My Daily Bread Crumbs 26 Jun 2022

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June 26th 2022 - Holidays and Observances

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Day of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan
Christian feast day:
- Anthelm of Belley
- David the Dendrite
- Hermogius
- Isabel Florence Hapgood (Episcopal Church)
- Jeremiah (Lutheran)
- John and Paul
- José María Robles Hurtado (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
- Josemaría Escrivá
- Mar Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
- Pelagius of Córdoba
- Vigilius of Trent
- June 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Flag Day (Romania)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Madagascar from France in 1960. (Madagascar)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Somaliland from United Kingdom in 1960. (Somaliland)
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (International)^[31]
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (International)^[31]
Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, Germany)
Sunthorn Phu Day (Thailand)
World Refrigeration Day (International)

Observances

National Fatherless Children’s Day

Ariana Grande

Fun Observances

Chocolate Pudding Day

June 26 is Chocolate Pudding Day. This unofficial holiday celebrates everyone's favorite lunch dessert snack - the chocolate pudding.

Pudding is a dessert enjoyed by people in many parts of the world. In the United States and Canada, pudding is a custard-based dessert that is usually made of milk or cream, eggs, and sugar. The dessert is thickened with gelatin or starch and then cooled before being served. While many flavors of pudding exist, chocolate pudding is one of the most popular flavors and is commonly eaten as a lunch time snack.

Savory Roots

In the United Kingdom, while the word pudding is usually reserved to refer to desserts, savory dishes can also be called pudding. In fact, the term pudding was originally used for savory dishes especially those that came in some form of a casing such as a sausage.

It is believed that the word pudding comes from the old French word, boudin, meaning sausage.

In the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, flour is added to chocolate pudding giving it the consistency of a dense cake.

How to Celebrate?

The holiday is a good excuse to have this yummy dessert for all your meals. Use chocolate pudding as a topping for your oatmeal or cereal for breakfast. Skip your lunch and have a big bowl of chocolate pudding instead and have it as dessert for dinner.
Make your own chocolate pudding from scratch and serve it to family and friends.
Elevate the flavor of your chocolate pudding. Make it Mexican style by adding cinnamon and a pinch of chili or an Indian inspired chocolate pudding by adding a dash of cardamom.
Trying to eat healthy? Skip the unhealthy ingredients and use avocados to whip up a batch of tasty and healthy chocolate pudding.
Make a chocolate pie using chocolate pudding as a filling.

Did You Know…

…that a majority of the world's chocolate is produced in Ivory Coast?

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Shortly after joining the Army, I was in line with some other inductees when the sergeant stepped forward with that day's assignments. After handing over various tasks, he asked, "Does anyone here have experience with radio communications?"

A longtime ham operator, I shouted, "I do!"

"Good," he said. "You can dig the hole for the new telephone pole."

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Our day-care center spent time helping the kids memorize their home addresses. My daughter, who was in my class, had her street name down, but couldn't remember the house number.

"If our house is on fire and you call 911," I asked, "how will the firefighters know where to go?"

She had a plan: "I'll tell them to go to South 14th Street and look for the house that's on fire."

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With several years of Army National Guard duty under his belt, my roommate applied for officer training. But his lifelong dreams were dashed after he failed the eye exam.

"That's too bad," I sympathized. "Does that mean you now have to quit the Guard entirely?"

"No, I get to keep my old job," he said. "Driving trucks."

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You didn't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out that a customer at our post office was an off-duty mail clerk from another plant.

He'd written on his package, "Fragile: Toss Underhand."

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