March 3 - National Cold Cuts Day

Happy National Cold Cuts Day! On March 3rd, Dagwood Bumstead, the central character of the American comic strip Blondie, would eat his heart out!  

Call them lunch meats, deli meats, sandwich meats, or cold cuts. Some like them thick, while others stack them mile high. Others still just like them with cheese and crackers. However you like or slice them, National Cold Cuts Day was made for sandwich and snack makers. 

There are the deli staples like the humble turkey and ham.  Then there are the culinary delights like salami and prosciutto and flavors that require a more acquired taste like head cheese and braunschweiger. Whatever your taste, there is a cold cut for everyone. Well, everyone except the vegetarian. 

Every nationality has a flavor all their own when it comes to seasoning, curing and aging a variety of meats. Spices, smoking, and time alters the taste. When the animal is butchered, temperature and air circulation affect the flavor as well. 

It’s essentially an art history lesson all rolled into one, and at the end of it all, there’s mouth-watering food that can be enjoyed with friends and a good beverage. 

Or, it’s merely a piece of meat meant to make a meal. Breaking bread with friends sounds so much more delightful, though. 

Bologna is one of the most popular cold cuts in the United States due to a famous commercial. Named after the Italian city of the same name, bologna is similar to an Italian sausage called Mortadella. Other popular cuts are chicken, roast beef, pastrami, corned beef, and pepperoni. 

HOW TO OBSERVE 

Visit a local deli and enjoy the following recipes: 

Cold Cuts Party Salad 

https://www.myfoodandfamily.com/recipe/054385/cold-cuts-party-salad 

Crock Pot BBQ Ham Sandwiches 

https://www.food.com/recipe/crock-pot-bbq-ham-sandwiches-75649 

Dill Pickle Ham Pinwheels Ham Rollups 

https://www.food.com/recipe/dill-pickle-ham-pinwheels-ham-rollups-64399 

Use #NationalColdCutsDay to post on social media. 

HISTORY 

National Day Calendar® continues researching the origin of this meat lovers’ holiday.  

#NatinoalColdCutsDay 

@oscarmayer 

@katzsdeli 

@DagsSandwiches 

@nichecinema 

  

March 3 - National I Want You To Be Happy Day

Happy National I Want You To Be Happy Day! on March 3rd, today encourages us to do something that makes others happy. It also asks us to see others’ happiness from their point of view.  Putting a smile on someone’s face tends to put one on ours as well. 

Genuine happiness takes effort. While we’re not individually responsible for other’s happiness, we do play a role in spreading joy and good cheer. One way to do that is to see happiness from another person’s perspective. Happiness doesn’t fit a mold.  

Everything from being a morning person or a night owl, a favorite season and seafood can make or break a person’s general idea of happiness. A person’s overall journey through life gives them a unique outlook on happiness, too. 

Being happy may merely be about quality, not quantity. 

HOW TO OBSERVE 

It’s quite limitless, actually. A flower here, a silly knock-knock joke there. Buy the person’s coffee standing in line behind you. Remind your kids how much you love them. Leave a sticky note for a co-worker telling them to have a spectacular day, a happy day. Draw a happy face in the snow for a stranger to come across later. Give someone a hug.  

But no matter what, consider someone else’s happiness from their point of view. Use #IWantYouToBeHappyDay to post on social media. 

HISTORY 

National Day Calendar® continues to research the origins of this uplifting national day. 

How can you make someone happy today? 

#IWantYouToBeHappyDay 

@nichecinema 

March 3 - National Soup It Forward Day

Happy National Soup It Forward Day! on March 3rd, this day encourages us to deliver love and kindness by the bowlful because a warm cup of kindness comes in many forms. 

When some people make a pot of soup, it’s nearly always enough to feed an army. Those time-worn recipes grow over time, and love seasons it to perfection. However, they make it to warm their home, to cure a cold and warm a soul. 

Just as the recipes grow and provide a nourishing warmth, so can National Soup it Forward Day. When making one of your favorite soups at home, Soup it Forward. Deliver a healing pot of your delicious chicken noodle or split pea to a family or friend you know is in need.  

Perhaps they have been ill or down on their luck. Whatever the situation, a little of your home cooking and visit will be a nice change. For example, some people know that their creamy potato soup will Soup it Forward nicely.  

HOW TO OBSERVE 

Make up your favorite soup and deliver it to someone you know who could use the warmth of kindness in their life. Use #HugInABowl and #SoupItForwardDay to share on social media. 

HISTORY

Soup Sisters founded National Soup it Forward Day to encourage everyone to make a difference in each other’s lives through the warm, healing kindness of sharing a bowl of soup. 

The Registrar at National Day Calendar® proclaimed the National Soup it Forward Day to be observed annually beginning in 2018.  

Soup Sisters is an award-winning national non-profit organization Founded March 3, 2009. 

Since that time more than one million servings of nurturing and nourishing soup made by community people has been delivered monthly to forty emergency shelters in North America for women and children fleeing family violence and domestic abuse.  

The organization’s founder, Sharon Hapton launched Soup Sisters by celebrating a milestone birthday with a soup-making birthday party that provided the first delivery of soup to the Calgary Women’s Emergency shelter.  

That is the simplicity of Sharon’s vision: to give people a way to give back to their community by doing something tangible – getting into the kitchen, spending a night with friends, rolling up their sleeves and creating something heartwarming, heartfelt and with it a message of support to women and kids in crisis.  

Now operating in over twenty-five cities Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers deliver the gift of soup by providing a much needed ‘Hug in a Bowl’. Soup it forward with the universal comfort food and for added inspiration, you can find over three hundred soup recipes in the Soup Sisters trilogy of cookbooks. 

If you would like to learn how to become a soup sister (or a broth brother), you can do so by visiting the website below.

https://www.soupsisters.org 

What soup will you be making on National Soup it Forward Day? 

#HugInABowl 

#SoupItForwardDay 

@SoupSisters 

@nichecinema