AND that means Fun Food as well as history and celebration!! This informative CNN article outlines some background and Dos & Don’ts for the day.

While I decide where to go – Vancouver has great mexican restaurants – here are 14 mexican-inspired and VERY fun looking recipes from Brit & Co to try. I actually may just stay home and make their version of mexican pizza! And something with AVOCADO!

The convenience factor of a restaurant is magnified by the possibility of tequila and mezcal drink options. Mezcal is becoming more popular and this Thrillist article shares it’s long history and growing production & brands. But do read the CNN article as this day is not a day of drinking as St. Patrick’s Day has become…

While I may not 100% agree with these winners, I agree with the awards! Thrillist’s 3rd annual Fasties are a PERFECT opportunity for horizontal eating of some important Fun Foods.

Five competing restaurants per Fun Food category and 15 categories so a total of 75 opportunities of horizontal eating experiences!! French fries, onion rings, tacos, cheeseburgers, chicken nuggets plus more – each are Fun Foods. And perhaps future Fasties will incorporate meat alternative categories to broaden their appeal as everyone’s tastes broaden.

And you can’t beat their perspective – their awards are Fun not serious and perhaps a bit educational!! I’m going to go track down the New Menu item of 2022 – Taco Bell has a new Crispy Chicken Sandwich Taco!! And also Burger King’s Ch’king with it’s award winning “thick-cut” pickles!

Mardi Gras is Fat Tuesday! It is also Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Tuesday – so it is the perfect excuse to have pancakes for dinner!!

This interesting article from The Compass explains the religious origins of pancakes on Mardi Gras and what Shrove means!! It is the eve of Lent as Ash Wednesday is the next day and kicks off the 40 days of Lent before Easter.

One of these years I’ll make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras – which is SO much more than pancakes. This People article outlines Mardi Gras’s history and origin & PureWow shares 11 Traditions and 34 New Orleans Fun Food ideas.

PS – March 1st is also National Pig Day – for this year’s Mardi Gras, a pancake “pig out” seems appropriate. Esther the Wonder Pig loves pancakes and would agree!

If you are a Pangolin!  Today is World Pangolin Day and hopefully pangolins everywhere are eating as many ants as they can find – and grubs and termites and other small insects – as they are insectivorous. 

80 million years of existence and holding an unfortunate World Record, there is lots to learn about Pangolins in this World Animal Protection Fact Sheet or, if you feel confident in your knowledge of what Pangolins like as their Fun Food, here is their Pangolin Quiz!

Pangolins need help, both in Africa and Asia where they make their home. As of 2016, CITES has forbidden the commercial trade of pangolin parts to give the strongest protection and stop the over-exploitation of these scaly anteaters. They are now listed on Appendix I due to the threat of extinction. Unfortunately, Pangolins are considered a delicacy & tasty in some nations – Pangolins are NOT Fun Food.

Here is a link if you would like to adopt a Pangolin thru Born Free and help rescue & release orphaned pangolins at Sangha Pangolin Project in the Central African Republic.

Happy World Pangolin Day!

Super Bowl – A Fun Food fiesta that often includes chicken wings – this is quite a statistic, 1.42 billion chicken wings are eaten at Super Bowl celebrations…

OR, here are 65 Fun Food snack ideas for the occasion – this handy PureWow article gives LOTS of choices and yes, there is some overlap with the 75 New Year’s Eve Appis. How about salty, cheesy, & kinda healthy Crispy Parmesan Tomato Chips OR sweet like Cake Batter dip!! Perhaps with a Pineapple Lime Beer Margarita!?

My Loaded Baked Potato “Chips” did not make it to Kick Off…!