AUTHOR R. ANN SIRACUSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It isn't the destination that matters -- It's the journey that counts!

Posted
August 4, 2024
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WHAT'S IN A NAME? GELATO VS. ICE CREAM

scan down from the 1st one (the Olympics) It's there, I promise!

It's The Journey That Counts!
Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, at 90 miles an hour with your hair on fire, totally worn out, and shouting, "Wow! What a ride!"

Anna-grams
● HAPPY 95TH BIRTHDAY TO LUCIANO
We celebrating as a family on the Saturday Aug. 10th, but the "real" day is August 4th.

By the fountain where we met in Rome, 1963.

● HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the rest of the family and friends with birthdays in August.
Christian Siracusa - Aug.12
R. Ann Siracusa - Aug.16
Tony Siracusa - Aug. 31
Toni Noel - Aug. 29

August Anagrams
●.Happy Birthday = Hippy Bath Yard

● Weapons of mass destruc-tion = US team swoops. Finds no trace. ~ Stanley Accrington, 2003

● Vanilla ice cream cone = I crave clean male icon
~ Jason Lofts (2013)

● Every legal means = All energy, Save me.
~ Aronas Pinchas 2008

● Lies, damned lies, statistics = Academies lists tilted sins.
~ Jim Banholzer (2017)

Ice Cream Quotes
● “When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.” ~ Blake Lively

● “My love for ice cream emerged at an early age — and has never left!” ~Ginger Rogers

● “Sometimes all you need is love… Oh, wait! And ice cream, and chocolate to go along with it, as nowadays love is anything but sweet.”
~ Megha Khare

● “The only thing better than a scoop of ice cream is two scoops of ice cream.”
~ Charles Schulz

You Had One Job!
The two-tongued wonder!
It took me a while to figures this one out.

MY BOOKS

Works By R Ann Siracusa
Tour Director Extraordinaire Series
Humorous Romantic Suspense
Book 1 - All For A Dead Man’s Leg
Book 2 - All For A Fistful Of Ashes
Book 3 - Destruction Of The Great Wall
Book 4 - All For Spilled Blood
Book 5 - All For A Blast of Hot Air
Tour Director Series Short Stories
First Date
Halloween in the Catacombs
Christmas Plans Gone Awry
Elves For Christmas

Other Books and Short Stories
A Timeless Melody
The Last Weekend In October
All In the Game
Family Secrets: A Vengeance of Tears
Tiffany
Time in a Bottle

Amazon Link to R. Ann Siracusa Books
Barnes & Noble Link to R. Ann Siracusa Books

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Granny Mythbuster Rides Again
Commonly Believed Myths that Aren’t True

Nobody has the time to look into everything, so people often have to take some things which we know are common knowledge for granted as true.

When searching for a Myth to fit with this month's blog, the only ice cream myths I ran into address making homemade ice cream. That seemed to have a limited audience. Finally, I had to make up one up for myself.

ANN'S ICE CREAM MYTH
Everything In The Grocery Store Ice Cream Refrigerator Is Ice Cream.

TRUTH
If you believe that, you ought to apply your-self to reading labels. The grocery store or other retailer may have a sign on the cold case reading "Ice Cream" but don't be fooled: inside might be ice cream and/or iice milk, frozen yogurt, gelato, sorbet, sherbet, frozen dessert, frozen custard, soft serve, frozen dairy dessert, ad infinitum.

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has very specific requirements (called Stan-dards of Identity*) for any product labeled and marketed as "Ice Cream." Not all food products have a standard of identity, but those that do include milk, cream, yogurt, sherbet, margarine, and different types of cheeses and breads.

According to the FDA, cream is an optional dairy ingredient in a product marketed and labeled as ice cream, but the product must have at least 10% or milk fat by weight and weight no less than 4.5 pounds per gallon.

The best known brands of ice creams in the US include: Dairy Queen, Baskin-Robbins,
Ben & Jerry's, Breyer's, and Blue Bunny.

Today's reality may be that many of these companies were started a long time ago, producing only ice cream. Bassets has been operating since 1861; Beyers began production in 1866. To the public the names implied without having to be said or labeled, that the product was "real" ice cream. During WWII, the US government forced ice cream manufacturers to use some vegetable fat in their products, the intention being to stretch butter fat rations. Thus, in 1942, production of imitation ice cream began.

Since then, demand has grown for ice cream with or without certain ingredients. It only makes sense that the commercial market has introduced new products to meet those needs. Now, brand names long identified with "real ice cream" are assumed by the purchaser as being that when, in fact, it is not (by FDA standards).

Personally, I believe that it doesn't matter to most of us what the product is made from as long as it tastes good, I enjoy it, and I'm not allergic to any of the ingre-dients. I also believe that people should be informed and know what they are paying for. Real Ice Cream (or just about anything) will almost always cost more.

Sources:
https://www.eatthis.com/grocery-store-ice-creams-that-are-fake/
https://www.registrarcorp.com/blog/food-beverage/food-beverage-regulations/ice-cream#:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/fact-check-we-looked-into-the-claim-that-breyers-ice-cream-is-now-called-frozen-dessert-because-its-50-air/ar-BB1n0Qai
https://www.mashed.com/223230/haagen-dazs
https://www.icecream.com/us/en/brands/haagen-dazs/products/ice-cream

The Olympics
Closing ceremony
August 11, 2024

August Observation Days (so many I can 't list all)
● Romance Month / Read-a-
Romance Month
● Spinal Muscular Atrophy
   Awareness Month
● American Adventures Month
● Am. Artist Appreciation Mo.
● Back to School Month
● Black Business Month
● Brownies at Brunch Month
● Children’s Eye Health and
   Safety Month
● Eat Dessert First Month
● Get Ready for Kindergarten
   Month
● Happiness Happens Month
● National Dog Month
● National Eye Exam Month
● National Goat Cheese Mo.
● National Golf Month
● National Motorsports
Awareness Month
● Psoriasis Action Month
● Neurosurgery month
● National Sandwich Month

August Weekly Observations
First Week August 4-10
• International Clown Wk (1-7)
• National Minority Donor
   Awareness Week (1-7)
• National Cleanse Your Skin
Week (1-7)
• World Breastfeeding W.(1-7)
• Twins Weekend ( 2-4)
• National Psychic Wk (4-10)
• Exercise With Your Child
Week (4-10)
• National Farmers Market
Week (4-10)
• National Health Center Week
(4-10)
• National Stop on Red Week
   (4-10)
• National Resurrect Romance
   Week (4-10)
• Simplify Your Life Wk (5-11)

2nd Week August 11-17
• Safe + Sound Week (12-18)
• Elvis Week (9-17)
• National Bargain Hunting
Week (12-18)
• National Smile Week (11-17)
• Drive Sober or Get Pulled
over (Aug.17-Sept.5)

3rd Week August 18-24
• National Aviation Wk (19-25)
• Health Unit Coordinators
Week (23-29)

4th Week August 25-31
• Brake Safety Week (25-31)
• Be Kind to Humankind Wk
(25-31)

FAKE Words Which Ended Up in Dictionaries
Personally, I am not convinced there is such a thing as a "fake" word if it came out of a human mouth and had a meaning, but many dictionary editors believe in made-up words, so here goes.
Dord (n) = fake word that ended up in 1934 edition of Webster’s New International Dictionary meaning "density."
Up until the preparation of that edition, abbreviations were in alphabetical order with full words. Editors wanted them in a separate section after the definition of words. When imple-mented, an editor mistook the note "D or d/cont/density" to indicate "Dord means -- is a synonym for -- the word density." It got printed that way and no one even noticed for five years
Esquivalience (n) =
Zero, Nada, Zilch, Niente, Nothing.
This is really a fake word. In 2005, the editorial world learned that the New Oxford American Dictionary had hidden a fake word in the E's specifically so the New Oxford officials could learn which, if any, other dictionaries were copying them. It worked. Several, particularly on-line dictionaries, were indeed identified.
How did that happen when words in dictionaries give the meaning of the word? Simple and clever.
Esquivalience = "the willful avoidance of one's official responsibilities."

Source:
https://www.rd.com/list/fake-words-in-dictionary