Daily Holidays - July 13

[Sherman A1]

National French Fries
 Day Each year on July 13, many people will participate in the celebration of National French Fry Day by enjoying one of the many varieties of the classic food.

French fries, also known as chips, fries, finger chips or French-fried potatoes are batons of deep-fried potatoes and are common fixtures at fast food restaurants that are loved by adults and kids alike!

French fries are often complimented with ketchup, ranch dressing, vinegar, mayonnaise, honey mustard, cheese, gravy, or chili. Sometimes the fries are made from sweet potatoes instead of potatoes, are baked instead of fried or are cut up into unusual shapes such as curly fries, waffles fries, crinkle cut fries or tornado fries.

The expression “French Fried Potatoes” first occurs in print, in English, in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by E. Warren. http://nationaldaycalendar.com/latest-posts/

Beans ‘n’ Franks Day Joining in each year as part of National Hot Dog Month, July 13th is known as National Beans “N” Franks Day.

Beans “n” franks are also know to many as “beanie weenies”. Beanie weenies is a dish similar to pork ‘n’ beans however substituting hot dogs for the pork. http://nationaldaycalendar.com/latest-posts/

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[Solly Mack]

1. Tomorrow sounds fattening.

Tasty, but fattening.

[bigwillq]

2. French Fries are one of my faves!

[betsuni]

3. Russell Baker, "Francs and Beans":

"The meal opened with a 1975 Diet Pepsi served in a disposable bottle. Although its bouquet was negligible, its distinct metallic aftertaste evoked memories of tin cans one had licked experimentally in the first flush of childhood's memories. ... At this point in the meal, the stomach was ready for serious eating, and I prepared beans with bacon grease, a dish I perfected in 1937 while developing my cuisine du depression. The dish is started by placing a pan over a very high flame until it becomes dangerously hot. A can of Heinz's pork and beans is then emptied into the pan and allowed to char until it reaches the consistency of hardening concrete. Three strips of bacon are fried to crisps, and when the beans have formed huge dense clots firmly welded to the pan, the bacon grease is poured in and stirred vigorously with a large screwdriver. This not only adds flavor but also loosens some of the beans from the side of the pan. Leaving the flame high, I stirred in a three-day-old spaghetti sauce found in the refrigerator, added a sprinkle of chili powder, a large dollop of Major Grey's chutney and a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda to make the whole dish rise. Beans with bacon grease is always eaten from the pan with a tablespoon while standing over the kitchen sink. ... The cheese course was deliciously simple -- a single slice of Kraft's individually wrapped yellow sandwich cheese, which was flavored by vigorous rubbing over the bottom of the frying pan ... ."

[femmocrat]

4. So many fries, so little time.....