You Can Double Your Donation To Three Square Food Bank Today
Tis the season of giving and if you are looking to give a gift that will make an absolutely immense impact, you should consider making a monetary donation to Three Square Food Bank.
We say monetary donation in particular. You see, Three Square Food Bank has incredible buying power. They are a member of Feeding America and the incredible buying power they wield helps them fulfill their mission of helping to feed the food insecure in Southern Nevada. So while buying $1 of non-perishables could result in a couple cans of items to donate, Three Square turns that into three full meals. Even the most extreme of couponers would have trouble competing.
Right Now, Your Donation To Three Square Food Bank Is Doubled
It is always a great time to donate to Three Square, but now is the best time. Through December 31st, their Holiday Match Challenge is underway. Simply make a donation at ThreeSquare.org and your donation will be matched, dollar for dollar, thanks to generous donors.
That means a single $1 donation will quite literally feed six people. Your $10 donation will feed $60 people. And a $2916 donation would roughly feed everyone sitting at a Golden Knights game.
Hunger Lasts Beyond The Holidays
While we think of “helping the hungry” during times like Thanksgiving and Christmas, the need is always present. According to Three Square Food Bank, roughly 1 in 7 in Las Vegas are “food insecure”. That is to say, they don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Every corner of the valley, every zip code, has people that are in need.
Kids depending on school breakfast and lunch to eat need food during winter vacations like this one, during the weekends and more. Three Square and their incredible staff, volunteers and network of food pantry partners work tirelessly to make sure those in need have a place to turn.
The impact your dollar makes right now for Three Square Food Bank is immense. So find it in your heart to help put food in your neighbor’s stomachs.
The 4 Best Sandwiches Places In Las Vegas
One of my favorite things in the world, besides peanut butter hot dogs, is a good sandwich. Sandwiches are without a doubt, in my humble opinion, the perfect food. The bread, chock full of meat (or salad for my vegetarian friends). Typically, you can’t go wrong with this fistful of breaded love.
How Sandwiches Came To Be
It seems unthinkable that sandwiches, as we know them, didn’t always exist. It’s only been in the last 100 years that the sub sandwich, or even just a fun filled “Dagwood”, came on the scene. For those who don’t know what the “Dagwood” is, here you go.
A Dagwood sandwich is one that has layer upon layer of meats, cheeses, lettuce and other fillings. A true Dagwood isn’t one any human can actually fit in their mouth.
The origins of the sandwich have been debated for years, but the most common theory is the sandwich was born in the town of Sandwich, England. In 1782, John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, was playing poker and didn’t want to leave the table. At this point, people ate their meat and bread separately and away from the tables involving gaming states, britannica.com.
Since he was playing a hand, John didn’t want to leave the table to eat. So, he told his people to put the meat in between the bread, and bring it to him, so he could hold his food and play cards at the same time. And Voila… The sandwich was born, according to britannica.com.
Personally, I’m not a fan of eating handheld food at the poker table. The poker chips alone are nasty little carriers of cooties. However, according to britannica.com, John Montagu lived to be a lot longer than people were expected to in the 1700s. So there might be some truth to that “building immunity” thing I always hear moms saying to justify their kids eating food off of the floor.
And the common thread of poker and sandwiches doesn’t end there. According to whatscookingamerica.net, in 1925, Augustine DiCostanzo and his wife, Catherine, opened up a grocery store that stayed open late to accommodate the poker players in the area.
The Folklore goes that one of the players walked in and asked Catherine what she was cooking, because it was making him hungry. She told him she was frying sweet and hot peppers. So he asked her if she would make him a sandwich with everything on it, including the peppers. She grabbed a loaf of Vienna bread and sliced in lengthwise and made what is considered the very first “Hoagie” sandwich.
The 4 Best Sandwiches Places In Las Vegas
With that said, I thought I’d share my favorite spots around town to grab that perfect hand held food. Let’s start at the beginning.
