National Meatloaf Appreciation Day
About National Meatloaf Appreciation Day
When is National Meatloaf Appreciation Day? This holiday is always observed on October 18
What’s for dinner? I know, let’s have a meatloaf dinner tonight! It’s time to celebrate National Meatloaf Appreciation Day, an October 18 holiday. This humble, if not healthy entree, has a special day all to its own. I betcha can’t wait to make a it and serve it to your family. Meatloaf is a budget-friendly meal, that can use just about any meat. Hamburger is by far the most popular. Some recipes call for pork, veal, turkey, or even deer and other game meat. Use whatever suits your family’s tastes.
Meatloaf is the culinary butt of many jokes. However, we feel it deserves both a lot of respect and certainly a day of recognition and celebration. It may not be the healthiest meal you can eat, but it sure tastes good. And it helps to stretch the family food budget, too. In times of high inflation, more and more people turn to this low-cost meal.
Did You Know? The Performer Meat Loaf’s most prized possession is his rubber duckie collection.
How to Celebrate National Meatloaf Appreciation Day
To celebrate this National Meatloaf Appreciation Day, dust off your favorite meatloaf dinner recipe, cook it up, and watch your family wolf it down!
If you’ve never had this meal before, what have you been waiting for!? You’re in for a budget-saving culinary treat.
Today's Quote
“You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn’t. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn’t have an IQ higher than four.” – – Meat Loaf, the performer
History and Origin of National Meatloaf Appreciation Day
This new holiday was created by the wonderful folks at “Serious Eats”. They created it in 2018. Seriously, we are glad that they did.
Almost all food-related holidays and special days are referred to as “National”. I guess we Americans like our food…and it shows.
Despite our extensive research, we did not find any documentation confirming this to be a thru “National” day. We found no congressional records or presidential proclamation. This was not surprising. National Meatloaf Appreciation Day is a very new holiday and to date has received little recognition to date.
Definition of “National” Days – Find out why it is so important to distinguish and identify true national days.
This Day in History
While you are enjoying today’s holiday, here are some other things that happened on this day:
- The United States purchased the territory of Alaska from Russia for $7.2M. What a deal that was!! (1867)
- Lee Harvey Oswald, assassinated President John F. Kennedy, was born on this day in 1939.
More October 18 Holidays
After you’ve enjoyed your meatloaf dinner, you will enjoy this October 18 holiday:
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Did You Know? Moreover, in addition to National Meatloaf Appreciation Day, there are literally thousands of daily holidays, special events, and observances, more than one for every day of the year. Many of these holidays are new. People and organizations are creating new holidays regularly. October holidays are no exception. Consequently., at Holiday Insights, we take great efforts to thoroughly research and document the details of each one, as completely and accurately as possible.
