Monday, June 15, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“All the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the imaginative men in the world could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as the lobster.”
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Lobster Day (Officially moved to Sept 25 by Maine Senators in 2015, but June 15 is still widely celebrated) (Lobster Trivia -- Lobster Recipes) • National Prune Day [Californiaprunes.org] • Potatoe Day (see 1992 below) • Feast of Saint Germaine Cousin, patron of shepherdesses. • UK: [Beer Day Britain] - A celebration of all beer including ales, lagers, craft beers and everything in between. June 15th is the date Magna Carta was sealed in 1215. The charter mentions ale in Article 35: "Let there be throughout our kingdom a single measure for wine and a single measure for ale....." • [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 HISTORY1752 Benjamin Franklin flew a kite and proved a connection between lightning and electricity. 1836 Arkansas becomes the 25th U.S. state.
(Arkansas Facts & Trivia) 1844 Charles Goodyear was granted Patent No. 3633 for vulcanization, a rubber curing process which converts natural rubber into a more durable material. 1851 Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore dairyman, opens the first commercial ice-cream factory.
(Ice Cream Trivia and Facts) 1859 The Pig War: On one of the San Juan Islands between the U.S. Washington Territory and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a pig owned by an employee of the Hudson's Bay Co. breaks into potato patch of American squatter who shoots and kills the pig. The subsequent confrontation nearly triggers a British-American war over the boundary between the U.S. and Canada. The dispute was not completely resolved until 1872. 1869 Joseph Dixon died. An American inventor and manufacturer. Among his many accomplishments, he produced the first pencil made in the U.S. 1869 John W. Hyatt Jr. and his brother Isaiah S. Hyatt received U.S. patent 91,341 for "a new and improved method of manufacturing solid collodion and its compounds." Isaiah later named the material 'celluloid', the first synthetic plastic. 1914 Bob Wian was born (March 31, 1992). In 1936 he founded the Big Boy restaurant chain in Glendale, California with a 10 stool hamburger stand. In 1967 he sold the chain to Marriott Corp. for $7 million.
(Hamburger Trivia and Facts) 1929 Charles F. Brush died (born March 17, 1849). U.S. inventor and entrepreneur. Invented improvements to arc lights and generators. 1958 Pizza Hut is born. Eighteen-year-old Frank Carney sees a story in the Saturday Evening Post about the "pizza fad" among teenagers and college students. With $600 borrowed from his mother, he and his brother Dan open the first Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kansas. (Pizza Hut Trivia -- Pizza History) 1969 'Ice Cube' (O'Shea Jackson) singer and actor, was born. 1992 SPELLING LESSONS - At a spelling bee in a Trenton, New Jersey school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, corrects a student's spelling of 'potato' by telling him it should have an 'e' at the end: ‘potatoe’ 1999 Nicholas Vitalich is arrested for assaulting his girlfriend with a large tuna, outside a San Diego supermarket. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. 2020 Coronavirus: More than 40,000 cruise ship workers still stuck at sea after 3 months.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 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?
· Taggart Baking Company of Indianapolis, Indiana introduced Wonder bread.
· The boll weevil decimates the Georgia cotton crop and farmers begin switching to peanuts.
· The Willis Campell Act prohibits doctors from prescribing beer or liquor.
· Harry MacElhone of Harry's Bar in Paris created the Bloody Mary. 2) Bone and stuff a pig's leg with minced pork, herbs, truffles, and bacon. Cure it and smoke it; then soak it in water for 10 hours, simmer it in water and vinegar for several hours, and serve with lentils
Name this dish and the country of origin. 3) The oil from what edible nut is used in insecticides, brake linings, rubber and plastic manufacturing?
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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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