That’s too long a title.
TODAY IS NATIONAL APPLE PIE DAY AND NATIONAL CROUTON DAY AND NATIONAL FRUIT COCKTAIL DAY AND INTERNATIONAL HUMMUS DAY!
My goodness. Look at all that. We did it. And thankfully we didn’t stuff ourselves!
First up: Hummus.

Hummus is a gem of the middle-east. One of the things that could easily be overeaten and overeaten and overeaten. Whether you dip with carrots or pita or anything else, there is something very addictive about that chickpea and sesame flavor. What’s the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean? I would be okay to have a garbanzo bean on my face.

Phoenician makes a great hummus, as does the local Kowalski’s. Really good stuff.
That was our appetizer for dinner at SPamily’s house tonight. Next up was our salad course, with croutons! Not able to let bread go to waste, someone thought, “let’s just keep eating this until it breaks our teeth.” And so we did, and the delicious crouton was born! Now, we may have preferred our croutons in French Onion Soup form, but we wanted to stay modest with our calorie consumption.


Slad!
After our wonderful dinner of Chipotle Chicken (a Weight Watchers recipe), we had some dessert of Fruit Cocktail and Apple Pie. Fruit Cocktail is an interesting food, considering the strict stipulations set by the USDA (All hail USDA overlords!):
- 30% to 50% diced peaches, any yellow variety
- 25% to 45% diced pears, any variety
- 6% to 16% diced pineapple, any variety
- 6% to 20% whole grapes, any seedless variety
- Few to no cherry halves, any light sweet or artificial red variety
Who decided that we should limit the cherries? Probably communists.


Dibs on the nibs.
And, of course, some apple pie that was heated from a Sara Lee container SPom baked (All hail SPom overlord!)

No better way to feel American than to eat Apple Pie when most apples aren’t even close to being in season!
And that brings our quadholiday (qualiday? quaaludes?) to a close. Great work, everyone! Pat yourselves on the back.
Tomorrow is National Buttermilk Biscuit Day.
-SPAK