July 18, 2022 - National Caviar Day | National Sour Candy Day

Welcome to July 18th, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate a splurge from the sea and our obsession with sweet tart flavor. Caviar is a delicacy that is typically served at only the most elegant of events, being that it’s so expensive. Beluga caviar is widely considered to be the best that money can buy, but it might as well be plain old scrambled eggs when compared to almas caviar. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this delicacy isn’t just the priciest caviar in the world, it’s the most expensive FOOD in the world. Period. 1 pound of it can cost up to $17,000! It’s produced from the eggs of the endangered albino sturgeon, which can only be found near Iran, in the southern part of the Caspian Sea. On National Caviar Day, celebrate this extravagant morsel. The history of sweet tart candies goes back to the 19th century, and it began with the process of candy making itself. Hard candy manufacturing back then relied on acid to convert cane sugar into glucose to resist crystallization. Vinegar did the trick and from then on our mouths naturally craved this sweet tart combination. Then along came the Lemonhead in 1962 which used citric acid to power our pucker and a new kind of arms race was born. Since then we have raised the bar ever higher with kids demanding a mouth punishing experience that seemed to culminate with the 1993 impact of the Mega Warhead. On National Sour Candy Day, pucker up anyway you please and leave the fear factor kind to the kids. I’m Anna Devere and I’m Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices