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(38,958 posts) Mon Apr 6, 2015, 03:55 AM Apr 2015

Daily Holidays -April 6

National Caramel Popcorn Day

April 6 is National Caramel Popcorn Day. Today is a perfect day to add delicious caramel to popcorn to make all time favorite American snack.
Combining popcorn and caramel began in 1890s. The very first version of caramel popcorn was introduced at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and it went with the strong molasses flavor of Cracker Jack. Today caramel popcorn is produced by many brands and it is available in grocery stores and cinemas.

You can make caramel popcorn at home. You need to place popcorn in a large bowl and preheat oven to 250°F. Melt 1 stick of butter over medium heat, stir in 1/4 cup honey, 1 cup light brown sugar and 1/2 tsp salt. Bring this mixture to boil and continue cooking it on a reduced heat for 5 more minutes without stirring. Remove caramel from heat, stir in 1/4 tsp baking soda and about 1-1 1/2 tsp of powdered cinnamon, ground cloves, ginger, allspice and nutmeg each. Pour caramel over popcorn and quickly mix to coat it.

Bake coated popcorn on a cookie sheet for 40 minutes stirring every 10-15 minutes with spatula. You can store caramel popcorn for 5 days in airtight container at room temperature. But we don't think that caramel popcorn you've made will last long! https://anydayguide.com/calendar/951

New Beers Eve

For lovers of all brews everywhere, the years of 1920 to 1933 were incredibly sad times. This was the period of the Prohibition in the United States, where any and all forms of alcohol were verboten. Thankfully in 1933, the United States government came to their senses, and President Roosevelt decided that this frothy brew should once again flow freely in the taverns and bars of the country.

On this date in 1933, people lined up around the block at the doors of their favorite public house to prepare to imbibe the first legal brews in 13 years. Ever since that night, this day has been referred to as ‘New Beer’s Eve’, a precursor of ‘New Beers Day’. It was said that at 12:01 on 1933, Roosevelt stated “I think this would be a good time for a beer.” For such an auspicious patron, Anheuser-Busch pulled out all the stops, delivering the beer with their Clydesdale draw carriage directly to the Commander in Chief. The first 24 hours of the end of the prohibition saw an estimated 1.5 million gallons of beer consumed.

This is a great time to set up a party, bringing in an abundance of different types of brews and calling in New Beer Day with an abundance of craft beers and the like. Seeing how it’s only this year’s New Beer’s Eve once, it just makes sense to go a little out of well-travelled waters for it. There are micro-breweries popping up all over America, so the opportunity to try a local brew for the first time is popping up every day. Nothing better than celebrating the end of the prohibition by trying out a beer that may never have existed if it had not!

But that doesn’t mean you should spend a small fortune on it, most microbreweries produce beers at a very reasonable rate. While there are higher priced beers on the market, there is nothing saying that they are in fact of superior quality. Some of the most delicious beers on the market are bottom shelf mostly unknown micro-brews. So go for a rarely experienced beer, but don’t get a new mortgage on your house to make it happen. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/new-beers-eve/

Sorry Charlie Day

Sorry Charlie Day is celebrated on April 06, 2015. Sorry Charlie Day is for all of those who have been rejected, and yet somehow survived it. Celebrate this day by taking a minute to remember a past rejection. After doing this, be happy und realize the fact, that this happens to all of us.

Social rejection occurs when an individual is deliberately excluded from a social relationship or social interaction for social rather than practical reasons. The topic includes both interpersonal rejection and romantic rejection. A person can be rejected on an individual basis or by an entire group of people. Although humans are social beings, some level of rejection is an inevitable part of life.

Nevertheless, rejection can become a problem when it is prolonged or consistent, when the relationship is important, or when the individual is highly sensitive to rejection. The experience of rejection can lead to a number of adverse psychological consequences such as loneliness, low self-esteem, aggression, and depression. It can also lead to feelings of insecurity and a heightened sensitivity to future rejection. (With material from: Wikipedia) http://www.cute-calendar.com/event/sorry-charlie-day/13051-world.html

Tartan Day

Americans of Scottish descent have played a vibrant and influential role in the development of the United States. From the framers of the Declaration of Independence to the first man on the moon, Scottish-Americans have contributed mightily to the fields of the arts, science, politics, law, and more. Today, over eleven million Americans claim Scottish and Scotch-Irish roots -- making them the eighth largest ethnic group in the United States. These are the people and accomplishments that are honored on National Tartan Day, April 6th. http://www.tartanday.org

Teflon Day National Teflon Day is observed each year on April 6. It honors the accidental invention of Teflon on April 6, 1938 by Dr. Roy Plunkett.

While working in his New Jersey lab that April day, Plunkett, along with his assistant, accidentally discovered polytetrafluoroethylene. It is a slippery substance often used in non-stick skillets.

The Teflon trademark was registered in 1945.

In the United States, Kansas City, Missouri resident Marion A. Trozzolo, who had been using the substance on scientific utensils, marketed the first US-made Teflon coated frying pan, “The Happy Pan”, in 1961. http://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-teflon-day-april-6/