February 3, 2022 - National Carrot Cake Day | National Day The Music Died Day

Welcome to February 3rd, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate vegetables for dessert and an odd twist of fate. Carrot cake is one of those foods that seems odd on paper. Why on earth make a dessert out of something otherwise seen as healthy? Well, for starters, carrots actually have a pretty high sugar content for a vegetable. In Medieval Europe and the Middle East, sweets were not readily available. Sugar was not the everyday item that we have today, so people needed to get creative. They’d boil the carrots, mash them up, add flour and butter, then serve the dish as a pudding. Eventually, that evolved into a cake. On National Carrot Cake Day, celebrate the chance to eat your vegetables and get dessert at the same time. On this day 63 years ago, a plane crash claimed 3 of music’s brightest young stars. The Winter Dance Party tour was traveling across the Midwest, with Buddy Holly as one of the headliners. After several shows, he had grown tired of the long, cold drives via tour bus and chartered a plane for the next leg of the trip. Holly intended to travel with his 2 bandmates, Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings. But neither traveled with him that fateful night. Before they parted ways, Holly teased Jennings and told him, “I hope your bus freezes up again.” Jennings replied, “Well, I hope your plane crashes.” Waylon Jennings was haunted by this comment for years. On National Day The Music Died Day, we celebrate Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper and those who dance with us through this thing called life. 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