Bacon Day: More
From Wikipedia:
'Bacon is prepared from several different cuts of meat. It is usually made
from side and back cuts of pork, except in the United States and Canada,
where it is most commonly prepared from pork belly (typically referred to
as 'streaky', 'fatty', or 'American style' outside of the US and Canada).
The side cut has more meat and less fat than the belly. Bacon may be
prepared from either of two distinct back cuts: fatback, which is almost
pure fat, and pork loin, which is very lean. Bacon-cured pork loin is
known as back bacon'.
Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'Bacon Day'.
From Wikipedia: 'Bacon is prepared from several different cuts of meat. It is usually made from side and back cuts of pork, except in the United States and Canada, where it is most commonly prepared from pork belly (typically referred to as 'streaky', 'fatty', or 'American style' outside of the US and Canada). The side cut has more meat and less fat than the belly. Bacon may be prepared from either of two distinct back cuts: fatback, which is almost pure fat, and pork loin, which is very lean.
Bacon-cured pork loin is known as back bacon'.
[The Hankster says] We will observe a moment of silence for this day of days.
OK, who threw this one in. Tomorrow is 'National Bicarbonate of Soda Day'.
[The Hankster says] I didn't eat that many bacon goodies. Well, not enough for bicarb. I'll have a list of over fifty things to do with the stuff on tomorrow's Today Is post.
Tomorrow is the 'Festival Of Enormous Changes At The Last Minute'.
[The Hankster says] Only two more days to get those 2015 New Year's Resolutions done. I will be re-gifting most of mine from this year, so I won't have too many new ones to think about. Enormous changes and I have never gotten along well together.
Historical events in the past on: December 30
In 1853, In the Gadsden Purchase, the U.S. buys land from Mexico for $10M for a railroad in the Southwest. From Wikipedia: 'As the railroad age evolved, business-oriented Southerners saw that a railroad linking the South with the Pacific Coast would expand trade opportunities. They thought the topography of the southern portion of the original boundary line to the Mexican Cession (future states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, western Colorado) of 1848 after the
Mexican-American War was too mountainous to allow a direct route. Projected southern railroad routes tended to run to the North at their eastern ends, which would favor connections with northern railroads and ultimately favor northern seaports. Southerners saw that to avoid the mountains, a route with a southeastern terminus might need to swing south into what was still then Mexican territory'.
In 1939, The movie 'Of Mice and Men', starring Burgess Meredith as George Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie, is released. From Wikipedia: 'Of Mice and Men is a 1939 drama film based on the 1937 play based on the novel of the same title by American author John Steinbeck.' 'The film tells the story of two men, George and his mentally challenged partner Lennie, trying to survive during the dustbowl of the 1930s and pursuing a dream of owning their own ranch, instead of always working for others'.
In 1948, The Cole Porter Broadway musical, 'Kiss Me, Kate', opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award. It runs for 1,077 performances. 'The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer, and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi. A secondary romance concerns Lois Lane,
the actress playing Bianca, and her gambler boyfriend, Bill, who runs afoul of some gangsters'.
In 1963, The TV games show 'Let's Make A Deal,' debuts on NBC. From Wikipedia: 'The format of Let's Make a Deal involves selected members of the studio audience, referred to as 'traders', making deals with the host. In most cases, a trader will be offered something of value and given a choice of whether to keep it or exchange it for a different item. The program's defining game mechanism is that the other item is hidden from the trader until that choice is made. The trader thus does
not know if he is getting something of greater value or a prize that is referred to as a 'zonk', an item purposely chosen to be of little or no value to the trader.' More
In 1966, The movie cult classic 'One Million Years B.C.', starring Raquel Welch, is released. From Wikipedia; 'One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 British adventure/fantasy film starring Raquel Welch and John Richardson, set in a fictional age of cavemen and dinosaurs. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions and Seven Arts, and is a remake of the Hollywood film One Million B.C. (1940) '.
In 1967, The Beatles, Hello Goodbye, single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks. From Wikipedia: 'Hello, Goodbye is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Backed by John Lennon's 'I Am the Walrus', it was issued as a non-album single in November 1967, the group's first release since the death of their manager, Brian Epstein'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in December
Food
Buckwheat Month
Worldwide Food Service Safety Month
Health
Aids Awareness Month
Take a New Year's Resolution to Stop Smoking (TANYRSS) (12/17 - 2/7)
Other
Bingo's Birthday Month
National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month
National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
National Tie Month
National Write A Business Plan Month
Operation Santa Paws (1-19)
Safe Toys and Gifts Month
Universal Human Rights Month
December is:
December origin (from Wikipedia): '
December gets its name from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the Roman calendar, which began in March. The winter days following December were not included as part of any month. Later, the months of January and February were created out of the monthless period and added to the beginning of the calendar, but December retained its name.
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December is the first month of meteorological winter in the Northern
Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, December is the seasonal equivalent
to June in the Northern hemisphere, which is the first month of summer. D
ecember is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the
Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the
Southern Hemisphere.
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If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago,
or your 45 RPM record player was broke, you might watch one of these shows on TV.
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