Thursday 6-10-21
Celebrate National Egg Roll, Ballpoint Pen, Iced Tea, Black Cow, and Herbs and Spices Day.
-Before 1943, anyone who wanted to write a letter or scribble some notes on a piece of paper used a fountain pen or pencil. Now the dominant writing instrument, the ballpoint pen was originally conceived and developed as a cleaner and more reliable alternative to the quill and fountain pens.
-National Black Cow Day, on June 10th each year recognizes an ice cream float beverage also known as a Root Beer Float. That’s right, the beverage made with rootbeer and vanilla ice cream was also called a Black Cow. It was originally made with vanilla ice cream but sometimes it’s made with chocolate ice cream or even plain cola flavor.
Frank J. Wisner of Cripple Creek, Colorado, gets the credit for inventing the Black Cow way back in August of 1893.
One night, as Wisner, owner of the Cripple Creek Cow Mountain Gold Mining Company, was staring out the window and thinking about the line of soda waters that was producing for the citizens of Cripple Creek, he came upon an idea. The full moon that night that was shining on the snow-capped Cow Mountain reminded him of a scoop of vanilla ice cream. He hurried back to his bar and added a spoonful of the creamy vanilla goodness to the children’s favorite flavor of soda, Myers Avenue Red Root Beer. When he tasted it, he knew he had a hit. Sure enough, it was!
-Recipes for iced tea have been found dating back to the 1870s.
The Buckeye Cookbook, published in 1876, and Housekeeping in Old Virginia, published in 1877, both contain iced tea recipes. It is believed, however, that iced tea started to appear in the United States in the 1860s and became widespread in the 1870s. During that time, hotels offered iced tea on their menus and railroad stations offered the beverage as well. In 1904, the beverage was introduced at the World’s Fair in St. Louis causing its popularity to explode.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning for those interested in sampling cuisine containing Brood X cicadas: stay away if you’re allergic to seafood.
The FDA tweeted Wednesday that people with allergies to seafood should steer clear of eating cicadas because of their relation to sea creatures. The FDA tweeted: “We have to say it. Don’t eat #cicadas if you’re allergic to seafood as these insects share a family relation to shrimp and lobsters.”
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A doctor in Thailand recently took to Facebook to share photos of a rather unusual patient: a cockroach that someone spotted on the side of the road after being stepped on. The veterinarian says a person came in last week with an injured cockroach that they had witnessed being accidentally stepped on by someone else. Unable to let the insect die on the side of the road, the person took it in the palm of their hand and brought it in. Instead of laughing at the person who brought in the bug, the vet took the case and treated the cockroach for free. The doc admitted that this was the first time someone brought in a cockroach. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much he could do other than place the insect in an oxygenated container to increase its chances of survival. No word on whether the cockroach survived or not.
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Oh just stop!!!! Santa is coming early this year as Hallmark is bringing back its Christmas in July holiday movie lineup.
A new Christmas movie will even debut on July 10. Titled Crashing Through the Snow, the latest new Hallmark Christmas movie stars Amy Acker and Kristian Bruun as Maggie and Jeff — former spouses who are remaining friends. Jeff’s new girlfriend invites Maggie and her two girls to join their Christmas getaway and she decides to go even if she does feel like a third wheel. Jeff’s brother Sam (Warren Christie) makes an unexpected appearance and some new feelings start to develop between him and Maggie. A Christmas miracle perhaps?
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Can we workshop this??? Someone added some piano to a recent maskless Karen rant to create Karen, The Musical. https://twitter.com/wittypedia_/status/1396864881769472001
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