Le Mars, Iowa June 18-20, 2026 44th Annual Owego Strawberry Festival - Owego, New York June 18-20, 2026 65th Annual Stonewall Peach JAMboree and Rodeo - Stonewall, Texas June 18-21, 2026 29th Annual BBQ RibFest
Fort Wayne, Indiana June 18-21, 2026 Cranberry Blossom Festival
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin June 19-21, 2026 Famous Food Festival
Deer Park, New York (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?
· Engineer Frank Shailor of General Electric received a patent for the first commercially successful electric toaster.
· Quebec prohibits the sale of alcoholic candy.
· Tillamook Cheese Co. Co. Operative Creameries Association is founded in Oregon.
· Coca-Cola is introduced to Britain for the first time. 2) During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush (1897-1898) what vegetable was so valued for its vitamin C content that miners freely traded gold for it? 3) Which state has the turkey as its state bird, and has the largest per acre population of wild turkeys? 4) In April, 2001, Italian astronaut Umberto Guidoni and Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield brought some luxury food items with them to the International Space Station. Can you name these luxury foods?
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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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