Welcome back to our series sharing Unique Holidays: July 10th, 2021. Take a look at the Holidays being celebrated today and let me know which one you most would like to celebrate and why.
For me personally I would like to get my nieces lily, Payton and Dixie and host a Teddy Bear Picnic and we could visit Build-A-Bear to have Teddy Bears designed. Would you like to join us?
July 10
Mid-Summer, and the Weather is hot and humid and it’s only natural, that you imagine yourself lying on a lounge chair under the Palm Trees on a Tropical, sun-baked beach or deserted island.
There’s warm gentle breezes wafting in the air. You hear the peaceful sound of the Ocean lapping at the shore just a few feet away as you reach for a Fruity, Ice cold Tropical drink.
If you listen closely, you might also hear a steel drum band in the distance. Ahh yes, it’s the perfect way to spend a Summer day. This is the ideal way to celebrate National Pina Colada Day. If only I could do this it would be pure Heaven. How about you? Wouldn’t you like to spend a day like this?
The Creation of the Pina Colada – Fact or Fiction
There are several stories about how Pina Coladas were first created, and who created Pina Coladas.
According to legend, sometime in the 1800s, a pirate named Captain Robert Cofresi sailed the Caribbean with his notorious pirate crew. To improve morale, he concocted the Pina Colada.
Starting with Rum, the drink of choice among Pirates, he added Coconut and Pineapple Juices, serving the drink in a Coconut Shell. Did it improve moral? Perhaps.
We’ll never know for certain, but the drink sure tasted good! The recipe was allegedly lost upon Cofresi’s death in 1825, and with it went any official record of the drink.
More than a century later, in 1954, the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico was seeking to create a new signature drink. The hotel management gave this task to Ramon “Monchito” Marrero, a bartender at the hotel’s Beachcomber Bar.
After a few days of experimenting, the Pina Colada was created (or re-created) on August 16, 1954. Another similar story suggests that Ricardo Garcia, a bartender from Barcelona working at the same bar and hotel, also claims to have created the Pina Colada on this same date.
It would certainly be nice to definitively separate fact from fiction around the creation and history of this great drink. Meanwhile, we choose to sip on a Pina Colada, as we ponder this issue.
Song of the Day: “Escape”(1979) by Rupert Holmes which is better known as “The Pina Colada Song”.
It’s easy to celebrate this day… enjoy a frosty Pina Colada. If you can do so, while on the beach on a Tropical Island, you will indeed have a perfect day!
The History and Origin of National Pina Colada Day:
It is believed that the “Pina Colada Song” was the inspiration for this special Holiday. In the early 1980s, shortly after the song was released in October, 1979, this Holiday was created. We have not yet discovered who created it.
This Holiday was originally called “Pina Colada Day”. Around 2010, it began to be called “National Pina Colada Day”. This holiday is not a true “National” day. Neither the U.S. congress, nor the President of the United States has proclaimed it a national day.
It’s Teddy Bear Picnic Day. Here’s a fun Summer day, that all the kids will enjoy. Mom and dad are certain to enjoy Teddy Bear Picnic Day, too, as it will keep the kids occupied for at least a little while. Spend the lunch hour on a blanket under a shade tree with your favorite Teddy Bear.
Stuffed Teddy Bears are a kids favorite. Children receive Teddy Bears early in their childhood and children cling to them throughout their teenage years. Many bears are kept, even as you become an adult. As you read this article, many of you adults know exactly where your Teddy Bear is. Do you know were yours is? Because I am sure mine was lost in one of the many fires we encountered as a child.
On this gorgeous Summer day, take your Teddy Bear (or Teddy Bears) out for a day in the Sun. It’s time for a Teddy Bear Picnic! Have mom make a few PB& J sandwiches, Cookies, and a jug of Kool-Aid then take a blanket out under a shade tree, and enjoy lunch with your Teddy.
Also See:
Have a Party with Your Bear Day
The Origin of the Teddy Bear:
During the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt was in office as President of the United States. He was a hunter. While hunting in Mississippi in 1902, he refused to shoot a small Bear.
The Washington Post picked up on this story, and made a cartoon of the event. Toy store owners, Morris and Rose Michtom, wrote to President Roosevelt for permission to call their stuffed animals “Teddy Bears”.
Teddy bears became wildly popular and their company went on to become the Ideal Toy Company, one of the largest toy companies in the world.
The History and Origin of Teddy Bear Picnic Day:
One reader suggests that this day may have had something to do with a 1950’s television show called Teddy Bears’ Picnic. It was sponsored by Pet Ice Cream – Brown Bear and Brown Mule – Chocolate Pop-icicles.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
