Did you know... nachos got its name from the guy that made it? True story apparently.
One day back in 1940 in a restaurant, Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya was asked to make a different snack for a customer, saw some odds and ends in the restaurant, put em together and brought it out. When asked "what is this?" they answered "Well, I guess we can just call them Nacho's Special".
And then every drunk person for the next millenia just fell in love.
Celebrate Ignacio's invention with International Day of the Nacho.
Took me a moment to figure out why his nickname was 'nacho'... Ignacio... Ig-nach-io... nacho.
Guy should have won a Nobel Prize.
Which was also named after a person - one Alfred Nobel, who was born on this day in 1833.
Alfred was an inventor and by far most well known for his patent on dynamite in 1867.
[interesting side note from the inner chemist - dynamite is a mixture of nitroglycerin as a safer means of transporting and exploding with a patented blasting cap... not to be confused with the red sticks you see in the cartoons that are TNT, trinitrotoluene]
Alfred was concerned over his use of dynamite in the war and people thinking he was profiting off of death, he left his vast fortune to start the Nobel Prize.
Dynamite for War, leading to a Nobel Prize, one of which is the Nobel Peace Prize... the next connection to October 21st is for the first ship in the Royal Canadian Navy, the HMS Niobe.
Originally launched in 1897 in the UK, the ship was sent to Canada and arrived in Halifax on October 21, 1910, our first ship.
2014 Canada officially recognized the date as "Niobe Day".
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