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Tie one on is not what you think.😂

November 21st: National Red Mitten Day, National Stuffing Day, National Gingerbread Cookie Day, Tie One On Day, and National Jukebox Day.

🇨🇦🥊National Red Mitten Day represents Canadian Olympic Pride! National Red Mitten Day encourages Canadians to wear their Red Mittens with pride to show support for Canadian athletes! Red mittens represent the pride, generosity and excellence of every Canadian. Hudson’s Bay founded National Red Mitten Day. Their goal on November 21 is to sell 25,000 Red Mittens to support Canadian Athletes in pursuing their dreams. Since their launch ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Hudson’s Bay’s Red Mittens have become the nation’s most iconic symbol of Canadian Olympic pride with $3.90 from the sale of each pair of Red Mittens going to support Canadian athletes. To date, the Red Mittens alone have raised more than $30 million for the Canadian Olympic Foundation. Hudson's Bay Co. was founded in 1670, and is North America’s oldest company. Hudson’s Bay has grown to become Canada’s most prominent department store, today operating 89 full-line locations and thebay.com. For the first time since their opening, Hudson’s Bay opened outside of Canada with 10 new stores in the Netherlands in 2017, and an online shopping destination at hudsonsbay.nl. This expansion introduces a new and exciting shopping experience in the Netherlands, catering to the Dutch market. Hudson’s Bay has established a reputation for quality, service, and style by offering well-edited assortments of exclusive and popular fashion, beauty, home and accessory designers and brands, as well as exclusive food concepts.

🦃National Stuffing Day! Whether the cook chooses to stuff the turkey on Thanksgiving with crusts of bread, onions, celery, herbs and spices or prefers to prepare a similar dish along side the turkey using the drippings to moisten the dish is personal preference. The difference is the first is called a stuffing, but the latter is referred to as dressing. The usual turkey stuffing consists of bread cubes or crumbs combined with onions, celery, salt and pepper along with spices and herbs such as summer savory, sage or poultry seasoning. Other varieties include adding sausage, hamburger, tofu, oysters, egg, rice, apple, raisins or other dried fruits. The first known documented stuffing recipes appeared in the Roman cookbook, Apicius “De Re Coquinaria”. Most of the stuffing recipes in this cookbook included vegetables, herbs and spices, nuts and spelt (an old cereal) with some of them also including chopped liver and other organ meat. In addition to stuffing the body cavity of poultry and fish, various cuts of meat are often stuffed once deboned and having a pouch or slit cut in them. A few examples of other meats that are frequently stuffed include pork chops, meatloaf, meatballs, chicken breast, lamb chops and beef tenderloin. Stuffing isn’t limited to the butcher block. Vegetables are excellent containers for stuffing, such as peppers, tomatoes zucchini and cabbage.

🍪National Gingerbread Cookie Day! National Gingerbread Day takes place on June 5. A favorite food of an Armenian monk, Gregory of Nicopolis, brought gingerbread to Europe around 992 AD and taught French Christians to bake it. Gingerbread was often used in religious ceremonies and was baked to be sturdy as it was usually molded into images of saints. Gingerbread cookies make sturdy walls for houses (perfect for National Gingerbread House Day on December 12) and tasty gingerbread families that can be decorated.

👩🏻‍🍳National Tie One on Day might confuse people with its name. However, it is not at all about going out, getting crazy and drinking too much. National Tie One on Day celebrates the apron as well as the past generations of women who wore them and it was also created as a day to bring joy to the life of someone in need and celebrate the spirit of giving. National Tie One on Day was created by best-selling author Ellyn Anne Geisel, who is also the author of the book titled, The Apron Book.

🎼National Jukebox Day! The name jukebox is thought to originate from places called ‘juke houses’ or ‘jook joints’, which were establishments in the early 1900s where people congregated to drink and listen to music. In 1889, the first coin-operated player was invented in San Francisco by Louis Glass and his partner William S. Arnold, both managers of the Pacific Phonograph Co. Formally known as the nickel-in-the-slot machine, the player included a coin operation feature on an Edison phonograph and played a limited selection of songs without any amplification. Throughout history, the jukebox continued to evolve with the times. When recording artists were first crooning into microphones and cutting records into vinyl, an aspiring inventor in a Chicago music store worked nights to build a box that would play both sides of the record. With the advancement of technology, today’s jukebox is now more versatile than ever before with touchscreen interfaces that respond to the swipe of a finger (or can even be controlled by a mobile app) and a vast virtual library of songs including back catalog jukebox heroes alongside top artists of today. The first coin-operated player was invented in San Francisco by Louis Glass and his partner William S. Arnold in 1889. The “Automatic Entertainer” play 24 songs in 1905 and was introduced by John Gabel. 1946 ushered in “The Silver Age” for jukeboxes as market demand for the newest and greatest technology soared. Fashionable and sleek, jukeboxes weren’t just music players, they were centerpieces often flamboyant with color and chrome. Neon and sci-fi became a tremendous influence on style as well. In 1989, compact-disc mechanisms replaced the older record style players as newer technology became affordable and rapidly implemented among the general population. Jukeboxes started to become more of a novelty than a necessity. In 1998, TouchTunes introduced the next major innovation for the industry with the launch of the first digital networked music jukebox. For the first time, customers could search and browse from a library with 750 digital songs. In 2010, TouchTunes released the first-ever social jukebox mobile app on iOS and Android. The app allows users to find nearby jukebox locations and create playlist of songs directly from their phone. In 2016, TouchTunes revamped the mobile app experience to allow music fans to be the DJ like never before. The advanced app offers an intuitive music-first design and improved usability to better control the jukebox. TouchTunes is the largest interactive music and entertainment network in over 65,000 bars and restaurants nationwide.

Wow, what a great idea to support your Olympic teams. I have mittens. Their not red, but they have red on them. I have a pair my Grandmother crochet for me but I don't think Canada would appreciate the red, white and blue color. The price on theirs is reasonable, better than I give for mine. I prefer dressing over stuffing. I wonder if they come in pieces, head, arms, legs, body and icing and they go visiting.😂 I don't know anyone that makes gingerbread cookies. But I would try one if I did. They won't let me in the kitchen any more and more my hubby refuses to wear an apron no matter how manly one might look. I remember jukeboxes with their colorful lights and shiny chrome and watching the records be selected by a mechanical arm and placed on the player. Records are making some what if a come back.

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