National Taco Day

October 04

Consider National Taco Day, October 4 every year, a concentrated and intensified version of the “Taco Tuesdays” many restaurants offer in a bid to bring in Happy Hour-like crowds. Come to think of it, to further whet your appetite for the subject, get this: the phrase “Taco Tuesday” was actually trademarked across the country in 1989 by a Wyoming-based fast-food chain called Taco John’s, except in New Jersey, where the trademark had already been claimed by Gregory’s Restaurant & Bar back in ‘82.

However, nobody needs to worry about the legality of what their dinner is called. On National Taco Day, we only need to grab some tortillas and stuff them with savory fillings, from the traditional carne asada, cheese, tomato, lettuce and sour cream, to more exotic gustatory delights like fish, chorizo, even tongue, to name only a few of the “meat component” alternatives. Even the word “stuff” is no accident; many believe that the word taco derives from the Spanish “ataco,” meaning “to stuff.”

Here’s some other notable food-related holidays from around the world.

National Taco Days Around the World
Country	Holiday	Occasion	Date
Mexico	Día del Taco	National Taco Day for our friends in Mexico. They celebrate by eating heaps of tacos. It sounds like our idea of a good time.	March 31
Egypt	International Hummus Day	A day where Egyptians celebrate hummus. If mashed chickpeas is your thing then this is the holiday for you.	May 13
United Kingdom	National Fish and Chips Day	An annual celebration of the traditional fish and chips. Throw in a cup of tea and it just might be the most British day ever.	June 3
India	National Undhiyu Day	A day to celebrate the mixed vegetable dish that is a regional specialty of Surat, India.	January 16

5 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT CORN TORTILLAS

Caribbean corn?

The word “maize” was first used by the Taino peoples indigenous to the Antilles and the Bahamas, though technically their word was “mahiz” and only changed to “maize” when adopted by Spanish explorers.
“Get your motor running …”

A popular use of the earlier gas-powered engines and electric motors was to grind grain for “masa,” the dough or paste that was then flattened into tortillas.
Even if you’re skeptical of the popular

Though there are fluctuations in the market involving more variables than we can list here, it’s Mission that is the top-selling tortilla brand in the U.S., out of about 450 distinct vendors.
Uno mas, por favor…

In terms of tortilla consumption, the typical Mexican family of four eats more than two pounds of tortillas per day (imagine holding a single tortilla in one hand, and eight sticks [two pounds] of butter or margarine in the other, and compare).
The market is anything but “flat”

As of August, 2019, the tortilla-production industry employed over 21,000 people in the United States alone.