Get Ready for Yell Fudge at the Cobras Day
At Serious Eats we can only presume that Kim Severson's hilarious piece on the 175 days a year set aside in recogniton of some form of food and drink in the New York Times was not aimed at us. Believe it or not, there is a Yell Fudge at the Cobras Day, when according to its creators, "In order to keep poisonous cobra snakes out of North America, all citizens are asked to go outdoors at noon local time and yell 'fudge!' Fudge makes cobras gag, and the mere mention of it makes them skeedaddle."
At Serious Eats we try to have fun with days named after foods we love. We're not ashamed to have made a big deal of National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, a day, I might add, that Kim took note of without mentioning our PB&J celebration. These days just give us an excuse to have some fun and focus on foods that give us great pleasure. And we had no idea that there was an entire book, Chase's Calendar of Events, devoted to such occasions. We will be ordering a copy right now on Amazon. But now that we know that this Friday, June 2nd, is Yell Fudge at the Cobra Day we're kicking ourselves, because as we have previously noted, we are celebrating National Doughnut Day this Friday. Plus I, as the Serious Eats overlord, hate fudge and have never eaten snake. Is there such a thing as truly great fudge? Or rattlingly delicious snake?
One more thing: I like the idea of September 12th becoming Ropa Vieja Day. I think we might be able to get some traction on Serious Eats with that.
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A site I enjoy is The Nibble which has some great product reviews & info. Under fun food they list the month's food holidays---for each day of the month! Today is Mint Julep Day.
JEP at 6:59PM on 05/30/07