My Daily Bread Crumbs 16 Nov

Entry posted by sandrewn in Bread Crumbs 127 November 17, 2021

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November 16th - Holidays and Observances

(click on the day for details)

Christian feast day:
- Africus
- Agnes of Assisi
- Edmund of Abingdon
- Elfric of Abingdon
- Eucherius of Lyon
- Gertrude the Great (Roman Catholic Church)
- Giuseppe Moscati
- Gobrain
- Hugh of Lincoln
- Margaret of Scotland
- Matthew the Evangelist (Eastern Christianity)
- Othmar
- Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn
- Roch Gonzalez, Juan de Castillo, and Alonso Rodriguez, SJ
- November 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty (Estonia)
Earliest day on which Day of Repentance and Prayer can fall, while November 22 is the latest; celebrated 11 days before Advent Sunday (Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United Protestant churches, Saxony, Bavaria), and its related observance:
- Volkstrauertag (Germany)
Icelandic Language Day or Dagur íslenskrar tungu (Iceland)
International Day for Tolerance (United Nations)^[34]
Statia Day in Sint Eustatius (Caribbean Netherlands)

Observances (click on the day or week for details)

Have a Party with Your Bear Day

Road Safety Week

Fun Observances

Fast Food Day

Head out to your closest fast food restaurant and indulge in your favorite fast food on November 16 because it is Fast Food Day.

Fast food, also known as junk food, is a type of cuisine that can be prepared, served and consumed quickly. Usually, the term is reserved for food served outside the home in restaurants or street-side eateries.

Quick and Cheap

Food historians believe that the modern day version of fast food, the kind all of us are familiar with today, was first popularized in the United States in the early 20th century. The burger chain White Castle, which first opened its doors in 1921 in Whichita, Kansas, is credited for paving the path for modern day fast food chains.

Fast food has always been a part of urban human history. In the old days, fast food was a quick way for travelers and workers to get their quickly and cheaply meals. Despite this, food sold by vendors and at roadside kiosks had a dubious reputation - in many cultures eating outside the home was seen as an uncultured and undesirable act. Today, however fast food has become an acceptable and often times necessary part of mainstream urban life.

How to Celebrate?

Have fast food for all your meals today.
Make your own fast food at home – it will be healthier, nutritious and cheaper!

Did you Know…

…that according to many business sources, fast food giant McDonalds sells 75 hamburgers every second around the world?

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A husband suspected his wife was cheating on him. He explained his situation to a pet shop owner who replied, "I have a parrot that will let you know daily what goes on in your house. The bird has no legs, so he holds onto his perch with his penis."

Reluctantly, the husband brought the bird home. At the end of the first day, the man asked the bird, "Did anything happen today?"

The parrot said, "Yes, the milk man came over."

The man asked, "What did he do with my wife?"

The bird said, "I don’t know; I got hard and fell."

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A statue of a naked woman and a naked man stand in a park at night. Suddenly from out of nowhere, a magical genie arrives and grants the statues each one wish to be fulfilled.

Both the female and male statues agree on 15 minutes as a real man and woman in the bushes behind them to "get things done." The genie gives a knowing grin and grants the wish. The man and woman immediately jump behind the bushes and screaming sounds and laughter can be heard from their activities. 12 minutes later they return to the front of the bush again claiming they are finished.

"Well now, that was kinda quick!" the genie says. "You can do it a second time for the remaining 3 minutes if you want," the genie tells them, winking his eye.

Both the female and male look at each other and smile. The man says to the woman, "Okay great, but this time you get to hold the pigeon so I can shit on him!"

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A magician worked on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The audience would be different each week, so the magician did the same tricks each week. However, there was a problem, the captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the magician did every trick. Once he understood, he started shouting out the secrets in the middle of the show, "Look, it's not the same hat." "Look, he is hiding the flowers under the table." "Hey, why are all the cards the Ace of Spades?"

The magician was furious but couldn't do anything, it was, after all, the captain's parrot. One day, the ship had an accident and sank. The magician found himself with the parrot, adrift on a piece of wood, in the middle of the ocean. They stared at each other with hatred, but did not utter a word. This went on for a day, then another, and another.

Finally, after a week, the parrot said, "Okay, I give up. Where the heck is the boat?"

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