National Blueberry Pancake Day
Daily Fact: The first ready-mix food to be sold commercially was Aunt Jemima pancake flour introduced in 1889.
Blueberry Facts: Maine produces 99% of all the wild blueberries in the United States of which 90% are frozen.
Daily Quote: “The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.”~W. C. Fields
Today’s Food History
on this day in…
- 1807 London’s Pall Mall becomes the first street to be lighted with Gas Fixtures
- 1855 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway. Establishing the first trans-continental dining cars.
- 1917 San Francisco opens it’s streetcar system. Considered a “San Francisco treat”
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Categories: Food Holidays, January Food Holidays
Tagged: blueberries, pancake, pancakes
I love Blueberry pancakes, *sigh* too bad i can’t get any blueberries my side of the world. Thanks for following. Bisous
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i probably shouldn’t be looking at this blog while i’m hungry…blueberry pancakes are the best!
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you are very welcome. Great blog!
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Thanks for the ‘like’ John which encouraged me to stumble over here much to my delight. I love food history! And silly me, I didn’t even know yesterday was National Blueberry Pancake day. I guess I’m fashionably late on today’s pancake post!
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looks like i was a day late for national blueberry pancake day ! this is awesome x
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Mmm, these pancakes look delicious. Blueberries are so my thing. Love the food history facts too.
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I will keep that in mind! Food is indeed THE universal language.
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Hi John, your blog is my find of the month! Am a food nerd and love food history.
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What a totally fun site! Maybe while I am traveling the world I can supply you with some international info for your blog. Love it. I’ll stop in often.
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Just wanted to pop over and say hello and thank you for visiting my blog! 🙂
Great blog you have here!
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I am so hungry for a pancake! I didn’t have part of my stuff to make mine today … so I made a fritatta instead …. still longing for the pancake! 😦
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Oh yes! This is one of our favorites!
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I loooooove your blog, the pictures, the history notes. It is amazing. The blueberry pancakes looks to die for:)
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How did I not know it was National Blueberry Pancake Day?! Glad I now know. Lurve pancakes. Thanks for posting!
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Ha!! Amazing! I love that we have a national food day for just about everything on the planet!
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Reblogged this on Meals on Wheels.
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yum.. had blueberry pancakes earlier on in the week, wild ones picked from last summer here in Sweden. Great with a big dollop of ice cream!
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On this date in Paris, France:
1881, Degas sculpts LIttle Dancer (now in the D’Orsay)
1882, Victor Hugo dies, throwing Paris into tumult
1892, Toulouse Lautrec paints his famous At The Moulin Rouge….I’m sure blueberry pancakes did not figure in this event, but one can find (if you know where to look) an otherworldly blueberry and marscapone macaroni (a meringue based “cookie” in sandwich form) at one of Paris’ most celebrated pastry shops! It’s Bliss (ask us!)
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Hi John, thanks for the “like” – am loving your blog too : )
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Seriously. What is *not* to love about the blueberry pancake? And if you’re feeling a little less than healthy, blueberry chocolate chip pancakes are pretty darn tasty, too! Imagine traveling halfway around the world to visit a friend and her husband and daughter… then wandering downstairs on Saturday morning to find them spatting over who makes better pancakes. Let me just say, her husband makes killer blueberry chocolate chip pancakes (he didn’t feel healthy that morning–thank goodness!). But pancakes and blueberries are a match made in heaven… my second favorite? Eggnog pancakes… followed by apple pancakes. Then regular scratch pancakes (not the others aren’t scratch, mind you). All with 100% pure maple syrup… now I’m hungry. Thanks! 🙂
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Interesting trivia, thank you!
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So happens I got a lot of organic blueberries from Costco. It’s not very often they sell it so I got quite a bit. Blueberry pancakes are in order.
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from one food lover (food snob? foodie? food connoisseur?) to another…great blog.
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