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National Themes For July 21st: National Junk Food Day, National Be Someone Day, and National Ice Cream Day.

🍫🍿🍪National Junk Food Day is dedicated to the foods that everyone loves to snack on. Junk foods by definition are usually high in fats, sugars, salt, and calories and contain very little nutritional value. With the advent of packaged foods during the late 1800s, junk food made its way into American life. Still, home-cooked meals remained the standard for several more decades. It wasn’t until after World War II that industry took off and began producing products at an increased rate. From the frozen food aisle to fast food chains, there became a variety of choices for consumers to choose from. Potato chips, baked goods and so much more became available, prepackaged and ready to go. By the 1970s, junk foods were given a name and a bad one, too. Michael Jacobson, a microbiologist, is credited with coining the phrase and set out to curb our appetite for the high sugar, high salt, high preservative foods Americans were consuming at an alarming rate. While Burgers and fries, tacos and ice cream cones, are known to be detrimental to our waistlines, cholesterol, and blood sugar numbers, an occasional indulgence shouldn’t have much of an impact to a healthy, diverse diet and lifestyle. Also, there are healthy versions of our favorite junk foods!

👑National Be Someone Day challenges each of us to take ten seconds to make a difference. There are several things that can be done in ten seconds. We can also commit to report child abuse. On National Be Someone Day, take the pledge to be the person to make a difference in a child’s life. Most importantly, be someone prepared to report when a child trusts you enough to tell you they’ve been abused. Take the pledge on National Be Somone Day to report child abuse. Project Be Someone provides five steps to prepare you: ✨Learn the facts, ✨Minimize opportunity, ✨Talk about it, ✨Know the signs, ✨React responsibly. Project Harmony founded National Be Someone Day to help end child abuse and bring communities together through education and awareness.

🍦National Ice Cream Day is a fun day to celebrate with a bowl, cup or cone filled with your favorite flavor of ice cream. Thousands of years ago, people in the Persian Empire would put snow in a bowl, pour grape-juice concentrate over it and eat it as a treat. They did this when the weather was hot and used the snow saved in the cool-keeping underground chambers known as “yakhchal,” or taken from the snowfall that remained at the top of the mountains by the summer capital. It is believed that ice cream was first introduced into the United States by Quaker colonists who brought their ice cream recipes with them. Their ice cream was sold at shops in New York and other cities during the colonial era. ✨Ben Franklin, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson enjoyed ice cream. ✨1813 -First Lady Dolley Madison served ice cream at the Inaugural Ball. ✨1832 – African American confectioner, Augustus Jackson, created multiple ice cream recipes as well as a superior technique to manufacture ice cream. ✨1843 – Philadelphian, Nancy Johnson, received the first U.S. patent for a small-scale hand-cranked ice cream freezer. ✨1920 – Harry Burt puts the first ice cream trucks on the streets. Thomas Jefferson’s recipe for Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream is believed to be the oldest recipe for ice cream in the USA. Below is that recipe provided by the Library of Congress. The transcript is word for word: Ice cream. 2 bottles of good cream. 6 yolks of eggs. 1/2 lb. sugar. mix the yolks & sugar. put the cream on a fire in a casse—role, first putting in a stick of Vanilla. when near boiling take it off & pour it gently into the mixture of eggs & sugar. stir it well. put it on the fire again stirring it thoroughly with a spoon to prevent it’s sticking to the casse–-role when near boiling take it off and strain it thro’ a towel. put it in the Sabottiere then set it in ice an hour before it is to be served. put into the ice a handful of salt. put ice all around the Sabottiere i.e. a layer of ice a layer of salt for three layers. put salt on the coverlid of the Sabotiere & cover the whole with ice. leave it still half a quarter of an hour. then turn the Sabottiere in the ice 10 minutes open it to loosen with a spatula the ice from the inner sides of the Sabotiere. shut it & replace it in the ice. open it from time to time to de- -tach the ice from the sides. when well taken (prise) stir it well with the Spatula. put it in moulds justling it well down on the knee. then put the mould into the same bucket of ice. leave it there to the moment of serving it. to withdraw it immerse the mould in warm water turning it well till it will come out & turn it into a plate. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July as National Ice Cream Month and established National Ice Cream Day as the third Sunday in the month of July.

I'm picky about my junk food. I really shouldn't eat it at all but...sometimes the cravings over rides nutritional snacks. We somebody every day. I feel a craving for ice cream coming on. Yummy!

It was another hot day in the 90's and heat index in the triple digits.

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