OCTOBER 17
Today in Food History• National Pasta Day
(Pasta Trivia -- Pasta Recipes -- Pasta Cooking Tips) • St. Richard Gwyn, patron of large families. • National School Lunch Week (Oct 14-18, 2024)
[School Nutrition Association] • UK: [Coffee Week] (October 14-20, 2024) The nation’s largest celebration of coffee, all for a good cause. • UK: National Baking Week (always Oct 14-20) • 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:1671 The first auction of furs from Hudson Bay took place at Garroway's Coffee House in London, England. 1814 At the Horseshoe Brewery in London the metal bands on a huge beer brewing vat snapped and a tidal wave of 3,555 barrels of Porter beer crashed through the brewery walls, destroying several tenements, and killing 8 people. (See also The Molasses Flood, Jan 15, 1919) 1937 Donald Duck's three nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, first appeared in the newspaper comic strip. 1946 Jim Tucker of the music group 'The Turtles' was born. 1963 'Sugar Shack' by Jimmy Gilmer & Fireballs is #1 on the charts. 1977 The Guinness Book of World Records notes that Peter Dowdeswell managed to eat 40 sandwiches in 17 minutes, 53.9 seconds at a California donut shop on October 17, 1977. Each sandwich was 6 X 3 inches, spread with jam and butter. 2000 'Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water' Limp Bizkit's 3rd studio album was released. and debuted at number 1 on the charts. 2006 The U.S. population reached 300 million. 2008 'The Secret Life of Bees' opened in U.S. theatres. 2020 To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Iceland Foods Ltd., a British supermarket chain headquarted in Wales, sent a chicken nugget into space. In a gas-filled weather balloon, the nugget traveled through the Earth’s atmosphere to an altitude of 110,000 feet.
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