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If I had a choice and were celebrating today I would go for some pork rib BBQ, scalloped potatoes, corn bread and collard greens with watermelon for desert as it is red representing resilience and joy plus I dearly love it! My mother was from Maryland and cooked some Southern dishes. She also made spoon bread and watermelon rind pickles which I relished! The only dish she cooked I passed on was okra.
Nothing better than pan fried okra
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Celebrations include picnics, rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, blues festivals, and Miss Juneteenth contests. Red food and drinks are traditional during the celebrations, including red velvet cake and strawberry soda, with red meant to represent resilience and joy.
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Celebrations include picnics, rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, blues festivals, and Miss Juneteenth contests. Red food and drinks are traditional during the celebrations, including red velvet cake and strawberry soda, with red meant to represent resilience and joy.
That nonsense comes from AARP...

I asked my employee how they celebrate... They just said they relax and enjoy the long weekend...
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We BBQed an aardvark and cracked open a Bud Lite.
Wild, you really know how to party.
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Any special foods or celbrations? Any parties?
Worked in my yard building a new walled landscaping bed and transplanting the sod I took out to another part of the yard. Peanut butter and honey sandwich for breakfast and a Culver’s hamburger for supper when I had to go to Lowe’s to get more material.
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you should be proud but that is why we have memorial and veterans day.

In honor of june 19 did have a hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut and feel very good about that.
what, no knish ?
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Worked so everyone in the govern could get another paid day off. I'll be glad when June is over.
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Since its a Federal holiday I had it off from work. I wouldn't call it a special food, but we had leftovers. A very exciting day......
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Any special foods or celbrations? Any parties?
I don’t celebrate Mother’s Day because my mother is dead.
I don’t celebrate Cinco de Mayo, even though I like Mexico and Mexicans, because I have no Mexican ancestry.
I don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day because it isn’t celebrated in Ireland.
I don’t celebrate Mardi Gras because I also don’t celebrate Lent or Ash Wednesday or Easter.
I don’t celebrate Hanukkah because I’m not Jewish.
I liked celebrating Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday, but I resent having them combined into one so we can have MLK’s Birthday as a holiday. There are several other presidential birthdays I’d be happy to celebrate, such as Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Grant. I’d also celebrate General Sherman’s birthday, if I could.
I don’t celebrate any pride days or weeks or months as I’ll leave them to those for whom they are appropriate.
I don’t celebrate Halloween because I think the dead are dead.
I don’t celebrate Kwanzaa, invented in 1966 after the Watts riots.
I don’t celebrate Juneteenth because I’m not part of the fourteen percent for whom it was created. I consider it a phoney holiday, but I’m happy to let people enjoy it peacefully.
I guess I’m not much for celebrations. On Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, I stay home and think about those who sacrificed for us all. I usually spend Thanksgiving on a beach in Mexico. I spend Christmas with some of my family in Denver. That’s really the only one where any celebration happens.
Bah! Humbug!
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I don’t celebrate Mother’s Day because my mother is dead.
I don’t celebrate Cinco de Mayo, even though I like Mexico and Mexicans, because I have no Mexican ancestry.
I don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day because it isn’t celebrated in Ireland.
I don’t celebrate Mardi Gras because I also don’t celebrate Lent or Ash Wednesday or Easter.
I don’t celebrate Hanukkah because I’m not Jewish.
I liked celebrating Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday, but I resent having them combined into one so we can have MLK’s Birthday as a holiday. There are several other presidential birthdays I’d be happy to celebrate, such as Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Grant. I’d also celebrate General Sherman’s birthday, if I could.
I don’t celebrate any pride days or weeks or months as I’ll leave them to those for whom they are appropriate.
I don’t celebrate Halloween because I think the dead are dead.
I don’t celebrate Kwanzaa, invented in 1966 after the Watts riots.
I don’t celebrate Juneteenth because I’m not part of the fourteen percent for whom it was created. I consider it a phoney holiday, but I’m happy to let people enjoy it peacefully.
I guess I’m not much for celebrations. On Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, I stay home and think about those who sacrificed for us all. I usually spend Thanksgiving on a beach in Mexico. I spend Christmas with some of my family in Denver. That’s really the only one where any celebration happens.
Bah! Humbug!
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Any special foods or celbrations? Any parties?
It means nothing. Another made up holiday to keep us distracted and clueless.
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