National Pecan Sandies Day, In the News, and Enjoy

National Pecan Sandies Day - Today is National Pecan Sandies Day!

Today is a tribute to those fabulous shortbread cookies which are rich with both butter and toasted nuts.

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National Peanut Butter Cookie Day, In the News, and Enjoy

National Peanut Butter Cookie Day - Today is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day!

It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.

There are enough peanuts in one acre to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.

Delta Airlines purchased 69.6 million packs of peanuts for its passengers in 2013.

By law, any product labeled "peanut butter" in the United States must be at least 90 percent peanuts.

The world’s largest peanut butter factory churns out 250,000 jars of the tasty treat every day.

Four of the top 10 candy bars manufactured in the USA contain peanuts or peanut butter.

Peanuts account for two-thirds of all snack nuts consumed in the USA.

Peanuts contribute more than $4 billion to the USA economy each year.

Americans spend almost $800 million a year on peanut butter.

The average peanut farm is 100 acres.

Peanut butter/peanut paste is the leading use of peanuts produced in the U.S. (1/2); followed by snack nuts and in-shells (1/4); and, candy and confections (1/4).

Peanuts are the #1 snack nut consumed in the U.S., accounting for two-thirds of the snack nut market.

Peanuts are one of the star ingredients in a Snickers bar and each bar contains about 16 peanuts.

About 100 tons of peanuts go into making the 15 million Snickers bars that are produced by Mars, Inc. every day.

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Nothing Day, In the News, and Enjoy

Nothing Day - Today is Nothing Day!

Apparently, June 8th has no food associated with it. Perhaps today would be the perfect day to begin that diet about which you have been thinking!

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National Hamburger Day, In the News, and Enjoy

National Hamburger Day - Today is National Hamburger Day!

Nothing says summertime like a big, juicy hamburger. Hamburgers and cheeseburgers have been a staple of the American diet for decades. Americans eat almost 50 billion burgers a year! That is the equivalent of three burgers a week for every person in the United States!

Although hamburgers originated in Hamburg, Germany, eating a burger on a bun is actually an American tradition. The hamburger as we know it was most likely invented in Seymour, Wisconsin. Each year, the city hosts a hamburger festival called Burger Fest. That is where the world's largest hamburger made its debut in 2001 – it weighed 8,266 pounds!

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National Quiche Lorraine Day, In the News, and Enjoy

National Quiche Lorraine Day - Today is National QUiche Lorraine Day!

Quiche lorraine (named for the Lorraine region of France) is a popular variant that was originally an open pie with a filling of custard with smoked bacon or lardons. It was only later that cheese was added to the quiche lorraine.

There are many variants of quiche, including a wide variety of ingredients. Variants may be named descriptively, often in French, e.g. quiche au fromage (quiche with cheese) and quiche aux champignons (quiche with mushrooms), quiche florentine (quiche with spinach) and quiche provençale (quiche with tomatoes).

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