ABC Wednesday, Y for You and Year

With thanks to Denise Nesbitt, who created ABC. For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar . This week we are looking for words beginning with Y.


This little verse by an unknown author says it all:


Four years ago I used the letter Y for Year and I got this new year's wish from
Janice Thomson. I wish you the same things she did.

Oliebollen is the traditional treat on New Year's Eve

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much
bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.


HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Our World Tuesday, ABC Wednesday Y for Yoghurt

I love yoghurt and started eating it after the war. We made our own yoghurt with something we called a yoghurt-plant, but which was probably a bacterium.

Big brother is feeding her yoghurt!

She loves it, but then she loves anything eatable and edible!

Wikipedia: "There is evidence of precultured milk products being produced as food for at least 4,500 years. The earliest yoghurts were probably spontaneously fermented by wild bacteria.

The oldest writings mentioning yoghurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder, (AD 23 – August 25, AD 79),  a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire,  who remarked that certain nomadic tribes knew how "to thicken the milk into a substance with an agreeable acidity". An early account of a European encounter with yoghurt occurs in French clinical history: Francis I( 1494 – 1547) suffered from a severe diarrhoea which no French doctor could cure. His ally Suleiman the Magnificent sent a doctor, who allegedly cured the patient with yoghurt. Being grateful, the French king spread around the information about the food which had cured him.

Yoghurt was first introduced to the United States by Armenian immigrants Sarkis and Rose Colombosian.
Yoghurt's popularity in the United States was enhanced in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was presented as a health food. By the late 20th century yoghurt had become a common American food item and Colombo Yogurt was sold in 1993 to General Mills, which discontinued the brand in 2010."

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With thanks to Denise Nesbitt, who created ABC.For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar. This week we are looking for words beginning with Y. Please join us!