Each week, the Lincoln Journal Star will bring you a list of the upcoming holidays dedicated to the foods we eat -- or need to try.
Here's the holiday fare for Sept. 7-13:
Sept. 7: National Beer Lovers Day. You need to work just five minutes in order to afford one beer, according to research by Economist in 2012. In other words: the average hourly wage in the U.S. is a 12-pack.
Sept. 8: National Date-Nut Bread Day. It's a bit ironic that this holiday has conflicting dates. Some say the bread is celebrated on Dec. 22. But for lack of other food holidays on this date, we explore the history of the date. Dates have been cultivated since ancient times. It was the Spaniards who introduced dates into Mexico and California in 1765.
Sept 9: Wiener Schnitzel Day. A national dish of Austria, wiener schnitzel is a very thin, breaded and pan fried cutlet made from veal.
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Sept. 10: National TV Dinner Day. Omaha-based Swanson Brothers is credited with the invention of the TV dinner, after overestimating how many turkeys would sell for Thanksgiving. When 10 rail cars stuffed with frozen turkeys remained, a salesman for the company came up with the idea inspired by food trays used on airlines. The name "TV dinner" does not come from the act of eating dinner in front of the television, but from shape of the original aluminum tray which resembled at 1950s television console, according to .
Sept. 11: National Hot Cross Bun Day. A hot cross bun is a spiced sweet bun made with currants or raisins and marked with a cross on the top. Ancient Greeks marked the "Soul Cakes" with a cross to symbolize remembrance of those who have past, according to .
Sept. 12: National Chocolate Milkshake Day. Milkshakes were originally served in bars. And according to historical accounts it is said that if a customer liked his milkshake he would shake hands with the bartender. If not, no tip was left. In 1922, Steven Poplawski invented the electric blender just for milkshakes.
Sept. 13: National Peanut Day. It takes 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. There are enough peanuts in one acre to make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches, according to the National Peanut Board. The average peanut farm is 100 acres -- yielding about 3 million peanut butter sandwiches.