Here is the latest from Rudy’s – Cooks Paradise in Twin Falls, which, by the way, we will be going to Twin on Wednesday, “The Day of Reckoning”, 15 April!! If you need any thing from Rudy’s, let us know.
April 13, 1796: The first elephant to be brought to the U.S. arrived from Bengal, India. It was exhibited in New York, and its diet was described as: “thirty pounds of rice besides hay and straw…. all kinds of wine and spiritous liquors….and every kind of vegetable; it will also draw a cork from a bottle in its trunk.”
April 14, 1939: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck was published.
April 15: National Glazed Ham Day
April 16, 1956: On the ‘I Love Lucy’ show, Lucy stomped grapes in Rome, and wrestled with another female grape stomper. An inspiration for future ‘food wrestling’ entrepreneurs. Actually, this is one of the funniest sitcom episodes ever made.
April 17, 1810: Lewis M. Norton of Troy, Pennsylvania was issued the first U.S. patent for pineapple cheese.
April 18: National Animal Crackers Day
April 19, 1995: The Supreme Court ruled that alcohol content could be listed on beer labels, overturning a 1935 law which had prohibited it.”
I don’t know where Rudy’s comes up with some of these, but some are quite funny! Cheers!
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