Cocktails, Music and Chocolate...

Play Your Ukulele Day

& Scurvy Awareness Day

& National Truffle Day

(More for the

Crazy Day basket, I think…)

  I listed the three days

because none of them

really grabs my attention

and demands a blog-post…

so,

Truffle Day might jag

my attention…

especially when I realise

that it is actually

Chocolate Truffle Day! 

These truffles date back

to 1895, France. 

Chocolate truffles are not like

 the super expensive truffles

 that are dug up by pigs

and cost a zillion dollars…

chocolate truffles are filled

with chocolate ganache,

covered in a hard chocolate shell

and dusted

with chocolate powder.  

Ukuleles:

They came around 60 years

after the guitar 

 it was small enough

to fit into a saddlebag,

 so could be carried

over the range.

   This little,

four stringed instrument

is typically known as a

Hawaiian instrument.

One interpretation

of the name is

“jumping flea” – named for

the speed fingers need to move

 when playing the ukulele.

 

Scurvy…

(slightly less appealing,

and yet…

the one that caught

my attention first!)

Of course,

I imagine pirates! 

 Without vitamin C,

 our body starts falling apart…

  tiredness…

 muscle and joint pain…

rash covered legs…

bleeding gums…

loose teeth…

(all that's missing

is a shoulder-sitting parrot!)

Without Vitamin C,

you will look ugly.

  For technical information,

visit this webpage. 

Apparently, this is not

just a disease for pirates… 

 people on restricted diets,

alcoholics and people

who have been very sick

may develop scurvy...

babies can develop scurvy

if they stop drinking 

 breast milk,

take up cow’s milk

and don’t drink juice

(or another food source

 which contains vitamin C).

 

So, how to celebrate this day? 

(Cut up a lime and

stick it on your head?)

No!

I guess there’s nothing to it…

You play the ukulele,

munching on chocolate truffles

and then follow them down

with an evening cocktail

(juice-based!),

while sitting on

a Hawaiian beach…

too easy!

Photos from here,

here and here.